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9889 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/April%2010 | April 10 |
Events
Up to 1900
428 - Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
837 - Closest approach between Halley's Comet and Earth.
879 - Louis III and Carloman II become joint Kings of the West Franks.
1500 - Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara.
1606 - The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
1710 - The Statute of Anne, the first law against copyright, enters into force in Great Britain.
1741 – Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
1809 - Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition starts, when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.
1815 – Mount Tambora eruption covers several islands with ash in Indonesia.
1816 – The U.S. government approved the creation of a Second Bank of the United States.
1821 - Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman Empire.
1849 – Walter Hunt receives a patent for the safety pin.
1864 - Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, during the French intervention in Mexico.
1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
1874 - The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
1887 - Pope Leo XIII, on Easter Sunday, authorizes the creation of The Catholic University of America.
1896 - Spyridon Louis wins the first marathon of the modern Olympic Games.
1901 2000
1906 – The Four Million, O. Henry's second short story collection, is published.
1912 – The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England.
1916 – The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City by 82 charter members.
1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
1933 – New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps is created.
1938 – Édouard Daladier becomes Prime Minister of France
1939 – Dr. I.Q., the Mental Banker debuts.
1940 - Katyn massacre: Mass execution of 40,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia is approved and signed by Joseph Stalin.
1941 – World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustase fascist insurgents in power.
1944 – Henry Ford II is named executive vice president of Ford Motor Company.
1953 – The House of Wax opens at New York City's Paramount Theater (it was the first color feature in 3-D).
1957 – The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
1959 – Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko (née Michiko Shoda), a commoner.
1963 – The submarine USS Thresher is lost at sea, with all hands (129 officers, crewmen and civilian technicians)
1968 – Shipwreck of the Wahine outside Wellington harbour.
1970 – Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have broken up.
1970 – Vietnam War: 48 percent of the Americans polled in a Gallup Poll approve of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's Vietnam policy, while 41 percent disapprove.
1971 – Cold War: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China host the U.S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit.
1972 – 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.
1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967 American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
1973 – A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104.
1979 – On the day known to meteorologists as "terrible Tuesday", a tornado hits in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. (see Wichita Falls, Texas Tornado).
1988 – The comic strip FoxTrot débuts.
1991 - Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Tuscany, killing 140 people.
1991 - A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola.
1992 – The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
1998 – The Belfast Agreement is signed.
From 2001
2006 – In a close election, Romano Prodi is elected Prime Minister of Italy, succeeding Silvio Berlusconi, who later regains this position, in 2008.
2009 - President of Fiji Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all of the governance of the country.
2010 – A plane crash in Smolensk, western Russia, kills 96 people. Many of them were very important in Poland, including President Lech Kaczynski. They were on their way to a memorial service to commemorate 70 years since the Katyn massacre.
2015 - A bus and truck collide in southern Morocco, killing 33 people, including schoolchildren.
2016 - The Kollam temple fire in Kerala, Southern India, kills over 100 people.
2019 - Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope Project announce the first-ever image of a black hole, at the centre of the M87 Galaxy.
2019 - Fossil fragments found in the Callao Cave on the Philippines' island of Luzon reveal the existence of the Homo luzonensis species of human.
Births
Up to 1900
401 - Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (d. 450)
1389 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
1512 – James V of Scotland (exact date uncertain) (d. 1542)
1583 – Hugo Grotius, jurist (d. 1645)
1651 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician, physicist and historian (d. 1708)
1707 - Michel Corrette, French organist, composer, writer (d. 1795)
1713 - John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (d. 1788)
1735 - Button Gwinnett, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1777)
1755 – Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, originator of homeopathy (d. 1843)
1762 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (d. 1834)
1766 - John Leslie, Scottish physicist (d. 1832)
1778 – William Hazlitt, English writer (d. 1830)
1783 – Hortense de Beauharnais, queen of Holland as wife of Louis Bonaparte (d. 1837)
1794 – Matthew Perry, American commodore (d. 1858)
1796 - James Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (d. 1836)
1801 - Paul Devaux, Belgian politician (d. 1880)
1817 - Konstantin Aksakov, Russian writer (d. 1860)
1827 - Lew Wallace, American lawyer, general and politician (d. 1905)
1829 – William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (d. 1912)
1847 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American journalist and publisher (d. 1911)
1864 - Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-born German composer (d. 1932)
1865 - Jack Miner, Canadian conservationist (d. 1944)
1867 – George William Russell, Irish nationalist (d. 1935)
1868 – George Arliss, British actor (d. 1946)
1870 (O.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1924)
1873 – Kyösti Kallio, President of Finland (d. 1940)
1877 - Alfred Kubin, American expressionist illustrator and writer (d. 1959)
1877 - Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (d. 1947)
1879 - Bernhard Gregory, Baltic German chess player (d. 1939)
1880 – Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan (d. 1933)
1880 – Montague Summers, English writer (d. 1948)
1882 – Frances Perkins, American politician (d. 1965)
1887 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1971)
1892 - Victor de Sabata, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1967)
1894 – Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educator (d. 1983)
1897 - Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1990)
1899 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1901 2000
1901 - Alexander Ireland, Scottish boxer (d. 1966)
1903 - Clare Turlay Newberry, American illustrator and author (d. 1970)
1906 - Steve Anderson, American hurdler (d. 1988)
1910 – Eddy Duchin, musician (d. 1951)
1911 - Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician (d. 1998)
1912 - Boris Kidric, 1st Prime Minister of Slovenia (d. 1953)
1913 – Stefan Heym, German writer (d. 2001)
1915 – Harry Morgan, American actor (d. 2011)
1915 - Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet and illustrator (d. 2014)
1917 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist (d. 1979)
1919 - John Houbolt, American aerospace engineer (d. 2014)
1921 – Chuck Connors, American actor and baseball player (d. 1992)
1921 - Jake Warren, Canadian soldier and diplomat (d. 2008)
1921 – Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
1924 – Kenneth Noland, American painter (d. 2010)
1926 – Junior Samples, American country musician (d. 1983)
1926 - Jacques Castérède, French composer and pianist (d. 2014)
1927 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist, won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2010)
1929 – Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
1930 – Claude Bolling, French jazz composer and pianist
1930 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish comedian (d. 2001)
1930 - Ray Blanton, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1996)
1931 – Luis Cabral, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009)
1931 - René Follet, Belgian comic artist
1932 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (d. 2015)
1932 - Mae Faggs, American athlete (d. 2000)
1934 – David Halberstam, American writer (d. 2007)
1934 – Vladimir Posner, Soviet journalist
1935 – Nicola Cabibbo, Italian physicist (d. 2010)
1936 – John Madden, American football coach and broadcaster
1937 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (d. 2010)
1938 – Don Meredith, American football player and broadcaster (d. 2010)
1938 - Frans van der Lugt, Dutch priest (d. 2014)
1939 - Penny Vincenzi, English writer (d. 2018)
1939 - Rocky Valance, Welsh singer
1940 - Gloria Hunniford, Northern Irish television and radio presenter
1941 – Paul Theroux, American writer
1943 – Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete
1946 – David Angell, American television producer (d. 2001)
1946 - Bob Watson, American baseball player and executive
1947 – Bunny Wailer, Jamaican musician
1950 – Ken Griffey, Sr., American Major League Baseball player
1950 – Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (P-Funk and The Temptations) (d. 1992)
1951 1975
1952 - Narayan Rane, Indian politician, 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
1952 – Steven Seagal, American actor
1954 – Peter MacNicol, American actor
1954 - Paul Bearer, American professional wrestler and manager (d. 2013)
1955 – Lesley Garrett, British soprano
1957 - James D. Hudnall, American comic book writer (d. 2019)
1958 – Yefim Bronfman, Russian pianist
1958 – Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, music producer, musician, and movie producer
1959 - Stanislaw Tillich, German politician, former Prime Minister of Saxony
1960 – Brian Setzer, musician
1960 – Katrina Leskanich, American singer (Katrina and the Waves)
1960 – Afrika Bambaataa, American musician and activist
1961 - Nicky Campbell, Scottish television and radio presenter
1962 – Steve Tasker, American football player
1963 – Doris Leuthard, Swiss politician
1963 – Mark Oliver Everett, American musician
1965 – Tim Alexander, American musician
1966 - Steve Claridge, English footballer, manager and sportscaster
1968 – Orlando Jones, American actor, comedian
1970 – Kenny Lattimore, American singer
1970 - Q-Tip, American rapper and producer
1972 - Ed Byrne, Irish comedian
1973 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer
1973 - Aidan Moffat, British musician
1974 - Eric Greitens, American politician, 56th Governor of Missouri
From 1976
1979 – Rachel Corrie, American activist, member of the International Solidarity Movement (d. 2003)
1979 – Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese artist
1979 – Sophie Ellis-Bextor, English singer
1979 – Shemekia Copeland, American singer
1980 – Charlie Hunnam, actor
1981 – Liz McClarnon, English singer (Atomic Kitten)
1981 - Gretchen Bleiler, American snowboarder
1981 - Alexei Semenov, Russian ice hockey player
1982 - Chyler Leigh, American actress, singer and model
1983 – Ryan Merriman, American actor
1983 - Hannes Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer
1984 - Gonzalo Javier Rodriguez, Argentine footballer
1984 – Mandy Moore, American singer and actress
1985 - Willo Flood, Irish footballer
1986 – Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer
1986 - Tore Reginiussen, Norwegian footballer
1987 – Hayley Westenra, New Zealand singer
1987 - Shay Mitchell, Canadian actress
1988 – Haley Joel Osment, American actor
1989 - Jenny Alm, Swedish handball player
1989 - Thomas Heurtel, French basketball player
1990 – Alex Pettyfer, English actor
1991 – Amanda Michalka, American actress and singer
1991 - Royce White, American basketball player
1992 - Sadio Mané, Senegalese footballer
1992 - Daisy Ridley, English actress
1994 - Nerlens Noel, American basketball player
1996 - Emily Rose Everhard, American actress
1996 - Loïc Nottet, Belgian singer
2007 – Princess Ariane of the Netherlands
Deaths
Up to 1950
879 – Louis the Stammerer, king of the West Franks (b. 846)
948 - Hugh of Italy
1216 - Eric X of Sweden (b. 1180)
1533 – Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471)
1585 – Pope Gregory XIII (b. 1502)
1599 – Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1571)
1646 - Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
1756 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (b. 1661)
1786 - John Byron, English admiral and politician (b. 1723)
1813 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange, mathematician (b. 1736)
1821 - Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople (b. 1746)
1823 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (b. 1757)
1862 – W.H.L. Wallace, Union brigadier general (b. 1821)
1871 - Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentine general and politician (b. 1789)
1882 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British poet, painter (b. 1828)
1904 - Isabella II of Spain (b. 1830)
1909 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (b. 1909)
1919 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1879)
1920 - Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1829)
1931 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
1938 - Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz cornet player and bandleader (b. 1885)
1939 – Alfredo Panzini, Italian writer (b. 1863)
1945 – Charles Nordhoff, writer (b. 1887)
1951 2000
1954 – Auguste Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1862)
1955 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French priest and philosopher (b. 1881)
1958 - Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
1960 - André Berthomieu, French director and screenwriter (b. 1903)
1962 – Michael Curtiz, director (b. 1886)
1962 – Stuart Sutcliffe, British musician (The Beatles) (b. 1940)
1965 – Linda Darnell, actress (b. 1923)
1966 – Evelyn Waugh, English writer (b. 1903)
1968 – Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b. 1899)
1969 – Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer
1975 – Josephine Baker, American dancer (b. 1906)
1975 – Marjorie Main, actress (b. 1890)
1979 – Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)
1980 – Kay Medford, American actress (b. 1914)
1986 – Linda Creed, American songwriter (b. 1948)
1991 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (b. 1955)
1991 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
1992 – Sam Kinison, American comedian (b. 1953)
1992 - Peter D. Mitchell, British biochemist (b. 1920)
1993 – Chris Hani, South African activist (b. 1942)
1994 – Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
1995 – Morarji Desai, Indian activist and politician, Prime Minister of India (b. 1896)
1995 – Guenther Guillaume, German spy (b. 1927)
1997 – Michael Dorris, American writer (b. 1945)
1998 - Archbishop Seraphim of Athens (b. 1913)
1999 – Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, biochemist (b. 1910)
2000 – Peter Jones, comedian and scriptwriter (b. 1920)
2000 – Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)
2001 2010
2001 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
2002 – Yuji Hyakutake, Japanese astronomer (b. 1950)
2003 – Little Eva, American singer (b. 1943)
2007 - Dakota Staton, American singer (b. 1930)
2010 – Dixie Carter, American actress (b. 1939)
2010 - Deaths in the 2010 Polish Tu-154 plane crash:
Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish politician (b. 1919)
Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland (b. 1949)
Maria Kaczynska, First Lady of Poland (b. 1942)
Anna Walentynowicz, Polish activist (b. 1929)
Janusz Zakrzenski, Polish actor (b. 1936)
Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Polish politician (b. 1952)
From 2011
2012 - Raymond Aubrac, French resistance activist (b. 1914)
2013 - Robert Edwards, British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist and IVF pioneer (b. 1925)
2014 - Dominique Baudis, French journalist and politician (b. 1947)
2014 - Jim Flaherty, Canadian politician (b. 1949)
2014 - Sue Townsend, English writer (b. 1946)
2014 - Joe Dini, American politician (b. 1929)
2014 - Justin Marie Bomboko, Congolese politician (b. 1928)
2014 - Anatoly Sukhorukov, Russian physicist (b. 1935)
2015 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and commentator (b. 1930)
2015 - Peter Walsh, Australian politician (b. 1935)
2015 - Ray Graves, American football player and coach (b. 1918)
2015 - Jin Youzhi, Chinese royal (b. 1918)
2015 - Judith Malina, German-American actress (b. 1926)
2015 - Jim Mutscheller, American football player (b. 1930)
2016 - Howard Marks, British drug smuggler and author (b. 1945)
2016 - Louis Gladstone, American politician (b. 1927)
2017 - Arnold Clark, Scottish businessman (b. 1927)
2017 - J. Geils, American guitarist (b. 1946)
2017 - Linda Hopkins, American actress and singer (b. 1924)
2017 - Larry Sharpe, American professional wrestler (b. 1951)
2017 - Bab Christensen, Norwegian actress (b. 1928)
2017 - Dennis F. Kinlaw, American academic (b. 1922)
2017 - Kirill Kovaldzhi, Russian author, poet and critic (b. 1929)
2018 - F'Murr, French comic artist (b. 1946)
2018 - John Lambie, Scottish footballer (b. 1941)
2018 - Li Yaowen, Chinese general and politician (b. 1918)
2019 - Werner Bardenhewer, German priest and humanitarian (b. 1929)
2019 - Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
2019 - Irwin L. Jacobs, American investor and businessman (b. 1941)
2019 - Estrella Zeledón Lizano, First Lady of Costa Rica (b. 1929)
Days of the year |
9890 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/April%2011 | April 11 |
Events
Up to 1900
672 – Adeodatus II is elected Pope.
1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint monarchs of Scotland, England and Ireland.
1713 - War of the Spanish Succession - Treaty of Utrecht.
1775 – Germany's last witchcraft execution takes place.
1814 – Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates as Emperor of France, and is exiled on the island of Elba.
1856 - Battle of Rivas in Costa Rica: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, ending the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan.
1901 2000
1909 - The city of Tel Aviv in present-day Israel is founded.
1912 – The RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, bound for New York City. This was its last stop before its sinking.
1919 - The International Labour Organization is founded.
1921 - Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralized government the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
1945 – Buchenwald Concentration Camp is liberated.
1951 – General Douglas MacArthur is relieved of his duties by US President Harry S. Truman.
1951 – The Stone of Scone, on which Scottish monarchs were crowned, is found in Arbroath, after it had been taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It is later officially returned to Scotland in 1996.
1954 – April 11, 1954 is allegedly the most boring day of the 20th century.
1955 - The Air India Kashmir Princess aircraft is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
1957 - The United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1961 – Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is put on trial.
1965 - 56 tornadoes hit six Midwestern US States, killing 256 people.
1968 – German activist Rudi Dutschke is shot. This indirectly leads to his death of an epileptic fit in 1979.
1970 – Apollo 13 launches with astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise on board.
1976 - The Apple I is created.
1979 – Tanzanian troops enter Kampala, as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin flees.
1981 – Brixton riot One of three riots in Brixton, London happened on this day.
1983 - Richard Attenborough's movie Gandhi wins eight awards at the 54th Academy Awards.
1985 – Albania's head of state Enver Hoxha dies, and is succeeded by Ramiz Alia.
1987 - The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israels then-foreign minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
1989 - Ron Hextall becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the play-offs.
1996 - A fire at Düsseldorf Airport in Germany kills 17 people.
From 2001
2001 – In an association football match, Australia beats American Samoa 31-0, setting a record for an international match in the sport.
2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is briefly removed from office in a US-backed coup, but is soon reinstated.
2006 – Italian crime boss Bernardo Provenzano is arrested.
2006 - President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that his country has enriched uranium.
2006 - Ehud Olmert officially becomes Prime Minister of Israel, as Ariel Sharon is unable to continue in this role after a stroke three months earlier.
2007 – A terrorist bombing occurs in Algiers.
2011 – In Ivory Coast, the political crisis comes to an end after Laurent Gbagbo is arrested in Abidjan, with Alassane Ouattara becoming the next President.
2011 - The Minsk Metro is bombed, killing 15 people.
2012 – Two earthquakes, including one of magnitude 8.2, strike off Sumatra, causing a tsunami alert.
2018 - An Algerian military plane crashes shortly after take-off, killing 257 people.
2019 - India's 2019 general election begins; lasting over six weeks, it is the world's biggest democratic process.
2019 - Ecuador removes the asylum it gave to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at its embassy in London, leading to his arrest after seven years spent there.
2019 - President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir is removed from power by the military, after a series of protests against his rule.
Births
Up to 1900
146 – Septimius Severus, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
1184 - William of Winchester, Duke of Lüneburg (d. 1213)
1348 - Andronikos IV Palaiologus, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1385)
1357 – King John I of Portugal (d. 1433)
1370 - Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1428)
1373 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398)
1492 – Margaret of Navarre, Queen of Navarre and writer (d. 1549)
1493 - George I, Duke of Pomerania (d. 1531)
1568 – Marin Getaldić, Croatian physicist and astronomer (d. 1626)
1592 - John Eliot, English statesman (d. 1632)
1715 - John Alcock, English organist and composer (d. 1806)
1723 – Franz Anton Bustelli, porcelain moulder (d. 1763)
1749 - Adelaide Labille-Guiard, French painter (d. 1803)
1755 – James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)
1770 – George Canning, shortest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
1790 - George Rockingham Gilmer, Governor of Georgia (d. 1859)
1794 - Edward Everett, 16th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1865)
1798 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)
1806 - Pierre Guillaume Frédéric Le Play, French engineer and social reformer (d. 1882)
1806 - George Thorn Sr., Australian politician (d. 1876)
1810 – Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, soldier and orientalist (d. 1895)
1819 – Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
1822 - James Esmond, Irish-Australian gold prospector and miner (d. 1890)
1824 - Johanna von Puttkamer, wife of Otto von Bismarck (d. 1894)
1825 – Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d. 1864)
1827 - Mahatma Jyotirau Phule, Indian social reformer (d. 1890)
1832 - Helena Scott, Australian artist and naturalist (d. 1910)
1837 - Marshall Burdekin, Australian politician, Treasurer of New South Wales (d. 1886)
1845 - Thomas O'Callaghan, Australian police officer (d. 1931)
1856 - Sydney Smith, Australian politician (d. 1934)
1856 - Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (d. 1903)
1862 – Charles Evans Hughes, American jurist and politician, United States Secretary of State (d. 1948)
1862 - William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer (d. 1938)
1864 - Johanna Elberskirchen, German feminist (d. 1943)
1866 - Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet, activist, lawyer and journalist (d. 1953)
1869 – Kasturba Gandhi, Indian activist and pacifist (d. 1944)
1869 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)
1871 - Gyula Kellner, Hungarian athlete (d. 1946)
1874 - David Murray Anderson, British Governor and naval officer, 66th Governor of Newfoundland and 28th Governor of New South Wales (d. 1936)
1876 - Ivane Javakishvili, Georgian historian (d. 1940)
1879 - Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German astronomer (d. 1935)
1883 – Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese writer (d. 1951)
1889 – Nick LaRocca, jazz musician (d. 1961)
1890 - Rachele Mussolini, Italian writer and wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)
1893 – Dean Acheson, United States Secretary of State (d. 1971)
1894 - Frank Berryman, Australian army officer and general (d. 1981)
1896 – Wieland Herzfelde, publisher and writer (d. 1989)
1898 - Robert Monahan, Australian lawyer and judge (d. 1975)
1899 - Norman Nock, Australian businessman and politician, 63rd Lord Mayor of Sydney (d. 1990)
1900 – Sándor Márai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)
1901 1950
1901 - Arnold Matters, Australian operatic baritone (d. 1990)
1903 - Hazel Claire Weekes, Australian physician and health writer (d. 1990)
1904 - Cyril Pearl, Australian journalist, editor, author, social historian and television personality (d. 1987)
1906 – Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)
1906 - Masaru Ibaka, Japanese businessman (d. 1997)
1908 – Leo Rosten, humorist, writer (d. 1997)
1910 – António de Spínola, Portuguese politician (d. 1996)
1911 – Leopold Hawelka, Austrian cafetier (d. 2011)
1911 – Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-American runner (d. 1980)
1913 – Oleg Cassini, French-American fashion designer (d. 2006)
1914 - Norman McLaren, Scottish-Canadian animator, director and producer (d. 1987)
1914 - Robert Stanfield, 17th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
1916 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d. 1983)
1918 - Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, French journalist and politician (d. 2018)
1919 - Raymond Carr, English historian (d. 2015)
1920 - Emilio Colombo, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2013)
1920 – Marlen Haushofer, writer (d. 1990)
1925 - Yuriy Lituyev, Russian hurdler (d. 2000)
1925 - George Shuffler, American musician (d. 2014)
1926 - David Manker Abshire, former United States Ambassador to NATO (d. 2014)
1928 – Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy
1928 - Edwin Pope, American journalist (d. 2017)
1930 – Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
1930 - Nicholas F. Brady, 68th United States Secretary of the Treasury
1931 - Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer
1931 - Sergio Sebastiani, Italian cardinal
1931 – Johnny Sheffield, American actor (d. 2010)
1932 – Joel Grey, singer, actor, and dancer
1933 – Tony Brown, American journalist, broadcaster
1934 - Mark Strand, Canadian-American poet (d. 2014)
1935 – Richard Berry, American singer and composer (d. 1997)
1937 - Jill Gascoine, British actress and novelist
1938 – Kurt Moll, German bass (d. 2017)
1939 – Louise Lasser, American actress
1941 - Wang Jun, Chinese business executive (d. 2019)
1941 - D. Babu Paul, Indian civil servant (d. 2019)
1941 - Shirley Stelfox, English actress (d. 2015)
1942 - Anatoly Berezovoy, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2014)
1944 – John Milius, American director and writer
1944 - Nicoletta, French singer
1945 - John Krebs, Baron Krebs, English zoologist and academic
1945 - Winston Peters, New Zealand politician, Deputy prime minister of New Zealand
1946 - Chris Burden, American sculptor, illustrator and academic (d. 2015)
1946 – Bob Harris, British disc jockey and presenter
1947 – Peter Riegert, American actor
1947 – Meshach Taylor, American actor (d. 2014)
1949 – Bernd Eichinger, German movie producer (d. 2011)
1950 - Bill Irwin, American actor
1951 1975
1951 – Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)
1951 – James Patrick Kelly, American writer
1953 – Andrew Wiles, British mathematician
1953 – Guy Verhofstadt, former Prime Minister of Belgium
1954 – Abdullah Atalar, Turkish academic
1955 - Rohini Hattangadi, Indian actress
1955 – Kevin Brady, American politician
1955 - Michael Ray Richardson, American basketball player
1955 – Julie Czerneda, writer
1955 – Michael Callen, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993)
1955 - Piers Sellers, British astronaut (d. 2016)
1957 - Richard Sevigny, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 – Marina Fitch, writer
1958 – Stuart Adamson, British musician (Big Country) (d. 2001)
1958 – Luísa Diogo, former Prime Minister of Mozambique
1958 - Peter Skipper, English footballer (d. 2019)
1959 - Pierre Lacroix, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 – Jeremy Clarkson, English journalist and television presenter
1961 – Doug Hopkins, American musician (d. 1993)
1961 - Vincent Gallo, American actor, singer, director, producer and screenwriter
1964 - John Cryer, English journalist and politician
1965 - Corri Wilson, Scottish politician
1966 – Lisa Stansfield, English singer
1966 – Mason Reese, American actor
1968 – Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian science fiction writer
1969 - Caren Miosga, German news presenter
1969 - Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer
1969 - Oriol Junqueras, Catalan politician, historian and academic
1970 - Trevor Linden, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Whigfield, Danish singer
1971 – Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)
1972 - Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler (d. 2016)
1972 – Jason Varitek, American baseball player
1973 - Jennifer Esposito, American actress
1974 - Mario Cantaluppi, Swiss footballer
1974 - Tricia Helfer, Canadian model and actress
1974 - Zoe Lucker, British actress
1974 – Trot Nixon, American baseball player
From 1976
1976 – Antonio Pacheco, Uruguayan footballer
1978 - Tom Thacker, Canadian singer and musician
1979 - Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Iranian-Canadian model and singer
1979 - Malcolm Christie, English footballer
1980 – Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer
1981 - Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model and actress
1981 - Matt Ryan, Welsh actor
1982 – Ian Bell, English cricketer
1982 - Peeter Kümmel, Estonian skier
1983 - Jennifer Heil, Canadian skier
1984 – Nikola Karabatic, French handball player
1984 - Kelli Garner, American actress
1984 - Monica May, American actress
1986 - Dai Greene, Welsh athlete
1987 – Joss Stone, English singer
1987 - Lights, Canadian musician, singer and songwriter
1988 - Leland Irving, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 - Zola Jesus, American singer-songwriter and producer
1990 – Shohei Otsuka, Japanese footballer
1991 – Thiago Alcántara, Italian footballer
1991 - James Magnussen, Australian swimmer
1991 - Erina Mano, Japanese singer and actress
1994 - Duncan Laurence, Dutch singer
1994 – Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
1996 - Dele Alli, English footballer
1998 - Oliver Dillon, English actor
2000 - Morgan Lily, American actress
Deaths
Up to 1950
678 - Pope Donus
714 - Guthlac of Crowland, English saint
1034 – Romanus III, Byzantine Emperor (b. 968)
1165 – King Stephen IV of Hungary (b. 1133)
1240 – Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd
1447 - Henry Beaufort, English bishop and cardinal (b. 1375)
1771 – George Canning, Sr., father of George Canning (b. 1736)
1783 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Polish-Russian politician (b. 1718)
1798 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
1856 – Jose Santamaria, Costa Rican national hero (b. 1831)
1873 - Edward Canby, American general (b. 1817)
1875 - Andrew Jackson Hamilton, 12th Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1884 – Charles Reade, English writer (b. 1814)
1890 – Joseph Merrick, British man who was often referred to as the Elephant Man (b. 1862)
1894 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)
1903 - Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (b. 1878)
1906 - James Anthony Bailey, American businessman (b. 1847)
1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American journalist and publisher (b. 1809)
1908 - Henry Bird, English chess player and author (b. 1829)
1916 - Richard Harding Davis, American author (b. 1864)
1918 - Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (b. 1841)
1921 – Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia (b. 1858)
1926 - Luther Burbank, American botanist and horticulturist (b. 1849)
1934 - John Collier, English painter (b. 1850)
1950 – Bainbridge Colby, United States Secretary of State (b. 1869)
1951 2010
1953 - Kid Nichols, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
1954 - Paul Specht, American violinist and bandleader (b. 1895)
1958 - Marcel Pilet-Golaz, Swiss politician (b. 1889)
1958 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1967 - Donald Sangster, 2nd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1911)
1970 – John O'Hara, American writer (b. 1905)
1977 – Jacques Prévert, French poet (b. 1900)
1983 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress (b. 1904)
1985 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian political leader (b. 1908)
1987 – Primo Levi, Italian writer and chemist (b. 1919)
1990 - Ivan-Lo Johansson, Swedish writer (b. 1900)
1992 - Eve Merriam, American playwright, director and poet (b. 1916)
1997 – Wang Xiaobo, Chinese writer (b. 1952)
2001 - Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)
2005 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
2006 – Proof, American rapper (b. 1973)
2006 - June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)
2007 – Kurt Vonnegut, American writer (b. 1921)
2009 - Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress (b. 1914)
From 2011
2012 – Ahmed Ben Bella, 1st President of Algeria (b. 1918)
2014 - Edna Doré, English actress (b. 1921)
2014 - Jesse Winchester, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (b. 1944)
2014 - Nandu Bhende, Indian musician (b. 1955)
2014 - Rolf Brem, Swiss sculptor, illustrator and graphic artist (b. 1926)
2014 - Bill Henry, American baseball player (b. 1927)
2014 - Myer S. Kripke, American rabbi (b. 1914)
2015 - Janusz Kurczab, Polish fencer (b. 1937)
2015 - Sheila Kitzinger, British childbirth activist (b. 1929)
2015 - Charlie Beasley, American basketball player (b. 1945)
2016 - Ed Snider, American sports executive (b. 1933)
2016 - Emile Ford, Saint Lucian singer and sound engineer (b. 1937)
2016 - Anne Gould Hauberg, American arts patron (b. 1917)
2017 - Dorothy Mengering, American television personality (b. 1921)
2017 - Margit Schumann, German luger (b. 1952)
2017 - Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (b. 1935)
2018 - Karen Dawisha, American political scientist and writer (b. 1949)
2018 - Mitzi Shore, American comedy club owner (b. 1930)
2018 - Zola Skweyiya, South African politician (b. 1942)
2018 - Patrick F. McManus, American columnist and writer (b. 1933)
2018 - Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, French journalist and politician (b. 1918)
2019 - Ian Cognito, English comedian (b. 1958)
2019 - Stanley Plumly, American poet (b. 1939)
2019 - Dmitri Savitski, Russian novelist (b. 1944)
Observances
International Day of Rowing
International Day of Parkinson's disease Awareness
References
Days of the year |
9891 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/April%2012 | April 12 |
Events
Up to 1900
238 - Gordian II loses the Battle of Carthage against Numidian forces loyal to Maximus Thrax and is killed. His father, Gordian I, commits suicide.
240 - Shapur I is crowned as King of the Sasanian Empire.
467 – Anthemius becomes Emperor of the West Roman Empire.
627 - King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Bishop Paulinus of York.
1204 - Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
1557 – The city of Cuenca, in Ecuador, is founded.
1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of the two united Kingdoms of Scotland and England.
1633 – Galileo Galilei's trial before the inquisition begins.
1831 - Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester cause it to collapse.
1861 – The American Civil War begins when Fort Sumter, South Carolina, is attacked.
1865 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama falls to the Union Army.
1877 – The United Kingdom annexes Transvaal.
1901 2000
1917 - World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
1927 - Chiang Kai-shek orders Communist Party of China members to be executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
1928 - The Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
1934 – The strongest wind gust, outside of Antarctica or not within a tornado, is measured at Mt. Washington, New Hampshire, at 231 miles per hour (372 kilometres per hour).
1935 - First flight of the Bristol Blenheim aircraft.
1937 – Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine to power an aircraft.
1945 – US President Franklin Roosevelt dies. Harry S. Truman is sworn in as his successor.
1946 - The last French troops leave Syria.
1954 – Bill Haley and His Comets record their hit song Rock Around the Clock.
1955 - The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is declared safe and effective.
1961 – Yuri Gagarin is the first cosmonaut in space, sent by the U.S.S.R on Vostok 1.
1963 - Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant navy vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
1968 - A day after the attack on student activist Rudi Dutschke, protests and riots erupt across several cities in West Germany.
1970 - Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay near France and Spain four days after a fire on board.
1980 – Terry Fox starts his Marathon of Hope across Canada in St. John's, Newfoundland.
1980 – In Liberia, Samuel K. Doe takes power in a coup, in which President William Tolbert is killed.
1981 – Space Shuttle Columbia is launched.
1992 – Disneyland Paris opens, as Euro Disneyland.
1998 – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Slovenia.
From 2001
2002 - In a US-backed military coup in Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez is replaced as Head of State by Pedro Carmona. After 36 hours, Chavez is reinstated as President.
2002 – A female suicide bomber detonates herself in Jerusalem, killing 7 people and injuring 104.
2007 – A suicide bomber attacks the Iraqi parliament.
2009 – Zimbabwe abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency, after a severe economic crisis in the country.
2010 - A train crash near Merano, Italy, kills 9 people, after running into a landslide.
2014 - A wildfire ravages the Chilean city of Valparaiso, killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes.
Births
Up to 1800
599 BC – Mahavira, Indian founder of Jainism (d. 527 BC)
812 – Muhammad at-Taqi, Arabian Shia Imam (d. 835)
1116 - Richeza of Poland, Queen of Sweden (d. 1156 or after)
1432 - Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (d. 1462)
1484 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546)
1500 – Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (d. 1574)
1526 – Muretus, French humanist (d. 1585)
1550 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1604)
1577 – King Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1648)
1710 - Caffarelli, Italian opera singer (d. 1783)
1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796)
1716 - Felice Giardini, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1796)
1722 – Pietro Nardini, Italian composer (d. 1793)
1724 – Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)
1726 – Charles Burney, English music historian (d. 1814)
1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836)
1760 - Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan composer (d. 1797)
1777 – Henry Clay, American statesman and five-time Presidential candidate (d. 1852)
1792 - John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman (d. 1840)
1794 - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1847).
1796 - George N. Briggs, 19th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1861)
1799 – Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1855)
1801 1900
1801 - Joseph Lanner, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1843)
1823 – Alexandr Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (d. 1886)
1828 - Charles Foster, Governor of Ohio and United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1904)
1839 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (d. 1888)
1851 - Edward Walter Maunder, English astronomer (d. 1928)
1852 - Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (d. 1939)
1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer (d. 1937)
1866 - Princess Viktoria of Prussia (d. 1929)
1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (d. 1922)
1871 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (d. 1941)
1874 - William B. Bankhead, American politician (d. 1940)
1879 - Fred H. Brown, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1955)
1883 - Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (d. 1976)
1883 - Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (d. 1959)
1884 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German doctor, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1951)
1884 - Tenby Davies, Welsh runner (d. 1932)
1885 - Robert Delaunay, French artist (d. 1941)
1887 – Harold Lockwood, American silent movie actor (d. 1918)
1888 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (d. 1964)
1892 – Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1940)
1893 – Robert Harron, American actor (d. 1920)
1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, President of Portugal (d. 1964)
1898 – Lily Pons, American soprano (d. 1976)
1901 1925
1902 – Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977)
1903 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (d. 1994)
1907 - Zawgyi, Burmese poet, author and academic (d. 1990)
1908 - Ida Pollock, British writer (d. 2013)
1910 - Gillo Dorfles, Italian art critic, painter and philosopher (d. 2018)
1911 - Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer (d. 1976)
1912 - Hamengkubuwono IX, 2nd Vice president of Indonesia (d. 1988)
1912 - Hound Dog Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1975)
1913 - Keiko Fukuda, Japanese judoka (d. 2013)
1914 – Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (d. 2010)
1914 - Armen Alchian, American economist (d. 2013)
1914 - Gretel Bergmann, German athlete (d. 2017)
1916 - Movita Castaneda, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
1916 - Beverly Cleary, American author
1917 - Robert Manzon, French racing driver (d. 2015)
1917 - Vinoo Mankad, Indian cricketer (d. 1978)
1919 - Billy Vaughn, American musician and bandleader (d. 1991)
1922 - Simon Kapwepwe, 2nd Vice president of Zambia (d. 1980)
1923 – Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
1923 - Eddie Turnbull, Scottish footballer (d. 2011)
1924 – Raymond Barre, Prime Minister of France (d. 2007)
1925 – Oliver Postgate, British animator, puppetteer and writer (d. 2008)
1926 1950
1926 - Jane Withers, American actress
1927 - Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (d. 2019)
1928 – Hardy Krüger, German actor
1928 - Elspet Gray, Scottish actress (d. 2013)
1929 – Luis Vigoreaux, Puerto Rican TV and radio personality (d. 1983)
1930 - John Landy, Australian athlete and politician, 26th Governor of Victoria
1930 - Bryan Magee, British philosopher
1931 - Chico Anysio, Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer (d. 2012)
1932 – Tiny Tim, American musician (d. 1996)
1932 - Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (d. 2019)
1933 – Montserrat Caballé, Catalan-Spanish operatic soprano (d. 2018)
1934 - Michael Grzimek, German moviemaker and zoologist (d. 1959)
1936 – Charles Napier, American actor (d. 2011)
1936 - Tony Earl, 41st Governor of Wisconsin
1936 - Kennedy Simmonds, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
1937 - Dennis Banks, American teacher, activist and author (d. 2017)
1937 - Igor Volk, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut (d. 2017)
1940 – Enayat Michael Ali, Trinidadian professional cricketer
1940 - John Hagee, American pastor and theologian
1940 – Herbie Hancock, American musician
1941 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (d. 1993)
1942 – Jacob Zuma, former President of South Africa
1942 - Carlos Reutemann, Argentine racing driver and politician
1943 - Sumitra Mahajan, Indian politician
1944 - Lisa Jardine, English historian, author and academic (d. 2015)
1944 - John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1945 – Lee Jong-Wook, South Korean Director-General of the WHO (d. 2006)
1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, former Secretary-General of NATO
1946 – Ed O'Neill, American actor
1947 - Martin Brasier, English palaeobiologist and astrobiologist (d. 2014)
1947 - Alex Briley, American singer (Village People)
1947 - Woody Johnson, American businessman and philanthropist
1947 - Dan Lauria, American actor
1947 – David Letterman, American comedian and TV host
1947 – Tom Clancy, American writer (d. 2013)
1948 – Joschka Fischer, German politician
1948 – Marcello Lippi, Italian football manager
1948 – Jeremy Beadle, British television presenter (d. 2008)
1948 - Lois Reeves, American singer
1949 - Scott Turow, American writer
1950 – Joyce Banda, former President of Malawi
1950 – David Cassidy, American singer and actor (d. 2017)
1950 – Maia Danziger, American actress
1950 - Flavio Briatore, Italian businessman
1950 - Larry Kemp, Film editor
1951 1975
1954 - John Faulkner, Australian politician
1954 – Jon Krakauer, American writer and mountaineer
1955 – Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson, Icelandic writer
1956 – Andy Garcia, American actor
1956 – Herbert Grönemeyer, German singer and actor
1956 – Walter Salles, Brazilian movie director
1957 – Vince Gill, American Country singer
1957 - Adam Parfrey, American novelist, editor and publisher (d. 2018)
1958 - Ginka Zagorcheva, Bulgarian hurdler
1958 - J. Alexander, American television personality
1959 - Jackson Carlaw, Scottish politician
1960 - Dennis Bateman, American voice actor
1961 – Lisa Gerrard, Australian musician
1965 - Kim Bodnia, Danish actor
1967 - Mellow Man Ace, American rapper
1968 – Adam Graves, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Alicia Coppola, American actress
1970 – Nick Hexum, singer and guitarist
1971 – Nicholas Brendon, actor
1971 – Shannen Doherty, American actress
1973 – Christian Panucci, Italian footballer
1974 – Sylvinho, Brazilian footballer
1974 - Marley Shelton, American actress
From 1976
1976 - Olga Kotlyarova, Russian runner
1977 – Giovanny Espinoza, Ecuadorean footballer
1978 – Guy Berryman, British musician (Coldplay)
1979 – Claire Danes, American actress
1979 – Mateja Kezman, Serbian footballer
1979 - Jennifer Morrison, American actress
1980 – Brian McFadden, Irish singer (Westlife)
1981 - Nicolas Burdisso, Argentine footballer
1981 - Grant Holt, English footballer
1982 - Gary Caldwell, Scottish footballer
1982 – Riley Smith, model and actor
1983 - Jelena Dokic, Serbian-Australian tennis player
1985 - James Alexandrou, British actor
1985 - Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer-songwriter
1986 - Lorena, Spanish singer
1986 - Marcel Granollers, Spanish tennis player
1987 - Brooklyn Decker, American model and actress
1987 – Brendon Urie, American singer of Panic! at the Disco
1988 - Ricardo Gabriel Alvarez, Argentine footballer
1989 - Miguel Angel Ponce, Mexican footballer
1989 - Travis Tatum Mill, American singer
1990 - Francesca Halsall, British swimmer
1994 – Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress
1994 - Airi Suzuki, Japanese actress and singer
1996 - Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russian tennis player
1997 - Katelyn Dhashi, American gymnast
2000 – Suzanna von Nathusius, Polish actress
Deaths
Up to 1900
45 BC – Gnaeus Pompeius, Roman general
65 – Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist
238 – Gordian I, Roman Emperor
238 – Gordian II, Roman heir
352 - Pope Julius I
434 - Archbishop Maximianus of Constantinople
1125 - Vladislaus I of Bohemia (b. 1065)
1550 - Claude, Duke of Guise (b. 1496)
1555 – Juana of Castile, wife of Philip I of Castile (b. 1479)
1675 - Richard Bennett, British Governor of Virginia (b. 1609)
1684 - Nicola Amati, Italian instrument maker (b. 1596)
1782 – Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698)
1788 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, French composer (b. 1719)
1817 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (b. 1730)
1872 - Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (b. 1795)
1878 - William H. Tweed, American politician (b. 1823)
1898 - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian cardinal (b. 1820)
1901 2000
1912 – Clara Barton, American nurse (b. 1821)
1933 - Adelbert Ames, American general and politician (b. 1835)
1938 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (b. 1873)
1945 – Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
1968 – Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer (b. 1899)
1971 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist (b. 1895)
1975 - Josephine Baker, American dancer, singer and actress (b. 1906)
1980 – William Tolbert, President of Liberia (b. 1913)
1981 – Joe Louis, American boxer (b. 1914)
1981 - Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, of Japan (b. 1887)
1988 - Alan Paton, South African author (b. 1903)
1989 - Abbie Hoffman, American activist (b. 1936)
1989 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (b. 1921)
1997 - George Wald, American neurologist (b. 1906)
1999 – Boxcar Willie, American musician (b. 1931)
1999 - Marion Pruett, American spree killer (b. 1949)
From 2001
2001 - Harvey Ball, American illustrator (b. 1921)
2006 – Rajkumar, Indian movie actor and singer (b. 1929)
2008 – Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland (b. 1923)
2008 - Jerry Zucker, Israeli-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1949)
2009 - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, American academic scholar (b. 1950)
2009 – Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress (b. 1952)
2010 – Werner Schroeter, German movie director (b. 1945)
2014 - Brita Koivunen, Finnish singer (b. 1931)
2014 - Fred Ho, American musician, composer, playwright, writer and activist (b. 1957)
2014 - Hal Smith, American baseball player (b. 1931)
2015 - André Mba Obame, Gabonese politician (b. 1957)
2015 - Patrice Dominguez, French tennis player (b. 1950)
2015 - Alfred Eick, German U-boat commander (b. 1916)
2016 - Hector A. Cafferata, Jr., American soldier (b. 1929)
2016 - Paul Carey, American radio broadcaster (b. 1928)
2016 - Gianroberto Casaleggio, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1954)
2016 - Pedro de Felipe, Spanish footballer (b. 1944)
2016 - David Gest, American television personality (b. 1953)
2016 - Anne Jackson, American actress (b. 1925)
2016 - Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler (b. 1972)
2016 - Arnold Wesker, English playwright (b. 1932)
2017 - Akhilesh Das, Indian politician, Mayor of Lucknow (b. 1961)
2017 - Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (b. 1935)
2017 - Charlie Murphy, American comedian (b. 1959)
2017 - Sheila Abdus-Salaam, American judge (b. 1952)
2017 - Tom Coyne, American music engineer (b. 1954)
2017 - Wayne Hardin, American football player (b. 1926)
2017 - Toby Smith, British keyboardist (b. 1970)
2018 - Brij Bhushan Kabra, Indian musician (b. 1937)
2018 - John Melcher, American politician (b. 1924)
2018 - Sergio Pitol, Mexican novelist and politician (b. 1933)
2018 - Deborah Coleman, American blues singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
2018 - Bob Pickens, American wrestler and football player (b. 1943)
2019 - Ivor Broadis, English footballer (b. 1922)
2019 - Dina, Portuguese singer (b. 1956)
2019 - Forrest Gregg, American football player (b. 1933)
2019 - Tommy Smith, English footballer (b. 1945)
2019 - Georgia Engel, American actress (b. 1948)
Observances
Cosmonauts' Day (Russia), celebrating Yuri Gagarin's space flight in 1961
Days of the year |
9892 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/April%2013 | April 13 |
Events
Up to 1900
1111 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned.
1204 – Constantinople falls to the crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1598 – Henry V of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing religious freedom for Huguenots. The edict is repealed in 1685.
1742 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah has its world premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
1749 - A cyclone off Southeast India sinks British ships HMS Pembroke and HMS Namur, killing 850 people. Only 14 survive.
1777 - American Revolutionary War; American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
1796 - The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
1829 – Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom are granted the right to vote and are allowed to sit in parliament.
1849 – Hungary becomes a Republic.
1861 – American Civil War: Fort Sumter, South Carolina, surrenders to Confederate forces.
1868 - The Abyssynian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Maqdala.
1870 - New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
1873 - The Colfax Massacre, in which over 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place in Colfax, Louisiana.
1901 2000
1904 – The Russian battleship Petropavlovsk of the Russian Pacific Fleet hits a Japanese mine and sinks. The painter Vasily Vereshchagin is among those who are killed in the incident.
1909 - The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
1919 - Establishment of the Provisional Government of Korea.
1919 - Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India. 1,200 are injured.
1934 – While still under construction, the railway bridge in Saratov, Russia, collapses, killing 150 people.
1941 – The USSR and Japan sign a pact of neutrality.
1943 – The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC.
1943 - World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyn massacre is announced. This causes a rift between the Polish Government-in-exile (based in London) and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
1944 – The USSR and New Zealand establish diplomatic relations.
1945 - World War II: German troops kill over 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
1945 - World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.
1948 - Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.
1960 - The US launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
1964 – Sidney Poitier becomes the first African American to win a Best Actor Oscar.
1970 – Houston, we've had a problem: An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, causing major damage, and putting the crew at risk. They safely return to Earth.
1972 - The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China instead of the Republic of China.
1975 – At least 17 people are killed in a gun battle between Palestinian Guerrillas and Christian militants in Beirut.
1984 – India annexes territory beyond the Line of Control.
1986 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to visit a Jewish place of worship when he visits a synagogue in Rome.
1987 – Portugal agrees to return Macau to China's control in 1999.
1992 – In the United Kingdom, the leader of the Labour Party, Neil Kinnock, announces his resignation.
1992 – Chicago is flooded.
1997 – Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the US Masters tournament.
From 2001
2002 – Armenian anti-government protests are violently crushed.
2003 – The National Library in Baghdad is set on fire, with many historical documents being lost.
2013 - Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is officially re-opened after a decade-long restoration.
2014 - A bus crash in Veracruz, Mexico, kills 36 people.
2017 - The United States drops its biggest-ever non-nuclear bomb in eastern Afghanistan.
Births
Up to 1900
1506 - Peter Faber, French theologian (d. 1546)
1519 – Catherine of Medici, Queen of France (d. 1589)
1570 – Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (d. 1606)
1573 - Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1625)
1593 - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Stratford, English politician (d. 1641)
1732 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1792)
1735 - Isaac Low, American merchant and politician (d. 1791)
1743 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
1747 - Louis II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793)
1771 – Richard Trevithick, Cornish engineer (d. 1833)
1780 - Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (d. 1868)
1784 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
1802 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)
1808 – Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (d. 1889)
1816 - Sterndale Bennett, English composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1875)
1825 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868)
1832 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorean writer (d. 1889)
1850 - Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, Irish astronomer (d. 1917)
1852 - Frank Winfield Woolworth, American businessman (d. 1919)
1860 - James Ensor, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
1864 - Bertha Zuckerkandl, Austrian writer and journalist (d. 1945)
1866 – Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1908)
1872 – Jan Szczepanik, Polish chemist and inventor (d. 1926)
1872 - John Cameron, Scottish footballer (d. 1935)
1873 - John W. Davis, American politician (d. 1955)
1875 - Ray Lyman Wilbur, American doctor, academic and politician (d. 1949)
1885 - Georg Lukacs, Hungarian philosopher and critic (d. 1971)
1890 - Frank Murphy, 56th United States Attorney General (d. 1949)
1891 - Nella Larsen, American author (d. 1964)
1891 – Robert Scholl, German politician (d. 1973)
1892 – Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1973)
1894 – Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
1897 - Werner Voss, German pilot (d. 1917)
1899 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and inventor of Scrabble (d. 1993)
1899 - Alfred Schütz, Austrian philosopher (d. 1959)
1900 - Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
1901 1950
1906 – Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright (d. 1989)
1906 – Gabriel Ramanantsoa, President of Madagascar (d. 1979)
1907 - Harold Stassen, American politician, 25th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2001)
1909 - Stanislaw Ulam, Ukrainian-American mathematician (d. 1984)
1911 - Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer (d. 1946)
1917 - Bill Clements, American politician, 42nd Governor of Texas (d. 2011)
1919 - Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American activist, founder of American Atheists (d. 1995)
1919 – Howard Keel, American actor (d. 2004)
1920 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
1920 – Liam Cosgrave, Irish Taoiseach (d. 2017)
1920 - Claude Cheysson, French politician (d. 2012)
1921 - Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Dutch-Swiss businessman (d. 2002)
1921 - Dona Ivone Lara, Brazilian singer and composer (d. 2018)
1922 - John Braine, English novelist (d. 1986)
1922 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of Tanzania (d. 1999)
1923 – Don Adams, American actor (d. 2005)
1924 - Stanley Donen, American director and choreographer (d. 2019)
1925 - Michael Halliday, English-Australian linguist (d. 2018)
1926 - John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English aristocrat and businessman (d. 2014)
1927 - Maurice Ronet, French actor and director (d. 1983)
1928 – Alan Clark, English politician (d. 1999)
1929 - Marilynn Smith, American golfer (d. 2019)
1930 - Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian director, screenwriter and politician (d. 2013)
1931 - Robert Enrico, French director and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1931 - Jon Stone, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)
1932 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean-American economist, politician and educator (d. 1976)
1934 - John Muckler, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
1937 - Berge Furre, Norwegian politician, historian and theologian (d. 2016)
1939 – Seamus Heaney, Irish writer (d. 2013)
1939 – Paul Sorvino, American actor
1940 – J. M. G. Le Clézio, French writer
1940 – Max Mosley, English racing executive
1940 - Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
1941 – Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist
1941 - Margaret Price, Welsh soprano (d. 2011)
1942 - Bill Conti, American composer and conductor
1946 – Al Green, American singer
1948 - Juan Taverna, Argentine footballer (d. 2014)
1949 – Christopher Hitchens, British journalist, writer and critic (d. 2011)
1950 – Ron Perlman, American actor
1951 1975
1951 – Peter Davison, British actor
1951 – Joachim Streich, East German footballer
1951 - Kaci Kullmann Five, Norwegian politician (d. 2017)
1951 – Max Weinberg, American drummer
1951 - Peabo Bryson, American singer
1953 – Stephen Byers, British politician
1953 - Brigitte Macron, French teacher, wife of Emmanuel Macron
1955 - Ole von Beust, German politician, former Mayor of Hamburg
1960 – Rudi Völler, German footballer
1962 - Edivaldo Martins Fonseca, Brazilian footballer (d. 1993)
1962 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (d. 1988)
1963 – Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player
1964 – Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress
1964 – Andy Goram, Scottish footballer
1964 - John Swinney, Scottish politician
1964 - Davis Love III, American golfer
1966 – Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian footballer
1968 - Margrethe Vestager, Danish politician
1970 - Rick Schroder, American actor and director
1972 – Mariusz Czerkawski, Polish ice hockey player
1974 – David Zdrilic, Australian footballer
1974 - Marta Jandova, Czech singer
From 1976
1976 - Valentina Cervi, Italian actress
1976 - Yoo Ji-tae, South Korean actor and director
1978 – Carles Puyol, Spanish-Catalan footballer
1978 - James Jordan, English dancer and choreographer
1979 – Meghann Shaugnessy, American tennis player
1979 - Tony Lundon, Irish singer-songwriter, producer and dancer (Liberty X)
1980 - Quentin Richardson, American basketball player
1980 - Jason Maguire, Irish jockey
1980 - Alan Melikdjanian, Latvian-American actor, director and producer
1981 - Gemma Doyle, Scottish politician
1981 - Courtney Peldon, American actress
1983 – Nicole Cooke, Welsh road racing cyclist
1983 – Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
1983 - Claudio Bravo, Chilean footballer
1983 - Heidi Anderson, American voice actress
1984 - Anders Lindegaard, Danish footballer
1985 - Anna Jennings-Edquist, Australian actress, director and producer
1987 - Brandon Hardesty, American actor
1987 - Allison Weiss, American singer-songwriter
1988 - Petteri Kopponen, Finnish basketball player
1988 – Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1989 - Nastassia Mionchyk-Ivanova, Belarussian long jumper
1990 - Alyssa Mendonsa, Indian singer
1992 - George North, Welsh rugby player
1993 - Hannah Marks, American actress
Deaths
Up to 1900
548 - Ly Nam De, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 503)
814 - Krum, Bulgarian ruler
1093 – Prince Vsevolod of Kiev (b. 1030)
1138 - Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
1592 - Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511)
1605 – Tsar Boris Godunov of Russia (b. 1551)
1794 - Nicolas Chamfort, French playwright (b. 1741)
1853 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
1853 - James Iredell, Jr., American politician, 23rd Governor of North Carolina (b. 1788)
1868 – Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818)
1880 - Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (b. 1813)
1882 - Bruno Bauer, German historian and philosopher (b. 1809)
1901 2000
1904 – Vasily Vereshchagin, Russian painter (b. 1842)
1904 – Stepan Makarov, Russian naval commander (b. 1849)
1911 - John McLane, Scottish-American politician, 50th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1852)
1911 - George Washington Glick, American politician, 9th Governor of Kansas (b. 1827)
1912 – Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese writer (b. 1886)
1918 – Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
1927 – Georg Voigt, German politician (b. 1866)
1936 - Konstantinos Demertzis, 129th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
1938 – Grey Owl, English-Canadian conservationist (b. 1888)
1941 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)
1942 - Anton Uesson, Estonian engineer and politician (b. 1879)
1945 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
1954 - Samuel Jones, American high jumper (b. 1880)
1954 - Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1890)
1956 – Emil Nolde, German painter (b. 1867)
1962 - Culbert Olson, American politician, 29th Governor of California (b. 1876)
1966 – Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)
1966 - Abdul Salam Arif, 2nd President of Iraq (b. 1921)
1972 – Johannes Sveinsson Kjarval, Icelandic painter (b. 1885)
1975 – Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914)
1975 - François Tombalbaye, 1st President of Chad (b. 1918)
1981 – Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (b. 1887)
1984 – Richard Hurndall, British actor (b. 1910)
1999 - Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (b. 1924)
1999 – Willi Stoph, East German politician (b. 1914)
2000 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (b. 1916)
From 2001
2002 – Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racing driver (b. 1928)
2004 - Caron Keating, English-Irish television host (b. 1962)
2006 – Muriel Spark, Scottish writer (b. 1918)
2008 – Mark Speight, English children's television presenter (b. 1965) (body found on this date)
2008 – John Archibald Wheeler, American theoretical physicist (b. 1911)
2011 – Buster Martin, French-British marathon runner (b. 1906 or 1913)
2013 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese-Taiwanese politician (b. 1927)
2014 - Ernesto Laclau, Argentine political theorist (b. 1935)
2014 - Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick, Scottish herald and banker (b. 1929)
2015 - Ronnie Carroll, Northern Irish singer and politician (b. 1934)
2015 - Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player (b. 1918)
2015 - Herb Trimpe, American comic book artist (b. 1939)
2015 - Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist, novelist and writer (b. 1940)
2015 - Günter Grass, German novelist (b. 1927)
2015 - Orma Slack, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1903)
2016 - Mariano Mores, Argentine tango composer and pianist (b. 1918)
2016 - Manouchehr Sotodeh, Iranian geographer (b. 1913)
2016 - Gareth Thomas, Welsh actor (b. 1945)
2016 - Ray Thornton, American attorney and politician (b. 1928)
2016 - Nera White, American basketball player (b. 1935)
2017 - Fred Goldsmith, Australian football player (b. 1932)
2017 - David Mwiraria, Kenyan politician (b. 1938)
2017 - Dan Rooney, American football executive and diplomat (b. 1932)
2017 - K. S. Chandrasekharan, Indian-Swiss mathematician (b. 1920)
2018 - Art Bell, American author and radio host (b. 1945)
2018 - Joy Laville, English-Mexican sculptor, painter and potter (b. 1923)
2018 - Milos Forman, Czech-American film director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
2019 - Francisca Aguirre, Spanish poet (b. 1930)
2019 - Tony Buzan, English author (b. 1942)
2019 - Neus Catala, Spanish Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915)
2019 - Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist (b. 1925)
2019 - Norio Kaifu, Japanese astronomer (b. 1943)
2019 - D. Babu Paul, Indian civil servant (b. 1941)
2019 - Paul Raymond, English musician (b. 1945)
2019 - S. K. Shivakumar, Indian rocket scientist (b. 1953)
2019 - Lydia Wideman, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1920)
2019 - Yvette Williams, New Zealand athlete (b. 1929)
Observances
Songkan (Laos)
Songkran (Thailand)
Cambodian New Year
Thomas Jefferson's birthday (United States)
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Events
Up to 1900
1092 – Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
1671 – Thomas Blood attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels.
1763 - The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
1864 - Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
1868 – Reno, Nevada, is founded.
1873 - The Long Depression begins with the Vienna stock market crash.
1877 - Mihai Kogalniceanu reads out the Declaration of Romania's independence.
1877 – A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Peru kills 2,541 people.
1887 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show begins in London.
1901 2000
1901 – Australia's first parliament opens in Melbourne.
1904 - The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 miles per hour (160.9 kilometers per hour) in speed.
1911 - The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
1915 - World War I: The Second Battle of Artois takes place between French and German forces.
1918 - World War I: German troops repel the second British attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
1926 - Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole, though this claim is later doubted.
1927 – Australia's parliament moves from Melbourne to the new capital city, Canberra.
1934 - In the United States, one of the worst Dust Bowl storms occurs, reaching Chicago on the same day and the East Coast the next day, completely destroying many livelihoods, especially in rural areas.
1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia.
1940 - World War II: A German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris in Den Helder, Netherlands.
1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. The Enigma cryptography machine is on board, and is later used to break coded German messages.
1942 - World War II: Officers of the SS murder 588 people in the town of Zinkiv in western Ukraine.
1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated from German occupation by the British.
1946 – Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy abdicates the throne. Umberto II of Italy succeeds him. His reign only lasts a few weeks, as a majority in a June 2 referendum chooses to make Italy a republic.
1948 - Czechoslovakia's 9th May Constitution enters effect.
1949 – Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco.
1950 – Robert Schuman proposes the creation of an organised Europe.
1950 – L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, is published.
1955 – West Germany joins NATO.
1956 – Yuko Maki climbs Manaslu in Nepal, the 8th highest mountain in the world.
1970 – 70,000 to 100,000 people protest against the Vietnam War in front of the White House.
1974 – Impeachment hearings begin against Richard Nixon.
1977 - The Hotel Polem in Amsterdam burns down, killing 33 and injuring 21.
1978 – Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is murdered by the Red Brigades.
1980 - In Florida, a Liberian freighter, MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay, making a section of it collapse, killing 35 people.
1987 – A plane crash in Warsaw kills 183 people.
1988 – Canberra's Parliament House opens.
1992 – Armenia's army captures Shushi, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
From 2001
2001 – Ghana: The Accra Stadium Disaster occurs. 129 people are killed.
2002 - A 38-day stand-off at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ends when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to different countries.
2002 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a parade, killing 43 people.
2004 – Chechnya's President Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in an attack.
2006 - German cannibal Armin Meiwes is sentenced to life in prison.
2011 - Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt suffers a serious accident during the Giro d'Italia race, dying of his injuries.
2012 - A Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.
2015 - Russia holds its biggest-ever Victory Day parade in Moscow.
2016 - Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann announces his resignation.
2017 - Moon Jae-in is elected President of South Korea.
2017 - US President Donald Trump fires FBI director James Comey.
2018 - Mahathir Mohamad's opposition coalition wins Malaysia's general election. Mohamad previously served as the country's prime minister from 1981 to 2003.
2018 - The Patel Dam in Kenya's Nakaru County bursts in heavy rains, killing at least 48 people.
Births
Up to 1900
1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo Japanese shogun (d. 1199)
1439 – Pope Pius III (d. 1503)
1540 - Maharana Pratap, Indian ruler (d. 1597)
1635 - Augustus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg (d. 1699)
1712 - William Pitcairn, Scottish physician and botanist (d. 1791)
1740 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)
1746 – Theodore Sedgwick, American politician (d. 1813)
1800 – John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
1810 - Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (d. 1883)
1814 – Adolf von Henselt, German pianist (d. 1889)
1823 – Frederick Weld, British colonial governor and 6th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1891)
1830 - Harriet Lane, niece of James Buchanan, acting First Lady of the United States (d. 1903)
1831 - William Watson Goodwin, American classical scholar (d. 1912)
1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895)
1837 – Ben Hall, Australian bushranger (d. 1865)
1843 – Anton von Werner, Prussian painter (d. 1915)
1845 - Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and inventor (d. 1913)
1860 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish writer (d. 1937)
1866 – Leon Bakst, Russian painter (d. 1924)
1870 – Hans Baluschek, German artist (d. 1935)
1873 – Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
1874 – Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)
1882 – Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (d. 1967)
1882 – George Barker, United States painter (d. 1965)
1882 - Edward Aloysius Mooney, American cardinal (d. 1958)
1883 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)
1886 - Francis Biddle, 58th United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
1892 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma, empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)
1895 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)
1895 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)
1895 - Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (d. 1989)
1896 – Richard Day, Canadian movie art director (d. 1972)
1901 1925
1904 - Gregory Bateson, English-American anthropologist, biologist and philosopher (d. 1980)
1906 - Eleanor Estes, American author (d. 1988)
1907 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
1910 – Barbara Woodhouse, Irish-born animal trainer (d. 1988)
1912 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
1914 – Hank Snow, Canadian-born country musician (d. 1999)
1914 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian musician and conductor (d. 2005)
1918 – Mike Wallace, American journalist (d. 2012)
1918 – Orville Freeman, American politician, 29th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2003)
1920 – Richard Adams, British writer (d. 2016)
1920 – William Tenn, writer (d. 2010)
1921 - Daniel Berrigan, American Jesuit priest, activist and poet (d. 2016)
1921 – Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter with White Rose in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
1924 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian poet, writer, novelist and musician (d. 1997)
1926 1950
1927 – Wim Thoelke, show master (d. 1995)
1927 – Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist (d. 2019)
1928 – Colin Chapman, engineer, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982)
1928 – Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)
1928 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (d. 2012)
1928 - Ralph Goings, American artist (d. 2016)
1929 – Kay Dotrice, English actress (d. 2007)
1930 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
1932 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress (d. 2015)
1932 - Javier Ambrois, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1975)
1934 – Alan Bennett, English writer and playwright
1935 – Roger Hargreaves, English writer (The Mr. Men) (d. 1988)
1935 - Nokie Edwards, American guitarist and actor (d. 2018)
1936 – Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
1936 – Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)
1937 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
1938 - Charles Simic, Yugoslavian-born poet
1939 – Ralph Boston, American athlete
1940 – James L. Brooks, American producer and writer
1942 – John Ashcroft, former United States Attorney General
1943 – Vince Cable, British politician
1943 - Colin Pillinger, British planetary scientist (d. 2014)
1943 - Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist and historian (d. 2009)
1944 – Richie Furay, American musician ("Poco", "Buffalo Springfield")
1944 - Petra Roth, former Mayor of Frankfurt am Main
1945 – Jupp Heynckes, German footballer
1945 - Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian writer and journalist (d. 2015)
1945 - Steve Katz, American guitarist, songwriter and producer
1946 – Candice Bergen, American actress
1946 – Drafi Deutscher, German musician (d. 2006)
1947 - Michael Levitt, South African-born biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
1948 - Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician
1949 – Billy Joel, American musician
1949 – Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger (d. 1999)
1950 - Tom Petersson, American bass guitar player (Cheap Trick)
1950 - Marcheline Bertrand, American actress (d. 2007)
1950 – Luciano Spinosi, Italian footballer
1950 - Matthew Kelly, British actor and television presenter
1951 1975
1951 - Alley Mills, American actress
1954 - Nicholas Crane, English geographer and journalist
1954 - Marc Sinden, English actor, director and producer
1955 – Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano
1955 - Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991)
1957 - Fulvio Cullovati, Italian footballer
1959 - Janos Ader, President of Hungary
1960 - Tony Gwynn, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1962 – John Corbett, American actor
1962 - Gary Hume, English artist
1962 - Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter and musician
1962 - Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter and musician
1964 – Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and DJ
1964 – David Gahan, Singer for Depeche Mode
1965 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Marie-José Perec, French athlete
1968 - Masahiko Harada, Japanese ski jumper
1968 – Ruth Kelly, British politician
1969 - Amber, Dutch-German singer, songwriter and producer
1969 - Hudson Leick, American actress
1970 - David Cawthorne Haines, Scottish aid worker (d. 2014)
1970 – Ghostface Killah, American rapper
1970 – Doug Christie, American basketball player
1971 – Paul McGuigan, British musician (Oasis)
1971 - Don Hutchison, English-Scottish footballer
1972 - Dana Perino, American journalist and politician, 27th White House Press Secretary
1975 - Tamia, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer and actress
1975 - Clint Diamantopoulos, Canadian actor
From 1976
1977 - Marek Jankulovski, Czech footballer
1978 - Leandro Cufré, Argentine footballer
1979 - Rosario Dawson, American actress
1979 – Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1980 – Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
1980 - Sara Widén, Swedish opera singer (d. 2014)
1981 – Evangelos Tsiolis, Greek footballer
1982 – Kim Jung-woo, South Korean footballer
1982 – Rachel Boston, American actress
1983 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
1983 - Alan Campbell, Northern Irish rower
1983 - Gilles Müller, Luxembourgish tennis player
1983 - Leandro Rinaudo, Italian footballer
1984 – Prince Fielder, American baseball player
1985 – Audrina Patridge, American actress and television personality
1986 - Grace Gummer, American actress
1989 - Ellen White, English footballer
1991 - Stasia Rage, Latvian figure skater
1992 - Chris Gutierrez, American-Filipino actor
1993 - Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese actor, singer and dancer
1993 - Laura Muir, Scottish athlete
1997 - Zane Huett, American actor
2016 - Alfie Evans, British infant in parental rights case (d. 2018)
Deaths
Up to 1900
1280 – King Magnus VI of Norway (b. 1238)
1315 – Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
1707 – Dietrich Buxtehude, German composer (b. 1637)
1745 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)
1760 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
1791 - Francis Hopkinson, American judge and politician (b. 1737)
1805 – Friedrich Schiller, German writer (b. 1759)
1836 - Caleb P. Bennett, Governor of Delaware (b. 1758)
1850 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
1850 - Garlieb Merkel, Baltic German writer and activist (b. 1769)
1861 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805)
1864 - John Sedgwick, American general (b. 1813)
1889 - William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
1901 2000
1909 - Margarete Steiff, German founder of the Steiff toy company (b. 1847)
1915 - Tony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player (b. 1883)
1915 - Francois Faber, Luxembourg-French cyclist (b. 1887)
1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist (b. 1852)
1942 - Jozef Cebula, Polish priest (b. 1902)
1949 – Prince Louis II of Monaco (b. 1870)
1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist and engineer (b. 1883)
1955 - Kate Booth, English Salvation Army officer (b. 1858)
1957 - Enzo Pinza, Italian opera singer (b. 1892)
1959 - Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and social activist (b. 1887)
1964 - Rico Lebrun, Italian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1900)
1965 – Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (b. 1902)
1968 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright and costume designer (b. 1893)
1968 - Harold Gray, American cartoonist (b. 1894)
1970 – Walter Reuther, American labor leader (b. 1907)
1976 – Ulrike Meinhof, member of the Red Army Faction (b. 1934)
1978 - Giuseppe Impastato, Italian political activist (b. 1948)
1978 – Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
1986 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountain climber (b. 1914)
1987 - Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian politician (b. 1909)
1989 - Keith Whitley, American singer, guitarist and producer (b. 1955)
1997 – Marco Ferreri, Italian movie director (b. 1928)
1997 - Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician (b. 1926)
1998 – Alice Faye, American actress (b. 1915)
From 2001
2001 – Nikos Sampson, 2nd President of Cyprus (b. 1935)
2001 – James E. Myers, American songwriter and producer (b. 1919)
2003 - Russell B. Long, American politician (b. 1918)
2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (b. 1951)
2009 – Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (b. 1930)
2010 – Acharya Mahapragya, Indian religious leader (Jainism) (b. 1920)
2010 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
2011 – Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)
2011 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, former acting President of Bolivia (b. 1921)
2012 – Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser (b. 1928)
2012 - Geoffrey Henry, former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1940)
2013 - George M. Leader, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1918)
2013 - Andrew Simpson, British sailor (b. 1976)
2013 - Ottavio Missoni, Italian fashion designer and hurdler (b. 1921)
2013 - Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (b. 1933)
2014 - Harlan Mathews, American politician (b. 1926)
2014 - Joe Wilder, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer (b. 1922)
2014 - Jules Mutebusi, Congolese militant (b. 1960)
2014 - Jorge Zavala, Ecuadorean politician (b. 1921)
2014 - Mel Patton, American sprinter (b. 1924)
2015 - Michael MacKellar, Australian politician (b. 1938)
2015 - Lo Wing-lok, Hong Kong politician (b. 1954)
2015 - Igor Gorynin, Russian metallurgist (b. 1926)
2015 - Kenan Evren, 7th President of Turkey (b. 1917)
2015 - Johnny Gimble, American country musician (b. 1926)
2015 - Odo Marquard, German philosopher (b. 1928)
2015 - Ragne Tangen, Norwegian television presenter (b. 1927)
2015 - Elizabeth Wilson, American actress (b. 1921)
2016 - Gareth Gwenlan, British television producer (b. 1937)
2016 - Walther Leisler Kiep, German politician (b. 1926)
2016 - Karl Maramorosch, American virologist and plant pathologist (b. 1915)
2016 - John Warr, English cricketer (b. 1927)
2017 - Christopher Boykin, American entertainer and musician (b. 1972)
2017 - Robert Miles, Italian musician and record producer (b. 1969)
2017 - Arthur Moulin, French politician (b. 1924)
2017 - Michael Parks, American actor (b. 1940)
2017 - Qian Qichen, Chinese diplomat (b. 1928)
2017 - Wilburn K. Ross, American World War II veteran (b. 1922)
2017 - Edward Lunn Young, American politician (b. 1920)
2018 - Poldine Carlo, American author (b. 1920)
2018 - Delphine Gibson, American supercentenarian (b. 1903)
2018 - Mustafa Nurul Islam, Bangladeshi academic (b. 1927)
2018 - Per Kirkeby, Danish artist (b. 1938)
2018 - Scott Hutchison, Scottish singer and musician (Frightened Rabbit) (b. 1981)
2019 - Abul Khayr Alonto, Filipino politician, lawyer and businessman (b. 1945)
2019 - Sergey Dorenko, Russian journalist and news presenter (b. 1959)
2019 - Jim Hawkes, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2019 - Arif Malikov, Soviet-Azerbaijani composer (b. 1933)
2019 - Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (b. 1927)
2019 - Freddie Starr, English comedian (b. 1943)
2019 - Yuan Boahua, Chinese politician (b. 1916)
Holidays
Victory and Peace Day in Armenia, the capture of Shushi in the Karabakh War and the end of Great Patriotic War.
Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany (former Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
Independence Day (Romania)
Liberation Day (Channel Islands)
May 09 |
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Events
Up to 1900
558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the dome rebuilt.
973 - Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor takes sole charge of the Holy Roman Empire after the death of his father and co-Emperor Otto I.
1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyons opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
1429 - Joan of Arc leads a French attack on English bridgeheads on the south side of the Loire River.
1487 - Siege of Malaga during the Spanish Reconquista.
1664 – The Palace of Versailles is inaugurated by Louis XIV of France.
1697 – Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed in a huge fire (in the 18th century, it is replaced with the current Royal Palace).
1718 - City of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville.
1763 – Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion begins – Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
1824 – Ludwig van Beethoven, completely deaf, conducts the debut of his Ninth Symphony in Vienna.
1832 – Greece was recognised independent by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
1847 – In Philadelphia, the American Medical Association (AMA) is founded.
1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
1864 - The world's oldest-surviving clipper ship, City of Adelaide, is launched by William Pile in Sunderland, Northeast England.
1895 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates an invention which became the prototype of radio. In the former Soviet Union this day was celebrated as Day of Radio.
1896 – H. H. Holmes is hanged in Philadelphia.
1901 2000
1915 – World War I: a German U-boat sinks the RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people.
1920 – Polish-Bolshevik War: Polish-Ukrainian troops captured Kyiv during the Kiev Offensive.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion arrive in Spain with Heinkel He 51 biplanes to assist Franco's forces.
1940 - The Norway Debate begins in the British House of Commons. It eventually results in Winston Churchill replacing Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1945 – World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document will take effect the next day.
1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with about 20 employees.
1947 – Kraft Television Theater debuts, running for the next 11 years.
1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
1952 – The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat (the battle began on March 13).
1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
1964 - Pacific Air Lines flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner crashes near San Ramon, California, killing 44. The pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
1974 – Willy Brandt resigns as Chancellor of Germany.
1986 - Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb to the top of the Seven Summits.
1992 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay rise.
1992 – Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its maiden voyage.
1992 – Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first fast-food murder in Canada.
1994 - The Scream by Edvard Munch is recovered after it was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo, in February.
1995 – Jacques Chirac is elected President of France.
1998 – Apple Computer unveils the iMac.
1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
1999 – Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope that had visited a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
1999 – A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode. Schmitz later killed Amedure and the jury awarded Amedure's family US$25 million.
1999 – Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese embassy workers are killed and 20 wounded when a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
1999 – In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
2000 – Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia.
From 2001
2001 - Wanted train robber Ronnie Biggs returns to the UK after spending over 30 years on the run in Brazil.
2002 – A China Southern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea killing 112 people.
2007 – The tomb of King Herod the Great, who is mentioned in the Bible, is discovered.
2008 – Dmitry Medvedev becomes President of Russia, with Vladimir Putin as Prime Minister.
2010 – Scientists working on the Neanderthal Genome Project announce that modern humans and Neanderthals could have interbred.
2012 – Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia for a second time, swapping places with Dmitry Medvedev, who becomes Prime Minister.
2012 - Victor Ponta is elected Prime Minister of Romania.
2013 - 27 people are killed and over 30 are injured when a tanker truck explodes outside Mexico City.
2014 - Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra is removed from office for abuse of power.
2015 - The United Kingdom general election, 2015 is held. The Conservative Party of incumbent Prime Minister David Cameron wins a surprise overall majority, with the Labour Party losing seats across England, Scotland and Wales. The Scottish National Party wins all but three seats in Scotland.
2016 - Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party becomes Mayor of London, after defeating Conservative Zac Goldsmith in the election. He is the first Muslim Mayor of a major Western city.
2017 - Emmanuel Macron is elected President of France, defeating Marine Le Pen in the run-off.
Births
Up to 1800
1328 - Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1365)
1530 - Louis, Prince de Condé, French general (d. 1569)
1605 – Patriarch Nikon of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 1681)
1643 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700)
1704 - Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer and tenor (d. 1759)
1711 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1776)
1724 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general (d. 1797)
1740 - Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)
1748 – Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and feminist revolutionary (d. 1793)
1763 – Jozef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince (d. 1813)
1767 – Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1820)
1787 - Jacques Viger, 1st Mayor of Chicago (d. 1858)
1801 1900
1812 – Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
1819 – Otto Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1905)
1826 – Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (d. 1906)
1833 – Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)
1836 - Joseph Gurney Cannon, American politician (d. 1926)
1837 - Karl Mauch, German geographer and explorer (d. 1875)
1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893)
1841 - Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist (d. 1931)
1847 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, British Prime Minister (d. 1929)
1857 - William A. MacCorkle, 9th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1930)
1861 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet and writer of the Bengali language (d. 1941)
1867 – Wladyslaw Reymont, Polish writer (d. 1925)
1875 - William Hoyt, American athlete (d. 1954)
1882 - Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (d. 1960)
1891 - Harry McShane, Scottish engineer and activist (d. 1988)
1892 – Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
1892 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet and politician (d. 1982)
1893 - Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 1985)
1901 1950
1901 – Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
1901 - Marcel Poot, Belgian composer (d. 1988)
1905 - Bumble Bee Slim, American musician (d. 1968)
1908 - Max Grundig, German businessman (d. 1989)
1909 – Edwin H. Land, American inventor (d. 1991)
1911 – Ishiro Honda, Japanese movie director (d. 1993)
1913 - Simon Ramo, American physicist (d. 2016)
1914 - Arthur Snelling, English diplomat (d. 1996)
1917 - Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal (d. 2013)
1919 - Joe Mitty, British philanthropist (d. 2007)
1919 – Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina (d. 1952)
1921 - Gaston Rebuffat, French mountaineer (d. 1985)
1923 - Anne Baxter, American writer and actress (d. 1985)
1923 - Bülend Ulusu, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2015)
1924 - Albert Band, French-American director and producer (d. 2002)
1924 - Marjorie Boulton, British author and poet (d. 2017)
1925 - Lauri Vaska, Estonian-American chemist and academic (d. 2015)
1926 - Val Bisoglio, American actor
1927 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German screenwriter (d. 2013)
1928 - John Ingle, American actor (d. 2012)
1931 – Teresa Brewer, American singer (d. 2007)
1932 - Jordi Bonet, Canadian-Catalan painter, muralist and sculptor (d. 1979)
1932 - Pete Domenici, American politician (d. 2017)
1933 - Nexhmije Pagarusha, Kosovar singer and actress
1935 - Avraham Heffner, Israeli television and movie director, producer and writer (d. 2014)
1936 – Tony O'Reilly, Irish billionaire
1936 - Jimmy Ruffin, American singer (d. 2014)
1939 – Sidney Altman, Canadian molecular biologist
1939 – Ruud Lubbers, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2018)
1939 - Ruggero Deodato, Italian director, actor and screenwriter
1939 - Volker Braun, German writer
1940 - Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist (d. 1992)
1943 – Peter Carey, Australian writer
1944 - Richard O'Sullivan, English actor
1945 - Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945 - Robin Strasser, American actress
1946 - Thelma Houston, American singer-songwriter and actress
1946 – Michael Rosen, English poet and writer
1946 – Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer (The Grateful Dead)
1947 – Gary Herbert, American politician
1947 - Antonio de la Cruz, Spanish footballer
1947 - Numa Sadoul, French writer
1948 – Susan Atkins, American murderer (d. 2009)
1950 – Tim Russert, American broadcast journalist (d. 2008)
1950 - Mark Warawa, Canadian politician (d. 2019)
1951 1975
1951 – Robert Hegyes, American actor (d. 2012)
1956 – Jan Peter Balkenende, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1956 - Nicholas Hytner, English director and producer
1958 – Christine Lieberknecht, German politician
1961 - Hans-Peter Bartels, German politician
1961 - Sue Black, Scottish forensic anthropologist
1962 - Tony Campbell, American basketball player and coach
1962 - Dominik Moll, German-French director and screenwriter
1965 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (died 1999)
1965 - Andrew Little, New Zealand politician
1965 – Norman Whiteside, Northern Irish footballer
1966 - Andrea Tafi, Italian cyclist
1967 – Martin Bryant, Australian criminal
1968
Traci Lords, American actress & singer
Lisa Raitt, Canadian politician
1969 – Rick Porras, American movie producer
1969 - Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter
1969 - Katerina Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
1972 - Jennifer Yuh Nelson, South Korean-American animator
1973 - Paolo Savoldelli, Italian cyclist
1975 – Arni Gautur Arason, Icelandic footballer
From 1976
1976 - Calvin Booth, American basketball player
1977 – Lisa Kelly, Irish singer
1978 – Stian Arnesen, Norwegian musician and songwriter
1978 – Shawn Marion, American basketball player
1979 – Katie Douglas, American basketball player
1981 - Maria Radner, German opera singer (d. 2015)
1983 – Julio dos Santos, Paraguayan footballer
1983 – Garry O'Connor, Scottish footballer
1983 - Makano, Panamanian singer and composer
1986 – Matt Helders, English musician
1987 – Stefan Read, Canadian ski jumper
1988 - Nathan Burns, Australian footballer
1988 – Natalie Mejia, American dancer and singer
1988 - Takayuki Morimoto, Japanese footballer
1988 - Eino Puri, Estonian footballer
1988 - Sander Puri, Estonian footballer
1989 – Master Shortie, English singer-songwriter, rapper and producer
1989 - Raina, South Korean singer, dancer, model and rapper
1990 - Yoon Bit-Garam, South Korean footballer
1992 - Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor
1992 - Tyler Johnson, American basketball player
1999 – Masaki Sato, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
2000 - Maxwell Perry Cotton, American actor
Deaths
Up to 1900
685 - Mawan I, Umayyah Caliph (b. 623)
973 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 912)
1266 – Farid-ud-din Ganj Shakar, Islamic saint in South Asia (b. 1179)
1539 – Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (born 1469)
1539 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (born 1466)
1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (born 1567)
1617 – David Fabricius, German astronomer (born 1564)
1682 – Tsar Feodor III of Russia (born 1661)
1718 - Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England (born 1658)
1793 - Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1722)
1805 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1737)
1825 – Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (born 1750)
1840 – Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (born 1774)
1868 - Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, English statesman (born 1778)
1872 - Alexander Loyd, 4th Mayor of Chicago (born 1805)
1873 - Salmon P. Chase, American politician (born 1808)
1901 2000
1902 - Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest (born 1818)
1922 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (born 1857)
1924 - Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Indian activist (born 1897)
1940 - George Lansbury, English politician (born 1859)
1941 – James George Frazer, Scottish ethnologist and classical philologist (born 1854)
1942 – Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (born 1863)
1943 - Fethi Okyar, Turkish diplomat and politician (born 1880)
1951 – Warner Baxter, American actor (born 1889)
1958 - Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer and conductor (born 1880)
1985 - Dawn Addams, British actress (born 1930)
1986 - Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (born 1949)
1986 - Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and short story writer (born 1915)
1987 – Colin Blakely, English actor (born 1930)
1989 – Guy Williams, American actor (born 1924)
1991 - István Zsolt, Hungarian football referee (born 1921)
1995 – Ray McKinley, American jazz musician (born 1910)
1998 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist (born 1924)
2000 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (born 1909)
From 2001
2001 - Jacques de Borbon Busset, French novelist, essayist and politician (born 1912)
2005 – Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer (born 1980)
2010 – Wally Hickel, American politician, 2nd Governor of Alaska (born 1919)
2011 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (born 1957)
2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist (born 1924)
2011 - Gunter Sachs, German businessman, art patron and playboy (born 1932)
2013 - Ray Harryhausen, American animator, director and producer (born 1920)
2013 - Aubrey Woods, English actor and singer (born 1928)
2013 - Ferruccio Mazzola, Italian footballer and manager (born 1948)
2014 - Colin Pillinger, British planetary scientist (born 1943)
2014 - Nazim Al-Haqqani, Turkish-Cypriot spiritual leader (born 1922)
2014 - Neville McNamara, Royal Australian Air Force commander (born 1923)
2014 - Manuel Jiménez de Parga, Spanish politician (born 1929)
2015 - John Dixon, Australian cartoonist (born 1929)
2015 - Maurice Flanagan, British businessman (born 1928)
2015 - Frank DiPascali, American financier and fraudster (born 1956)
2016 - Bernardo Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer (born 1989)
2016 - John Stabb, American punk music singer (born 1961)
2017 - Gran Apache, Mexican professional wrestler (born 1959)
2017 - Elon Lages Lima, Brazilian mathematician (born 1929)
2017 - Beppo Mauhart, Austrian football executive and journalist (born 1933)
2017 - Gholamreza Pahlavi, Iranian prince and writer (born 1923)
2017 - Lee Weissenborn, American politician (born 1929)
2017 - Wu Wenjun, Chinese mathematician (born 1919)
2018 - Maurane, Belgian singer and actress (born 1960)
2018 - Miki Muster, Slovenian artist (born 1925)
2018 - Jesús Kumate Rodríguez, Mexican physician and politician (born 1924)
2018 - Crosbie E. Saint, American military officer (born 1936)
2019 - Vicente Emano, Filipino politician (born 1943)
2019 - Georg Katzer, German composer (born 1935)
2019 - Te Wharehuia Milroy, New Zealand Maori language academic (born 1937)
2019 - Adam Svoboda, Czech ice hockey player (born 1978)
2019 - Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher and theologian (born 1928)
2019 - Joel Virador, Filipino politician (born 1967)
Observances
Radio Day (Russia, Bulgaria)
Defender of the Fatherland Day (Kazakhstan)
Dien Bien Phu Victory Day (Vietnam)
May 07 |
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Events
Up to 1900
1191 - King Richard I of England lands in Cyprus during the Third Crusade.
1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome, in what is seen by some to be the end of the Renaissance.
1536 - The Siege of Cuzco starts, in which Incan forces attempt to re-take the city from the Spanish.
1536 - Henry VIII of England orders that English language Bibles should be placed in every church.
1542 - St. Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, capital city of what was then known as Portuguese India.
1659 - English Restoration: A faction of the army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector and re-instates the Rump Parliament.
1682 – King Louis XIV of France moves into the Versailles Palace.
1757 - Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
1782 - Building work begins on the Grand Palace, residence of the Kings of Siam, present-day Thailand, in Bangkok.
1816 - The American Bible Society is founded.
1835 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1844 - The Glaciarum, the world's first mechanically-frozen ice rink, opens.
1861 – Arkansas secedes from the Union.
1861 – Richmond, Virginia is chosen as the capital city of the Confederate States of America.
1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the Confederates defeating the Army of the Potomac.
1882 – United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is opened to the public as the World Exposition in Paris begins.
1901 2000
1902 - British ship Carmorta sinks in a cyclone in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta, killing all 739 people on board.
1910 – Edward VII of the United Kingdom dies. George V succeeds him as king.
1916 - 21 Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Jamal Pasha.
1919 - The Third Anglo-Afghan War begins.
1930 – An earthquake in present-day Iran kills 2,500 people.
1935 - In the US, the Works Progress Administration is created.
1937 – LZ 129 Hindenburg catches on fire while landing in New Jersey, killing 36 people.
1940 - John Steinbeck is given the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1945 - World War II: In the last part of the war, the Prague Offensive begins.
1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run a mile in less than 4 minutes.
1954 – Alfredo Stroessner comes to power in Paraguay, after leading a military coup against Federico Chaves.
1966 – In the UK, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are sentenced to life in prison for the Moors murders.
1976 – An earthquake in Friuli, Italy kills 989 people and destroys entire villages.
1983 – The so-called Hitler diaries are found to be a hoax.
1991 - Time magazine publishes an article in which Scientology is strongly criticized.
1994 – The Euro Tunnel between the UK and France, opens. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and President of France Francois Mitterrand jointly open it.
1996 – CIA director William Colby is found dead on a Maryland riverbank, eight days after his disappearance.
1998 – Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev moves his seat of government from Almaty to Akmola, which is renamed Astana.
1999 – The first elections to the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly are held.
From 2001
2001 – Dennis Tito, the first space tourist, returns to Earth.
2001 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to set foot in a Mosque, in Damascus.
2002 – Marc Ravalomanana becomes President of Madagascar.
2002 – Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by an animal rights activist.
2002 - Jacques Chirac announces that Jean-Pierre Raffarin would become Prime Minister of France.
2004 - The series finale of Friends is shown on NBC in the United States, receiving over 52 million viewers.
2007 – Nicolas Sarkozy is elected President of France.
2010 – The United Kingdom general election, 2010 is held. It ends in a hung parliament, where no party has an overall majority. On May 11, the Conservatives under David Cameron and Liberal Democrats under Nick Clegg agree to form a coalition government.
2010 - Caroline Lucas becomes the first MP from the Green Party of England and Wales.
2011 – After the previous day's election the Scottish National Party under Alex Salmond wins an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament, with 69 out of the 129 seats.
2012 – Francois Hollande is elected President of France, as Nicolas Sarkozy is voted out of office after one term.
2012 – The parliamentary election in Greece ends in an inconclusive result, as both main parties lose votes for supporting austerity measures.
2013 - Ariel Castro kidnappings: Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry (and her child by Castro), and Gina DeJesus are found in Ariel Castro's house in Cleveland, Ohio, where they had been held captive for around ten years.
Births
Up to 1800
973 - Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1024)
1397 - Sejong the Great of Korea (d. 1450)
1405 – Skanderbeg, national hero of Albania (d. 1468)
1501 – Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555)
1562 – Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor (d. 1629)
1574 – Pope Innocent X (d. 1655)
1606 – Lorenzo Lippi, Italian poet and painter (d. 1665)
1680 - Jean-Baptiste Stuck, Italian-French composer and cellist (d. 1755)
1713 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)
1714 - Anton Raaff, German tenor (d. 1797)
1758 – Maximilien de Robespierre, French revolutionary (d. 1794)
1758 – André Masséna, French soldier (d. 1817)
1769 – Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824)
1769 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (d. 1834)
1792 - Georg Ohm, German mathematician (d. 1872)
1797 – Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
1800 - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat and general (d. 1881)
1801 1900
1801 - José Joaquín Pérez, President of Chile (d. 1889)
1820 – Robert O'Hara Burke, explorer of Australia (d. 1861)
1851 - Arisitide Bruant, French singer and composer (d. 1925)
1853 - Philander C. Knox, American politician (d. 1921)
1856 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
1856 – Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer (d. 1920)
1861 – Motilal Nehru, Indian politician (d. 1931)
1864 - Eugenio Tosi, Archbishop of Milan (d. 1929)
1866 – Jóannes Patursson, Faroese poet and politician (d. 1946)
1868 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918), May 18 in Gregorian calendar
1868 – Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927)
1870 - Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer (d. 1936)
1871 – Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1871 – Christian Morgenstern, German writer (d. 1914)
1872 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (d. 1934)
1872 - Djemal Pasha, Ottoman Empire politician (d. 1922)
1879 – Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (d. 1952)
1880 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938)
1882 – Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
1889 - Lyubov Popova, Russian artist and designer (d. 1924)
1895 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American actor (d. 1926)
1899 - Billy Cotton, English bandleader (d. 1969)
1901 1950
1902 – Max Ophüls, director (d. 1957)
1902 – Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981)
1904 – Moshe Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais method (d. 1984)
1904 – Harry Martinson, Swedish writer (d. 1978)
1906 – André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
1913 – Stewart Granger, British actor (d. 1993)
1915 – Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)
1915 – Theodore H. White, writer (d. 1986)
1916 - Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (d. 1997)
1917 – Jilly Rizzo, American restaurateur and entertainer (d. 1992)
1919 - Alejandro Finisterre, Spanish inventor of table football (d. 2007)
1919 - André Guelfi, French racing driver (d. 2016)
1920 – Ross Hunter, producer (d. 1996)
1920 – Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister and later President of Fiji (d. 2004)
1921 – Erich Fried, Austrian writer (d. 1988)
1922 - Vladimir Etush, Russian actor (d. 2019)
1923 – Galyani Vadhana, Thai princess (d. 2008)
1923 - Harry Watson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2002)
1924 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of John F. Kennedy (d. 2006)
1924 - Nestor Basterretxea, Basque artist (d. 2014)
1925 – Hanns Dieter Hüsch, German cabaretist (d. 2005)
1926 - Gilles Grégoire, Canadian politician (d. 2006)
1929 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist (d. 2007)
1930 - Philippe Beaussant, French musicologist and writer (d. 2016)
1931 – Willie Mays, American Baseball Hall of Famer
1932 - Ahmet Haxhiu, Albanian political activist (d. 1994)
1932 - Fritz Lichtenhahn, Swiss actor (d. 2017)
1934 - Richard Shelby, American politician
1937 – Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, American boxer (d. 2014)
1938 - Jean Garon, Canadian politician, lawyer and academic (d. 2014)
1940 - Angela Carter, English writer (d. 1992)
1941 - Ivica Osim, Bosnian footballer
1943 – Andreas Baader, member of the Red Army Faction (d. 1977)
1944 – Masanori Murakami, Japanese baseball player
1945 – Bob Seger, rock music singer
1945 – Jimmie Dale Gilmore, musician
1946 - Susan Brown, English actress
1947 – Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
1947 – Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher
1951 1975
1951 – Samuel K. Doe, Liberian military officer and politician (d. 1990)
1952 - Gerrit Salm, Dutch politician
1953 – Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1953 – Graeme Souness, Scottish footballer and manager
1953 - Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (d. 1986)
1954 - Tom Abernethy, American basketball player
1955 – Tom Bergeron, American game show host
1955 – John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, British politician
1958 - Lorita Flores, Spanish singer and actress
1958 - Jan Leyers, Belgian singer-songwriter and television personality
1958 - Randall Stout, American architect (d. 2014)
1959 - Charles Hendry, English politician
1959 - Hiroyuki Sakashita, Japanese footballer
1960 – John Flansburgh, musician
1961 – George Clooney, American actor, movie director and screenwriter
1961 - Tom Hunter, Scottish businessman
1961 - Gina Riley, Australian actress, singer, producer and screenwriter
1963 - Alessandra Ferri, Italian ballerina
1964 – Dana Hill, American actress (d. 1996)
1965 - Leslie Hope, Canadian actress
1968 - Worku Bikila, Ethiopian long-distance runner
1968 - Shin Hae-chul, South Korean music performer and radio DJ
1968 - Laetitia Sadier, French singer and keyboardist
1969 - Vlad Filat, former Prime minister of Moldova
1970 – George Rivas, Texas 7 ringleader
1971 – Chris Shiflett, American guitarist (Foo Fighters)
1972 – Martin Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 - Naoko Takahashi, Japanese runner
From 1976
1977 – Christophe Brandt, Belgian cyclist
1977 - Nozomi Hiroyama, Japanese footballer
1978 – Aleksandr Fyodorov, Russian bodybuilder
1980 – Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek basketball player
1980 - Wolke Hegenbarth, German actress
1980 – Kate Lawler, British Big Brother contestant
1982 - Duri Camichel, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1983 – Daniel Alves, Brazilian footballer
1983 – Adrianne Palicki, American actress
1983 – Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
1983 – Raquel Zimmermann, Brazilian model
1984 - Anton Babchuk, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
1985 – Tanerau Latimer, New Zealand rugby player
1986 - Goran Dragic, Slovenian basketball player
1987 - Moon Geun-young, South Korean actress
1987 - Dries Mertens, Belgian footballer
1987 - Meek Mill, American rapper
1989 - Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakian tennis player
1990 - Masato Kudo, Japanese footballer
1990 – Caitlin Yankowskas, American figure skater
1991 - Harriet Lee, British Paralympic swimmer
1992 - Brendan Gallagher, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 - Takashi Usami, Japanese footballer
1993 - Naomi Scott, British actress, singer and musician
1995 - Marko Pjaca, Croatian footballer
1996 - Dominic Scott Kay, American child actor
2002 - Emily Alyn Lind, American child actress
2019 - Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
Deaths
Up to 1900
1471 - Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1438)
1475 – Dieric Bouts, Flemish painter (b. 1415)
1502 - James Tyrrell, English knight (b. 1450)
1596 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
1638 – Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (b. 1585)
1692 – Nathaniel Lee, English playwright (b. 1653)
1757 - Battle of Prague:
Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
1757 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English politician (b. 1683)
1840 – Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian President and independence leader (b. 1792)
1859 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769)
1862 – Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (b. 1817)
1872 – George Robert Gray, British zoologist (b. 1808)
1873 - José Antonio Báez, President of Venezuela (b. 1790)
1877 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)
1901 2000
1902 - Bret Harte, American writer (b. 1836)
1910 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
1913 – Alexandros Schinas, Greek anarchist (b. 1870)
1919 – L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856)
1939 - Konstantin Somov, Russian writer (b. 1869)
1949 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer (b. 1862)
1951 – Hans Andrias Djurhuus, Faroese poet (b. 1883)
1952 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b. 1870)
1959 - Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1897)
1961 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright and philosopher (b. 1895)
1967 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
1970 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1897)
1975 - Jozsef Mindszenty, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1892)
1985 - Julie Vega, Filipino actress and singer (b. 1968)
1987 – William Casey, American CIA director (b. 1913)
1990 - Charles Farrell, American actor (b. 1901)
1992 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
1992 – Jilly Rizzo, American restaurateur and entertainer (b. 1917)
1998 - Chatichai Choonhavan, Prime minister of Thailand (b. 1920)
From 2001
2002 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)
2002 – Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1932)
2003 - Art Houtteman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
2004 - Virginia Capers, American actress (b. 1925)
2006 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (b. 1926)
2006 – Lillian Asplund, RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1906)
2012 - George Lindsey, American actor, comedian, and writer (b. 1928)
2013 - Giulio Andreotti, former Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1919)
2014 - Cornelius Gurlitt, German art collector (b. 1932)
2014 - Wil Albeda, Dutch politician (b. 1925)
2014 - Farley Mowat, Canadian author and environmentalist (b. 1921)
2014 - Jimmy Ellis, American boxer (b. 1940)
2014 - Bill Dana, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1930)
2015 - Errol Brown, Jamaican-British singer (b. 1943)
2015 - Jim Wright, American politician, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1922)
2015 - Jerome Cooper, American jazz drummer (b. 1946)
2016 - Hannes Bauer, German trombonist (b. 1954)
2016 - Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1990)
2016 - David Hall, American politician, Governor of Oklahoma (b. 1930)
2016 - Margot Honecker, German politician (b. 1927)
2016 - Valeriy Zuyev, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1952)
2016 - Nico de Bree, Dutch footballer (b. 1944)
2016 - Reg Grundy, Australian television producer (b. 1923)
2016 - Candye Kane, American singer-songwriter and pornographic actress (b. 1961)
2016 - Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer (b. 1988)
2017 - Steven Holcomb, American bobsledder (b. 1980)
2017 - Val Jellay, Australian actress (b. 1927)
2017 - Rais Khan, Pakistani sitarist (b. 1939)
2017 - Marshall Julum Shakya, Nepalese politician (b. 1940)
2017 - Min Bahadur Sherchan, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1931)
2018 - Cirilo Bautista, Filipino writer (b. 1941)
2018 - Paolo Ferrari, Italian actor (b. 1929)
2018 - Tarcisio Gitti, Italian politician (b. 1936)
2018 - Khaled Mohieddin, Egyptian army general and politician (b. 1922)
2018 - Charles W. Steger, American academic (b. 1947)
2018 - Ray Szmanda, American radio personality and radio presenter (b. 1926)
2018 - Jamal Naji, Palestinian-Jordanian novelist (b. 1954)
2019 - Max Azria, Tunisian-American fashion designer (b. 1949)
2019 - Gjermund Eggen, Norwegian cross-country skier (b. 1941)
Observances
International No Diet Day
Teacher's Day (Jamaica)
Saint George's Day (Eastern Orthodox Churches)
May 06 |
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Events
Up to 1900
553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
1215 - Rebel barons renounce (withdraw) their allegiance to King John of England, as part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
1668 - Portuguese galley Santissimo Sacramento strikes a reef off the coast of Salvador, Northeast Brazil, and sinks. Out of the over 1,000 people on board, only 70 survive the disaster.
1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
1789 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time in 150 years.
1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1809 – The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte dies aged 51 on the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena. It takes several weeks for the news to reach Europe, due to the remoteness of the island.
1821 - The first edition of the British daily newspaper The Guardian is published.
1835 – In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
1842 – The Great Fire of Hamburg starts. It is brought under control on May 8.
1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, eventually leading to the creating of the Kingdom of Italy.
1862 – Cinco de Mayo in Mexico: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
1865 – In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
1866 - First Memorial Day commemoration in Waterloo, New York.
1877 – Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1885 – George Eastman is granted a US patent for rolling film.
1886 – The Bay View Tragedy occurs, militia fire upon a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin killing seven.
1891 – The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1901 2000
1902 – Commonwealth Public Service Act creates the Australian Public Service.
1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans threw the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
1905 - The trial in the Stratton brothers case begins in London. It is the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to get a conviction for murder.
1916 – American marines invade the Dominican Republic.
1920 - Sacco and Vanzetti case: US authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is served an arrest warrant for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1925 – Afrikaans established as an official language in South Africa.
1936 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1940 – World War II: In London, a Norwegian government-in-exile is formed.
1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; this date has been since commemorated as Liberation Day, or Patriots' Victory Day.
1944 - World War II: German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleinoura, Greece.
1945 – World War II: German troops in the Netherlands and Denmark capitulate to Canadian and British forces, liberating these countries from Nazi occupation.
1945 – World War II: Prague uprising against the Nazis.
1945 – World War II: Mauthausen concentration camp is liberated.
1945 – World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.
1946 - The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo, with 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1949 – The Council of Europe in Strasbourg is founded through the Treaty of London as the first European institution working for European integration. Since 1964, May 5 has been designated Europe Day by the Council of Europe and is celebrated since then to commemorate its founding on 5 May 1949.
1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned as King Rama IX of Thailand.
1955 – West Germany gains full sovereignty.
1961 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.
1964 – 5 May is declared Europe Day on the 25th anniversary of the Council of Europe.
1967 – The first all-British space satellite, Ariel 3 is launched from the United States.
1972 - Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 people on board.
1973 - Secretariat wins the Kentucky Derby in record time.
1977 - The first interview between David Frost and Richard Nixon is broadcast.
1980 – Operation Nimrod: The Special Air Service storm the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
1980 – Constantine Karamanlis is elected for the first time as President of Greece.
1984 - In Luxembourg, the Herreys win the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with the song Diggi-Loo, Diggi Ley.
1987 – Iran-Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings.
1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, DC after a Salvadoran man is shot by police.
1992 – The 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified.
1994 - The Signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
1999 - Indonesia and Portugal reach an agreement on ending the war in East Timor. They also agree to give East Timor a referendum on independence later in the year.
From 2001
2002 – Jacques Chirac is elected to a second term as President of France, defeating far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round of the Presidential Election.
2004 - Pablo Picasso's painting Boy With a Pipe is sold at auction for 104.2 million US Dollars.
2005 – The United Kingdom general election takes place, in which Tony Blair's Labour Party is re-elected for a third, consecutive term.
2006 – The government of Sudan signed an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA).
2007 – Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.
2010 – In Greece, widespread protests occur in the wake of the debt crisis.
2010 – Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua dies after a long illness. Caretaker President Goodluck Jonathan succeeds him.
2011 – The election to the Scottish Parliament takes place, with the Scottish National Party, under Alex Salmond, getting an overall majority, taking 69 of the 129 seats.
2018 - NASA launches its InSight probe to Mars.
2019 - Presidential elections: Stevo Pendarovski is elected President of North Macedonia, while Laurentino Cortizo is elected President of Panama.
2019 - Brunei abandons its policy of making gay sex punishable by death.
2019 - Aeroflot Flight 1492 bursts into flames on its return to Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, killing 41 out of the 78 people on board.
2019 - A tanker explosion near Niamey, Niger, kills 58 people.
Births
Up to 1900
867 – Emperor Uda of Japan (d. 931)
1210 – King Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279)
1352 – Rupert I, King of Germany (d. 1410)
1479 – Guru Amar Das, 3rd Sikh Guru (d. 1574)
1546 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (d. 1623)
1747 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
1810 - Lorenzo Salvi, Italian tenor (d. 1879)
1813 – Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855)
1818 – Karl Marx, German Communist philosopher (d. 1883)
1819 - Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer, conductor and teacher (d. 1872)
1826 – Eugenie de Montijo, Empress of France (d. 1920)
1828 - Robert von Puttkamer, Prussian statesman (d. 1900)
1830 - John Patterson Stetson, American hat manufacturer (d. 1906)
1833 - Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer (d. 1905)
1834 - Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873)
1846 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish writer (d. 1917)
1846 - Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish inventor (d. 1926)
1864 – Nellie Bly, American journalist (d. 1922)
1869 - Hans Pfilzner, German composer (d. 1949)
1877 – Georgi Sedov, Russian naval officer and polar explorer (d. 1914)
1882 – Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (d. 1958)
1882 – Sylvia Pankhurst, British activist (d. 1960)
1883 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, British field marshal and Viceroy of India (d. 1950)
1883 - Agustin Barrios, Paraguayan guitarist and composer (d. 1944)
1883 - Rudolf Spielmann, Austrian chess player (d. 1932)
1887 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1972)
1887 - Marvyn S. Bennion, American captain (d. 1941)
1890 - Christopher Morley, American writer (d. 1957)
1894 – August Dvorak, American inventor (d. 1975)
1899 - Freeman Fisher Gosden, American comedian and actor (d. 1982)
1901 1950
1901 – Blind Willie McTell, American singer (d. 1959)
1907 - Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian writer (d. 1982)
1908 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989)
1911 – Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess player (d. 2010)
1911 - Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1914 – Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958)
1915 – Alice Faye, American actress and singer (d. 1998)
1916 - Zail Singh, 7th President of India (d. 1994)
1917 - Pío Leyva, Cuban singer (d. 2006)
1917 - Lennie Merullo, American baseball player (d. 2015)
1919 – Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek military leader (d. 1999)
1921 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist (d. 1999)
1922 - Monica Lewis, American actress (d. 2015)
1923 - Sergey Akhromeyev, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1991)
1925 - Leo Ryan, American politician (d. 1978)
1927 - Charles Rosen, American pianist and music writer (d. 2012)
1928 - Richard Schaal, American actor (d. 2014)
1930 – Ezzatollah Sahabi, Iranian politician (d. 2011)
1931 - Greg, Belgian cartoonist (d. 1999)
1932 - Stan Goldberg, American comic author (d. 2014)
1933 - Igor Kashkarov, Soviet high jumper
1934 - Ace Cannon, American saxophonist
1934 - Henri Konan Bédié, former President of Ivory Coast
1935 - Shih Chi-yang, Taiwanese politician (d. 2019)
1937 – Tran Duc Luong, former President of Vietnam
1937 – Delia Derbyshire, English composer (d. 2001)
1939 - Ray Gosling, English broadcaster, journalist and activist (d. 2013)
1940 – Lance Henriksen, American actor and painter
1941 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1942 - Marc Alaimo, American actor
1942 – Tammy Wynette, American musician (d. 1998)
1943 – Michael Palin, British actor, comedian, writer and TV presenter
1943 - Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish journalist and writer
1944 – Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer
1944 – John Rhys-Davies, British actor
1944 – Roger Rees, British actor (d. 2015)
1945 - Kurt Loder, American journalist, critic, writer and columnist
1946 - Beth Carvalho, Brazilian samba singer (d. 2019)
1947 – Malam Bacai Sanhá, President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2012)
1948 – Bill Ward, British musician
1950 – Morton Rhue, American writer
1951 1975
1952 - Willem Witteveen, Dutch legal scholar and politician (d. 2014)
1952 - Ed Lee, American politician, Mayor of San Francisco (d. 2017)
1953 - Dieter Zetschke, German businessman
1955 - Lisa Jane Persky, American actress
1957 – Richard E. Grant, British actor
1959 – Ian McCulloch, British singer
1959 – Brian Williams, American news anchor
1960 - Jorge Quiroga, former President of Bolivia
1961 - Mike J. Dunleavy, American politician, Governor of Alaska
1962 - Nicolas Vanier, Senegalese author, explorer and director
1963 - Simon Rimmer, English chef
1964 - Heike Henkel, German high jumper
1964 - Don Payne, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
1966 - Shawn Drover, Canadian musician
1966 - Sergei Stanishev, 46th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
1966 - Josh Weinstein, American writer
1967 - Takehito Koyasu, Japanese voice actor
1969 - Olav Sepp, Estonian chess player
1972 - Zigmund Palffy, Slovakian ice hockey player
1972 – James Cracknell, British rower
1972 – Brad Bombadir, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 - Devin Townsend, Canadian musician
1975 - Meb Keflezighi, Eritrean-born American runner
From 1976
1976 - Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentine footballer
1976 - Sage Stallone, American actor (d. 2012)
1977 - Jessica Schwarz, German actress
1978 – John Wilshere, Papua New Guinea rugby league player
1978 – Santiago Cabrera, Chilean actor
1979 – Vince Grella, Australian footballer
1980 – Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer
1981 – Danielle Fishel, American actress
1981 – Craig David, British singer
1982 – Jay Bothroyd, English footballer
1982 – Sándor Torghelle, Hungarian footballer
1983 – Henry Cavill, Jersey actor
1984 - Wade McNeil, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
1985 – Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress, illustrator and singer
1985 - Tsapo Masilela, South African footballer
1985 - Emanuele Giaccherini, Italian footballer
1987 - Graham Dorrans, Scottish footballer
1988 – Adele, British singer and songwriter
1988 – Brooke Hogan, American singer and television personality
1988 – Skye Sweetnam, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
1989 – Chris Brown, American singer and actor
1991 - Shubha Phutela, Indian actress (d. 2012)
1991 - Robin de Kruijf, Dutch volleyball player
1992 – Yosuke Mikami, Japanese footballer
1992 – Taisuke Miyazaki, Japanese footballer
1993 - Francine Niyonsaba, Burundian middle-distance runner
1998 - Menna Fitzpatrick, British Paralympic skier
1999 - Nathan Chen, American figure skater
Deaths
Up to 1900
200 – Sun Ce, Chinese warlord (b. 175)
311 – Gallerius, Roman Emperor (b. 260)
984 - Gerberga of Saxony (b. 913)
1028 – Alfonso V of Castile (b. 994)
1194 – Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)
1219 – Leo II, King of Armenia (b. 1150)
1257 – Haakon the Young, Junior King of Norway (b. 1232)
1306 - Constantine Palaiologus, Byzantine prince and general (b. 1261)
1309 – Charles II of Naples (b. 1254)
1525 – Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1463)
1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533)
1700 - Angelo Italia, Sicilian Baroque architect (b. 1628)
1705 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
1731 - Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660)
1808 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (b. 1757)
1821 – Napoleon, French general and later Emperor of France (b. 1769)
1827 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
1855 - Seabury Ford, 20th Governor of Ohio (b. 1801)
1859 – Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (b. 1805)
1865 – Ben Hall, Australian bushranger shot dead by the police (b. 1837)
1881 - Ansel Briggs, 1st Governor of Iowa (b. 1806)
1883 - Eva Gonzales, French painter (b. 1847)
1892 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)
1896 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
1900 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
1901 2000
1916 – John MacBride, Irish Nationalist (b. 1865)
1921 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist (b. 1864)
1925 - Tome Jose de Barros Queiros, Portuguese politician (b. 1872)
1931 - Glen Kidston, English pilot and racing driver (b. 1899)
1941 - Natalie of Serbia (b. 1859)
1944 – Bertha Benz, German automobile pioneer (b. 1849)
1945 – Peter Van Pels, Dutch-Jewish refugee (b. 1926)
1959 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician (b. 1878)
1962 - Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
1977 – Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
1981 – Bobby Sands, Northern Irish activist and hunger striker (b. 1954)
1992 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French comedian and singer (b. 1927)
1995 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911)
1999 - Candy Candido, American radio performer, bass player, singer, animator and voice actor (b. 1913)
From 2001
2002 – Hugo Banzer, President of Bolivia (b. 1926)
2003 – Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912)
2004 – Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
2005 – Edgar Ponce, Mexican actor and dancer (b. 1974)
2007 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist (b. 1927)
2008 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (b. 1917)
2010 – Giulietta Simionato, Italian mezzo-soprano (b. 1910)
2010 – Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, President of Nigeria (b. 1951)
2011 – Claude Choules, English-Australian World War I veteran (b. 1901)
2011 – Arthur Laurents, American playwright (b. 1917)
2012 - Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, Swedish royal, uncle of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Margrethe II of Denmark (b. 1916)
2013 - Sarah Kirsch, German poet (b. 1935)
2014 - Eduardo Mac Entyre, Argentine artist (b. 1929)
2014 - Billy Frank, Jr., American activist (b. 1931)
2014 - Butler Derrick, American politician (b. 1936)
2015 - Hans Jansen, Dutch politician (b. 1942)
2015 - Oscar Holderer, German rocket scientist (b. 1919)
2015 - Craig Gruber, American musician (b. 1951)
2015 - Brian Sedgemore, British politician (b. 1937)
2015 - Jon Castañares, Spanish economist and politician (b. 1925)
2016 - Sylvia Kauders, American actress (b. 1921)
2016 - Siné, French cartoonist (b. 1928)
2016 - Isao Tomita, Japanese musician and composer (b. 1932)
2017 - Buhe, Chinese politician (b. 1926)
2017 - Benny Elon, Israeli politician (b. 1954)
2017 - Corinne Erhel, French politician (b. 1967)
2017 - Amancio Escapa Aparicio, Spanish-Dominican prelate (b. 1938)
2017 - Almir Guineto, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2017 - Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (b. 1918)
2017 - Leila Seth, Indian judge (b. 1930)
2017 - Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, President of Mauritania (b. 1953)
2018 - Michele Castoro, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1952)
2018 - Wilson Frost, American politician (b. 1925)
2018 - Ermanno Olmi, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2018 - Klaus Dede, German writer and journalist (b. 1935)
2018 - Stanley Falkow, American microbiologist (b. 1934)
2018 - José María Iñigo, Spanish journalist and commentator (b. 1942)
2018 - Boyan Petrov, Bulgarian zoologist and mountaineer (b. 1973)
2019 - Barbara Perry, American actress (b. 1921)
2019 - Shih Chi-yang, Taiwanese politician (b. 1935)
2019 - Norma Miller, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)
Observances
Cinco de Mayo (Mexico and United States)
Liberation Day (Denmark and Netherlands)
Children's Day (Japan)
Children's Day (South Korea)
Coronation Day (Thailand)
Patriots' Victory Day (Ethiopia)
Martyrs' Day (Albania)
Constitution Day (Kyrgyzstan)
Lusophone Culture Day in Portuguese-speaking countries
Europe Day
May 05 |
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Events
Up to 1900
1415 - Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
1436 - Assassination of Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson.
1471 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Tewkesbury - Edward IV of England defeats the Lancastrian Army under Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, who is killed in the battle.
1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the "New World" between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives at the island that is now known as Manhattan.
1675 - Charles II of England orders the construction of the Greenwich Royal Observatory.
1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to withdraw its allegiance to King George III of Great Britain.
1780 - The first derby in horse racing is held at Epsom, England.
1799 - Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: Battle of Seringapatam - Siege of Seringatapatam ends with the city being invaded and Tipu Sultan being killed by the besieging British army under command of George Harris.
1814 – Napoleon I begins his exile on the Italian island of Elba.
1814 – Ferdinand VII returns Spain to absolute rule.
1859 - The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge, linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in the Southwest of England.
1869 - The naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
1886 - Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, killing 8 people and injuring 60. The police fire into the crowd.
1901 2000
1902 - Eight fishermen die in the Galway Bay drowning tragedy.
1904 – The construction of the Panama Canal begins.
1904 – German football club FC Schalke 04 is founded.
1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
1912 – Italy occupies the island of Rhodes.
1919 - May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, against the Treaty of Versailles, which would transfer Chinese territory to Japan.
1924 – The 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris begin.
1932 – Gangster Al Capone begins an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the US aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi island in the Solomon Islands, which Japanese forces had invaded a day before.
1945 - World War II: British forces liberate Neuengamme Concentration camp near Hamburg.
1945 - World War II: At Lüneburg Heath, the North German army surrenders to British field marshal Bernard Montgomery.
1945 - World War II: Denmark is liberated.
1946 - United States Marines stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz, in which five people were killed.
1949 – In Italy, almost the whole entire Torino football team is killed in a plane crash.
1953 - Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1959 – The first Grammy Awards are given.
1961 - Civil rights: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the Southern United States.
1970 – Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard opens fire on student anti-war demonstrators at Kent State University. Four students are killed, and nine students are injured.
1974 - An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu in the Himalayas. This is the first time that women have reached the top of a peak over 8000 metres high.
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1980 – Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito dies in Ljubljana, at the age of 87.
1982 – Argentine bombers destroy the HMS Sheffield in the Falklands War, as 20 sailors are killed.
1988 - The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
1989 - Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions are later overturned.
1990 – Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 - A new democratic constitution takes effect in Andorra, ending its feudal system, which had lasted since 1278. It becomes a co-principality with the elected President of France and the Catalan Bishop of Urgel as joint heads of state, with an elected Prime Minister as Head of Government.
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule to Jericho and the Gaza Strip.
1998 - "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is given four life sentences in prison.
2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes Mayor of London.
From 2001
2001 – Guido Westerwelle becomes leader of Germany's Free Democratic Party.
2002 – A plane crash in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria kills more than 148 people.
2002 - NASA launches the satellite Aqua to explore the role of water in Earth's ecosystem.
2007 – Greensburg, Kansas, is destroyed by a tornado.
2010 – The painting Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso is sold at auction, at a record price for a work of art.
2018 - It is announced that the awarding of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature will be delayed until October 2019 because of a sexual harassment and corruption scandal at the Swedish Academy.
2019 - The first of three days of coronation ceremonies takes place for King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand.
Births
Up to 1900
1008 – King Henry I of France (d. 1060)
1649 - Chhatrasal, Indian warrior (d. 1731)
1654 – Kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722)
1655 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker (d. 1731)
1733 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1799)
1752 - John Brooks, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
1767 - Tyagaraja, Indian composer (d. 1847)
1772 - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823)
1777 – Louis Jacques Thenard, French chemist (d. 1857)
1796 – Horace Mann, American educator (d. 1859)
1810 - Count Alexandre Joseph Colonna-Walewski, son of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1868)
1820 – Julia Gardiner Tyler, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
1822 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, 3rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1915)
1825 – Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist and educator (d. 1895)
1825 - Augustus Le Plongeon, British-American photographer and antiquarian (d. 1908)
1826 – Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900)
1827 – John Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864)
1845 - William Kingdon Clifford, British philosopher and mathematician (d. 1879)
1852 – Alice Pleasance Liddell, inspiration for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
1864 - Marie Booth, English daughter of William Booth and Catherine Booth (d. 1937)
1870 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (d. 1960)
1872 - A. Mitchell Palmer, United States Attorney General (d. 1936)
1873 - Joe De Grasse, Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1940)
1875 - John J. Blaine, 24th Governor of Wisconsin (d. 1934)
1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Russian political figure (d. 1970)
1883 - Wang Jingwei, Chinese politician (d. 1944)
1887 - Andrew Dasburg, American painter (d. 1979)
1889 - Francis Spellman, American archbishop (d. 1967)
1890 - Franklin Carmichael, Canadian artist (d. 1945)
1895 – Cornelius Van Til, Dutch theologian (d. 1987)
1899 - Fritz von Opel, German industrialist, rocket pioneer and racing driver (d. 1971)
1901 1950
1903 - Luther Adler, American actor (d. 1984)
1904 – Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (d. 1975) (official birthdate)
1907 - Walter Walsh, American FBI agent and Olympic shooter (d. 2014)
1907 - Lincoln Kirstein, American writer and impresario (d. 1996)
1913 – Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (d. 2007)
1914 - Maedayama Eigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1971)
1916 - Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, writer and activist (d. 2006)
1918 – Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1993)
1919 - Basil Yamey, South African economist
1921 - Harry K. Daghlian, Jr., American physicist (d. 1945)
1922 - Eugenie Clark, American icthyologist (d. 2015)
1922 - King Fleming, American jazz pianist (d. 2014)
1922 - John Paul Hammerschmidt, American politician (d. 2015)
1922 - Paul-Emile Charbonneau, Canadian bishop (d. 2014)
1923 – Eric Sykes, British comedian (d. 2012)
1925 - Luis Herrera Campins, former President of Venezuela (d. 2007)
1925 - Jeno Buzansky, Hungarian footballer (d. 2015)
1927 - Terry Scott, English actor (d. 1994)
1928 – Hosni Mubarak, former President of Egypt (d. 2020)
1928 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (d. 2006)
1928 – Wolfgang von Trips, German racecar driver (d. 1961)
1929 - Sydney Lamb, American linguist and academic
1929 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress (d. 1993)
1929 - Manuel Contreras, Chilean general, convicted of crimes against humanity (d. 2015)
1930 – Katherine Jackson, mother of Jackson musical family
1930 - Roberta Peters, American soprano
1931 – Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor
1934 - Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (d. 2014)
1935 - Don Friedman, American jazz pianist (d. 2016)
1937 - Ron Carter, American jazz musician
1938 - Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer and journalist (d. 2010)
1939 - Paul Gleason, American actor (d. 2006)
1940 - Robin Cook, American physician and author
1940 - Sean Barrett, British voice actor
1943 – Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 1971)
1943 - Mihail Chemyakin, Russian painter and sculptor
1944 – Russi Taylor, American voice actress
1944 - Monica Bleibtreu, Austrian actress (d. 2009)
1945 - Jan Mulder, Dutch footballer
1947 - Trivimi Velliste, Estonian politician
1947 – Richard Jenkins, American actor
1948 – George Tupou V, King of Tonga (d. 2012)
1949 - Stella Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress
1950 – Darryl Hunt, musician
1951 1975
1951 – Jackie Jackson, American singer, member of the Jackson musical family
1951 – Gérard Jugnot, French actor and director
1951 – Mick Mars, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
1951 - Colleen Hanabusa, American politician
1953 - Oleta Adams, American singer and pianist
1954 – Pia Zadora, American actress and singer
1956 - Charlotte Green, English radio and television presenter
1956 - Michael L. Gernhardt, American engineer and astronaut
1956 - David Guterson, American novelist
1956 – Ulrike Meyfarth, German athlete
1958 – Keith Haring, American artist (d. 1990)
1958 – Caroline Spelman, British politician
1959 – Inger Nilsson, Swedish actress
1959 - Maurizio Cheli, Italian astronaut and air force officer
1959 – Randy Travis, American singer-songwriter, musician and actor
1960 – Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria
1961 – Jay Aston, English singer-songwriter and dancer
1961 – Chris Packham, English wildlife expert and television presenter
1961 - Luis Herrera, Colombian cyclist
1963 - Vange Leonel, Brazilian singer-songwriter, journalist, novelist, playwright and activist (d. 2014)
1964 - Monica Bardem, Spanish actress
1964 - Rocco Siffredi, Italian pornographic actor and director
1967 - Ana Gasteyer, American actress
1968 - Francesca Bortolozzi, Italian fencer
1970 - Paul Wiseman, New Zealand cricketer
1970 - Will Arnett, Canadian actor
1972 – Mike Dirnt, American musician (Green Day)
1973 – Guillermo Barros Schelotti, Argentine footballer
1974 – Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey
1975 - Louise Hansen, Danish footballer
1975 - Catherine Trudeau, Canadian actress
From 1976
1977 - Emily Perkins, Canadian actress
1978 - Daisuke Ono, Japanese voice actor
1979 – Lance Bass, American singer (*NSYNC)
1979 – Lesley Vainikolo, Tongan-born rugby player
1982 – Nathan Tyson, English footballer
1983 – Trisha Krishnan, Indian actress
1984 – Little Boots, British singer
1985 – Ravinder Bopara, English cricketer
1987 – Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish footballer
1987 – Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer
1988 - David Gray, Scottish footballer
1989 – Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer
1989 - Daniel Gyurta, Hungarian swimmer
1990 – Shunki Takahashi, Japanese footballer
1992 - Ashley Rickards, American actress
1992 - Courtney Jines, American actress
1994 – Alexander Gould, American actor
1994 – Pauline Ducruet, Monegasque royal
2002 - Anastasiya Petryk, Ukrainian singer
2009 – Prince Henrik of Denmark
Deaths
Up to 1900
1406 - Coluccio Salutati, Italian humanist and politician (b. 1331)
1436 – Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman
1471 – Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (b. 1453)
1471 – Edmund of Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (b. 1438)
1519 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)
1566 - Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian organist and composer (b. 1533)
1605 – Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian physician and naturalist (b. 1522)
1615 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
1677 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician and theologian (b. 1630)
1729 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)
1734 - James Thornhill, English painter
1774 - Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick (b. 1714)
1790 – Matthew Tilghman, American planter and revolutionary leader (b. 1718)
1799 – Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader (b. 1750)
1811 – Mikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
1839 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784)
1849 – Hokusai, Japanese artist (b. 1760)
1859 - Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)
1880 – Edward Clark, 8th Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1897 - Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Bavaria (b. 1847)
1901 2000
1901 - John Jones Ross, 7th Premier of Quebec (b. 1831)
1903 - Goce Delchev, Macedonian revolutionary figure (b. 1872)
1916 - Easter Rising leaders executed in Ireland:
Edward Daly (b. 1891)
Joseph Mary Plunkett (b. 1887)
Willie Pearse (b. 1891)
1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian pacifist and writer (b. 1864)
1923 - Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1877)
1924 - E. Nesbit, English author and poet (b. 1858)
1938 – Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist (b. 1889)
1945 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1877)
1949 - Torino footballers killed in plane crash:
Aldo Ballarin, Italian footballer (b. 1922)
Dino Ballarin, Italian footballer (b. 1925)
Guglielmo Gabetto, Italian footballer (b. 1916)
Leslie Lievesley, English footballer (b. 1911)
Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (b. 1919)
Romeo Menti, Italian footballer (b. 1919)
1953 - Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (b. 1876)
1955 - George Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881)
1961 – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher (b. 1908)
1961 - Anita Stewart, American actress (b. 1895)
1970 - Victims of the Kent State shootings:
Allison Krause, Kent State victim (b. 1951)
Jeffrey Miller, Kent State victim (b. 1950)
Sandra Scheuer, Kent State victim (b. 1949)
William Schroeder, Kent State victim (b. 1950)
1971 – Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (b. 1934)
1972 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist (b. 1886)
1980 – Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
1984 – Willie Ormond, Scottish footballer (b. 1927)
1984 - Diana Dors, English actress (b. 1931)
1985 - Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1907)
1987 - Paul Butterfield, American musician (b. 1942)
1991 - Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer-songwriter and mandolin player (b. 1907)
2000 - Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist (b. 1909)
From 2001
2002 – François Adam, Belgian cyclist (b. 1911)
2008 – Kishan Maharaj, Indian tabla player (b. 1923)
2009 – Dom DeLuise, American entertainer (b. 1933)
2010 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (b. 1917)
2012 – Adam Yauch, American musician (Beastie Boys) (b. 1964)
2012 – Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (b. 1963)
2013 - Christian de Duve, Belgian biochemist (b. 1917)
2013 - Otis R. Bowen, 44th Governor of Indiana (b. 1918)
2013 - Mario Machado, Chinese-American journalist and actor (b. 1935)
2014 - Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-born British tennis player (b. 1983)
2014 - Dick Ayers, American comic book artist and cartoonist (b. 1924)
2014 - Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
2014 - Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (b. 1934)
2015 - Eva Aeppli, Swiss artist (b. 1925)
2015 - Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (b. 1913)
2015 - Andrew Lewis, Guyanese boxer (b. 1970)
2015 - Joshua Ozersky, American food writer (b. 1967)
2015 - Zhivko Gospodinov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1957)
2016 - Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, President of Burundi (b. 1946)
2016 - Bob Bennett, American politician (b. 1933)
2016 - Karl W. Butzer, German-American geographer (b. 1934)
2016 - Olle Ljungström, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1961)
2016 - Rita Renoir, French entertainer and actress (b. 1934)
2016 - Friedrich Schattleitner, Austrian sports shooter (b. 1923)
2017 - William Baumol, American economist (b. 1922)
2017 - Bart Carlier, Dutch footballer (b. 1929)
2017 - C. Jackson Grayson, American businessman and writer (b. 1923)
2017 - Victor Lanoux, French actor (b. 1936)
2017 - Edwin Sherin, American-Canadian television director and producer (b. 1930)
2017 - R. Lee Wrights, American political activist and consultant (b. 1958)
2018 - Abi Ofarim, Israeli musician (b. 1937)
2018 - Naser Cheshm Azar, Iranian musician, composer and arranger (b. 1950)
2018 - Renate Dorrestein, Dutch writer and journalist (b. 1954)
2019 - Prospero Nograles, Filipino politician (b. 1947)
2019 - Rachel Held Evans, American Christian writer (b. 1981)
2019 - Terje Moe Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1954)
Observances
Unofficial Star Wars Day ("May the fourth be with you")
International Firefighters Day
Youth Day (China, Fiji)
Greenery Day (Japan)
Bird Day (United States)
Cassinga Day (Namibia)
Remembrance of the Dead (Netherlands)
May 04 |
9898 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%202 | May 2 | This day is the first day of the second third of the year, as well as the one third point of a common year because there are 121 days before and 243 days after it in common years. There are 122 days before and 243 after it in leap years. The exact time the second third of the year starts is 4:00 p.m. In countries that use summer time the actual exact time of the midpoint in a common year is at 5:00 p.m for locations in the northern hemisphere, or 3:00 p.m. for locations in the southern hemisphere; this is when 121 days and 16 hours have elapsed and there are 243 days and 8 hours remaining. In a leap year in those countries, the second third of the year starts at midnight. In countries that use summer time, the second third starts at 1:00 a.m. on May 2, or 11:00 p.m. on May 1 in the southern hemisphere. This is due to summer time having advanced the time by one hour.
Events
Up to 1900
1194 - Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
1335 - Otto, Duke of Austria, known as "Otto the Merry", becomes Duke of Carinthia.
1536 - Anne Boleyn is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
1559 - John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become leader of the Scottish Reformation.
1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
1611 – The King James Bible is published.
1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company, to open up fur trade in Canada.
1808 – The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. This event is later memorised in a painting by Francisco de Goya.
1829 - Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger declares the Swan River Colony in present-day Western Australia.
1863 - American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson is wounded in the Battle of Chancellorsville. He dies of his injuries on May 10.
1866 - Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
1876 - Start of the April Uprising in Bulgaria. In the Julian calendar used at the time, this date was April 20, which is why the uprising is named after the month of April.
1879 - The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Madrid by Pablo Iglesias.
1885 - The first issue of Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale.
1885 - King Leopold II of Belgium creates the Congo Free State, the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Central Africa. It is estimated that millions may have died during the colonial rule there.
1889 – Menelik II of Ethiopia signs a treaty that gives Italy control of Eritrea.
1901 2000
1906 - Closing ceremony of the 1906 Olympics, which are not officially recognized by the IOC as part of the modern Olympic Games.
1918 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company in Delaware.
1920 - The first Negro National League baseball game is played in Indianapolis.
1933 - Adolf Hitler bans trade unions in Germany.
1945 – The Soviet Union captures Berlin in World War II.
1946 - "Battle of Alcatraz" - In one of the most violent events on the prison island in San Francisco Bay - kills two guards and three inmates.
1952 - The first jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1, makes its first flight from London to Johannesburg.
1953 - Hussein of Jordan becomes King, after his father, Talal of Jordan, is declared unfit to rule.
1964 - Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the ship USS Card while it is in the dock at Saigon. The Viet Cong is suspected of having carried out the attack.
1964 - First successful climb of Shishapangma, the 14th-highest mountain in the world, and the smallest of those with a height over 8000 metres.
1969 – The Ocean Liner Queen Elizabeth 2 leaves for its first voyage to New York.
1972 - An early-morning fire at Sunshine Mine between the towns of Kellogg and Wallace, Indiana, kills 91 workers.
1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
1986 - Chernobyl is evacuated, six days after the nuclear reactor disaster there.
1989 – Hungary opens its western border.
1994 - A bus crash in Gdansk kills 32 people.
1995 - Croatian War of Independence: Serbian forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing 7 people and injuring 175.
1997 – Tony Blair takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after his Labour Party won the previous day's General Election with a landslide win over John Major's Conservative Party.
1998 – The European Central Bank is formed in Brussels.
1999 – Mireya Moscoso is elected as the first female President of Panama.
From 2001
2004 - Over 630 Muslim nomads are killed by Christians in religious violence in Nigeria.
2006 – The band Tool releases its 4th album 10,000 Days.
2008 – Tropical Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma, where it kills tens of thousands of people.
2008 - The Chaiten volcano in Chile begins erupting. 4,500 people are evacuated from their homes.
2011 – US President Barack Obama announces the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a US military operation in Pakistan.
2011 - A Europe-wide E. coli outbreak, centred in Germany, begins.
2011 - Stephen Harper's Conservative Party of Canada wins an overall majority in parliament in Canada's election. The Liberal Party of Canada finishes third, behind the New Democratic Party of Jack Layton, who dies a few months later.
2012 – A pastel version of Edvard Munch's The Scream sells for 120 million US Dollars, setting a new record for a work of art sold at auction.
2014 - A landslide in Afghanistan kills at least 350 people, with many reported missing.
2014 - Violent clashes in Odessa during the Ukrainian political crisis lead to a building fire in which at least 31 pro-Russian activists are killed.
2018 - Basque separatist group ETA announces its intention to dissolve.
Births
Up to 1900
1360 – Yongle, Chinese Emperor (d. 1424)
1451 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1503)
1458 - Eleanor of Viseu, Queen of Portugal (d. 1525)
1551 - William Camden, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1623)
1579 - Tokugawa Hidetada, Japanese shogun (d. 1632)
1601 – Athanasius Kircher, German scholar (d. 1680)
1660 – Antonio Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1725)
1702 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (d. 1782)
1729 – Empress Catherine II of Russia (d. 1796)
1737 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1805)
1740 - Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and statesman (d. 1821)
1754 - Vicente Martín y Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1806)
1772 – Novalis, German writer and philosopher (d. 1801)
1773 - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher (d. 1845)
1797 - Abraham Pineo Gesner, Canadian physician and geologist (d. 1864)
1802 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German scientist (d. 1870)
1806 – Charles Gleyre, Swiss painter (d. 1874)
1808 - Emma Wedgwood, English naturalist (d. 1896)
1810 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (d. 1874)
1815 - William Buell Richards, 1st Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1889)
1830 - Otto Staudinger, German entomologist (d. 1900)
1843 - Elijah McCoy, Canadian-American inventor and engineer (d. 1929)
1856 - Vasily Rozanov, Russian philosopher (d. 1919)
1859 – Jerome K. Jerome, English writer (d. 1927)
1860 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian writer and Zionist (d. 1904)
1860 - D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Scottish biologist, mathematician and classical scholar (d. 1948)
1860 - John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
1868 - Robert W. Wood, American experimental physicist (d. 1955)
1872 - Karl Nessler, American hairdresser (d. 1951)
1879 - James F. Byrnes, 49th United States Secretary of State and 104th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1972)
1880 - Bill Horr, American athlete (d. 1955)
1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)
1885 - Hedda Hopper, American actress and columnist (d. 1966)
1886 - Gottfried Benn, German writer (d. 1956)
1889 - Ki Hajar Dewantara, Indonesian education pioneer (d. 1959)
1890 - E. E. Smith, American food engineer (d. 1965)
1892 – Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter pilot (d. 1918)
1895 - Lorenz Hart, American playwright (d. 1943)
1896 – Helen of Greece of Denmark (d. 1982)
1901 1950
1902 - Arturo Licata, Sicilian supercentenarian (d. 2014)
1903 – Benjamin Spock, American writer (d. 1998)
1913 - Nigel Patrick, English actor (d. 1981)
1915 - Van Alexander, American jazz composer, arranger and bandleader (d. 2015)
1917 - Van Tien Dung, Vietnamese general and politician (d. 2002)
1917 - Albert Castelyns, Belgian water polo player and bobsledder (d. unknown)
1920 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
1920 - Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-Brazilian activist (d. 2000)
1920 - Vasantrao Deshpande, Indian singer and sitar player (d. 1983)
1920 - Guinn Smith, American pole vaulter, 1948 Olympic champion (d. 2004)
1921 – Satyajit Ray, Indian movie maker (d. 1992)
1923 – Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland (d. 2008)
1924 - Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor and singer (d. 2015)
1924 - Hugh Cortazzi, English businessman and diplomat (d. 2018)
1925 - Maria Barroso, Portuguese actress and politician (d. 2015)
1928 – Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (d. 1972)
1929 – Edouard Balladur, former Prime Minister of France
1929 - Eddie Garcia, Filipino actor, director and television personality (d. 2019)
1930 - Marco Pannella, Italian politician and activist (d. 2016)
1930 - Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist and critic (d. 2013)
1931 - Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, English lawyer and judge
1932 - Bruce Glover, American actor
1933 - Gérard Jouannest, French pianist (d. 2018)
1933 - Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, English lawyer and judge
1935 - Luis Suárez Miramontes, Spanish footballer
1935 – King Faisal II of Iraq (d. 1958)
1936 - Norma Aleandro, Argentine actress, director and screenwriter
1936 – Engelbert Humperdinck, British singer
1937 - Lance LeGault, American actor (d. 2012)
1937 - Lorenzo Music, American screenwriter, actor and producer (d. 2001)
1938 – King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (d. 1996)
1941 – Jules Wijdenbosch, former President of Suriname
1941 - Eddy Louiss, French jazz musician (d. 2015)
1942 – Jacques Rogge, Belgian Olympic official (d. 2021)
1943 - Manfred Schnelldorfer, German figure skater
1944 - Kim Yong-il, North Korean politician
1945 – Judge Dread, English musician (d. 1998)
1945 – Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan-born activist
1946 - Lesley Gore, American singer (d. 2015)
1946 – David Suchet, British actor
1947 – James Dyson, British inventor
1947 - Prashanta Nanda, Indian actor, director, producer and politician
1949 - Alan Titchmarsh, British television presenter
1949 - Alfons Schuhbeck, German chef and cookery writer
1949 - Alan Gross, American government contractor
1950 - Lou Gramm, American singer
1951 1975
1951 - John Glascock, English musician (d. 1979)
1952 – Christine Baranski, American actress
1952 - Christopher Doyle, Australian director and screenwriter
1953 – Valery Gergiev, Russian conductor
1955 - Donatella Versace, Italian fashion designer
1956 - Régis Lebeaume, Canadian politician, 41st Mayor of Quebec City
1958 - Yasushi Akimoto, Japanese television writer, songwriter, record producer and professor
1958 – David O'Leary, Irish footballer
1962 – Jimmy White, English snooker player
1964 – Silvia Neid, German footballer and coach
1967 - Bengt Akerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (d. 1995)
1967 - Luigi Apolloni, Italian footballer
1968 - Hikaru Midorikawa, Japanese voice actor
1968 - Ziana Zain, Malaysian singer-songwriter and actress
1969 – Brian Lara, West Indies cricketer
1971 - Musashimaru Koyo, American Samoan sumo wrestler
1972 - Dwayne Johnson, American professional wrestler and actor
1972 - Ahti Heinla, Estonian programmer and entrepreneur
1973 - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German movie director
1974 - Matt Berry, English actor
1975 – David Beckham, English footballer
1975 – Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger, American astronaut
From 1976
1977 - Jan Fitschen, German runner
1977 - Kalle Palander, Finnish skier
1979 - Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
1980 – Tim Borowski, German footballer
1980 – Zat Knight, English footballer
1980 - Troy Murphy, American basketball player
1980 - Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Canadian skateboarder
1981 – Chris Kirkland, English footballer
1981 – Tiago Mendes, Portuguese footballer
1982 - Lorie, French singer
1982 - Johan Botha, South Korean cricketer
1983 - Alessandro Diamanti, Italian footballer
1983 - Derek Boateng, Ghanaian footballer
1983 - Maynor Figueroa, Honduran footballer
1983 – Tina Maze, Slovenian skier
1985 – Lily Allen, English singer
1985 - Kyle Busch, American racing driver
1985 – Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
1985 – David Nugent, English footballer
1985 - Oh Land, Danish singer-songwriter and record producer
1985 – Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1986 - Emily Hart, American actress
1986 - Sani Kaita, Nigerian footballer
1987 - Saara Aalto, Finnish singer
1987 - Kris Russell, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 - Nana Kitade, Japanese singer-songwriter and musician
1988 - Stephen Henderson, Irish footballer
1990 – Kay Panabaker, American actress
1990 - Paul George, American basketball player
1991 - Jeong Jinwoon, South Korean actor and singer
1994 - Josh Bolt, English actor
1996 - Julian Brandt, German footballer
1997 - Bambam, South Korean dancer, rapper and singer
2015 - Princess Charlotte of Cambridge
Deaths
Up to 1900
373 - Athanasius of Alexandria (b. 298)
756 - Emperor Shomu of Japan (b. 701)
907 - Boris I of Bulgaria
1219 – Leo I, King of Armenia (b. 1150)
1300 - Blanche of Artois (b. 1248)
1519 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and inventor (b. 1452)
1627 - Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560)
1802 - Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (b. 1762)
1819 - Mary Moser, English painter (b. 1744)
1821 - Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (b. 1741)
1825 – Michail Leontievich Bulatov, Russian military (b. 1760)
1857 - Alfred de Busset, French writer (b. 1810)
1864 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (b. 1791)
1880 - Eberhard Anheuser, German-American businessman (b. 1805)
1880 - Tom Willis, Australian cricketer and co-founder of Australian rules football (b. 1835)
1901 2000
1909 - Manuel Amador Guerrero, 1st President of Panama (b. 1833)
1915 - Clara Immerwahr, German chemist, doctor and activist (b. 1870)
1918 - Jüri Vilms, Estonian politician (b. 1889)
1927 - Ernest Starling, English physiologist (b. 1866)
1930 - Isidor Gunsberg, Hungarian chess player (b. 1854)
1945 – Martin Bormann, Nazi politician (b. 1900)
1957 – Joseph McCarthy, US Senator (b. 1908)
1960 – Caryl Chessman, American, controversially executed (b. 1921)
1964 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-British politician (b. 1879)
1969 – Franz von Papen, German politician (b. 1879)
1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI (b. 1895)
1979 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist (b. 1903)
1983 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (b. 1926)
1983 - Pridi Banomyong, Prime minister of Thailand (b. 1900)
1984 - Bob Clampett, American animator, producer and director (b. 1913)
1985 - Attilio Bettega, Italian rally driver (b. 1953)
1989 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (b. 1902)
1989 - Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (b. 1902)
1993 - André Moynet, French fighter pilot, entrepreneur, politician and racing driver (b. 1921)
1995 - Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
1995 - Werner Veigel, German television journalist (b. 1928)
1997 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher (b. 1921)
1997 – Sir John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist (b. 1903)
1998 – Hide, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
1998 – Justin Fashanu, English footballer (b. 1961)
1998 - Kevin Lloyd, British actor (b. 1949)
1999 - Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
From 2001
2005 – Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
2009 – Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director (b. 1931)
2009 – Jack Kemp, American politician and football player (b. 1935)
2010 – Kama Chinen, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
2010 – Lynn Redgrave, British actress (b. 1943)
2011 – Osama Bin Laden, Saudi Islamist terrorist (b. 1957)
2012 – Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, Indonesian physician and politician (b. 1955)
2012 – Junior Seau, American football player (b. 1969)
2013 - Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (b. 1980)
2013 - Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist (Slayer) (b. 1964)
2014 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (b. 1918)
2014 - Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, Iranian classical musician (b. 1947)
2014 - Nigel Stepney, English mechanic (b. 1958)
2014 - Pauline Wagner, American actress (b. 1910)
2015 - Ruth Rendell, English writer (b. 1930)
2015 - Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1925)
2015 - Konstantin K. Kuzminsky, Russian performance poet (b. 1940)
2015 - Sarah Correa, Brazilian swimmer (b. 1992)
2015 - Guy Carawan, American folk musician (b. 1927)
2015 - Michael Blake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1945)
2015 - Stuart Archer, British recipient of the George Cross (b. 1915)
2015 - Philip S. Goodman, American director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1926)
2016 - Afeni Shakur, African American music businesswoman, philanthropist, political activist, and Black Panther. Mother of Tupac Shakur (b. 1947)
2016 - Jonathan Cainer, British astrologer (b. 1957)
2016 - John Kaye, Australian politician (b. 1955)
2016 - Roger Millward, British rugby league player (b. 1947)
2017 - Harold Bedoya Pizarro, Colombian military commander and politician (b. 1938)
2017 - Abelardo Castillo, Argentine author and essayist (b. 1935)
2017 - Kevin Garcia, American musician (b. 1975)
2017 - Heinz Kessler, German politician (b. 1920)
2017 - George Hugh Niederauer, American archbishop (b. 1936)
2017 - Leo K. Thorsness, American air force officer (b. 1932)
2017 - Moray Watson, British actor (b. 1928)
2017 - Roy Gater, English footballer (b. 1940)
2018 - Gord Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1960)
2018 - Tony Cucchiara, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
2018 - Herman Krebbers, Dutch violinist (b. 1923)
2018 - Vadim Mulerman, Soviet-Ukrainian singer (b. 1938)
2018 - Bill Torrey, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1934)
2018 - Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress (b. 1924)
2018 - Wolfgang Völz, German actor (b. 1930)
2018 - János Juszkó, Hungarian cyclist (b. 1939)
2019 - Michel Crauste, French rugby union player (b. 1934)
2019 - Rafael Hernández Colón, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1936)
2019 - Fatimih Dávila, Uruguayan model (b. 1988)
2019 - Master Hirannaiah, Indian actor (b. 1934)
2019 - Frank Ivancie, American businessman and politician (b. 1924)
2019 - Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2019 - Micha Lindenstrauss, German-born Israeli judge (b. 1937)
2019 - Ali Mroudjaé, Prime minister of the Comoros (b. 1939)
2019 - Lord Toby Jug, British politician (b. 1935)
2019 - Chris Reccardi, American animator (b. 1964)
2019 - John Starling, American bluegrass musician (b. 1940)
2019 - Juan Vicente Torrealba, Venezuelan harpist and composer (b. 1917)
Observances
Polish Flag day celebrated
Last day of the Bahá'í festival to select members of the Universal House of Justice.
National Education Day (Indonesia)
Teachers' Day (Iran, Bhutan)
May 02 |
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Events
Up to 1900
1430 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while loading an army to relieve Compiegne.
1498 - Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
1533 - The marriage between King Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1555 - Giovanni Pietro Carafa becomes Pope Paul VI.
1568 - The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.
1568 - Dutch rebels, lead by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, starting the Eighty Years' War.
1609 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
1618 - The Second Defenestration of Prague leads to the start of the Thirty Years' War.
1701 - After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is executed by hanging in London.
1706 - Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough defeats a French army under Marshal Francois de Neufville, duc de Villeroi.
1788 - South Carolina becomes the 8th State of the US.
1793 - Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy in Milan Cathedral.
1829 - A patent for the accordion is granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austria.
1844 - Declaration of the Bab: A merchant from Shiraz, Persia, announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that is later crushed by the Persian government. This movement is considered to be a forerunner of the Baha'i faith, in which this date is celebrated as a holy day.
1846 - Mexican-American War: President of Mexico Mariano Paredes unofficially declares war on the United States.
1873 - The Canadian government creates the North-West Mounted Police force. This is a forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police force.
1901 2000
1911 - The New York Public Library is opened.
1915 - World War I: Italy joins the Allies against Austria-Hungary.
1932 - In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a protest against the country's leader Getulio Vargas in São Paulo.
1934 – The outlaws Bonnie and Clyde are shot dead by law officers in the Texas–Louisiana border region.
1939 - The United States Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off New Hampshire.
1945 - SS leader Heinrich Himmler commits suicide.
1945 - The Flensburg Government under Karl Doenitz is dissolved when its members are arrested by British forces in the city of Flensburg in Northern Germany, next to the border with Denmark.
1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is founded.
1951 - Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with China.
1958 - Space probe Explorer 1 ceases (ends) transmission.
1960 – Israel announces the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was hiding in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1967 - Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat, Israel, at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea, to Israeli shipping.
1992 - Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, along with his wife and three bodyguards, is killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily.
1993 - Cambodia holds its first free elections in over 20 years.
1994 - Roman Herzog is elected President of Germany.
1997 - Mohammad Khatami is elected President of Iran.
1998 - Voters in Northern Ireland approve the Good Friday Agreement in a referendum.
1999 - Johannes Rau is elected President of Germany.
From 2001
2002 - Iceland ratifies the Kyoto protocol.
2004 – Horst Köhler is chosen as the new German President, to succeed Johannes Rau.
2004 - Part of the roof of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing 4 people.
2006 - Alaskan volcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
2008 - The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) is founded.
2009 - Former President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide, while facing a corruption investigation.
2009 - Horst Koehler is elected to a second term as President of Germany. However, he resigns just over a year later, on May 31, 2010.
2014 - The Glasgow School of Art, one of the most famous buildings in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, is heavily damaged by fire.
2015 - Mans Zelmerlow of Sweden wins the 60th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria. Special guest Australia, represented by Guy Sebastian, finishes 5th out of 27. Host nation Austria finishes joint-bottom with Germany on 0 points, making it the worst performance of a host nation in the contest's history.
2016 - Bomb attacks in western Syria result in the deaths of more than 100 people.
2019 - Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party wins India's general election, giving it a big parliamentary majority.
2019 - The 2019 election to the European Parliament begin.
Births
Up to 1850
635 - K'inich Kan B'alam II, Mayan King (d. 702)
1052 – King Philip I of France (d. 1108)
1100 – Emperor Quinzong of China (d. 1161)
1606 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish philosopher, mathematician and writer (d. 1682)
1617 - Elias Ashmole, English astrologer and politician (d. 1692)
1696 - Johann Caspar Vogler, German organist and composer (d. 1763)
1707 – Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish biologist (d. 1778)
1718 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d. 1783)
1729 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian writer (d. 1799)
1734 – Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician (d. 1815)
1741 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (d. 1815)
1754 - Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (d. 1817)
1790 – Jules Dumont D'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842)
1794 - Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso (d. 1870)
1795 - Charles Barry, English architect (d. 1860)
1810 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (d. 1850)
1820 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (d. 1887)
1824 – Ambrose Burnside, American general (d. 1881)
1827 - Milton Latham, 6th Governor of California (d. 1882)
1834 - Carl Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
1837 - Anatole Mallet, Swiss engineer (d. 1919)
1840 - George Throssell, Irish-Australian politician, 30th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1910)
1842 - Maria Konopnicka, Polish writer (d. 1910)
1844 – Abdu'l Baha, leading member of the Baha'i faith (d. 1921)
1848 – Otto Lilienthal, German aviator (d. 1896)
1851 1900
1865 – Epitacio Pessoa, President of Brazil (d. 1942)
1872 - Julio Acosta Garcia, President of Peru (d. 1954)
1883 - Ferenc Talanyi, Slovenian writer, journalist and painter (d. 1959)
1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)
1884 - Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)
1887 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
1888 - Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972)
1889 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967)
1890 – Herbert Marshall, English actor (d. 1969)
1891 – Par Lagerkvist, Swedish writer (d. 1974)
1892 - Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British nobleman (d. 1975)
1892 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922)
1896 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German SS officer (d. 1966)
1898 - Georgios Grivas, Greek-Cypriot political activist (d. 1974)
1898 - Scott O'Dell, American writer (d. 1989)
1898 – Josef Terboven, Nazi Reichskommissar in occupied Norway (d. 1945)
1899 - Jeralean Talley, American supercentenarian (d. 2015)
1900 – Hans Frank, Nazi official (d. 1946)
1901 1950
1905 - Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, Spanish writer, journalist and politician (d. 1936)
1908 – John Bardeen, American physicist (d. 1991)
1908 - Hélène Boucher, French pilot (d. 1934)
1908 - Max Abramovitz, American architect (d. 2004)
1910 – Scatman Crothers, American musician (d. 1986)
1910 – Artie Shaw, American musician (d. 2004)
1911 – Paul Mayer, German cardinal (d. 2010)
1911 - Betty Nuthall, English tennis player (d. 1983)
1912 - Jean Françaix, French composer, pianist and orchestrator (d. 1997)
1912 - John Payne, American movie actor (d. 1989)
1917 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008)
1918 - Denis Compton, English cricketer (d. 1997)
1919 – Betty Garrett, American actress (d. 2011)
1921 – Humphrey Lyttelton, British musician (d. 2008)
1921 - James Blish, American science fiction writer (d. 1975)
1923 – Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (d. 2009)
1924 – Karlheinz Deschner, German writer and humanist (d. 2014)
1925 – Joshua Lederberg, American biologist (d. 2008)
1926 - Joe Slovo, Lithuanian-South African politician (d. 1995)
1927 - Dieter Hildebrandt, German entertainer (d. 2013)
1928 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
1928 – Nigel Davenport, British actor (d. 2013)
1929 - Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
1933 – Joan Collins, British actress
1933 - Ove Fundin, Swedish motorcycle racer
1933 - Alberto Natusch, Bolivian military leader (d. 1994)
1934 – Robert Moog, American inventor (d. 2005)
1935 - Susan Cooper, British writer
1936 - Ingeborg Hallstein, German soprano and actress
1936 - Charles Kimbrough, American actor
1938 - Johnny Ball, British television personality
1938 - Peter Preston, British journalist and newspaper editor (d. 2018)
1939 - Michel Colombier, French-American composer and conductor (d. 2004)
1940 - Levan Mesashvili, Georgian basketball player and coach
1942 - Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher
1942 - José Omar Pastoriza, Argentine footballer
1943 - Peter Kenilorea, 1st Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (d. 2016)
1944 - John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
1944 – Lena Nyman, Swedish actress (d. 2011)
1945 - Lauren Chapin, American actress
1948 - Myriam Boyer, French actress, director and producer
1949 – Alan García, former President of Peru (d. 2019)
1950 – Martin McGuinness, Northern Irish politician (d. 2017)
1951 1975
1951 – Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
1951 – Antonis Samaras, Greek politician, former Prime Minister of Greece
1952 - Anne-Marie David, French singer
1954 - Hans Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
1956 - Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician
1957 - Craig Brown, English journalist and critic
1958 - Mitch Albom, American journalist, author and screenwriter
1958 - Drew Carey, American actor, comedian and game show host
1958 - Thomas Reiter, German astronaut
1959 – Ryuta Kawashima, Japanese neuroscientist, creator of Brain Training
1959 – Bob Mortimer, English comedian
1960 - Michel Roux Jr., French-English chef
1965 - Manuel Sanchis Hontiyuelo, Spanish footballer
1965 - Melissa McBride, American actress
1967 – Phil Selway, American drummer (Radiohead)
1967 - Carlos Mercenario, Mexican race walker
1970 - Matt Flynn, American drummer and producer (Maroon 5)
1970 – Yigal Amir, assassin of Yitzhak Rabin
1971 – George Osborne, British politician, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
1972 – Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian Formula One racecar driver
1973 - Maxwell, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1974 - Manuela Schwesig, German politician
1974 – Ken Jennings, American gameshow contestant
1974 – Jewel, American singer
From 1976
1976 – Ricardinho, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Richard Ayoade, English actor, writer, comedian and presenter
1978 - Mike Gonzalez, American baseball player
1980 – Theofanis Gekas, Greek footballer
1981 - Tim Robinson, American comedian
1983 – Heidi Range, British singer (The Sugababes)
1984 – Hugo Almeida, Portuguese footballer
1984 - Lizzie Waterworth, English voice actress
1984 - Adam Wylie, American actor
1985 – Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer
1985 - Sebastian Fernandez, Uruguayan footballer
1985 - Wim Stroetinga, Dutch cyclist
1988 - Lorenzo De Silvestri, Italian footballer
1988 – Morgan Pressel, American golfer
1990 - Ricardo dos Santos, Brazilian surfer (d. 2015)
1991 – Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer
1992 - Olesia Karmi, Finnish figure skater
1993 - Sargis Adamyan, Armenian footballer
1995 - Jillian Janson, American pornographic actress
Deaths
Up to 1900
230 - Pope Urban I
779 - Emperor Daizong of Tang, Chinese Emperor (b. 727)
1125 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1081)
1498 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (b. 1452)
1523 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (b. 1466)
1524 – Ismail I, Shah of Persia (b. 1487)
1669 - Joris van der Haagen, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
1670 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610)
1691 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (b. 1622)
1701 – William Kidd, Scottish pirate (b. 1645)
1754 - John Wood, the Elder, English architect (b. 1704)
1786 - Maurice Benyovszky, Hungarian count, explorer and writer (b. 1746)
1825 – Gugsa of Yejju, Regent of Ethiopia
1841 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765)
1857 - Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789)
1868 – Kit Carson, American Western figure (b. 1809)
1886 - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795)
1893 – Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805)
1895 - Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (b. 1798)
1901 2000
1906 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer and playwright (b. 1828)
1914 - William O'Connell Bradley, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1847)
1917 – Ranavalona III, Queen of Madagascar (b. 1861)
1921 - August Nilsson, Swedish athlete (b. 1872)
1934 – Bonnie and Clyde, American outlaws (b. 1909 and 1910)
1937 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1839)
1944 - Thomas Curtis, American hurdler (b. 1870)
1945 – Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (b. 1900)
1947 - Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
1955 - Roy E. Ayers, American politician, Governor of Montana (b. 1882)
1960 - Georges Claude, French engineer and inventor (b. 1870)
1965 - Earl Webb, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1966 – Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902)
1967 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
1981 - George Jessel, American actor, singer and producer (b. 1898)
1986 - Sterling Hayden, American actor and writer (b. 1916)
1989 - Karl Koch, German computer hacker (b. 1965)
1991 - Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b. 1895)
1991 - Jean Van Houtte, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1907)
1992 – Giovanni Falcone, Italian magistrate and anti-Mafia judge (b. 1939)
1992 - Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1908)
1996 - Bernhard Klodt, German footballer (b. 1926)
1999 – Owen Hart, professional wrestler (b. 1965)
From 2001
2002 – Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)
2003 – Jean Yanne, French actor, writer, director and composer (b. 1933)
2006 – Kazimierz Gorski, Polish footballer (b. 1921)
2006 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
2008 – Heinz Kwiatkowski, German footballer (b. 1926)
2008 - Utah Phillips, American singer-songwriter, poet and activist (b. 1935)
2009 – Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea (b. 1946)
2010 – Leonida Georgievna, Grand Duchess of Russia (b. 1914)
2011 – Nasser Hejazi, Iranian footballer (b. 1949)
2011 – Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (b. 1978)
2012 - Paul Fussell, American historian, writer and educator (b. 1924)
2013 - Georges Moustaki, French singer and composer (b. 1934)
2013 - James Sisnett, Barbadian supercentenarian (b. 1900)
2014 - Joel Camargo, Brazilian footballer (b. 1946)
2014 - Walter Romberg, East German politician (b. 1928)
2014 - Mona Freeman, American actress (b. 1926)
2015 - Aleksey Mozgovoy, Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist (b. 1975)
2015 - John Forbes Nash Jr., American mathematician (b. 1928)
2015 - Anne Meara, American actress and comedienne (b. 1929)
2015 - Ali Raymi, Yemeni boxer (b. 1973)
2016 - John Brophy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
2016 - Joe Fleishaker, American actor (b. 1954)
2017 - Roger Moore, English actor (b. 1927)
2017 - Stefano Farina, Italian football referee (b. 1962)
2017 - Jerry Perenchio, American businessman (b. 1930)
2017 - William Carney, American politician (b. 1942)
2017 - Kaoru Yosano, Japanese politician (b. 1938)
2018 - Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban militant (b. 1928)
2018 - Antonio Horvath, Chilean civil servant and politician (b. 1950)
2018 - Richard Peck, American novelist (b. 1934)
2018 - Daniel Robin, French wrestler (b. 1943)
2019 - Dumiso Dabengwa, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1939)
2019 - Bobby Joe Long, American serial killer (b. 1953)
2019 - Hosei Norota, Japanese politician (b. 1929)
2019 - Beaton Tulk, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Newfoundland (b. 1944)
2019 - Anna Udvardy, Hungarian film producer (b. 1949)
Observances
Gravity Day
Birthday of Guru Amar Das (Sikhism)
Declaration of the Bab (Baha'i faith)
Labour Day (Jamaica)
Students' Day (Mexico)
World Turtle Day
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Events
Up to 1900
334 BC - The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia.
337 (AD) - Roman Emperor Constantine I dies.
853 - A Byzantine Empire fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
896 - Pope Stephen VII is elected.
1176 - The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo, present-day Syria.
1200 - King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
1246 - Henry Raspe is elected Anti-King of Germany, in opposition to Conrad IV of Germany.
1455 – Wars of the Roses: In the First Battle of St. Albans, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
1629 - Thirty Years' War: The Treaty of Luebeck is signed by Ferdinand IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Christian IV of Denmark to end Danish intervention in the war.
1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
1762 - The Trevi Fountain in Rome is completed, and opened by Pope Clement XIII.
1768 - Pentecost Island in present-day Vanuatu is reached by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, whose expedition members become the first Europeans to see it. It is named after the Christian feast day of Pentecost.
1807 - Most of the town of Chudleigh in Devon, southwest England, is destroyed by fire.
1809 - Napoleonic Wars: Second day of the Battle of Apern-Essling.
1819 – The SS Savannah sets sail from Savannah, Georgia to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
1826 – HMS Beagle sets sail on its first voyage.
1840 - Transportation of British convicts to New South Wales is banned.
1848 – Slavery is abolished (banned) in Martinique.
1849 - Abraham Lincoln is given a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river. As he later becomes US President in 1861, he is the only President of the United States to be granted a patent.
1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson - Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
1897 - The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is opened.
1901 2000
1902 – The Crater Lake National Park in Oregon is created by Theodore Roosevelt.
1906 - The Wright brothers are given a patent for their "Flying Machine".
1915 – Lassen Peak in California erupts. Along with the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, this is one of only two volcanic eruptions in the contiguous United States in the 20th Century.
1915 – The Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, southern Scotland, kills 227 people. It is the deadliest-ever accident on the railways in the United Kingdom.
1927 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.9 strikes Tsinghai, China, killing around 200,000 people.
1939 – Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
1942 – World War II: Mexico enters the war on the side of the Allies.
1945 - Operation Paperclip: The United States Army forms plans to evacuate German scientists and engineers to the United States to help in the development of rocket technology.
1946 – Shigeru Yoshida is elected Prime Minister of Japan.
1958 - Ethnic riots break out in Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka, mostly against the minority Tamil population, killing 300 people over the following five days.
1960 – A major earthquake and a series of Tsunamis hit Chile. The effects are felt as far away as Hawaii where the town of Hilo is hit by a Tsunami. (See Great Chilean Earthquake).
1962 - Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board, killing all 45 people on board.
1963 - Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot, and dies on May 27.
1967 - The L'Innovation Department Store fire in Brussels, Belgium, kills 323 people and injures 150.
1967 - Vietnam War: Vinh Xuan massacre.
1968 - US U-boat USS Scorpion (SSN-589) sinks in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of the Azores, with 99 people on board.
1969 - The Apollo 10 mission's Snoopy module with Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene Cernan on board flies to within 15.6 kilometers of the Moon's surface.
1971 – An earthquake in Anatolia, Turkey, kills around 1,000 people.
1972 – Ceylon changes its name to Sri Lanka, becomes a republic, and adopts a new constitution.
1972 – Richard Nixon arrives in Moscow for talks with Soviet leaders.
1980 – Pac-Man is released in Japan.
1981 – The Yorkshire Ripper serial killer Peter Sutcliffe is jailed for life.
1987 – The first-ever Rugby World Cup begins in Auckland. Host country New Zealand defeats Italy in the opening match.
1990 – Yemen becomes a united country.
1990 - Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the UN.
1992 – Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
1998 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes Bolivia, killing 105 people.
From 2001
2003 – The final manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which was annotated by the composer, is auctioned off for $3.47 million.
2004 – Manmohan Singh becomes Prime Minister of India.
2004 – Hallam, Nebraska is wiped out by a Force 4 tornado.
2004 - In Spain, Felipe, Prince of Asturias marries Letizia, Princess of Asturias.
2010 – An Air India Express Flight 812 airplane overshoots the runway and bursts into flames in Mangalore, southern India, killing 158 people. 8 people survive.
2011 – A tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 162 people.
2012 - The Tokyo Sky Tree is opened to the public in Japan. It is the tallest free-standing tower and second-tallest freestanding man-made structure in the world, after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
2013 - British soldier Lee Rigby is murdered on a Woolwich, London, street by two Islamic extremists.
2014 - General Prayuth Chan-ocha of the Royal Thai Armed Forces announces a military coup in Thailand after months of political unrest. Government and Television are taken over by the military.
2014 - 31 people are killed in a bomb attack in Northwest China.
2014 - Elections to the European Parliament begin, being held until May 25. The United Kingdom and the Netherlands are first to vote.
2015 - The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country where same-sex marriage is legalized through a referendum, with 62% of voters supporting the change.
2016 - Alexander Van der Bellen narrowly defeats far-right candidate Norbert Hofer in Austria's Presidential election, getting 50.3% compared to 49.7% for Hofer. Van der Bellen also wins the re-run of the election in December of the same year.
2017 - Manchester Arena bombing: A suicide bomber detonates an explosive device at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, killing 22 people.
2020 - Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Karachi, killing 97 people, leaving two survivors from the plane and eight injuries on the ground.
Births
Up to 1900
1408 - Annamacharya, Hindu saint (d. 1503)
1570 - John II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1605)
1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (d. 1698)
1711 - Guillaume de Tillot, French politician (d. 1774)
1715 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
1724 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772)
1733 - Hubert Robert, French artist (d. 1808)
1770 – Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
1772 – Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1833)
1781 - Newton Cannon, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1841)
1783 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (d. 1850)
1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
1823 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
1833 - Félix Bracquemond, French painter (d. 1914)
1834 - Niwa Nagakuni, Japanese daimyo (d. 1904)
1844 – Mary Cassatt, American painter (d. 1926)
1846 - Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican poet, educator and activist (d. 1908)
1849 - Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913)
1859 - Tsubouchi Shoyo, Japanese writer (d. 1935)
1859 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish physician and writer (Sherlock Holmes) (d. 1930)
1865 - Enric Morera i Viura, Spanish composer (d. 1942)
1874 – Daniel François Malan, Apartheid-era Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)
1876 - Antonius Bouwens, Dutch sports shooter (d. 1963)
1879 - Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian actress, scriptwriter and politician (d. 1945)
1879 - Jean Cras, French composer and naval officer (d. 1932)
1885 - Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (d. 1957)
1885 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (d. 1924)
1887 - Frank Nelson, American pole vaulter (d. 1970)
1890 - Per Collinder, Swedish astronomer (d. 1975)
1897 - Marcelle Meyer, French pianist (d. 1958)
1897 - Jeanne de Casalis, British actress (d. 1966)
1898 - Rito Selvaggi, Italian composer, pianist, conductor and poet (d. 1972)
1900 – Yvonne de Gaulle, First Lady of France (d. 1979)
1901 1950
1901 – Maurice J. Tobin, 56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953)
1903 – Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992)
1904 – Pyotr Sobolevsky, Soviet actor (d. 1977)
1905 - Bodo von Borries, German physicist (d. 1956)
1907 – Hergé, Belgian cartoonist (d. 1983)
1907 – Laurence Olivier, British actor (d. 1989)
1908 - Rattana Pestonji, Thai director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer (d. 1970)
1908 - Horton Smith, American golfer (d. 1970)
1911 - Anatol Rapoport, Russian-American psychologist (d. 2007)
1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist (d. 2004)
1914 – Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
1917 - Georg Tintner, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1999)
1917 - George Aratani, Japanese-American entrepreneur (d. 2013)
1919 – Paul Vanden Boeynants, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2001)
1920 - Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist (d. 2004)
1923 - Faye Adams, American singer
1924 – Charles Aznavour, Armenian-French singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2018)
1925 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991)
1927 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist (d. 2017)
1927 – Michael Constantine, American actor
1927 - Peter Matthiessen, American writer (d. 2014)
1928 - Jackie Cain, American jazz singer (d. 2014)
1928 - T. Boone Pickens, American businessman and financier
1929 - Sergio Mantovani, Italian racing driver (d. 2001)
1930 – Harvey Milk, American politician (d. 1978)
1930 – Marisol Escobar, American artist and sculptor (d. 2016)
1932 - Tavo Burat, Italian journalist, writer and politician (d. 2009)
1932 - Robert Spitzer, American psychiatrist (d. 2015)
1936 - George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (d. 2014)
1937 - Guy Marchand, French actor and director
1938 - Richard Benjamin, American actor and movie director
1938 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
1939 - Adamou Moumouni Djermakoye, Nigerien officer, politician and diplomat
1940 - Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (d. 2011)
1941 – Menzies Campbell, Scottish athlete and politician, former leader of the Liberal Democrats
1942 - Calvin Simon, American singer and musician
1942 – Ted Kaczynski, American terrorist, the 'Unabomber'
1943 – Gesine Schwan, German politician
1943 – Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner
1943 - David Bernstein, English businessman
1944 - Beaton Tulk, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Newfoundland (d. 2019)
1945 - Piero Ferrari, Italian businessman
1946 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005)
1946 - Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (d. 2015)
1949 - Ieuan Wyn Jones, Welsh politician, former leader of Plaid Cymru
1950 - Bernie Taupin, English singer-songwriter and poet
1951 1975
1952 - Louise Christian, British human rights lawyer
1953 – Cha Bum-Kun, South Korean footballer
1953 - Paul Mariner, English football manager
1954 - Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American electronic engineer
1955 – Dale Winton, English television and radio presenter (d. 2018)
1957 – Lisa Murkowski, American politician
1958 – Denise Welch, British actress
1959 – Steven Morrissey, British singer
1959 - Andres Luure, Estonian philosopher and translator
1959 - Jon Sopel, British journalist
1960 - Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator and movie director
1961 - Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese actor, screenwriter and movie director
1964 - Mark Christopher Lawrence, American actor and comedian
1964 - Ramunas Butautas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
1965 - Jay Carney, American journalist
1966 – Kenny Hickey, American guitarist (Type O Negative)
1966 - Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese film director and screenwriter
1968 - Michael Kelly, American actor
1970 – Naomi Campbell, British model
1972 - Alison Eastwood, American actress and model
1972 - Jaouad Gharib, Moroccan long-distance runner
1972 - Anna Belknap, American actress
1974 - Arseniy Yatsenyuk, former Prime Minister of Ukraine
1975 - Janne Niinimaa, Finnish ice hockey player
From 1976
1976 - Daniel Erlandsson, Swedish musician
1976 – Lee Hughes, English footballer
1978 – Katie Price, English model and television personality
1978 – Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
1979 - Maggie Q, American actress
1980 – Lucy Gordon, British actress (d. 2009)
1980 - Róbert Gunnarsson, Icelandic handball player
1980 - Shinu K Abraham, Indian football player
1981 – Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
1981 – Melissa Gregory, American figure skater
1981 - Bassel Khartabil, Palestinian-Syrian software engineer
1982 - Erin McNaught, Australian model and television host
1982 - Sara Pascoe, English comedienne
1983 – Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer
1983 – John Hopkins, American motorcycle racer
1984 - Dustin Moskovitz, American entrepreneur (Facebook)
1985 – Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
1985 – Chris Salvatore, American actor, singer-songwriter, model and same-sex rights activist
1985 - Hideaki Takeda, Japanese footballer
1985 - Mauro Boselli, Argentine footballer
1986 - Luca Gentili, Italian footballer
1986 – Matt Jarvis, English footballer
1987 – Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
1987 – Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer
1988 - Chris Budinger, American actress
1989 - Giordano Benedetti, Italian runner
1991 - Kyle Bartley, English footballer
1992 - Chinami Tokunaga, Japanese singer
1999 - Camren Bicondova, American actress and singer
Deaths
Up to 1900
192 - Dong Zhuo, Chinese politician and warlord (b. 138)
337 – Constantine I of the Roman Empire, Roman emperor (b. 272)
748 – Emperor Gensho of Japan (b. 680)
985 – Saint Bobo of Provence
1068 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
1455 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician
1455 – Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1406)
1457 - Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
1540 – Francesco Guicciardini (b. 1483)
1666 - Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
1667 – Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
1746 – Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660)
1795 - Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg, Prussian statesman (b. 1725)
1802 - Martha Washington, First Lady of the United States (b. 1731)
1849 - Maria Edgeworth, Irish-English writer (b. 1767)
1859 – Emperor Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
1861 – Thornsbury Bailey Brown, American soldier (b. 1829)
1873 – Alessandro Manzoni, Italian poet (b. 1785)
1873 - Per-Georg Scheutz, Swedish inventor (b. 1877)
1885 – Victor Hugo, French writer (b. 1802)
1901 2000
1901 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian anarchist (b. 1869)
1910 - Jules Renard, French writer (b. 1864)
1932 - Augusta, Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (b. 1852)
1933 - Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894)
1934 - Joseph M. Dixon, American politician, Governor of Montana (b. 1867)
1939 – Ernst Toller, German writer
1939 – Jiri Mahen, Czech writer (b. 1882)
1943 - Helen Herron Taft, First Lady of the United States (b. 1861)
1949 – Klaus Mann, German writer (b. 1906)
1966 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
1967 – Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
1970 - Goodwin Knight, 31st Governor of California (b. 1896)
1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, poet and writer (b. 1904)
1972 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
1975 - Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (b. 1899)
1984 - Karl-August Fagerholm, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1901)
1985 - Wolfgang Reithermann, German-American Disney animator, director and producer (b. 1909)
1988 - Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914)
1990 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
1992 – Zellig Harris, linguist (b. 1909)
1992 - Elizabeth David, English cookery writer (b. 1913)
1997 - Myrtle Bachelder, American chemist (b. 1908)
1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist (b. 1908)
1997 - Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (b. 1930)
1998 – John Derek, American actor, director and photographer (b. 1926)
From 2001
2002 - Xi Zhongxun, Chinese politician (b. 1913)
2004 – Richard Biggs, actor (b. 1960)
2004 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
2005 – Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (b. 1914)
2005 – Thurl Ravenscroft, voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
2005 – Julia Randall, poet (b. 1924)
2006 – Lee Jong-wook, South Korean Director-General of the WHO (b. 1945)
2007 - Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970)
2010 – Martin Gardner, American writer (b. 1914)
2012 - Flinder Anderson Khonglam, Indian physician and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Meghalaya (b. 1945)
2013 - Henri Dutilleux, French composer (b. 1916)
2013 - Andrea Gallo, Italian priest (b. 1928)
2013 - Lee Rigby, British soldier (b. 1987)
2015 - Marques Haynes, American basketball player (b. 1926)
2015 - Radomir Naumov, Serbian politician (b. 1946)
2015 - Terry Sue-Patt, English actor (b. 1964)
2016 - Adolf Born, Czech painter, filmmaker, illustrator and caricaturist (b. 1930)
2016 - Leonorilda Ochoa, Mexican actress and comedienne (b. 1939)
2016 - Bata Zivojinovic, Serbian actor (b. 1922)
2016 - Lucjan Avgustini, Albanian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1963)
2016 - Velimir Sombolac, Serbian footballer and coach (b. 1939)
2017 - Oscar Fulloné, Argentine footballer and coach (b. 1939)
2017 - Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (b. 1981)
2017 - Dina Merrill, American actress (b. 1923)
2017 - Zbigniew Wodecki, Polish singer, composer and television presenter (b. 1950)
2017 - Leonhard Nagenrauft, German luger (b. 1938)
2017 - Mickey Roker, American jazz drummer (b. 1932)
2018 - Alberto Dines, Brazilian journalist (b. 1932)
2018 - Philip Roth, American writer (b. 1933)
2018 - Daniela Samulski, German swimmer (b. 1984)
2018 - Júlio Pomar, Portuguese painter and illustrator (b. 1926)
2019 - Judith Kerr, German-born British writer and illustrator (b. 1923)
2019 - Ahmad Shah of Pahang, former King of Malaysia (b. 1930)
2019 - Eduard Punset, Spanish politician, lawyer, economist and science populariser (b. 1936)
Observances
Saint of the Day: Saint Rita of Cascia
Republic Day (Sri Lanka)
Unity Day or National Day (Yemen)
National Sovereignty Day (Haiti)
International Day for Biological Diversity
Harvey Milk Day (California)
National Maritime Day (United States)
Abolition Day (Martinique)
References
Days of the year |
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Events
Up to 1900
1279 BC – Rameses II (the Great) becomes Pharaoh of Egypt.
455 - Roman Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
526 – Antioch, Turkey is hit by an earthquake kills 250,000 people.
1578 – Henry II of France lays the first stone of the Point Neuf (New Bridge) in Paris.
1578 - Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada to mine fool's gold, used to pave the streets in London.
1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys makes the last entry in his diary.
1740 - Frederick II of Prussia becomes King.
1790 – Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the strait of Juan de Fuca.
1795 - French Revolution: The Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
1813 - In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route crossing the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
1854 - The civil death procedure is banned in France.
1859 – Big Ben in London, UK starts keeping time.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor.
1884 - John Harvey Kellogg receives a patent for Cornflakes.
1889 – Johnstown flood: A dam break causes a flash flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing more than 2,000 people.
1890 - In Ulm, southern Germany, Ulm Minster, the city's cathedral, is completed.
1901 2000
1902 - The Second Boer War ends, through the Treaty of Vereeniging, ensuring British control over South Africa.
1906 – An attack on the wedding of King Alfonso XIII of Spain kills more than 20 people.
1910 – The Union of South Africa is formed.
1911 – The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched.
1911 – President Porfirio Díaz flees Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
1916 – World War I: The Battle of Jutland is fought.
1921 – Tulsa, Oklahoma race riot: At least 39 people are killed.
1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line.
1929 – The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse is released.
1935 – An earthquake in Quetta, Pakistan, kills around 40,000 people.
1941 – World War II: 38 people are killed in an air raid in Dublin.
1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy Submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
1946 - A magnitude 6 earthquake in Turkey kills around 1,200 people.
1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower ends his service with the United States Military.
1961 – The Republic of South Africa is founded.
1962 - The West Indies Federation dissolves.
1962 – Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is executed.
1970 – Ancash Earthquake: Southern Peru is hit by a major earthquake. Along with resulting avalanches, it kills 47,000 people. 20,000 people alone are killed in a single avalanche that hit the town of Yungay.
1970 – Brasilia Cathedral, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, is completed.
1970 - The 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico begins.
1971 - Memorial Day in the United States is held on the last Monday in May for the first time, instead of the traditional May 30 date.
1973 - The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets in Cambodia.
1977 – The Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline is completed.
1981 - Burning of the Jaffna Library in Sri Lanka.
1985 – 76 people are killed in a tornado outbreak in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario.
1991 – Civil War political parties in Angola agree on a ceasefire and fire elections.
From 2001
2002 – The 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan begins, where the Senegal national football team beats the France national football team 1-0.
2003 – Aung San Suu Kyi is arrested in Burma.
2005 – Mark Felt is revealed to have been 'Deep Throat', a key figure in the Watergate scandal.
2009 – The last-living survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking, Millvina Dean, dies aged 97.
2010 – Germany's President Horst Koehler resigns from office. Christian Wulff succeeds him over a month later.
2010 – Israeli forces storm the Gaza-bound international flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 9 Turkish activists.
2013 - A series of anti-government protests in Turkey begins in Istanbul.
2013 - Asteroid (285263) 1998 GE-2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
2013 - A tornado measuring 2.6 miles (4.2 kilometers) wide hits El Reno, Oklahoma.
2017 - A massive bomb attack in central Kabul kills at least 150 people.
2018 - The discovery of dunes of methane on the dwarf planet Pluto is announced.
2018 - US President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on products from the European Union, Canada and Mexico.
2019 - Virginia Beach shooting: 12 government employees are shot dead by their colleague DeWayne Craddock in Virginia Beach, before he is killed in a shoot-out with police.
Births
Up to 1800
1048 – Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher (d. 1131)
1162 – Genghis Khan, Mongol ruler (d. 1227)
1243 - King James II of Majorca (d. 1311)
1443 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1469 – King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521)
1491 - Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish Jesuit (d. 1556)
1535 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (d. 1607)
1557 – Feodor I of Russia (d. 1598)
1577 - Nur Jahan, Mughal Empress (d. 1645)
1613 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1680)
1640 – Michael of Poland (d. 1673)
1641 – Dositheus, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (d. 1707)
1656 – Marin Marais, French composer and violin player (d. 1728)
1683 - Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1755)
1744 - Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Irish author and engineer (d. 1817)
1750 – Karl August of Hardenberg, statesman and reformer (d. 1822)
1753 – Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
1754 – Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (d. 1817)
1773 – Ludwig Tieck, German poet and writer (d. 1853)
1791 - John Brown Francis, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1864)
1801 1900
1801 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist (d. 1887)
1809 - Federico de Roncali, 1st Count of Alcoy, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1857)
1816 - Dimitrie Ghica, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1897)
1817 - Georg Herwegh, German poet (d. 1875)
1817 - Edouard Deldevez, French violinist and conductor (d. 1897)
1818 - John Albion Andrew, 25th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1867)
1819 – Walt Whitman, American poet (d. 1892)
1825 - Domenico Agostini, Italian cardinal (d. 1891)
1838 – Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (d. 1900)
1852 – Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (d. 1919)
1852 - Julius Richard Petri, German bacteriologist (d. 1921)
1857 – Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)
1858 - Graham Wallas, English socialist, psychologist and educator (d. 1932)
1860 – Walter Sickert, English painter (d. 1942)
1862 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (d. 1942)
1863 - Francis Younghusband, English army officer, explorer and writer (d. 1942)
1866 - Vladimir Rebikov, Russian composer (d. 1920)
1872 – Heath Robinson, English cartoonist (d. 1944)
1872 – Charles Greeley Abbot, American astrophysicist (d. 1973)
1882 – Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician (d. 1956)
1883 – Lauri Kristian Relander, 2nd President of Finland (d. 1942)
1885 – Alois Hudal, Austrian Roman Catholic bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (d. 1963)
1887 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and poet (d. 1975)
1892 – Michel Kikoine, Belarussian painter (d. 1968)
1892 - Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian writer (d. 1968)
1892 – Gregor Strasser, German politician (d. 1934)
1894 – Fred Allen, American comedian (d. 1956)
1898 – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993)
1899 - Madge Blake, American actress (d. 1969)
1901 1950
1901 - Alfredo Antonini, Italian-American conductor and composer (d. 1983)
1908 – Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993)
1908 - Nils Poppe, Swedish actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1909 - Aurore Gagnon, Canadian child abuse victim (d. 1920)
1909 - Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2000)
1911 – Maurice Allais, French economist (d. 2010)
1912 - Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist (d. 1997)
1912 – Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
1914 - Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (d. 2006)
1915 - Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American artist
1916 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch movie and documentary director (d. 1997)
1916 - Bernard Lewis, British-American historian (d. 2018)
1917 - Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and anthropologist (d. 2004)
1921 - Alida Valli, Italian actress (d. 2006)
1921 - Edna Doré, English actress (d. 2014)
1922 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (d. 1992)
1923 – Prince Rainier III of Monaco (d. 2005)
1923 - Ellsworth Kelly, American painter, sculptor and printmaker (d. 2015)
1925 - Frei Otto, German architect (d. 2015)
1926 - Domenico De Simone, Italian politician (d. 2019)
1926 – James Krüss, writer (d. 1997)
1927 – Red Holloway, American musician (d. 2012)
1927 - Joe Robinson, British actor (d. 2017)
1928 - Édouard Molinaro, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1929 – Menahem Golan, Israeli director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2014)
1929 - Andreas Meyer-Landrut, German diplomat
1930 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, producer
1930 – Elaine Stewart, American actress (d. 2011)
1931 – Shirley Verrett, American soprano (d. 2010)
1931 – John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist
1932 – Jay Miner, American microchip designer (d. 1994)
1933 - Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar, Indian writer and curator (d. 2019)
1935 – Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1938 – Johnny Paycheck, American country music singer (d. 2003)
1938 – John Prescott, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1938 – Peter Yarrow, American folk singer ("Peter, Paul and Mary")
1939 – Terry Waite, British humanitarian
1939 – Haraldur Sigurdsson, Icelandic volcanologist and geochemist
1940 - Anatoliy Bondarchuk, Ukrainian hammer thrower and coach
1941 – Louis Ignarro, American pharmacologist
1942 - Minos Kyriakou, Greek businessman (d. 2017)
1943 – Sharon Gless, American actress
1943 – Joe Namath, American football star
1945 - Pepe Eliaschev, Argentine journalist and writer (d. 2014)
1945 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor and director (d. 1982)
1945 – Laurent Gbagbo, former President of Ivory Coast
1947 - Junior Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter
1948 - Svetlana Alexievich, Belarussian journalist and writer
1948 – John Bonham, English musician, drummer with Led Zeppelin (d. September 25, 1980)
1948 – Lynda Bellingham, English actress and broadcaster (d. 2014)
1948 - Duncan Hunter, American lieutenant, lawyer and politician
1949 – Tom Berenger, American actor
1950 – Gregory Harrison, actor
1951 1975
1952 – Karl Bartos, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1955 - Tommy Emmanuel, Australian guitarist and singer
1955 - Lynne Truss, English author
1956 - Gerd Weber, East German footballer
1959 - Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver (d. 2014)
1960 – Peter Winterbottom, English rugby player
1960 – Chris Elliott, American comedian
1961 – Lea Thompson, American actress
1962 – Corey Hart, Canadian singer-songwriter
1963 – Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary
1963 – Wesley Willis, American musician
1964 - Yukio Edano, Japanese politician
1965 – Brooke Shields, American model and actress
1966 - Roshan Mahamana, Sri Lankan cricketer
1966 - Nick Scotti, American model, actor and singer
1967 - Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress
1972 – Antti Niemi, Finnish footballer
1972 – Frode Estil, Norwegian cross-country skier
1972 - Sarah Murdoch, English-Australian model and actress
1973 - Kate Howey, British judoka
1974 – Chad Campbell, American golfer
1974 - Kenan Dogulu, Turkish singer
1974 - Tristram Hunt, English politician
1975 – Toni Nieminen, Finnish ski jumper
1975 - Antonín Kinsky, Czech footballer
From 1976
1976 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor
1976 - Matt Harping, American basketball player
1976 - Tonka Tomicic, Chilean model and television host
1977 – June Sarpong, British television presenter
1977 - Eric Christian Olsen, American actor
1977 - Katrín Jónsdóttir, Icelandic footballer
1977 – Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer
1978 - Eric Moussambani, Equatoguinean swimmer
1978 - Robert Rinder, English barrister and television personality
1979 - Jean-François Gillet, Belgian footballer
1980 – Andy Hurley, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1981 - Yoon Mi-rae, American-Korean singer and songwriter
1981 – Mikael Antonsson, Swedish footballer
1981 - Daniele Bonera, Italian footballer
1981 - Marlies Schild, Austrian skier
1983 – Reggie Yates, British television presenter
1984 – Jason Smith, Australian actor
1984 – Nate Robinson, American basketball player
1984 - Daniela Samulski, German swimmer (d. 2018)
1986 – Sopho Khalvashi, Georgian singer
1988 – Lisa Bund, German singer
1989 – Marco Reus, German footballer
1989 - Pablo Alboran, Spanish singer
1989 - Bas Dost, Dutch footballer
1990 - Erik Karlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1991 - Azealia Banks, American rapper, singer and songwriter.
Deaths
Up to 1900
455 – Petronius Maximus, West Roman Emperor
1076 - Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria (b. 1050)
1162 – Geza II of Hungary (b. 1130)
1246 – Isabella of Angoulême, queen of John of England (b. 1188)
1349 – Thomas Wake
1408 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1358)
1495 – Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (b. 1415)
1594 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (b. 1518)
1680 – Joachim Neander, German Calvinist clergyman (b. 1650)
1740 – King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (b. 1688)
1747 – Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
1799 – Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer (b. 1715)
1809 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1732)
1809 – Jean Lannes, French Marshal of Empire (b. 1769)
1831 – Samuel Bentham, mechanical engineer (b. 1757)
1832 – Evariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
1837 – Joseph Grimaldi, British clown (b. 1779)
1846 – Philip Marheineke, German Protestant divine (b. 1780)
1847 – Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, educator, writer, and scientist (b. 1780)
1848 – Eugénie de Guérin, writer (b. 1805)
1881 - Hugh J. Anderson, Governor of Maine (b. 1801)
1887 - Moritz Wagner, German geographer and naturalist (b. 1813)
1899 - Elisha Baxter, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1827)
1901 2000
1908 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian author, poet and politician (b. 1839)
1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States (b. 1821)
1918 – Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (b. 1836)
1920 – Nasrullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan
1945 – Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi officer (b. 1904)
1957 – Stefanos Sarafis, Greek Resistance activist (b. 1890)
1957 – Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
1960 – Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890)
1960 – Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (b. 1882)
1961 - Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877)
1962 – Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (b. 1906)
1963 – Edith Hamilton, German-American writer and teacher (b. 1867)
1967 - Billy Strawhorn, American composer, pianist and arranger (b. 1915)
1970 – Terry Sawchuk, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1976 – Jacques Monod, French biologist (b. 1910)
1977 – William Castle, American director (b. 1914)
1978 – Jozsef Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
1981 – Gyula Lorant, Hungarian footballer (b. 1928)
1981 – Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician (b. 1902)
1982 - Carlo Mauri, Italian mountaineer (b. 1930)
1983 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer (b. 1895)
1986 – James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
1986 - Gaston Rebuffat, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
1994 - Herva Nelli, Italian-American soprano (b. 1909)
1996 – Paul Peter Piech, artist (b. 1920)
1996 – Timothy Leary, American LSD advocate (b. 1920)
1999 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
2000 – Tito Puente, musician (b. 1923)
2000 – Johnnie Taylor, vocalist (b. 1938)
From 2001
2001 - Arlene Francis, American actress (b. 1907)
2002 - Subhash Gupte, Indian cricketer (b. 1929)
2003 - Francesco Colasuonno, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
2004 – Robert Quine, guitarist (b. 1942)
2006 – Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist (b. 1914)
2009 – Millvina Dean, last-living RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1912)
2009 – George Tiller, American abortion doctor (b. 1941)
2010 – Louise Bourgeois, French-born sculptor (b. 1911)
2011 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (b. 1919)
2011 - Andy Robustelli, American football player (b. 1925)
2011 – Ezzatollah Sahabi, Iranian politician (b. 1930)
2013 - Jean Stapleton, American actress (b. 1923)
2013 - Tim Samaras, American storm chaser (b. 1957)
2013 - Paul Samaras, American storm chaser (b. 1988)
2014 - Marilyn Beck, American entertainment journalist (b. 1928)
2014 - Hoss Ellington, American NASCAR driver (b. 1935)
2014 - Martha Hyer, American actress (b. 1924)
2014 - Brajanath Ratha, Indian poet (b. 1936)
2014 - Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, daughter of Winston Churchill (b. 1922)
2014 - Marinho Chagas, Brazilian footballer (b. 1952)
2015 - Karl Wlaschek, Austrian executive (b. 1917)
2015 - Mario Saliwa, South African cricketer (b. 1984)
2015 - Slim Richey, American guitarist (b. 1938)
2016 - Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (b. 1947)
2016 - Jan Crouch, American televangelist and broadcasting executive (b. 1938)
2016 - Antonio Imbert Barrera, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1920)
2016 - Carla Lane, English television writer (b. 1928)
2016 - Rupert Neudeck, German journalist and humanitarian (b. 1939)
2016 - David Tod Roy, Chinese translator (b. 1933)
2016 - Corry Brokken, Dutch singer (b. 1932)
2017 - Lubomyr Husar, Ukrainian religious figure (b. 1933)
2017 - Tino Insana, American actor (b. 1948)
2017 - Fred Kummerow, American science professor (b. 1914)
2017 - Bern Nix, American jazz guitarist (b. 1947)
2017 - Jiri Belohlavek, Czech conductor (b. 1946)
2018 - Michael D. Ford, English art director and set decorator (b. 1928)
2018 - Aníbal Quijano, Peruvian sociologist (b. 1928)
2019 - Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
Observances
Anti-Tobacco Day
Castile-La Mancha Day
Days of the year |
9902 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%2015 | May 15 |
Events
Up to 1900
495 BC - A newly-built temple in honour of the god Mercury is dedicated in Ancient Rome on the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine Hills.
392 - Roman Emperor Valentinian II mysteriously dies while advancing into Gaul (present-day France) against the Frankish usurper Arbogast. It is not clear if he was murdered or committed suicide.
1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad extirpanda, which allows, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
1464 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Hexham - York defeats Lancaster.
1536 - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is put on trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest. It will result in her execution four days later.
1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
1602 - Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to sight Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1618 - Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion.
1648 - The Treaty of Westphalia is signed.
1701 - The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
1718 - James Buckle, a London lawyer, patents the first machine gun.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: The Virginia Convention tells its Continental Congress delegation to propose resolution of independence from Great Britain.
1792 - War of the First Coalition: France declares war on the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1793 - Diego Marin Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters" at a height of 5–6 meters.
1796 - First Coalition: Napoleon Bonaparte enters Milan in triumph.
1800 - King George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield.
1811 - Paraguay declares itself independent from Spain.
1849 - Troops of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily.
1850 - The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California. A large number of Pomo Native Americans are slaughtered by the regiment of the United States Cavalry.
1851 - The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the gold was discovered three months earlier.
1858 - Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
1860 - Battle of Calatafilmi in Sicily: Giuseppe Garibaldi's "Red Shirts" defeat the Army of the Kingdom of Naples.
1869 - In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Women's Suffrage Association.
1901 1950
1904 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur, China, and sinks Japanese ships Hatsuse and Yashima.
1904 - The cruiser "Yoshino" collides with armored cruiser "Kasaga" to the east of China and sinks, killing 329 out of the 419 people on board.
1905 - Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45 square kilometers), in what later becomes the downtown area, are auctioned off.
1910 - The German football club FC St. Pauli is founded. It is based in Hamburg.
1919 - The Winnipeg Strike begins. By 11:00am, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, had walked off the job.
1919 - The Greek invasion of Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey) occurs, in which the Greek army kills over 350 Turks. Those responsible are punishes by Greek commander Aristiades Stergiades.
1926 - The New York Rangers ice hockey team is founded.
1928 - Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in the cartoon "Plane Crazy".
1929 - A fire at a clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, kills 123 people.
1932 - Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed in a coup attempt.
1934 - Karlis Ulmanis creates an authoritarian government in Latvia.
1935 - The Moscow Metro is opened to the public.
1940 - World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly-trained and equipped Dutch surrender to Germany, beginning five years of occupation.
1940 - McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1945 - World War II: The Battle of Poljana is fought in Slovenia, as the last battle in Europe during the war.
1948 - The Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia all declare war on the newly declared State of Israel.
1951 2000
1951 - Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz asks the government of France for political asylum.
1955 - Austria regains its independence.
1955 - Lionel Terray and Jean Couzy of France climb Makalu in the Himalayas. It is the world's 5th-highest mountain.
1957 - At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, the United Kingdom tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
1958 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
1960 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
1963 - Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9, with L. Gordon Cooper on board, is successful. He is the first American to spend more than a day in space.
1966 - After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam's ruling junta, launches a military attack on the forces of General Ton That Dinh, forcing him to abandon his command.
1970 - US President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington as the first female United States Army generals.
1972 - The US returns Okinawa to Japanese control.
1972 – Governor George Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur H. Bremer at a Laurel, Maryland political rally.
1974 - Ma'a lot massacre: Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack and take hostages at an Israeli school, killing 31 people, including 22 schoolchildren.
1974 - Walter Scheel is elected President of the Federal Republic of Germany, a post he takes up on July 1.
1980 - West Germany's National Olympic Committee decides to join the United States in boycotting the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
1988 - The Soviet Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
1990 - The Vincent van Gogh painting A Portrait of Dr. Gachet sells for 82.5 million US Dollars, a then-record for a work of art sold at auction.
1991 - Edith Cresson becomes the first female Prime Minister of France.
1997 - The US acknowledges a "Secret War" in Laos.
From 2001
2004 – South Africa is announced as the host of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
2004 - Ruslana, representing Ukraine, wins the 49th Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul, Turkey.
2008 - California legalizes same-sex marriage.
2010 - Jessica Watson becomes the then-youngest person to sail single-handedly around the world.
2012 - François Hollande becomes President of France, replacing Nicolas Sarkozy.
2013 - An upsurge in violence in Iraq kills 389 people in three days.
2014 - US President Barack Obama opens a 9/11 memorial museum.
2016 - Max Verstappen becomes the youngest-ever driver to win a Formula One race.
2017 - French President Emmanuel Macron names Edouard Philippe as Prime Minister of France.
Births
Up to 1900
1397 - Sejong the Great, Korean King (d. 1450)
1567 – Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
1689 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English author (d. 1762)
1720 - Maximilian Hell, Hungarian astronomer (d. 1792)
1749 - Levi Lincoln, Sr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1820)
1764 - Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, German organist and composer (d. 1827)
1767 - Ezekiel Hart, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1843)
1773 - Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, German-Austrian statesman (d. 1859)
1817 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (d. 1905)
1827 - Knud Bergslien, Norwegian painter (d. 1908)
1838 - Nicolae Grigorescu, Romanian painter (d. 1907)
1841 - James Henderson Berry, American politician, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1913)
1842 - Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria (d. 1919)
1845 - Jan Czerski, Polish-Russian scientist (d. 1892)
1845 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian zoologist and immunologist (d. 1916)
1848 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (d. 1926)
1854 - Ioannes Psycharis, Ukrainian-French philologist and author (d. 1929)
1856 - L. Frank Baum, American author (d. 1919)
1856 - Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1917)
1857 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer (d. 1911)
1859 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1906)
1860 – Ellen Louise Wilson, American First Lady, wife of Woodrow Wilson (d. 1914)
1862 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist (d. 1931)
1863 - Frank Hornby, English businessman and politician, inventor of Meccano (d. 1936)
1867 - Hjalmar Johansen, Norwegian explorer (d. 1913)
1867 - Henry Stuart Jones, British classical philologist and historian (d. 1939)
1869 - Paul Probst, Swiss target shooter (d. 1945)
1873 - Pavlo Skoropadskiy, Ukrainian politician (d. 1945)
1873 - Nikolai Tcherepnin, Russian composer (d. 1945)
1890 - Katherine-Anne Porter, American journalist and author (d. 1980)
1891 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940)
1891 - Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist (d. 1971)
1892 - Charles E. Rosendahl, American admiral (d. 1977)
1892 - Jimmy Wilde, Welsh boxer (d. 1969)
1895 – Astrid Zachrison, Swedish supercentenarian, oldest Swedish person on record (d. 2008)
1895 - Prescott Bush, American politician (d. 1972)
1895 - William D. Byron, American politician (d. 1941)
1898 - Arletty, French actress, model and singer (d. 1992)
1898 - Richard W. Leche, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1965)
1901 1950
1901 - Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)
1902 - Richard J. Daley, 48th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)
1903 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998)
1904 - Clifton Fadiman, American game show host and author (d. 1999)
1905 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994)
1905 - Abraham Zapruder, American businessman (d. 1970)
1907 - Sukhdev Thapar, Indian activist (d. 1931)
1908 – Joe Grant, American writer and animator (d. 2005)
1909 - James Mason, English actor, producer and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1909 - Clara Solovera, Chilean singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
1910 - Constance Cummings, English actress (d. 2005)
1911 – Max Frisch, Swiss writer (d. 1991)
1911 - Herta Oberheuser, German Nazi physician (d. 1978)
1914 - Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972)
1914 - Angus MacLean, Canadian politician, 25th Premier of Prince Edward Island (d. 2000)
1915 - Paul Samuelson, American economist (d. 2009)
1915 - Gus Viseur, Belgian-French accordion player (d. 1974)
1918 - Eddy Arnold, American singer (d. 2008)
1918 - Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (d. 2009)
1920 - Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Lebanese religious leader
1923 - Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)
1923 - John Lanchbery, English-Australian composer and conductor (d. 2003)
1924 - Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist (d. 1971)
1925 - Horacio Guarany, Argentine singer and writer (d. 2017)
1925 - Mary F. Lyon, English geneticist (d. 2014)
1925 - Carl Sanders, American politician, 74th Governor of Georgia (d. 2014)
1925 - Andrei Eshpai, Russian composer (d. 2015)
1926 - Anthony Shaffer, British screenwriter (d. 2001)
1926 - Peter Shaffer, British dramatist (d. 2016)
1929 - Frank Heart, American computer engineer (d. 2018)
1930 - Jasper Johns, American artist
1932 - John Glen, British director
1932 - Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, former Prime Minister of Thailand
1935 - Don Bragg, American pole vaulter
1935 - Akihiro Miwa, Japanese singer, actor, director and composer
1935 - Utah Phillips, American singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-American actress and singer
1936 - Wavy Gravy, American activist
1936 - Ralph Steadman, British caricaturist, cartoonist and illustrator
1937 – Madeleine Albright, 64th United States Secretary of State
1937 - Ted Dabney, American electrical engineer (d. 2018)
1937 - Trini Lopez, American singer and actor
1938 - Mireille Darc, French actress (d. 2017)
1940 - Don Nelson, American basketball player and coach
1940 - Roger Ailes, American television executive (Fox News) (d. 2017)
1942 - Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, Prime Minister of Swaziland
1942 - Lois Johnson, American country music singer (d. 2014)
1942 - Jusuf Kalla, 10th Vice President of Indonesia
1942 - Doug Lowe, Australian politician, 35th Premier of Tasmania
1943 - Pierre Bégin, Canadian politician
1944 - Ulrich Beck, German sociologist (d. 2015)
1945 - Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, Portuguese nobleman
1946 - Aly Bain, Scottish fiddler
1947 - Paulo de Carvalho, Portuguese singer
1948 - Valentina Gerasimova, Kazakhstani middle-distance runner
1948 – Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
1948 – Kathleen Sebelius, American politician
1951 1975
1951 - Frank Wilczek, American mathematician and physicist
1951 - Dennis Frederiksen, American musician (d. 2014)
1952 - Chazz Palminteri, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1952 - Phil Seymour, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1993)
1953 - Mike Oldfield, British musician
1953 - Franco Selvaggi, Italian footballer
1953 - Amy Holland, American actress
1953 - George Brett, American baseball player
1955 – Claudia Roth, German politician
1955 - El Gran Wyoming, Spanish humorist, actor, musician, writer and presenter
1955 - Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisian politician (d. 2013)
1955 - Lia Vissi, Greek singer
1957 - Meg Gardiner, American crime fiction writer
1957 - Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque politician
1957 - John Mason, Scottish politician
1959 - Beverly Jo Scott, American-Belgian singer-songwriter
1959 - Ronald Pofalla, German politician
1961 - Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (d. 2002)
1963 - Brenda Bakke, American actress
1963 - Grant Heslov, American actor and producer
1964 - Lars Lokke Rasmussen, 40th Prime Minister of Denmark
1966 - Gianluca Buonanno, Italian politician (d. 2016)
1966 - Orla Guerin, Irish journalist
1966 - Greg Wise, English actor and producer
1967 - Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
1967 - Orlando Zapata, Cuban activist (d. 2010)
1968 - Seth Putnam, American musician (d. 2011)
1968 - Sophie Raworth, British journalist and broadcaster
1968 - Cecilia Malmström, Swedish politician
1970 - Frank de Boer, Dutch footballer
1970 - Ronald de Boer, Dutch footballer
1970 - Saira Khan, English businesswoman
1972 - Danny Alexander, Scottish politician
1972 - David Charvet, French actor and singer
1972 - André Segatti, Brazilian actor and model
1974 - Vassilis Kikilias, Greek basketball player and politician
From 1976
1976 - Jacek Krzynowek, Polish footballer
1978 - Eduardo César Gaspar, Brazilian footballer
1978 - David Krumholtz, American actor
1979 - Adolfo Bautista, Mexican footballer
1979 - Li Yanfeng, Chinese discus thrower
1979 – Dominic Scott, Irish guitarist
1979 - Renato Dirnei Florencio, Brazilian footballer
1980 – Josh Beckett, American baseball player
1981 – Patrice Evra, French footballer
1981 - Zara Phillips, British royal and equestrian
1981 - Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player
1981 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress
1982 - Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican sprinter
1982 - Jessica Sutta, American singer-songwriter, dancer and actress (Pussycat Dolls)
1984 - Alex Brooker, English comedian and television presenter
1985 - Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
1986 - Matias Fernandez, Chilean footballer
1986 - Adam Moffat, Scottish footballer
1987 – Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player
1987 - Leonardo Mayer, Argentine tennis player
1988 - Jessica Falkholt, Australian actress (d. 2018)
1989 - James Holland, Australian footballer
1989 - Sunny, American-South Korean singer, dancer and actress (Girls' Generation)
1990 - Lee Jong-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1991 - Jennifer Hof, German model
1993 - Mahfizur Rahman Sagor, Bangladeshi swimmer
1995 - Ksenia Sitnik, Belarussian singer
1996 - Birdy, English singer
1997 - Ousmane Dembélé, French footballer
Deaths
Up to 1900
392 - Valentinian II, Roman emperor (b. 371)
1036 – Emperor Go-Ichijo of Japan
1157 - Yuri Dolgorukiy, Russian prince (b. 1099)
1470 – Charles VIII of Sweden
1585 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese retainer, samurai, and daimyo (b. 1535)
1609 - Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)
1634 – Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)
1700 - John Hale, American minister (b. 1636)
1740 – Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)
1782 – Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)
1845 - Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican statesman (b. 1800)
1879 - Gottfried Semper, German architect and educator (b. 1803)
1886 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
1901 2000
1919 - Hasan Tahsan, Turkish nationalist journalist (b. 1888)
1924 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician (b. 1852)
1928 - Umegatani Totaro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1845)
1932 - Inukai Tsuyoshi, Prime Minister of Japan
1935 - Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter (b. 1878)
1937 – Phillip Snowden, British politician (b. 1864)
1945 - Charles Williams, British author, poet and critic (b. 1886)
1945 - Kenneth J. Alford, British composer (b. 1881)
1948 – Father Edward Flanagan, priest, founder of Boys Town
1956 – Austin Osman Spare, magician (b. 1886)
1967 – Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)
1969 - Joe Malone, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1890)
1971 – Sir Tyrone Guthrie, director, producer, and writer (b. 1900)
1978 - Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1980 - Johann Hafstein, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1915)
1984 - Francis Schaeffer, American theologian, philosopher and pastor (b. 1912)
1986 - Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (b. 1958)
1986 – Theodore H. White, writer (b. 1915)
1991 - Ronald Lacey, English actor (b. 1935)
1993 - Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese poet and diplomat (b. 1933)
1994 – Gilbert Roland, Mexican actor (b. 1904)
1995 – Eric Porter, British actor (b. 1928)
1996 – Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (b. 1910)
1998 – Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)
1998 - Naim Talu, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1919)
From 2001
2003 – June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (b. 1929)
2003 – George Francis, British mobster
2003 – Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist
2005 – Les Bartley, National Lacrosse League coach (b. 1954)
2007 - Jerry Falwell, American pastor (b. 1933)
2007 - Yolanda King, American activist (b. 1955)
2008 – Astrid Zachrison, Swedish supercentenarian, oldest Swedish person on record (b. 1895)
2008 – Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1956)
2009 - Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player (b. 1964)
2010 - Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, Vice President of India (b. 1923)
2010 - John Shepherd-Barron, Scottish inventor (b. 1925)
2010 – Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (b. 1987)
2011 - Samuel Wanjiru, Kenyan runner (b. 1986)
2012 - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (b. 1928)
2012 - Zakaria Mohieddin, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1918)
2013 - Henrique Rosa, acting President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1946)
2014 - Jean-Luc Dehaene, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1940)
2015 - Corey Hill, American mixed martial artist (b. 1978)
2015 - Carlos Maggi, Uruguayan writer (b. 1922)
2015 - John Stephenson, American actor (b. 1923)
2015 - Garo Yepremian, Cypriot-born American football player (b. 1944)
2015 - Donald Wrye, American film director (b. 1934)
2015 - Jackie Brookner, American artist (b. 1945)
2016 - Erika Berger, German television presenter and author (b. 1930)
2016 - Clovis Maksoud, American diplomat, journalist and educator (b. 1926)
2016 - Cauby Peixoto, Brazilian singer and actor (b. 1931)
2016 - Michael Roberds, Canadian actor (b. 1964)
2016 - Marion Tournon-Branly, French architect (b. 1924)
2017 - Karl-Otto Apel, German philosopher (b. 1922)
2017 - Chu Ke-liang, Taiwanese actor (b. 1946)
2017 - Nasser Givehchi, Iranian wrestler (b. 1932)
2017 - Neil Rolde, American historian and politician (b. 1931)
2017 - Oleg Vidov, Russian-American actor (b. 1943)
2017 - Ian Brady, British serial killer (Moors murders) (b. 1938)
2017 - Thomas James Kinsman, American soldier (b. 1945)
2017 - Bob Kuzava, American baseball player (b. 1923)
2018 - Jlloyd Samuel, Trinidadian footballer (b. 1981)
2018 - Ray Wilson, English footballer (b. 1934)
Observances
International Day of conscientious objectors
Independence Day (Paraguay)
Nakba Day (Palestinian Community)
Army Day (Slovenia)
Teacher's Day (Mexico and South Korea)
Constituent Assembly Day (Lithuania)
Days of the year |
9903 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%2016 | May 16 |
Events
Up to 1900
218 – Elagabalus is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes a republic.
1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
1584 - Santiago de Vera becomes the 6th Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
1605 – Paul V becomes Pope.
1702 – The city of Uppsala in Sweden is destroyed by fire.
1770 – 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
1771 - Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called the "Regulators" occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
1777 – Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, dies three days later.
1811 – Peninsular War: Spain, the UK and Portugal defeat France in the Battle of Albuera.
1812 - Russian field marshal Mikhail Kutuzov signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. Bessarabia, mainly covering present-day Moldova, is annexed by Imperial Russia.
1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Champion Hill - Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant defeat Confederate forces under John C. Pemberton.
1866 – The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel (coin).
1866 – Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer.
1868 – President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate.
1874 - A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys most of four villages, killing 139 people.
1887 - In Washington, DC, Emil Berliner demonstrates the gramophone.
1888 - Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electrical power over long distances.
1901 2000
1910 – The U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.
1918 – The Sedition Act is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government a jailable offense.
1919 – United States Navy Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint.
1929 – In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
1932 - On the return from its first voyage, French luxury steamer Georges Philippar catches fire in the Gulf of Aden, killing 54 people.
1938 – A fire at the Terminal Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, kills 35 people.
1943 – The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
1943 – World War II: The Dambuster Raids by RAF 617 Squadron on German dams.
1948 – Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first President of Israel.
1960 – Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from US President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris.
1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser.
1961 - Park Chung-hee leads a coup in South Korea.
1966 – Two extremely influential rock albums are released on the same day: Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde and The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds.
1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
1974 – Helmut Schmidt is chosen to succeed Willy Brandt as Chancellor of Germany.
1975 – India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state held a referendum where popular vote was in favour of merging with India.
1975 – Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1983 - The Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
1988 – A report by American Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
1991 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom becomes the first monarch to speak in front of the United States Congress.
1992 – STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.
1995 – The leader of Aum Shinrikyo, Shoko Asahara, is arrested for his role in the Sarin Gas Attack on the Tokyo subway.
1997 - Zaire leader Mobutu Sese Seko flees the country. Soon after, the country is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
From 2001
2002 – Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones opens in cinemas.
2003 - Four suicide bombs explode in Casablanca, Morocco, killing over 40 people.
2005 – Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith premieres in London.
2005 – Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
2005 – Sony's PlayStation 3 video game console is shown at a press conference (E3).
2007 – Nicolas Sarkozy becomes President of France, succeeding Jacques Chirac.
2007 - Alex Salmond becomes First Minister of Scotland. He is the first leader of the Scottish National Party to take this post.
2009 – In Moscow, Alexander Rybak wins the 54th Eurovision Song Contest for Norway, scoring a record number of points under the then-existing scoring system, 387.
2011 - The final flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour begins.
2013 - The Spanish language Wikipedia passes the milestone of a million articles.
2014 - The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, under Narendra Modi, wins India's elections, achieving an overall parliamentary majority and defeating the ruling Indian National Congress.
Births
Up to 1900
1418 - John II of Cyprus (died 1458)
1490 – Albert of Prussia, first duke of Prussia (died 1568)
1540 - Paschal Baylon, Spanish friar and saint (died 1592)
1578 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (died 1606)
1611 – Pope Innocent XI (died 1689)
1641 - Dudley North, English economist and politician (died 1691)
1678 – Andreas Silbermann, organ builder (died 1734)
1710 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (died 1782)
1718 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (died 1799)
1763 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French chemist (died 1829)
1776 - Luigi Lambruschini, Italian cardinal (died 1854)
1788 - Friedrich Rückert, German poet, translator and orientalist (died 1866)
1801 – William H. Seward, 24th United States Secretary of State and 12th Governor of New York (died 1872)
1805 - Alexander Burnes, Scottish explorer (died 1841)
1819 - Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet (died 1890)
1821 – Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (died 1894)
1824 – Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice President of the United States and 31st Governor of New York (died 1920)
1827 – Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect (died 1921)
1827 - Norman Jay Coleman, American politician (died 1911)
1831 – David Edward Hughes, British inventor and musician (died 1900)
1834 - Hobart B. Bigelow, Governor of Connecticut (died 1891)
1845 – Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian biologist, won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1916)
1849 - Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, British statesman (died 1917)
1882 – Anne McCormick, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (died 1954)
1883 - Celal Bayar, President of Turkey (died 1986)
1886 – Ernest Burgess, sociologist (died 1966)
1887 - Jakob van Hoddis, German poet (died 1942)
1888 – Royal Raymond Rife, American inventor (died 1971)
1891 – Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (died 1948)
1897 – Zvi Ziternik, Israeli entomologist (died 1994)
1898 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish painter (died 1980)
1898 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese movie director (died 1956)
1901 1950
1905 – Henry Fonda, American actor (died 1982)
1906 – Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer, diplomat and politician (died 2001)
1909 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress (died 1960)
1910 – Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (died 1972)
1910 - Higashifushimi Kunihide, Japanese monk and educator, uncle of Emperor Akihito (died 2014)
1910 - Luigi Villoresi, Italian racing driver (died 1997)
1912 – Studs Terkel, American writer (died 2008)
1913 – Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (died 1987)
1913 - Sebastiano Baggio, Italian cardinal (died 1993)
1914 - Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and ethnologist (died 2009)
1915 - Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2010)
1916 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli President and scientist (died 2009)
1917 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (died 1986)
1917 - George Gaynes, Finnish-American actor (died 2016)
1919 – Liberace, American pianist (died 1987)
1919 - Sik Kok Kwong, Hong Kong Buddhist monk (died 2014)
1919 – Gisela Uhlen, German actress (died 2007)
1920 - Martine Carol, French actress (died 1967)
1921 - Harry Carey, Jr., American actor (died 2012)
1923 – Merton Miller, American economist (died 2000)
1924 – Dawda Jawara, 1st President of the Gambia
1925 – Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer (died 2010)
1925 – Robert Pierpoint, American journalist (died 2011)
1925 - Nancy Roman, American astronomer (died 2018)
1925 – Nilton Santos, Brazilian footballer (died 2013)
1928 – Billy Martin, American baseball player and coach (died 1989)
1929 – John Conyers, American politician (died 2019)
1929 – Adrienne Rich, American poet, writer and feminist (died 2012)
1929 – Friedrich Nowottny, German journalist
1929 - Alberto Terry, Peruvian footballer (died 2006)
1929 – Betty Carter, American singer (died 1998)
1931 - Vujadin Boskov, Serbian footballer (died 2014)
1931 – K. Natwar Singh, Indian politician
1931 - Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., American politician, 85th Governor of Connecticut
1936 – Karl Lehmann, German cardinal and theologian (d. 2018)
1936 – Roy Hudd, British radio and television actor
1936 - Manfred Stolpe, German politician
1937 - Yvonne Craig, American actress (d. 2015)
1937 – Antonio Rattin, Argentine footballer
1938 - Edmond Classen, Dutch actor (d. 2014)
1940 - Ole Ernst, Danish actor (d. 2013)
1943 - Kay Andrews, Baroness Andrews, English politician
1943 - Dan Coats, American politician and diplomat, 29th United States Ambassador to Germany
1944 – Danny Trejo, American actor
1944 - Billy Cobham, American drummer and bandleader
1945 - Carlos Osoro, Archbishop of Valencia
1946 – Robert Fripp, British guitarist
1948 - Emma Georgina Rothschild, British historian
1948 – Judy Finnigan, British TV presenter
1948 - Mariano Gago, Portuguese engineer and politician (d. 2015)
1948 - Jimmy Hood, Scottish politician (d. 2017)
1949 - Karlheinz Hackl, Austrian actor (d. 2014)
1950 – J. Georg Bednorz, German physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1987
1951 1975
1951 - Christian Lacroix, French fashion designer
1953 – Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2015)
1953 – Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
1954 - Jónína Leósdóttir, Icelandic writer
1954 - Dafydd Williams, Canadian physician and astronaut
1955 – Olga Korbut, Belarussian gymnast
1955 – Jack Morris, American baseball pitcher
1955 – Hazel O'Connor, British singer
1955 – Debra Winger, American actress
1957 - Bob Suter, American ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1957 - Nigel Twiston-Davies, English horse trainer
1958 – Amp Fiddler, musician (P Funk)
1961 - Sarah Boyack, Scottish politician
1961 - Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor
1963 – Rosie Perez, American actress
1964 - John Salley, American basketball player and actor
1964 - Milton Jones, English comedian
1965 - Danel Tammet, Estonian computer scientist and politician
1965 – Krist Novoselic, American musician, former bassist for Nirvana
1966 – Janet Jackson, American singer
1966 – Thurman Thomas, American football player
1969 - David Boreanaz, American actor
1969 – Steve Lewis, American athlete
1969 – Tucker Carlson, American print and television commentator
1969 - Ari-Pekka Nikkola, Finnish ski jumper
1970 – Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
1972 - Andrzej Duda, President of Poland
1973 – Tori Spelling, American actress
1973 – Jason Acuña "Wee-Man", American television personality
1974 – Laura Pausini, Italian pop singer
1974 - Adam Richman, American actor and TV presenter (Man v. Food)
1974 – Sonny Sandoval, American singer (P.O.D.)
1975 – Tony Kakko, Finnish singer (Sonata Arctica)
1975 – Tonéx, American singer
From 1976
1976 - Christian Califano, French rugby player
1977 – Dolcenera, Italian singer
1977 – Emilíana Torrini, Icelandic singer
1977 – Jean-Sébastien Giguère, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – David Ford, English singer/songwriter
1978 – Olga Zaitseva, Russian athlete
1978 – Lionel Scaloni, Argentine footballer
1979 – McKenzie Lee, English pornographic actress
1980 – Mikel Alonso, Spanish footballer
1980 – Michael Ryan, American ice hockey player
1980 - Jens Spahn, German politician
1981 – Jim Sturgess, English actor
1982 – Joo Ji Hoon, Korean actor and model
1982 – Łukasz Kubot, Polish tennis player
1983 – Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer
1983 – Gordon McRory, Scottish Drummer (The Fratellis)
1983 – Kyle Wellwood, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Mickie Knuckles, American female professional wrestler
1984 – Jensen Lewis, American baseball player
1984 – Rick Rypien, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2011)
1985 – Stanislav Ianevski, Bulgarian actor
1985 – Anja Mittag, German footballer
1985 – Corey Perry, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Tadayoshi Okura, Japanese singer-songwriter, dancer and actor
1986 – Megan Fox, American actress
1986 - Andy Keogh, Irish footballer
1987 - Olena Khomrova, Ukrainian fencer
1990 – Thomas Sangster, English actor
1991 – Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgarian tennis player
1993 – IU, South Korean singer
1994 - Aaron Moores, British Paralympic swimmer
1998 - Ariel Waller, Canadian actress
2002 - Ryan Gravenberch, Dutch footballer
Deaths
Up to 1950
583 – Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)
1265 - Simon Stock, English-French saint (b. 1165)
1620 – William Adams, English navigator and Japanese samurai (born 1564)
1669 - Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter and architect (born 1596)
1703 – Charles Perrault, French writer (born 1628)
1782 – Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (born 1736)
1830 – Joseph Fourier, French scientist (born 1768)
1882 - Reuben Chapman, 13th Governor of Alabama (born 1799)
1891 – Ion C. Bratianu, Romanian statesman (born 1821)
1913 - Louis Perrier, Swiss Federal Councillor (born 1849)
1920 – Levi P. Morton, 22nd Vice President of the United States and 31st Governor of New York (born 1824)
1920 - Joselito, Spanish bullfighter (born 1895)
1926 – Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (born 1861)
1931 – Emiliano Figueroa, President of Chile (born 1866)
1942 – Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish anthropologist (born 1884)
1944 – George Ade, writer (born 1866)
1947 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English chemist, won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1861)
1947 - Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (born 1903)
1951 2000
1953 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian jazz musician (born 1910)
1954 - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (born 1893)
1955 – James Agee, American writer (born 1909)
1957 – Eliot Ness, American federal agent (born 1903)
1963 - Oleg Penkovsky, Soviet-Russian agent (born 1919)
1971 - Gregoire-Pierre Agagianian, Armenian cardinal (born 1895)
1977 – Modibo Keita, 1st President of Mali (born 1915)
1981 - Ernie Freeman, American pianist, composer and bandleader (born 1922)
1984 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian (born 1949)
1984 – Irwin Shaw, American writer (born 1913)
1985 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress (born 1902)
1988 – Charles Keeping, illustrator (born 1924)
1989 - Leila Kasra, Iranian poet and lyricist (born 1939)
1990 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, creator of the Muppets (born 1936)
1990 – Sammy Davis, Jr., American singer, actor and comedian (born 1925)
1993 - Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1938)
1994 - Alain Cuny, French actor (born 1908)
From 2001
2002 – Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (born 1968)
2003 – Mark McCormack, American sports business pioneer, founder of IMG (born 1930)
2008 – Robert Mondavi, pioneer California winemaker (born 1913)
2008 - David Mitton, English model-maker (born 1938)
2010 – Oswaldo López Arellano, President of Honduras (born 1921)
2010 – Hank Jones, American jazz pianist (born 1918)
2010 – Ronnie James Dio, American musician (born 1942)
2011 – Edward Hardwicke, British actor (born 1932)
2013 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (born 1933)
2013 - Paul Shane, British actor (born 1940)
2013 - Dick Trickle, racing driver (born 1941)
2014 - Viktor Sukhodrev, Russian interpreter (born 1932)
2015 - Yeung Kwong, Hong Kong Communist activist (born 1926)
2015 - Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi (born 1935)
2015 - Flora MacNeil, Scottish singer (born 1928)
2015 - Dean Potter, American rock climber and BASE jumper (born 1972)
2015 - John Templeton Jr., American physician (born 1940)
2015 - Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi (born 1935)
2015 - Elias Gleizer, Brazilian actor (born 1934)
2016 - Bobby Freeman, American politician (born 1934)
2016 - Romaldo Giurgola, Italian-born American-Australian architect (born 1920)
2016 - Emilio Navaria, American country and Tejano singer (born 1962)
2016 - Gavyn Farr Arthur, British judge (born 1951)
2016 - Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (born 1925)
2016 - Lino Toffolo, Italian actor (born 1934)
2016 - Aar de Goede, Dutch politician (born 1928)
2016 - Jim McMillian, American basketball player (born 1948)
2016 - David Rendel, British politician (born 1949)
2016 - François Maistre, French actor (born 1925)
2016 - Huguette Dreyfus, French harpsichordist (born 1928)
2017 - Bernard Bosson, French politician (born 1948)
2017 - Outi Ojala, Finnish politician (born 1946)
2017 - Doug Somers, American professional wrestler (born 1951)
2017 - Gunnar Möller, German actor (born 1928)
2018 - François Bréda, Romanian writer and literary critic (born 1956)
2018 - Joseph Campanella, American actor (born 1924)
2018 - Diana E. Murphy, American judge (born 1934)
2018 - Michael Slive, American college sports executive (born 1940)
2018 - Gérard Jouannest, French pianist (born 1933)
2018 - Eloísa Mafalda, Brazilian actress (born 1924)
2018 - Lucian Pintilie, Romanian film director (born 1933)
2019 - David Cervinski, Australian footballer (born 1970)
2019 - Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (born 1929)
2019 - Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler and television personality (born 1979)
2019 - I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (born 1917)
2019 - Sol Yaged, American jazz clarinetist (born 1922)
2021 - Bruno Covas, Brazilian lawyer and politician (born 1980)
2021 - Rildo da Costa Menezes, Brazilian footballer (born 1942)
2021 - M. S. Narasimhan, Indian mathematician (born 1932)
Holidays and observances
In the Irish Calendar – Feast of Saint Brendan the Navigator
The feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
Ubaldus
Saint Honoré
John of Ponuk or John Nepomucene (1330 – 1393)
Andrew Bobola
Simon Stock
National Day of South Sudan
Teachers' Day (Malaysia)
Days of the year |
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Events
Up to 1900
28 BC - A sunspot is observed by Han Dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han.
70 - Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the northwest.
1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England.
1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there.
1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
1612 – Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan marries Arjumand Banu Begum, who receives the name Mumtaz Mahal.
1655 - England annexes Jamaica from Spain.
1768 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
1774 – Louis XVI becomes King of France.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Fort Ticonderoga is taken by a small force led by Colonel Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the 13 colonies of the United States meet in Philadelphia and raise the Continental Army to defend the new republic. They place it under command of Cavalier George Washington of Virginia.
1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the River Adda in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States.
1824 - The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
1849 - The Astor Place riot occurs in Manhattan after a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing over 25 people.
1857 – Indian Mutiny: In India, the Sepoys revolt against the British Army.
1863 - American Civil War: Confederate general Stonewall Jackson dies of his injuries after the previous week's Battle of Chancellorsville.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Spotsylvania.
1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
1865 – American Civil War: Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill in Kentucky (he lingered until his death on June 6).
1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah).
1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
1877 – Romania declares itself independent from Turkey, recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.
1893 - The United States Supreme Court rules that a tomato is a vegetable instead of a fruit.
1901 2000
1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, United States).
1922 - The United States takes control of the Kingman Reef.
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remained so until his death in 1972.
1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
1940 – World War II: The first German bombs were dropped on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
1940 – World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1940 – World War II: UK forces land in Iceland.
1940 - World War II: The German Luftwaffe mistakenly bombs the city of Freiburg im Breisgau in the southwest of Germany, killing 57 people.
1941 – World War II: The House of Commons in London is destroyed by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland in order to try and negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
1946 - First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
1954 – Bill Haley and the Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts.
1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
1962 - Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
1969 – The first rural outdoor rock concert at Zap, North Dakota, is ended prematurely as North Dakota National Guard is ordered to disperse the unruly crowd.
1979 – The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
1981 – François Mitterrand takes office as the first Socialist President of France.
1988 – Michel Rocard becomes Prime Minister of France.
1993 – Kyrgyzstan replaces the ruble with the som as its national currency.
1994 – The U.S. state of Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murder of 33 young men and boys.
1994 – Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa.
1994 – An annular eclipse of the sun is visible across much of North America.
1996 – A "rogue storm" near the summit of Mount Everest kills eight climbers, making this the deadliest day in the mountain's history. Among the dead are experienced climbers Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, both of whom were leading paid expeditions to the summit.
1997 – An earthquake near Ardekul in northeastern Iran kills at least 2,400 people.
1997 - Dutch storm surge barrier Maeslantkering is opened by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
1998 – National elections are held in Hungary.
From 2001
2001 – In Ghana, a stampede at a football game kills over 120 spectators.
2002 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
2002 – Lynda Lyon Block is executed in Yellow Mama, the electric chair of Alabama.
2003 – May 2003 tornado outbreak ends.
2005 – A live hand grenade lands about 100 feet from US President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
2005 – Designed by Peter Eisenman, a memorial to Jews killed in the Holocaust is unveiled in Berlin.
2008 - A tornado on the Oklahoma-Kansas state line kills 21 people.
2012 - A car bombing in Damascus kills 55 people.
2013 - One World Trade Center in New York City becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
2014 - Conchita Wurst (Tom Neuwirth) of Austria wins the 59th Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix".
2017 - Moon Jae-in becomes President of South Korea.
2018 - Mahathir Mohamad, at age 92, becomes Prime minister of Malaysia for a second time. This makes him the world's oldest elected leader.
2019 - The United States' 25% tariff increase on 200 million United States dollars of Chinese imports takes effect.
Births
Up to 1800
213 – Claudius II, Roman Emperor (d. 270)
850 - Emperor Seiwa of Japan (d. 881)
1265 - Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317)
1548 - Antonio Priuli, Doge (ruler) of Venice (d. 1623)
1604 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist (d. 1686)
1641 – Dudley North, English economist (d. 1691)
1697 - Jean-Marie Leclair, French violinist and composer (d. 1764)
1714 - Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1792)
1725 - John Hope, Scottish physician and botanist (d. 1786)
1727 - Anne-Robert-Jacques, Baron de Laune, French statesman (d. 1781)
1746 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician, physicist and chemist (d. 1818)
1755 – Robert Gray, American sea captain (d. 1806)
1756 – Singu Min, King of Burma (d. 1782)
1760 – Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (d. 1782)
1760 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French army officer and composer (d. 1836)
1770 – Louis-Nicolas Davout, French general (d. 1823)
1775 - Antoine Charles Louise Lasalle, French general (d. 1809)
1788 - Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1819)
1788 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer (d. 1827)
1801 1900
1801 - Hugh J. Anderson, Governor of Maine (d. 1881)
1812 - William Henry Barlow, British railway engineer (d. 1902)
1813 - Montgomery Blair, American politician (d. 1883)
1823 - John Sherman, American politician (d. 1900)
1827 - William Windom, American politician (d. 1891)
1830 - Henry Calderwood, Scottish minister and philosopher (d. 1897)
1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor who killed Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)
1840 - Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1868)
1843 - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish writer (d. 1920)
1848 - Thomas Lipton, Scottish merchant and yachtsman (d. 1931)
1855 – Sri Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru (d. 1936)
1874 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (d. 1941)
1876 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (d. 1918)
1878 – Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1886 – Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian (d. 1968)
1886 - Olaf Stapledon, English writer and philosopher (d. 1950)
1888 – Max Steiner, Austrian composer (d. 1971)
1888 - Lucy Wills, English physician and researcher (d. 1964)
1890 – Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946)
1894 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-born movie composer and conductor (d. 1979)
1895 – Kama Chinen, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2010)
1897 – Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1987)
1899 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987).
1899 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)
1900 – Ernst Ising, German mathematician (d. 1998)
1901 1950
1902 – David O. Selznick, American movie producer (d. 1965)
1902 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born movie director (d. 1974)
1908 - Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician (d. 2000)
1909 – Maybelle Carter, American musician (d. 1978)
1911 - Bel Kaufman, German-born American teacher and author (d. 2014)
1912 – Olga Bancic, Romanian resistance activist (d. 1944)
1912 - Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Scottish-born mother of Donald Trump (d. 2000)
1915 – Monica Dickens, English writer (d. 1992)
1915 – Denis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher (d. 2003)
1916 – Milton Babbitt, American composer (d. 2011)
1918 - George Welch, American pilot (d. 1954)
1922 - David Azrieli, Canadian-Israeli tycoon, developer, designer, architect and philanthropist (d. 2014)
1923 – Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan (d. 2003)
1925 – Néstor Rossi, Argentine footballer (d. 2007)
1926 – Hugo Banzer, President of Bolivia (d. 2002)
1928 - Marcel Rigout, French politician (d. 2014)
1928 – Arnold Rüütel, former President of Estonia
1929 – Antonine Maillet, French-Canadian novelist and playwright
1929 - George Coe, American actor (d. 2015)
1930 - Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster (d. 2013)
1930 - George E. Smith, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
1931 - Ettore Scola, Italian moviemaker (d. 2016)
1932 - Christiane Kubrick, German actress, dancer, painter and singer
1933 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
1934 - Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player (d. 1994)
1934 - Gary Owens, American DJ and voice actor (d. 2015)
1935 - William Duborgh Jensen, Norwegian fashion designer (d. 2017)
1935 - Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist and producer (d. 1980)
1937 - Tamara Press, Soviet-Ukrainian athlete
1938 – Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player
1940 - Wayne Dyer, American psychologist and author (d. 2015)
1941 - Ken Kennedy, Irish rugby player
1942 - Peter Prince, British novelist
1942 - Jim Calhoun, American basketball player
1944 – Jim Abrahams, American movie producer and screenwriter
1944 - Marie France-Pisier, French actress (d. 2011)
1946 – Donovan, Scottish musician
1946 – Dave Mason, English musician
1946 – Maureen Lipman, English actress
1946 - Diderik Wagenaar, Dutch composer and theorist
1947 - Colin Stein, Scottish footballer
1950 - Natalya Bondarchuk, Russian actress and movie director
1951 1975
1952 – Manuel Mora Morales, Spanish director and writer
1952 - Kikki Danielsson, Swedish singer
1952 - Roland Kaiser, German Schlager singer
1952 - Vanderlei Luxemburgo, Brazilian footballer and manager
1953 – Tito Santana, Mexican-American professional wrestler
1954 - Mike Hagerty, American actor
1955 – Mark David Chapman, American murderer of John Lennon
1956 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (d. 1995)
1957 – Sid Vicious, English musician (d. 1979)
1958 – Rick Santorum, American politician
1960 – Bono (Paul Hewson), Irish singer, lead vocalist of U2
1960 - Dean Heller, United States Senator from Nevada
1960 - Victoria Rowell, American actress and writer
1961 - Blyth Tait, New Zealand equestrian
1961 - Johanna ter Steege, Dutch actress
1962 - John Ngugi, Kenyan long-distance runner
1963 - Anatoly Lebed, Estonian-Russian lieutenant (d. 2012)
1963 – Lisa Nowak, American astronaut
1965 – Linda Evangelista, Canadian supermodel
1966 – Jonathan Edwards, British athlete
1966 - Deborah Criddle, British paralympic equestrian
1966 - David Mackenzie, Scottish film director
1967 – Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and sportscaster
1967 – Young MC, American rapper
1967 - Jon Ronson, English journalist and writer
1968 – Al Murray, British comedian
1969 – Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer
1970 – Gabriela Montero, Venezuelan pianist
1970 – David Weir, Scottish footballer
1970 - Sally Phillips, English actress
1971 - Adriano Giannini, Italian actor
1971 - Monisha Kaltenborn, Austrian Formula One team principal
1971 - Kim Jong-nam, North Korean political figure (d. 2017)
1971 - Linda Papadopoulos, Canadian psychologist
1972 – Christian Wörns, German footballer
1974 – Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
From 1976
1976 – Rachel Gordon, Australian actress
1977 – Henri Camara, Senegalese footballer
1977 - David Menkin, American voice actor
1977 – Nick Heidfeld, German racing driver
1977 - Anna Maxwell Martin, English actress
1980 – Namitha Kapoor, Indian actress
1981 – Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer
1983 – Gustav Fridolin, Swedish politician
1983 - Natalia Zabala, Spanish model
1985 – Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Emilio Izaguirre, Honduran footballer
1986 - Pendyana Harikrishna, Indian chess player
1987 - Wilson Chandler, American basketball player
1987 - Emmanuel Emenike, Nigerian footballer
1988 - Adam Lallana, English footballer
1989 - Lindsey Shaw, American actress
1990 – Lauren Potter, American actress
1992 - Jake Zyrus, Filipino singer and actor
1993 – Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
1994 - Yuki Ito, Japanese ski jumper
1995 - Missy Franklin, American swimmer
2013 - Prince Taufa'ahau Manumataongo of Tonga
Deaths
Up to 1900
689 - Kasakabe, Japanese prince (b. 662)
1034 – Mieszko II Lambert, King of Poland (b. 990)
1290 – Duke Rudolph II of Austria
1424 – Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan
1482 – Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)
1493 - Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1433)
1521 - Sebastian Brant, German humanist (b. 1457)
1566 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (b. 1501)
1641 - Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (b. 1596)
1657 – Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1592)
1696 – Jean de La Bruyere, French writer (b. 1645)
1717 – John Hathorne, magistrate (b. 1641)
1737 – Emperor Nakamikado of Japan (b. 1702)
1774 – King Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
1775 - Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, Queen Consort of Denmark-Norway (b. 1751)
1787 – William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1794 - Princess Elisabeth of France (executed) (b. 1764)
1798 – George Vancouver, English naval officer and explorer (b. 1757)
1807 - Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725)
1818 – Paul Revere, engraver, American patriot (b. 1735)
1829 – Thomas Young, decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphics
1863 – Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general (b. 1824)
1889 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)
1897 - Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician (b. 1863)
1901 2000
1904 – Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
1904 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh explorer (b. 1841)
1910 - Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (b. 1826)
1911 - La Fayette Grover, American politician, Governor of Oregon (b. 1823)
1916 - Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian nationalist leader, doctor and author (b. 1846)
1944 – Olga Bancic, Romanian resistance activist (b. 1912)
1955 – Tommy Burns, Canadian World Heavyweight Boxing Champion (b. 1881)
1967 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver (b. 1935)
1977 – Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1904)
1982 – Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916)
1984 - Joaquim Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist (b. 1943)
1988 – Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
1989 - Woody Shaw, American jazz musician, composer and bandleader (b. 1944)
1990 – Walker Percy, American writer (b. 1916)
1992 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
1994 – John Wayne Gacy, serial killer (executed) (b. 1942)
1999 – Shel Silverstein, poet, composer (b. 1930)
From 2001
2001 - Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, 16th Governor of Himachal Pradesh (b. 1934)
2002 - Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)
2002 – Lynda Lyon Block, American murderer (b. 1948)
2003 – Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b. 1937)
2005 – David Wayne, singer for the heavy metal group Metal Church (b. 1958)
2006 – Soraya, Colombian-American singer and musician (b. 1969)
2010 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928)
2012 – Gunnar Sonsteby, Norwegian resistance activist (b. 1918)
2012 - Carroll Shelby, American racing driver and auto designer (b. 1923)
2012 - Günther Kaufmann, German actor (b. 1947)
2014 - Patrick Lucey, 38th Governor of Wisconsin and former US Ambassador to Mexico (b. 1918)
2014 - Lem Johns, American secret service agent (b. 1925)
2014 - Andres Carrasco, Argentine neurologist (b. 1946)
2015 - Ninad Bedekar, Indian historian and writer (b. 1949)
2015 - Luiz Henrique da Silveira, Brazilian politician (b. 1940)
2015 - Kim Kyok-sik, North Korean military officer (b. 1938)
2015 - Chris Burden, American artist (b. 1946)
2016 - Louis van Gasteren, Dutch movie director (b. 1922)
2016 - Ilkka Hanski, Finnish ecologist (b. 1953)
2016 - Kang Young-hoon, Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1922)
2016 - Riki Sorsa, Finnish singer (b. 1952)
2016 - Gene Gutowski, American film producer (b. 1925)
2016 - Mark Lane, American lawyer and author (b. 1927)
2017 - Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor (b. 1924)
2017 - Greg Forristall, American politician (b. 1950)
2017 - Nelson Xavier, Brazilian actor (b. 1941)
2017 - Silvano Basagni, Italian sport shooter (b. 1938)
2017 - Emmanuèle Bernheim, French author and screenwriter (b. 1955)
2017 - Ted Hibberd, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
2018 - David Goodall, English-Australian botanist (b. 1914)
2018 - Alfonso Lovo Cordero, Nicaraguan politician (b. 1927)
2018 - Evgeni Vasiukov, Russian chess player (b. 1933)
2018 - Ken Hodgkisson, English footballer (b. 1933)
2018 - Kevin Kamenetz, American politician (b. 1957)
2018 - Graham Lovett, English footballer (b. 1947)
2018 - Adam Parfrey, American novelist, editor and publisher (b. 1957)
2019 - Frederick Brownell, South African vexillologist (b. 1940)
2019 - Hector Busby, New Zealand Maori navigator (b. 1932)
2019 - Bert Cooper, American boxer (b. 1966)
2019 - Gordon Neate, English footballer (b. 1941)
2019 - Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician (b. 1951)
2019 - Paul-Werner Scheele, German Roman Catholic theologian and bishop (b. 1928)
2019 - Dick Tomey, American football coach (b. 1938)
Observances
Confederate Memorial Day (North Carolina and South Carolina)
Constitution Day (Federated States of Micronesia)
Mother's Day (El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico)
Western Christianity: Earliest day on which Pentecost can fall
Days of the year |
9905 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%2011 | May 11 |
Events
Up to 1900
330 – Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
868 - A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest-known dated printed book.
1502 – Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.
1672 - Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1745 – War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.
1792 – Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented Caucasian to visit the Columbia River.
1812 – British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is shot and killed by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
1813 - In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory B. Laxland and William Wentworth lead an expedition westward from Sydney.
1818 – Charles XIV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1820 - The HMS Beagle has its official launch. Later, one of its most famous passengers would be Charles Darwin.
1846 - President of the United States James K. Polk asks for a declaration of war against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War.
1857 – Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
1862 – American Civil War: The ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Yellow Tavern – Confederate General JEB Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, Virginia.
1867 – Luxembourg gains its independence.
1880 - Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough tragedy, a gun battle in California.
1892 – Johan Petter Johansson of Sweden is granted a patent for the Monkey wrench.
1894 – Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
1901 2000
1907 - 32 Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in California.
1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
1911 – The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
1918 - The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is created.
1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
1928 – The first analog TV service is inaugurated by WGY, Schenectady, New York.
1934 – Dust Bowl: A strong two-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl in North America.
1942 – William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
1943 – World War II: American troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
1944 – World War II: The Allies start a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.
1949 – Siam changes its name to Thailand.
1949 – Israel joins the United Nations.
1953 – The Waco Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann, living under the assumed name Ricardo Klement.
1960 – The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market.
1967 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta.
1969 – Vietnam War: Operation Apache Snow – Near the Laos border, American and South Vietnamese forces fight North Vietnamese troops for Ap Bia Mountain (aka Hill 937 or "Hamburger Hill").
1970 – Henry "Dickie" Marrow" is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, N.C..
1970 – The Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, killing 26.
1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times dismissed.
1974 – An earthquake in Sichuan and Yunnan in China kills 20,000 people.
1976 – The last episode of the TV medical drama Marcus Welby, M.D. is aired.
1983 - Aberdeen F.C. defeats Real Madrid 2-1 to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1984 – A transit of Earth from Mars takes place; no one is there to observe it.
1985 – 56 spectators die when a flash fire strikes a football ground during a match in Bradford, England.
1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
1987 – The first heart-lung transplant takes place (Baltimore, Maryland).
1995 – In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
1996 – On what was until that point the deadliest day on Mt. Everest, 8 climbers are killed in a snowstorm.
1996 – After taking-off from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
1997 – IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player.
1998 – Nuclear testing: In the Rajasthan Desert, India conducts its first underground nuclear tests violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and inflaming its rival neighbor Pakistan (who already has nuclear weapons).
1998 – ZDTV, "the official technology television network", starts broadcasting. It lasted six years until the G4techTV Merger and it turned into a gaming channel.
2000 – India announces that it's reached the population of 1 billion.
From 2001
2003 – Rafael Palmeiro becomes the 19th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas.
2004 – The Stockline Plastics factory explosion in Glasgow kills nine people.
2005 – The eleventh edition of the International Trade Fair KOSOVA opens in Gjakova, Kosovo.
2010 – David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
2011 – Two earthquakes in southern Spain kill at least 10 people.
2013 - Over 40 people are killed in a bomb attack in Turkey's Hatay province, near the Syrian border.
2013 - A parliamentary election is held in Pakistan, with a record voter turnout. This leads to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returning as Prime Minister on June 5.
2013 - Wigan Athletic F.C. wins its first FA Cup after a surprise win over Manchester City in the final, as the first surprise result in the final for a number of years.
2015 - Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers becomes the most expensive painting to sell at auction, being bought for $179.3 million.
2016 - Italy legalizes same-sex civil partnerships.
2016 - A series of bomb attacks in Baghdad kills around 90 people.
2016 - President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff is impeached.
Births
Up to 1900
478 – Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor (d. 565)
1366 - Anne of Bohemia, Queen Consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
1568 - Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (d. 1630)
1571 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyo and retainer (d. 1637)
1715 – Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1739)
1720 – Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, officer and adventurer (d. 1797)
1722 - Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (d. 1789)
1733 - Princess Victoire of France (d. 1799)
1752 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
1763 – János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845)
1801 – Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)
1811 – Chang and Eng Bunker, famous Siamese twins (d. 1874)
1811 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (d. 1951)
1815 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, British statesman (d. 1891)
1817 - Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1909)
1827 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
1835 – Karlis Baumanis, Latvian composer and poet (d. 1905)
1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th Vice President of the United States (d. 1918)
1854 - Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (d. 1932)
1855 - Anatoly Lyadov, Russian composer (d. 1914)
1862 - Franklin S. Billings, Governor of Vermont (d. 1935)
1871 – Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (d. 1928)
1874 – Einar Jonsson, Icelandic sculptor (d. 1954)
1875 – Harriet Quimby, American pilot (d. 1912)
1881 – Al Cabrera, Spanish-born Cuban baseball player (d. 1964)
1881 - Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)
1885 – Joe "King" Oliver, American cornet player and bandleader (d. 1938)
1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (d. 1961)
1888 – Irving Berlin, Russian-American composer (d. 1989)
1890 - Woodall Rodgers, American attorney, businessman and politician (d. 1961)
1891 – Henry Morgenthau, American politician (d. 1967)
1892 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress (d. 1972)
1894 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)
1895 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (d. 1986)
1896 – Josip Štolcer-Slavenski Croatian composer (d. 1955)
1897 – Kurt Gerron German movie director (d. 1944)
1897 - George Murdock, American anthropologist (d. 1985)
1899 - Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
1900 - Pridi Phanomyong, Prime Minister of Siam (d. 1983)
1901 1950
1903 – Charlie Gehringer, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1993)
1904 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989)
1907 – Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
1907 - Rip Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1911 – Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985)
1912 – Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani short story writer of the Urdu language (d. 1955)
1912 – Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)
1913 – Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (d. 1994)
1914 - Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist (d. 1998)
1916 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer (d. 2002)
1918 – Richard Feynman, American physicist (d. 1988)
1921 – Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician (d. 2016)
1924 – Antony Hewish, British radio astronomer
1924 - Eugene Dynkin, Russian-born American mathematician (d. 2014)
1924 - Jackie Milburn, English footballer (d. 1988)
1925 – Max Morlock, German footballer (d. 1994)
1925 – Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006)
1927 – Mort Sahl, Canadian comedian and political commentator
1927 - Bernard Fox, Welsh-American actor (d. 2016)
1927 - Gene Savoy, American explorer, author and scholar (d. 2007)
1928 – Marco Ferreri, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1930 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
1930 – William P. Carey, American investment banker and philanthropist (d. 2012)
1932 - Mustafa Tlass, Syrian military officer and politician (d. 2017)
1932 - John Vasconcellos, American politician (d. 2014)
1932 - Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer
1933 – Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader
1934 - Jim Jeffords, American politician, United States Senator from Vermont (d. 2014)
1935 - Dick Leitsch, American LGBT rights activist (d. 2018)
1936 - Tony Barrow, British press officer (d. 2016)
1936 – Carla Bley, American musician and composer
1939 - Frank Quilici, American baseball player (d. 2018)
1940 – Juan Downey, Chilean video artist (d. 1993)
1941 – Graham Miles, English snooker player
1941 - Ian Redpath, Australian cricketer
1943 – Les Chadwick, English musician (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
1945 - Floyd Adams, Jr., American politician (d. 2014)
1946 – Robert Jarvik, American physicist and inventor
1947 - Butch Trucks, American musician
1948 – Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician
1950 – Jeremy Paxman, British journalist and writer
1950 - John F. Kelly, 28th White House Chief of Staff
1950 - Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (d. 2014)
1951 1975
1951 – Ed Stelmach, Canadian politician, former Premier of Alberta
1951 - Johnny Doyle, Scottish footballer (d. 1981)
1952 – Renaud Séchan, French composer
1952 – Mike Lupica, sports journalist
1952 – Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress
1952 – Frances Fisher, British-American actress
1953 – Boyd Gaines, actor
1953 – David Gest, American television producer (d. 2016)
1956 – Theresa Burke, Canadian journalist
1956 – Alex Lester, British broadcaster
1957 - Peter North, Canadian pornographic actor, director, producer and dancer
1958 - Peter Antonie, Australian rower
1959 - Silvio Barbato, Italian-Brazilian opera conductor and composer (d. 2009)
1959 – Martha Quinn, American television personality
1960 - Jürgen Schult, German athlete
1963 - Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish politician
1963 - Masatoshi Hamada, Japanese comedian
1963 – Natasha Richardson, English actress (d. 2009)
1964 – John Parrott, English snooker player
1965 – Stefano Domenicali, Italian Formula One team principal
1966 – Christoph Schneider, German drummer (Rammstein)
1966 – Nancy Hower, American actress, sceenwriter, director, and producer
1968 - Jeffrey Donovan, American actor
1968 - Ana Jara, Peruvian lawyer and politician, former Prime Minister of Peru
1973 - James Haven, American actor
1973 - Tsuyoshi Ogata, Japanese marathon runner
1974 - DJ Zany, Dutch DJ
1975 - Coby Bell, American actor and producer
From 1976
1977 – Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper
1977 - Victor Matfield, South African rugby player
1978 – Laetitia Casta, French model and actress
1978 - Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish cellist and composer (Apocalyptica)
1979 – Gonzalo Colsa, Spanish footballer
1979 - Tim Baillie, Scottish slalom canoeist
1980 – Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa, Icelandic footballer
1980 - Ernest Vardanean, Armenian-Moldovan political scientist and journalist
1981 – Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
1982 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and musician (d. 2013)
1982 – Jonathan Jackson, actor
1983 – Matt Leinart, American football player
1983 – Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
1983 - Steven Sotloff, American journalist (d. 2014)
1984 – Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer
1984 - Arttu Lappi, Finnish ski jumper
1986 – Abou Diaby, French footballer
1988 - Ace Hood, American rapper
1988 - Marcel Kittel, German cyclist
1988 - Brad Marchand, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Severin Freund, German ski jumper
1989 – Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer
1989 - Prince Royce, American singer and songwriter
1989 - Cam Newton, American football player
1991 - Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh, Iranian footballer
1992 - Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer
1993 - Jirapong Meenapra, Thai sprinter
1993 - Maurice Harkless, American basketball player
1994 - Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian long-distance runner
1995 - Yassi Pressman, Filipina actress and dancer
1999 - Sabrina Carpenter, American actress and singer
1999 - Madison Lintz, American actress
Deaths
Up to 1975
912 – Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (b. 866)
1304 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)
1610 - Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (b. 1552)
1642 – Safi of Persia (b. 1611)
1686 - Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (b. 1602)
1760 – Alaungpaya, Burmese ruler (b. 1714)
1778 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1708)
1812 – Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1762).
1848 - Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)
1849 – Otto Nicolai, German composer (b. 1810)
1871 – John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (b. 1792)
1883 - Julie Drouet, French actress (b. 1806)
1887 - Ion Keith-Falconer, Scottish missionary (b. 1856)
1889 - John Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1801)
1891 – A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
1915 - Arthur Hussey, American golfer (b. 1882)
1916 - Max Reger, German pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1873)
1916 - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
1927 – Juan Gris, Spanish Cubist painter (b. 1887)
1929 - Jozef Murgas, Slovakian inventor, architect, botanist, painter, patriot and priest (b. 1864)
1934 - Blaise Diagne, Senegalese politician (b. 1872)
1937 - Afonso Costa, Portuguese politician (b. 1871)
1952 - Alessio Ascalesi, Italian cardinal (b. 1872)
1955 - Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
1956 - Walter Sydney Adams, American astronomer (b. 1876)
1960 – John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874)
1962 - Hans Luther, Chancellor of Germany in the Weimar Republic (b. 1879)
1963 – Herbert Gasser, American doctor, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1888)
1966 - Henry S. Caulfield, 31st Governor of Missouri (b. 1873)
1971 - Seán Lamass, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1902)
1973 - Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
1976 2010
1976 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
1981 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist (b. 1897)
1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae musician (b. 1945)
1984 – Toni Turek, German footballer (b. 1919)
1986 - Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (b. 1953)
1988 – Kim Philby, British agent and spy (b. 1912)
1994 - Timothy Carey, American actor (b. 1928)
1996 - Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1949)
1996 – Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
1996 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, first President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
1996 - Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1961)
1998 – Ernst Ising, German mathematician (b. 1900)
2000 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
2001 – Douglas Adams, English writer (b. 1952)
2002 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian mob boss (b. 1905)
2002 - Bill Peet, American screenwriter and animator (b. 1915)
2003 – Noel Redding, English musician (b. 1945)
2006 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
2007 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan Head of State (b. 1913)
2008 – Bruno Neves, Portuguese cyclist (b. 1981)
From 2011
2011 - Maurice Goldhaber, physicist (b. 1911)
2014 - Francisco Sobrino, Mexican-Spanish sculptor (b. 1932)
2014 - Barbara Knudson, American actress (b. 1927)
2014 - Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby league player (b. 1939)
2015 - Jef Geeraerts, Belgian author (b. 1930)
2015 - Stan Cornyn, American record label executive (b. 1933)
2015 - John Hewie, South African-Scottish footballer (b. 1927)
2015 - John Watts, Grenadian politician (b. 1921)
2016 - Motiur Rahman Nizami, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1943)
2016 - Peter Behrens, German musician (b. 1947)
2016 - Tony Cozier, Barbadian cricket writer and commentator (b. 1940)
2016 - Katherine Dunn, American writer (b. 1945)
2016 - Michael Ratner, American lawyer (b. 1943)
2016 - Joe Temperley, Scottish saxophonist (b. 1929)
2017 - Gabriel Chiramel, Indian Roman Catholic priest, educator, zoologist and author (b. 1914)
2017 - Mark Colvin, British-born Australian journalist and radio presenter (b. 1952)
2017 - Clelio Darida, Italian politician, former Mayor of Rome (b. 1927)
2018 - Mikhail Alperin, Ukrainian-Norwegian jazz pianist (b. 1956)
2018 - Bessie Camm, British supercentenarian (b. 1904)
2018 - Gérard Genette, French literary theorist (b. 1930)
2018 - Hugo Guerra, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1966)
2018 - Peter Mayer, British-American publisher (b. 1936)
2018 - Bengt Nilsson, Swedish high jumper (b. 1934)
2018 - Ulla Sallert, Swedish actress (b. 1923)
2019 - Gianni De Michelis, Italian politician (b. 1940)
2019 - Silver King, Mexican wrestler and actor (b. 1968)
2019 - Peggy Lipton, American actress and model (b. 1946)
2019 - Pua Magasiva, New Zealand actor (b. 1980)
2019 - Jon Gittens, English footballer (b. 1964)
2019 - Robert D. Maxwell, American colonel (b. 1920)
2019 - Thomas Silverstein, American murderer (b. 1952)
Observances
National Technology Day (India)
Statehood Day (Minnesota)
Days of the year |
9906 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%2014 | May 14 |
Events
Up to 1900
1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
1483 – Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable").
1509 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
1607 – The settlement of Jamestown, Virginia is founded.
1608 - The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen, Bavaria.
1610 - King Henry IV of France is murdered, leaving the throne to his son, King Louis XIII of France, who dies exactly 33 years later, on the same date.
1643 – Four year-old Louix XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. Louis XIV's reign would become the longest in European history, lasting until 1715.
1747 – A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States.
1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
1811 – Paraguay gains independence from Spain.
1858 – As one of three explorers, John McDouall Stuart starts a journey that crosses Australia.
1861 – The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Jackson.
1868 - Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikko.
1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
1879 - The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji.
1889 – The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London.
1894 - In Blackpool, Lancashire, England, the Blackpool Tower is opened to the public.
1897 - Stars and Stripes Forever id first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1900 – The 1900 Summer Olympics open in Paris.
1901 2000
1901 - In Adalen, Sweden, five people are killed as soldiers fire on a trade union demonstration.
1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
1914 – The Hellenic Holocaust starts, according to an official document from Talaat Bey (Minister of the Interior) to the prefect of Smyrna.
1927 – Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg.
1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
1930 - The Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico become a National Park.
1935 – The Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.
1939 – Lina Medina, from Peru, becomes the world's youngest alleged mother in medical history at the age of five.
1940 – World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
1940 – World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany.
1943 - World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks the ship AMS Centaur off Queensland, Australia.
1948 – Israel declares itself to be an independent state and a provisional government is established.
1948 – The murder of a three-year-old girl in Blackburn, northern England, leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city in an attempt to find the murderer.
1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union sign a mutual defence treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
1955 - The United States carries out Operation Wigwam - atomic bomb tests around 900 kilometers southwest of San Diego, California in the Pacific Ocean.
1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.
1963 - Kuwait joins the UN.
1970 – The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket.
1988 - Carrollton Bus Collision: A drunk driver travelling the wrong way on the Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. 27 people die in the resulting crash and fire.
1989 - Carlos Menem is elected President of Argentina.
1995 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
1998 – After nine years on the air, the series finale of the television sitcom Seinfeld is aired on NBC.
From 2001
2004 – The marriage of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and Mary Donaldson takes place in Copenhagen.
2004 – Piers Morgan is fired as editor of the Daily Mirror, when photographs that had been published in the newspaper of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers were proved to be fake.
2004 – Insurgents or terrorists in Iraq detonate a 155 mm shell containing several liters of binary precursors for sarin. The shell was designed to mix the chemicals as it spun during flight and the explosion failed to mix them properly. Although it only resulted in a small release of sarin, two U.S. soldiers are treated for exposure after displaying the early symptoms.
2005 – Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood.
2005 – Nintendo opens up its first retail store, Nintendo World, in Rockefeller Center in New York City. They celebrated the grand opening with a block party in Rockefeller Plaza.
2006 - The final episode of US sitcom Malcolm in the Middle is broadcast.
2011 – Ell and Nikki of Azerbaijan win the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
2012 - Agni Air Flight CHT crashes near the airport in Jamsom, Nepal, after a failed turnaround, killing 15 people.
2013 - President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the Northeastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa due to the terrorist activities of Boko Haram.
2013 - Brazil effectively legalizes same-sex marriage.
2016 - Crimean-Tatar artist Jamala wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 for Ukraine with the ballad 1944, in Stockholm. Dami Im (Australia) and Sergey Lazarev (Russia) finish second and third respectively.
2017 - Emmanuel Macron takes office as the youngest-ever President of France, at the age of 39.
2017 - An election in Germany's most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia results in the SPD-Green Party coalition under Hannelore Kraft losing its majority. The CDU under Armin Laschet makes significant gains.
2018 - Israeli troops kill 58 Palestinian protesters on the same day the Israel's new United States Embassy is opened in Jerusalem to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the declaration of the State of Israel.
Births
Up to 1800
1265 – Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (d. 1321)
1316 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)
1414 - Francis I, Duke of Bretagne (d. 1450)
1553 – Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)
1574 - Francesco Rasi, Italian composer, singer, musician and poet (d. 1621)
1630 - Katakura Kagenaga, Japanese samurai (d. 1681)
1657 - Sambhaji, Indian emperor (d. 1689)
1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
1699 – Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
1700 - Mary Delany, English artist and letter writer (d. 1788)
1701 – William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
1710 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)
1725 – Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (d. 1802)
1727 – Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (d. 1788)
1737 - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman and diplomat (d. 1806)
1759 - Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1805)
1761 - Samuel Dexter, American politician (d. 1816)
1771 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
1771 - Thomas Wedgwood, British photography pioneer (d. 1805)
1781 – Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian (d. 1873)
1801 1900
1814 – Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
1817 – Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)
1836 - Wilhelm Steinitz, German chess player (d. 1900)
1850 - Alva Adams, Governor of Colorado (d. 1922)
1852 - Alton B. Parker, American politician (d. 1926)
1867 – Kurt Eisner, German politician (d. 1919)
1868 - Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (d. 1935)
1869 - Concha Espina, Spanish writer (d. 1955)
1872 – Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinal (d. 1961)
1874 - Polaire, French singer and actress (d. 1939)
1878 – James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
1880 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)
1881 – G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
1885 – Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (d. 1973)
1885 - Nikolai Krylenko, Russian revolutionary and politician (d. 1938)
1893 - Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
1897 – Sidney Bechet, American jazz musician (d. 1959)
1897 - Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
1899 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
1899 - Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1900 - Hal Borland, American writer (d. 1978)
1900 - Walter Rehberg, Swiss pianist, composer and writer (d. 1957)
1900 - Leo Smit, Dutch composer (d. 1943)
1901 1950
1904 - Hans Albert Einstein, Swiss-American engineer and educator, son of Albert Einstein (d. 1973)
1905 - Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet-Ukrainian politician (d. 1997)
1905 – Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (d. 1974)
1906 – Hastings Banda, 1st President of Malawi (d. 1996)
1907 – Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
1907 – Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat, member of the European Commission (d. 2005)
1909 - Godfrey Rampling, British sprinter (d. 2009)
1916 – Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)
1917 – Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
1919 – John Hope, American meteorologist (d. 2002)
1921 – Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)
1922 - Sinan Hasani, President of Yugoslavia (d. 2010)
1922 – Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (d. 1999)
1923 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician
1923 - Mrinal Sen, Indian director, screenwriter and producer
1925 – Patrice Munsel, American opera soprano (d. 2016)
1925 - Oona O'Neill, wife of Charlie Chaplin (d. 1991)
1925 - François Maistre, French actor (d. 2016)
1926 – Eric Morecambe, British comedian (d. 1984)
1927 – Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
1928 - Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist, inventor and engineer (d. 2015)
1929 - Barbara Branden, Canadian writer (d. 2013)
1929 – Henry McGee, British actor (d. 2006)
1929 – Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1931 – Alvin Lucier, American composer
1933 – Michael Chevalier, German voice actor
1934 – Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
1934 - Eric Caldow, Scottish footballer (d. 2019)
1936 – Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
1936 - Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress
1938 - Clive Rowlands, Welsh rugby player and coach
1939 - Rupert Neudeck, German journalist and humanitarian (d. 2016)
1939 – Troy Shondell, American singer (d. 2016)
1941 - Ada den Haan, Dutch swimmer
1942 - Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green, British politician (d. 2014)
1942 – Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete (d. 2003)
1943 - Derek Leckenberg, English guitarist (d. 1994)
1943 - Jack Bruce, Scottish musician (d. 2014)
1943 – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, 5th President of Iceland
1944 – George Lucas, American movie director
1944 - Francesca Annis, British actress
1945 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (d. 2010)
1945 – Yochanan Vollach, former Israeli football player and current president of the Maccabi Haifa association
1946 – Eric Peterson, Canadian actor
1946 - Elmar Brok, German politician
1947 – Tamara Dobson, American actress (d. 2006)
1948 – Bob Woolmer, English cricket player and coach (d. 2007)
1949 – Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist
1949 - Walter Day, American game designer and businessman
1950 – Adolfo Dominguez, Spanish fashion designer
1950 - Jill Stein, American physician and politician
1951 1975
1952 – David Byrne, Scottish-American musician (Talking Heads)
1952 - Michael Fallon, British politician
1952 – Robert Zemeckis, American movie director
1952 - Donald R. McMonagle, American colonel, pilot and astronaut
1953 – Tom Cochrane, Canadian musician (Red Rider)
1953 – Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
1953 - Hywel Williams, Welsh politician
1954 – Jens Sparschuh, German writer
1955 – Dennis Martínez, Nicaraguan baseball player
1955 - Big Van Vader, American professional wrestler (d. 2018)
1956 - Hazel Blears, British politician
1957 – Leon White, American professional wrestler
1959 – Patrick Bruel, French singer
1959 - Markus Büchel, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (d. 2013)
1960 – Anne Clark, English singer
1960 - Simonetta Sommaruga, Swiss Federal Councillor
1961 – Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
1961 - Ian Blackford, Scottish politician
1961 – Tim Roth, English actor
1962 - Ferran Adria, Spanish chef and restaurateur
1962 – C.C. DeVille, American musician (Poison)
1963 - David Yelland, English journalist and broadcaster
1964 - Néstor Gorosito, Argentine footballer
1964 - James M. Kelly, American astronaut
1964 - Rosen Plevneliev, former President of Bulgaria
1965 – Eoin Colfer, Irish writer
1966 - Marianne Denicourt, French actress
1966 - Mike Inez, American musician and songwriter
1966 - Fab Morvan, French singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1966 - Raphael Saadiq, American singer-songwriter and musician
1968 - Greg Davies, British actor and comedian
1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
1969 - Danny Wood, American singer, songwriter and musician
1970 - Kenichi Shimokawa, Japanese footballer
1971 – Sofia Coppola, American movie director and producer
1971 - Oséas, Brazilian footballer
1972 - Kirstjen Nielsen, 6th United States Secretary of Homeland Security
1972 - Mark Ruskell, Scottish politician
1973 - Natalie Appleton, Canadian singer and actress
1973 - Fraser Nelson, Scottish journalist, Editor of The Spectator
1973 - Julian White, English rugby player
1973 - Voshon Lenard, American basketball player
From 1976
1976 – Martine McCutcheon, English actress
1977 - Sophie Anderton, English model
1977 - Roy Halladay, American baseball player (d. 2017)
1977 - Pusha T, American rapper
1978 - Eddie House, American basketball player
1978 - Lee McCulloch, Scottish footballer
1978 – Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
1979 – Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer
1979 - Dan Auerbach, American singer-songwriter
1979 - Clinton Morrison, Irish footballer
1980 - Julia Sebestyen, Hungarian figure skater
1980 – Zdenek Grygera, Czech footballer
1980 – Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby player
1982 - Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
1983 - Amber Tamblyn, American actress
1984 – Michael Rensing, German footballer
1984 – Nigel Reo-Coker, English footballer
1984 – Olly Murs, English singer
1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook
1986 - Alyosha, Ukrainian singer
1987 - Zarine Khan, Indian model and actress
1987 – Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
1987 - François Steyn, South African rugby player
1990 - Olga Ikonnikova, Estonian figure skater
1990 - Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer
1993 – Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
1993 - Kristina Mladenovic, French tennis player
1994 - Edison Flores, Peruvian footballer
1996 - Martin Garrix, Dutch DJ and producer
1996 - McKaley Miller, American actress
Deaths
Up to 1950
694 - Pope Theodore I
964 - Pope John XII (b. 927)
1470 – King Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1574 – Guru Amar Das, Sikh guru (b. 1479)
1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
1610 – King Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
1643 – King Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
1761 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)
1847 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)
1860 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
1873 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (b. 1797)
1878 - Okubo Tashimichi, Japanese statesman and samurai (b. 1830)
1879 - Henry Sewell, 1st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1807)
1881 - Mary Seacole, Jamaican nurse (b. 1805)
1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)
1897 - Richard Coke, Governor of Texas (b. 1829)
1906 - Carl Schurz, German-American statesman (b. 1829)
1912 – King Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)
1912 – August Strindberg, Swedish writer and playwright (b. 1849)
1919 - Henry J. Heinz, German-American businessman (b. 1844)
1923 – Charles de Freycinet, Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
1930 - John P. Buchanan, American politician, 28th Governor of Tennessee (b. 1847)
1931 - Viktor Dyk, Czech poet (b. 1877)
1931 - David Belasco, American producer, director and playwright (b. 1853)
1935 - Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (b. 1868)
1940 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
1943 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer (b. 1854)
1945 - Heber J. Grant, American Mormon leader (b. 1856)
From 1951
1957 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian painter (b. 1884)
1959 – Sidney Bechet, American jazz musician (b. 1897)
1959 - Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (b. 1862)
1960 - Lucrezia Bori, Spanish soprano (b. 1887)
1962 - Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
1968 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1880)
1973 - Jean Gelser, German linguist, philosopher and poet (b. 1905)
1976 - Keith Relf, English singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
1983 – Miguel Aleman Valdes, President of Mexico (b. 1900)
1988 – Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
1991 – Jiang Qing, First Lady of the People's Republic of China (b. 1914)
1992 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese military leader (b. 1899)
1995 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist (b. 1916)
1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and entertainer (b. 1915)
2000 – Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
2001 - Gil Langley, Australian cricketer, footballer and politician (b. 1919)
2003 – Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
2004 - Jesus Gil y Gil, Spanish businessman (b. 1933)
2006 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
2006 - Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist (b. 1921)
2007 - Ulo Jogi, Estonian historian and patriot (b. 1921)
2014 - Stephen Sutton, British cancer charity fundraiser (b. 1994)
2015 - B.B. King, American blues and rock musician (b. 1925)
2016 - Darwyn Cooke, Canadian comic book artist (b. 1962)
2016 - Christy O'Connor Snr, Irish golfer (b. 1924)
2016 - Tony Barrow, British press officer (b. 1936)
2016 - Monteagle Stearns, American diplomat (b. 1924)
2017 - Powers Boothe, American actor (b. 1948)
2017 - Dilbagh Singh Athwal, Indian geneticist and agriculturist (b. 1928)
2017 - Bruce Hill, American racing driver (b. 1949)
2017 - Frank Brian, American basketball player (b. 1923)
2017 - Brad Grey, American producer (b. 1957)
2017 - Tom McClung, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1957)
2017 - Brad Grey, American producer (b. 1957)
2018 - Elaine S. Edwards, American politician (b. 1929)
2018 - Doug Ford, American golfer (b. 1922)
2018 - Frank Quilici, American baseball player (b. 1939)
2018 - E. C. George Sudarshan, Indian theoretical physicist and professor (b. 1931)
2018 - Tom Wolfe, American writer and journalist (b. 1930)
2018 - Roberto Farias, Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1932)
2018 - William Vance, Belgian comics artist (b. 1935)
2019 - Leopoldo Brizuela, Argentine writer and translator (b. 1963)
2019 - Grumpy Cat, American-bred cat and internet celebrity (b. 2012)
2019 - Tim Conway, American actor (b. 1933)
2019 - Sven Lindqvist, Swedish author (b. 1932)
2019 - Alice Rivlin, American politician and economist (b. 1931)
2019 - Remig Stumpf, German cyclist (b. 1966)
Observances
National Unification Day (Liberia)
Hastings Banda's Birthday (Malawi)
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Events
Up to 1900
293 - Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian.
878 - Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim Sultan of Sicily.
879 - Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people.
996 - Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned.
1085 - The city of Helsingborg is founded in what is now southern Sweden.
1471 - Henry VI of England, the last King from the House of Lancaster, is murdered in the Tower of London on the orders of King Edward IV of England.
1502 – The island of Saint Helena is discovered by Portuguese explorer Joao da Nova.
1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski to become King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
1792 - The Unzen volcano in Japan erupts, resulting in thousands of people getting killed.
1809 - Napoleonic Wars: First day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling - Austria, under Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen and France, under Napoleon Bonaparte, meet in battle, with Napoleon's side winning the next day.
1851 – Colombia abolishes slavery.
1856 – The town of Lawrence, Kansas, is captured and burned by pro-Slavery forces.
1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army closes off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
1863 - Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.
1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
1871 - French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting.
1879 – War of the Pacific: The naval Battle of Iquique takes place between Chile and Peru.
1881 – The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton.
1894 - The Manchester Ship Canal is opened in England by Queen Victoria.
1901 2000
1904 - FIFA, the world governing body of football, is founded in Paris.
1911 - President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and revolutionary Francisco I. Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juarez.
1917 - A significant part of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, is destroyed by fire.
1924 - University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
1925 - In Tokyo, Japan, scientist Hidesaburo Ueno dies. His dog, Hachiko, keeps waiting for him, and becomes well known for his loyalty.
1927 – Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic Ocean.
1932 - Amelia Earhart is forced by bad weather to land near Derry, Northern Ireland, after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1934 - Oskaloosa, Iowa becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
1939 - Canada's National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI of the United Kingdom and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
1946 - Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with a demon core at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, United States.
1965 - The current Flag of Ontario is adopted.
1966 - The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the IRA.
1976 - The Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California kills 29 people.
1990 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agree to merge to become the Republic of Yemen.
1991 – Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam flees Ethiopia.
1991 – Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is murdered in Sriperumbudur in southern India.
1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen tries to secede, leading to the break-out of war.
1996 – The ship MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing around 1,000 people.
1998 - President of Indonesia Suharto announces his resignation.
From 2001
2003 – An earthquake in northern Algeria kills more than 2,000 people.
2005 – Elena Paparizou wins the 50th Eurovision Song Contest for Greece, in Kiev, Ukraine.
2006 – The majority of voters in Montenegro vote to split from Serbia and Montenegro. Montenegro becomes independent on June 3.
2007 – The clipper Cutty Sark is damaged by fire in London, UK.
2011 - American pastor Harold Camping predicted the end of the world to begin on this date, with the rapture, supposedly leading to the end itself on October 21. Despite his prediction, life continued as normal.
2012 - A bombing in Sana'a, Yemen kills 120 people.
2013 - Far-right French historian Dominique Venner commits suicide by gunshot in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.
Births
Up to 1900
427 BC – Plato, Influential Greek philosopher (d. 347 BC)
120 BC - Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar (d. 54 BC)
1471 – Albrecht Dürer, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1528)
1527 – King Philip II of Spain (d. 1598)
1653 – Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria (d. 1697)
1688 – Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744)
1759 - Joseph Fouché, French politician (d. 1820)
1780 – Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (d. 1845)
1785 - August Immanuel Bekker, German classical philologist (d. 1871)
1792 – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
1799 - Mary Anning, English paleontologist (d. 1847)
1827 - William P. Sprague, American politician (d. 1899)
1837 - Itagaki Taisuke, Japanese politician (d. 1919)
1843 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
1843 - Louis Renault, French jurist (d. 1918)
1844 – Henri Rousseau, French artist (d. 1910)
1850 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
1851 – Léon Bourgeois, French statesman (d. 1925)
1853 - Edward Gawlor Prior, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of British Columbia (d. 1920)
1855 - Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet (d. 1916)
1856 – Jose Batlle y Ordonez, Uruguayan politician (d. 1929)
1857 - Francisco Aguilar Barquero, President of Costa Rica (d. 1924)
1860 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch doctor, won the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, inventor of the electrocardiogram (d. 1927)
1863 – Archduke Eugen of Austria (d. 1954)
1864 – Princess Stephanie of Belgium (d. 1945)
1873 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)
1878 - Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (d. 1930)
1880 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian poet and writer (d. 1967)
1884 - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
1898 – Armand Hammer, physician, entrepreneur, oil magnate, and art collector (d. 1990)
1901 1950
1901 – Horace Heidt, band leader (d. 1986)
1901 – Sam Jaffe, American producer (d. 2000)
1902 – Earl Averill, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1983)
1902 – Marcel Lajos Breuer, architect (d. 1981)
1903 – Manly Wade Wellman, writer (d. 1986)
1904 – Fats Waller, African-American pianist (d. 1943)
1904 – Robert Montgomery, American actor (d. 1981)
1907 - John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (d. 1979)
1912 – Monty Stratton, American Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 1982)
1916 – Harold Robbins, American novelist (d. 1997)
1916 – Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter (d. 2002)
1917 – Raymond Burr, American actor (d. 1993)
1920 - John Chadwick, British classical philologist (d. 1998)
1921 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and human rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1989)
1922 - Pio Laghi, Italian cardinal (d. 2009)
1923 – Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
1923 – Ara Parseghian, American football coach (d. 2017)
1923 – Vernon Biever, American photographer (d. 2010)
1924 - Atanas Semerdzhiev, Vice President of Bulgaria (d. 2015)
1924 - Peggy Cass, American actress, comedienne, game show panellist and announcer (d. 1999)
1930 - Gil Bartosh, American football player and coach (d. 2016)
1930 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2015)
1932 - Inese Jaunzeme, Latvian javelin thrower (d. 2011)
1932 - Jean Stablinski, French cyclist (d. 2007)
1932 – Gabriele Wohmann, German writer (d. 2015)
1933 – Maurice André, French trumpet player (d. 2012)
1934 – Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist
1934 - Jack Twyman, American basketball player (d. 2012)
1935 - Terry Lightfoot, English clarinettist and bandleader
1936 - Günter Blobel, German biologist (d. 2018)
1938 - Urs Widmer, Swiss writer (d. 2014)
1939 - Heinz Holliger, Swiss musician, composer and conductor
1940 - Tony Sheridan, English musician (d. 2013)
1941 – Martin Carthy, English singer and guitarist
1941 - Ronald Isley, American singer-songwriter, producer and actor
1942 - David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, English politician
1943 - Hilton Valentine, English musician
1944 – Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland
1945 – Ernst Messerschmid, German physicist and astronaut
1948 – Leo Sayer, English musician
1948 - Denis MacShane, Scottish politician
1949 - Andrew Neil, Scottish broadcasting executive
1951 1975
1951 – Al Franken, American comedian and former United States Senator
1951 - Adrian Hardiman, Irish judge (d. 2016)
1952 – Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud), American actor
1954 - Janice Karman, American voice actress
1954 - Kathleen Wynne, Canadian politician, 25th Premier of Ontario
1956 – Judge Reinhold, American actor
1957 – Nadine Dorries, British politician
1957 - Tony Hayward, British businessman
1957 – Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
1959 - Abdulla Yameen, 6th President of the Maldives
1959 - Loretta Lynch, 83rd United States Attorney General
1959 - Nick Cassavetes, American actor and director
1960 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d. 1994)
1963 - Kevin Shields, American-Irish singer-songwriter
1964 – Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1964 - Drew Hendry, Scottish politician
1966 - Andrzej Lesiak, Polish footballer
1967 – Chris Benoit, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1967 – Lisa Edelstein, American actress
1968 - Tom Goodman-Hill, English actor
1968 - Julie Vega, Filipino actress and singer (d. 1985)
1969 – Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist (d. 2000)
1969 - Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer
1972 – The Notorious B.I.G., American musician (d. 1997)
1972 - Adriano Cintra, Brazilian singer, guitarist and producer
1973 - Noel Fielding, English comedian, actor and screenwriter
1973 – Stewart Cink, American golfer
1975 - Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist (Lostprophets)
1975 - Juuso Pykalisto, Finnish rally driver
From 1976
1976 - Stuart Bingham, English snooker player
1976 - Aditi Govitrikar, Indian model, actress and physician
1977 - Quinton Fortune, South African footballer
1978 – Briana Banks, American actress
1979 - Jamie Hepburn, Scottish footballer
1980 – Gotye, Belgian-born Australian singer and musician
1980 - Chris Raab, American actor and stuntman
1980 - Anna Rogowska, Polish athlete
1981 - Edson Buddle, American soccer player
1981 – Max, German singer
1985 – Mutya Buena, English singer (Sugababes)
1985 – Mark Cavendish, Manx cyclist
1985 – Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer (d. 2012)
1985 - Marco Carta, Italian singer
1986 – Mario Mandzukic, Croatian footballer
1987 – Ashlie Brillault, actress
1987 - Masato Morishige, Japanese footballer
1988 - Claire Cashmore, British paralympic swimmer
1988 - Park Gyu-ri, South Korean singer and actress
1989 - Emily Robins, New Zealand actress and singer
1989 - Hal Robson-Kanu, Welsh footballer
1991 - Sarah Ramos, American actress
1992 - Olivia Olson, American actress and singer-songwriter
1992 - Hutch Dano, American actor
1994 – Tom Daley, British diver
Deaths
Up to 1950
987 – King Louis V of France (b. 967)
1237 - Olaf the Black, King of Mann and the Isles
1254 - Conrad IV of Germany (b. 1228)
1471 – King Henry VI of England (b. 1421)
1481 – King Christian I of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (b. 1426)
1512 - Pandolfo Petrucci, Italian ruler (b. 1452)
1542 – Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer and conquistador (b. c. 1496)
1639 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian (b. 1568)
1670 - Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586)
1686 – Otto von Guericke, German scientist (b. 1602)
1719 - Pierre Poiret, French mystic and philosopher (b. 1646)
1844 - Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (b. 1775)
1879 – Arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b. 1848)
1891 - Alphonso Taft, American politician (b. 1810)
1895 - Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (b. 1819)
1911 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish astronomer (b. 1857)
1915 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875)
1915 - Knud Knudsen, Norwegian photographer (b. 1832)
1919 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1853)
1920 – Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico (b. 1859)
1924 - Bobby Franks, American teenager, murdered in "thrill killing" (b. 1910)
1925 - Hidesaburo Ueno, Japanese scientist (b. 1872)
1929 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
1935 – Jane Addams, American social reformer (b. 1860)
1946 - Louis Slotin, physicist
1949 – Klaus Mann, German writer (b. 1906)
1951 2000
1952 - John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913)
1957 - Alexander Vertinsky, Russian actor, singer, composer and poet (b. 1889)
1964 – James Franck, German-born physicist (b. 1882)
1965 – Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (b. 1882)
1973 - Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian writer and poet (b. 1893)
1973 - Vaughn Monroe, American singer, trumpeter, bandleader and actor (b. 1911)
1988 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (b. 1900)
1991 – Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1944)
1994 - Giovanni Goria, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1943)
1994 - Ralph Miliband, Belgian-born sociologist and father of David and Ed Miliband (b. 1924)
1995 - Les Aspin, 18th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1938)
1998 - Robert Gist, American actor and director (b. 1917)
2000 – Dame Barbara Cartland, English writer (b. 1901)
2000 – John Gielgud, English actor (b. 1904)
2000 - Erich Mielke, East German politician (b. 1907)
From 2001
2002 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French painter (b. 1930)
2003 - Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine racing driver (b. 1928)
2003 - Frank D. White, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1933)
2006 - Katherine Dunham, American dancer, director, educator and writer (b. 1909)
2011 – Bill Hunter, Australian actor (b. 1940)
2013 - Trevor Bolder, English rock musician, songwriter and record producer (b. 1950)
2013 - Mohammad Khaled Hossain, Bangladeshi mountaineer (b. 1979)
2013 - Dominique Venner, French historian and writer (b. 1935)
2014 - Jaime Lusinchi, former President of Venezuela (b. 1924)
2014 - Poni Adams, American actress (b. 1918)
2014 - Alireza Soleimani, Iranian wrestler (b. 1956)
2015 - Annarita Sidoti, Italian race walker (b. 1970)
2015 - Twinkle, British singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
2015 - Louis Johnson, American musician (b. 1955)
2016 - Gaston Berghmans, Belgian comedian and actor (b. 1926)
2016 - Sándor Tarics, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1913)
2016 - Akhtar Mansour, Afghan Islamist (b. 1968)
2016 - Nick Menza, American drummer (Megadeth) (b. 1964)
2017 - Kenny Cordray, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1954)
2017 - Paul Judge, British businessman and political executive (b. 1949)
2017 - Jimmy LaFave, American folk musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
2017 - Bill White, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)
2018 - Anna Maria Ferrero, Italian actress (b. 1934)
2018 - Dovey Johnson Roundtree, American civil rights activist and attorney (b. 1914)
2018 - Pedro Tenorio, Governor of the Northern Marianas (b. 1934)
2018 - Clint Walker, American actor (b. 1927)
2018 - Faith Whittlesey, American politician and diplomat (b. 1939)
2018 - António Arnault, Portuguese poet and politician (b. 1936)
2018 - Gholamreza Hassani, Iranian Islamic leader (b. 1928)
2018 - Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress (b. 1926)
2019 - Glauco Sansovini, former Captain-Regent of San Marino (b. 1938)
2019 - Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer (b. 1971)
2019 - Ali Mohammad Mahar, Pakistani politician (b. 1967)
Observances
Navy Day (Chile)
Afro-Colombian Day (Colombia)
Independence Day (Montenegro)
Saint Helena Day
Day of Patriots and the Military (Hungary)
Days of the year |
9908 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%2027 | May 27 |
Events
Up to 1930
1153 - Malcolm IV of Scotland becomes King.
1199 - King John of England is crowned.
1293 - A massive earthquake hits Kamakura, Japan.
1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1644 - Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun Dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer Beijing.
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1799 - War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the Northeast Swiss plateau because of the town's location at the junction of the seven cross-roads.
1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1849 – The Great Hall of Euston station, London opened.
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1895 – Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for sodomy.
1896 – The F5-strength East St. Louis Tornado hits in East Saint Louis, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri, killing 255 people.
1901 – In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
1907 – A bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
1915 - Off Sheerness, minelayer Princess Irene runs over laid mines and explodes, killing 400 people.
1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1923 – The first 24 hours of Le Mans race ends.
1924 – The Music Corporation of America (MCA) is founded.
1927 – The Ford Motor Company stops making the Ford Model T and gets ready to make Ford Model As.
1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall Chrysler Building in New York (tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public.
1931 2000
1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.
1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1933 – The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.
1934 - The 1934 FIFA World Cup in Italy begins, with a series of knock-out games.
1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1936 – The RMS Queen Mary begins her first voyage.
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County.
1939 – DC Comics prints its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.
1940 – World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knochlein, is later hanged for war crimes.
1941 – World War II: US President Franklin Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300 men.
1942 - World War II: Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich is wounded in Prague and dies over a week later.
1960 – In Turkey, General Cemal Gürsel leads a military coup d'état removing President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government.
1963 – Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.
1964 – Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office.
1965 – Vietnam War: United States warships begin bombing of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.
1967 – Australians vote to change the Constitution to give Indigenous Australians equal rights
1968 – Future U.S. President George W. Bush joins the Texas Air National Guard.
1971 - The Dahlerau train disaster near Wuppertal, then-West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25.
1974 – Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France.
1975 - The Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 people, in the United Kingdom's deadliest-ever road accident.
1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: air force and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1995 – In Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed (not able to move) from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
1996 – First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and agrees to a cease-fire in the war.
1997 – The F5-strength Jarrell Tornado slams into the small town of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
1999 – The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands charges Slobodan Milošević and 4 others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
From 2001
2005 – Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years in jail for marijuana smuggling in Indonesia.
2006 – An earthquake in Java kills over 6,600 people and destroys the cities of Bantul and Yogyakarta.
2009 - A suicide bombing kills at least 35 people in Lahore, Pakistan.
2015 - Football's world governing body FIFA is accused by US law enforcement officials of bribery totaling hundreds of dollars over more than 20 years, including a scheme involving the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Fourteen people are arrested, and President Sepp Blatter is under pressure over his position.
2016 - Barack Obama becomes the first serving President of the United States to visit Hiroshima and meet victims of the atomic bomb.
2017 - A computer failure at British Airways leads to the airline's flights around the world being cancelled.
Births
Up to 1900
742 - Emperor Dezong of Tang of China (d. 805)
1332 – Ibn Khaldun, Arab polymath (d. 1406)
1519 – Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d. 1594)
1623 – William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)
1626 – William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
1651 - Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729)
1652 – Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (Charlotte Elizabeth, Duchesse d'Orléans) (d. 1722)
1738 – Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796)
1756 - King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1825)
1774 – Francis Beaufort, Irish scientist and admiral (d. 1857)
1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur (d. 1877)
1818 - Amelia Bloomer, American activist (d. 1894)
1818 - Franciscus Donders, Dutch ophthalmologist (d. 1889)
1819 – Julia Ward Howe, composer ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic") (d. 1910)
1819 – George V of Hanover (d. 1878)
1820 – Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
1822 - Joachim Raff, Swiss-German composer (d. 1882)
1832 - Zenas Ferry Moody, American politician, 7th Governor of Oregon (d. 1917)
1832 - Lizardo Montero Flores, President of Peru (d. 1905)
1836 – Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)
1837 – Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
1860 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941)
1864 – Ante Trumbić, Croat politician (d. 1938)
1867 – Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
1871 – Georges Rouault, painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
1876 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author (d. 1945)
1876 - William Stanier, English engineer (d. 1965)
1877 – Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)
1879 – Karl Bühler, psychologist (d. 1963)
1884 – Max Brod, writer (d. 1968)
1888 – Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979)
1893 – Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentenarian, world's oldest man from November 19, 2004 (d. 2005)
1894 – Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
1894 – Dashiell Hammett, American writer (d. 1961)
1895 - Douglas Lloyd Campbell, 13th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1995)
1897 – John Cockcroft, British physicist (d. 1967)
1900 - Ethel Lang, British supercentenarian (d. 2015)
1901 1925
1902 - Fanny Godin, Belgian supercentenarian (d. 2014)
1904 – Chohei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
1906 - Buddhadasa, Thai monk and philosopher (d. 1993)
1907 - Carl Falck, Norwegian businessman and centenarian (d. 2016)
1907 – Rachel Carson, American ecologist (d. 1964)
1909 – Dolores Hope, American singer (d. 2011)
1909 - Don Finlay, English hurdler and pilot (d. 1970)
1911 – Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (d. 1978)
1911 – Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem (d. 2007)
1911 – Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
1912 – John Cheever, writer (d. 1982)
1912 – Sam Snead, American golf champion (d. 2002)
1913 – Wols, German painter (d. 1951)
1915 – Herman Wouk, American writer (d. 2019)
1917 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, former Prime Minister of Japan
1920 - Gabrielle Wittkop, French writer, essayist, journalist and artist (d. 2002)
1921 – Caryl Chessman, American, executed for murder (d. 1960)
1921 - Bob Godfrey, English animator (d. 2013)
1922 – Christopher Lee, English actor (d. 2015)
1922 - Otto Carius, German World War II tank commander (d. 2015)
1922 – John David Vanderhoof, 36th Governor of Colorado (d. 2013)
1923 – Henry Kissinger, American politician, 37th United States Secretary of State, received the Nobel Peace Prize
1923 - Inge Morath, Austrian-American photographer (d. 2002)
1923 – Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur
1924 - Jaime Lusinchi, President of Venezuela (d. 2014)
1925 – Tony Hillerman, American mystery writer (d. 2008)
1926 1950
1928 - Thea Musgrave, Scottish-American composer
1930 – John Barth, American novelist
1930 – Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer (d. 2010)
1930 – William S. Sessions, FBI director
1931 - Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress (d. 2015)
1934 - Enzo Siciliano, Italian writer (d. 2006)
1934 – Harlan Ellison, American science fiction writer (d. 2018)
1934 - Uwe Friedrichsen, German actor (d. 2016)
1935 – Lee Meriwether, American actress and former Miss America
1935 - Luud Schimmelpennink, Dutch inventor, entrepreneur and politician
1936 – Louis Gossett Jr., American actor
1936 - Marcel Masse, Canadian politician (d. 2014)
1937 – Allan Carr, producer, writer (d. 1999)
1940 - Mike Gibson, Australian sports journalist (d. 2015)
1942 - Piers Courage, English racing driver (d. 1970)
1943 – Cilla Black, English singer (d. 2015)
1943 - Robert Axelrod, American political scientist
1944 - Alain Souchon, French singer-songwriter, guitarist and author
1945 – Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician
1946 - Lewis Collins, English actor (d. 2013)
1946 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz musician (d. 2005)
1947 - Henry McMaster, American politician, 117th Governor of South Carolina
1947 – Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
1949 - Terry Collins, American baseball manager
1951 1975
1951 – Ana Belén, Spanish singer and actress
1955 – Eric Bischoff, American WWE performer
1956 - Giuseppe Tornatore, Italian director and screenwriter
1957 – Siouxsie Sioux, English musician ("Siouxsie and the Banshees")
1957 – Duncan Goodhew, English swimmer
1958 - Jesse Robredo, Filipino politician (d. 2012)
1958 – Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
1958 – Linnea Quigley, American actress
1958 – Wayne Williams, American child murderer
1959 - Donna Strickland, Canadian physicist
1960 - Ray Armstead, American athlete
1961 – Peri Gilpin, American actress
1962 - David Mundell, Scottish politician
1962 - Steven Brill, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1962 - Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
1963 - Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Cuban pianist and composer
1964 – Adam Carolla, American comedian, television host and actor
1964 - Volker Abramczik, German footballer
1965 – Todd Bridges, American actor
1965 – Pat Cash, Australian tennis player
1966 – Sean Kinney, American drummer (Alice in Chains)
1966 – Heston Blumenthal, English chef
1967 – Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
1968 – Rebekah Brooks, English newspaper editor
1968 – Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
1968 – Frank Thomas, American baseball player
1970 – Joseph Fiennes, English actor
1970 - Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
1970 - Tim Farron, English politician
1971 – Paul Bettany, English actor
1971 – Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, American singer (d. 2002)
1971 - Sophie Walker, Scottish politician
1971 - Lee Sharpe, English footballer
1971 - Beatrix von Storch, German politician of the Alternative for Germany Party
1974 – Derek Webb, singer-songwriter, former member of Caedmon's Call
1974 – Danny Wuerffel, American football quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner
1975 – Jamie Oliver, British celebrity chef and TV personality (The Naked Chef)
1975 – Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer
1975 - André 3000, American rapper, producer and actor
From 1976
1976 – Jiri Stajner, Czech footballer
1977 – Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
1979 – Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer
1981 – Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
1981 – Miloy, Angolan footballer
1981 – Fivos Constantinou, Cypriot runner
1983 – Bobby Convey, American soccer player
1984 - Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player
1985 – Roberto Soldado, Spanish footballer
1987 – Gervinho, Ivorian footballer
1988 - Birkir Bjarnason, Icelandic footballer
1988 - Mari Pokinen, Estonian actress and singer
1989 - Igor Morozov, Estonian footballer
1990 - Nadine Beiler, Austrian singer
1990 – Chris Colfer, American actor
1990 - Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, Thai actress
1990 - Jonas Hector, German footballer
1994 - Aymeric Laporte, French footballer
1999 - Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress
1999 - Harambe, American-bred Western lowland gorilla (d. 2016)
Deaths
Up to 1950
366 – Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326)
866 – Ordoño I, king of Asturias
927 – Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria
1508 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452)
1525 - Thomas Müntzer, German theologian and religious reformer (b. 1489)
1541 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (executed) (b. 1374)
1564 – John Calvin, religious reformer (b. 1509)
1610 – Ravaillac, assassin who killed Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
1661 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish Covenanter, was beheaded
1707 – Marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1641)
1797 – François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary and early socialist (b. 1760)
1831 – Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
1840 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
1885 - Charles Rogier, Belgian politician and journalist (b. 1800)
1896 - Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
1910 – Robert Koch, German doctor, won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)
1918 - Ozutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1869)
1926 – Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet
1936 - H. P. Hanssen, Danish politician (b. 1862)
1939 - Joseph Roth, Austrian writer (b. 1894)
1941 - Ernst Lindemann, German captain (b. 1894)
1941 - Günther Lütjens, German admiral (b. 1889)
1943 - Gordon Coates, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1878)
1951 2000
1960 – James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator (b. 1877)
1962 - Egon Petri, German pianist (b. 1881)
1963 - Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912)
1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (b. 1889)
1967 - W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator (b. 1880)
1971 - Armando Picchi, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1935)
1985 – Kai Lindberg, Danish politician (b. 1899)
1986 – Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American Muslim thinker, philosopher, and comparative religion scholar (b. 1921)
1986 - Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1901)
1987 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1891)
1988 - Ernst Ruska, German physicist (b. 1906)
1989 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
1990 - Robert B. Meyner, 40th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1908)
1991 – Leopold Nowak, musicologist (b. 1904)
1993 – Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
2000 – Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917)
2000 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
From 2001
2003 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
2004 – Umberto Agnelli, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1934)
2007 – Zard, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
2007 - Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
2008 – Franz Künstler, last-surviving Austro-Hungarian World War I veteran (b. 1900)
2009 – Clive Granger, British economist (b. 1934)
2010 – John William Finn, American naval officer (b. 1909)
2011 – Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player (b. 1974)
2011 – Jeff Conaway, American actor (b. 1950)
2011 – Gil Scott-Heron, American rapper and poet (b. 1949)
2012 - Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician (b. 1927)
2012 - Johnny Tapia, American boxer (b. 1967)
2013 - Bill Pertwee, British actor (b. 1926)
2014 - Helma Sanders-Brahms, German movie director, screenwriter, producer and actress (b. 1940)
2014 - Miodrag Radulovacki, Serbian medical research scientist (b. 1933)
2014 - Massimo Vignelli, Italian graphic designer (b. 1931)
2015 - Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1929)
2015 - Nils Christie, Norwegian sociologist and criminologist (b. 1928)
2016 - Kai G. Henriksen, Norwegian businessman (b. 1956)
2016 - Marshall Jones, American musician (b. 1941)
2017 - Gregg Allman, American musician (b. 1947)
2017 - Don Robinson, English rugby league player (b. 1932)
2018 - Gardner Dozois, American science fiction writer (b. 1947)
2018 - Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, Egyptian economist and politician, Prime minister of Egypt (b. 1935)
2018 - Donald H. Peterson, American astronaut (b. 1933)
2018 - John DiFronzo, American mobster (b. 1928)
2019 - Bill Buckner, American baseball player (b. 1949)
2019 - Veeru Devgan, Indian choreographer, actor and director (b. 1934)
2019 - Gabriel Diniz, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1990)
2019 - Tony Horwitz, American journalist and author (b. 1958)
2019 - Aharon Razin, Israeli biochemist (b. 1935)
2020 - Tony Scannell, Irish actor (b. 1945)
Observances
Children's Day (Nigeria)
Armed Forces Day (Nicaragua)
Mother's Day (Bolivia)
Navy Day (Japan)
Days of the year |
9909 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%2026 | May 26 |
Events
Up to 1900
17 – Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero following several battle victories over Germanic tribes.
946 – King Edmund I of England is murderered by a thief he personally attacks during mass.
1135 - Alfonso VII of Spain is crowned.
1293 - An earthquake in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, kills 30,000 people.
1538 – Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city.
1573 - The Battle of Haarlemmermeer takes place, as a naval battle in the Dutch War of Independence.
1644 – Portuguese Restoration War: Battle of Montijo - Portuguese and Spanish forces both claim victory.
1647 – Alse Young is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut. This is the first "witchcraft" execution in the British American colonies.
1659 – The "Great Fire" destroys more than half of the city of Stade.
1770 - The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy.
1822 – The Grue Church fire in Norway kills 116 people.
1828 – Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered walking around Nuremberg. To this day, his early days remain a mystery.
1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the United States Congress, and is signed by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
1864 – Montana is organised as a US territory.
1865 – American Civil War: Edmund Kirby Smith becomes the last Confederate general to surrender.
1868 – End of the impeachment trial of US President Andrew Johnson.
1869 – Boston University is chartered by Massachusetts.
1879 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak, establishing an Afghan state.
1896 - Nicholas II of Russia becomes Tsar.
1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1897 – The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker is published.
1901 2000
1906 – The Vauxhall Bridge in London is opened.
1908 - The first commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made at Masjed Soleyman in what is then known as Persia.
1917 - Several tornadoes occur in Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101.
1918 – Georgia (country) declares independence.
1923 - The first 24-hour motor car race at Le Mans, France, takes place.
1938 - In the United States, the House of Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Dunkirk - Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.
1966 – Guyana gains independence (separates) from the United Kingdom.
1969 – Apollo 10 returns to Earth.
1971 – The Pakistan Army massacres over 70 Hindus in Sylhet, present-day Bangladesh.
1972 – Willandra National Park in Australia is created.
1972 - The United States and Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1977 – George Willig climbs the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
1981 – Prime Minister of Italy Arnaldo Forlani and his cabinet resign.
1981 - An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68), killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45.
1983 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Japan.
1986 – The European Community adopts the European flag.
1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes President of Georgia.
1991 – Lauda Air Flight 004, a Boeing 767 plane, crashes in Bangkok, killing 223 people.
1992 – The blockade of Dubrovnik is broken.
1998 – The United States Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island is mainly in New Jersey, not New York.
From 2001
2002 - The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with the support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, killing 14 people and injuring 11.
2004 – US Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
2008 - Severe flooding begins in Eastern and Southern China. The floods go on to kill 148 people and lead to the evacuation of 1.3 million.
2011 – Wanted on war crimes charges, Ratko Mladic is captured in Serbia.
2012 – Loreen wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 for Sweden in Baku, Azerbaijan.
2014 - Narendra Modi becomes Prime Minister of India.
2017 - Militants carry out a shooting at a bus carrying Coptic Christians in central Egypt, killing 28 people.
2018 - Real Madrid C.F. defeat Liverpool F.C. 3-1 in the UEFA Champions League final, winning the competition for the third time in-a-row, and meaning that Madrid-based teams have won both major European club trophies in the season.
2019 - The 2019 elections to the European Parliament are completed; Far-right and Green political parties increase their number of seats.
Births
Up to 1900
1264 – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)
1478 – Pope Clement VII (d. 1554)
1566 – Mehmed III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1603)
1602 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)
1623 - William Petty, English economist and philosopher (d. 1687)
1650 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (d. 1722)
1667 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d. 1754)
1689 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (d. 1762)
1700 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d. 1760)
1764 - Edward Livingston, United States Secretary of State (d. 1836)
1810 - Christen Kobke, Danish painter (d. 1848)
1822 - Edmond de Goncourt, French author and critic (d. 1896)
1826 - Richard Christopher Carrington, English astronomer (d. 1875)
1863 - Bob Fitzsimmons, English-New Zealand boxer (d. 1917)
1867 – Mary of Teck, Queen Consort to King George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953)
1873 – Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist (d. 1958)
1873 - Hans Ludendorff, German astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1941)
1878 – Thomas H. Moodie, Governor of North Dakota (d. 1948)
1880 - W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator (d. 1967)
1881 - Adolfo de la Huerta, President of Mexico (d. 1955)
1882 – Frank C. Emerson, Governor of Wyoming (d. 1931)
1883 – Mamie Smith, American singer (d. 1946)
1883 – Peter Kürten, German serial killer (d. 1931)
1886 – Al Jolson, American singer (d. 1950)
1887 - Ba U, 2nd President of Burma (d. 1963)
1893 - Eugene Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (d. 1962)
1895 – Dorothea Lange, American photographer (d. 1965)
1895 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (d. 1971)
1898 – Christfried Burmeister, Estonian speed skater (d. 1965)
1899 - Antoine Barrette, 18th Premier of Quebec (d. 1968)
1901 1950
1904 – George Formby, British musician (d. 1961)
1904 - Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian-born French pianist and teacher (d. 2002)
1906 - Márcio Melo, Brazilian military officer and politician (d. 1991)
1907 – John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
1908 – Robert Morley, English actor (d. 1992)
1908 - Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Vietnamese politician (d. 1976)
1909 – Matt Busby, Scottish football player and manager (d. 1994)
1909 – Adolfo Lopez Mateos, Mexican politician (d. 1992)
1910 - Imi Lichtenfeld, Hungarian-Israeli martial artist (d. 1998)
1910 - Laurance Rockefeller, American billionaire (d. 2004)
1911 - Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter and producer (d. 1992)
1912 – János Kádár, Hungarian politician (d. 1989)
1912 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian-American actor (d. 1980)
1913 – Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
1916 – Moondog, American musician, composer and poet (d. 1999)
1917 – Eva Szorenyi, Hungarian actress and activist (d. 2009)
1919 – Ruben Gonzalez, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
1920 – Peggy Lee, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
1921 - Inge Borkh, German soprano (d. 2018)
1921 - Walter Laqueur, German-American historian and publicist (d. 2018)
1923 – James Arness, American actor (d. 2011)
1923 - Roy Dotrice, British actor (d. 2017)
1923 – Horst Tappert, German actor (d. 2008)
1925 - Alec McCowen, English actor (d. 2017)
1926 - Miles Davis, American trumpeter, composer and bandleader (d. 1991)
1928 – Jack Kevorkian, American assisted suicide advocate (d. 2011)
1929 - Catherine Sauvage, French singer and actress (d. 1998)
1933 - Edward Whittemore, American author (d. 1995)
1936 - Beth Whittall, Canadian swimmer (d. 2015)
1936 - David Stevens, Baron Stevens of Ludgate, English politician
1937 – Paul Patton, former Governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky
1938 – Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian writer, writer and playwright
1939 – Merab Kostava, Georgian activist (d. 1989)
1939 - Herb Trimpe, American comic book artist and writer (d. 2015)
1940 – Levon Helm, American musician and actor (d. 2012)
1941 – Aldrich Ames, CIA counter-intelligence officer
1941 - Jim Dobbin, Scottish politician (d. 2014)
1944 – Sam Posey, American racing driver, TV commentator and writer
1945 - René Féret, French actor, screenwriter, director and producer (d. 2015)
1945 - Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer
1945 - Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian politician, 17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2012)
1946 – Mick Ronson, English guitarist (d. 1993)
1946 - Simon Hoggart, English journalist (d. 2014)
1948 – Stevie Nicks, American songwriter
1949 - Jeremy Corbyn, British politician, leader of the Labour Party
1949 – Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer
1949 - Pam Grier, American actress
1949 - Anne McGuire, Scottish politician
1949 - Hank Williams, Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 1975
1951 – Sally Ride, American astronaut and physicist (d. 2012)
1951 - Ramón Calderón, Spanish lawyer and President of Real Madrid
1953 – Michael Portillo, British politician
1954 - Alan Hollinghurst, British writer
1955 - Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef
1956 – Lisa Niemi, American actress
1956 - Ricky Sbragia, Scottish footballer and manager
1957 - Diomedes Díaz, Colombian singer and composer (d. 2013)
1958 - Howard Goodall, English composer
1959 - Ole Bornedal, Norwegian actor, director and producer
1961 - Tarsem Singh, Indian-American director
1962 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor and comedian
1962 - Black, English singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
1963 - Simon Armitage, English author, poet and playwright
1963 - Mary Nightingale, English news presenter
1964 - Valery Salov, Russian chess player
1964 – Lenny Kravitz, American singer
1964 - Paul Okalik, Canadian politician, 1st Premier of Nunavut
1964 - Caitlin R. Kiernan, Irish-American paleontologist and author
1965 - Hazel Irvine, Scottish television presenter
1966 – Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
1966 – Zola Budd, South African athlete
1966 - Shona Robison, Scottish politician
1968 – Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
1968 - Pat Kenney, American baseball player, wrestler and agent
1969 - John Baird, Canadian politician
1970 - Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese mangaka
1971 – Matt Stone, American animator and movie maker
1971 – Ivan O. Godfroid, writer
1972 – Patsy Palmer, English actress
1972 - Alan White, English drummer
1975 – Travis Lee, American baseball player
1975 - Nicki Lynn Aycox, American actress
1975 - Kwasi Kwarteng, British politician
From 1976
1977 – Luca Toni, Italian footballer
1977 – Nikos Hatzivrettas, Greek basketball player
1977 - Mark Hunter, American musician
1978 - Dan Parks, Australian-Scottish rugby player
1978 - Jaheim, American singer
1979 - Amanda Bauer, American astronomer
1979 - Elisabeth Harnois, American actress
1979 - Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler, television host and model (d. 2019)
1979 – Mehmet Okur, Turkish basketball player
1981 – Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer
1981 – Jason Manford, English comedian
1981 – Irini Merkouri, Greek singer
1981 - Razvan Rat, Romanian footballer
1981 - Ben Zobrist, American baseball player
1983 - Demy de Zeeuw, Dutch footballer
1986 - Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Spanish-French actress
1986 - Matt Oivanen, Finnish volleyball player
1987 - Josh Thomas, Australian comedian, actor and writer
1988 - Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, Colombian footballer
1989 - Tomas Pekhart, Czech footballer
1989 - Amit Farkash, Canadian-Israeli actress
1991 - Amber Bondin, Maltese singer
1991 – Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress and dancer
1999 - Kerry Ingram, English actress
2001 - Megan Charpentier, Canadian actress
Deaths
Up to 1900
451 – Saint Vartan Mamikonian, Armenian warrior
604 – Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
735 - Bede, English monk, historian and theologian (b. 672)
818 – Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)
946 – King Edmund I of England (b. 921)
1055 – Margrave Adalbert of Austria
1421 – Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)
1512 – Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan
1536 – Francesco Berni, Italian poet
1595 – Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b. 1515)
1647 - Alse Young, American woman executed for witchcraft (b. 1600)
1648 – Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
1653 – Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
1679 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
1685 – Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
1703 – Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633)
1742 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1672)
1762 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
1799 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714)
1824 – Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
1828 - John Oxley, British officer and explorer (b. 1785)
1831 - Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798)
1840 – Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764)
1845 - Jónas Hallgrímsson, Icelandic poet (b. 1807)
1881 – Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)
1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
1883 – Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (b. 1808)
1888 - Ascanio Sobrero, Italian chemist (b. 1812)
1895 - Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. 1822)
1901 2000
1902 – Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
1907 – Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
1908 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Punjabi founder of the Qadianism (b. 1839)
1914 - Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer and reformer (b. 1849)
1924 – Victor Herbert, Irish composer (b. 1859)
1926 – Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879)
1933 – Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)
1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b. 1897)
1939 – Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (b. 1865)
1943 – Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b. 1893)
1943 - Alice Tegnér, Swedish composer, organist and educator (b. 1864)
1948 – Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1886)
1951 – Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist and polar explorer (b. 1880)
1954 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (b. 1900)
1955 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)
1968 – Little Willie John, American R&B singer (b. 1937)
1969 – Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)
1969 - Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation pioneer and engineer (b. 1889)
1974 – Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941)
1976 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
1979 – George Brent, British actor (b. 1899)
1989 - Don Revie, English footballer and manager (b. 1927)
1995 – Friz Freleng, American animator (b. 1905)
1999 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
1999 – Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)
From 2001
2001 – Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
2001 - Anne Haney, American actress (b. 1934)
2002 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
2003 – Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b. 1919)
2004 – Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
2004 – Dullah Omar, South African lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
2005 – Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
2005 – Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1928)
2005 - Krzysztof Nowak, Polish footballer (b. 1975)
2005 - Sangoulé Lamizana, President of Burkina Faso (b. 1916)
2006 – Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (b. 1963)
2006 – C. H. Patterson, American psychologist (b. 1912)
2008 – Sydney Pollack, American actor (b. 1934)
2013 - Jack Vance, American mystery, fantasy and science fiction writer (b. 1916)
2014 - Manuel Uribe, Mexican computer repairman, was once the world's heaviest man (b. 1965)
2015 - Vicente Aranda, Spanish movie director (b. 1926)
2015 - Les Johnson, Australian politician (b. 1924)
2015 - Dayton Waller, American politician (b. 1925)
2015 - Rocky Frisco, American pianist (b. 1937)
2015 - Bob Hornery, Australian actor (b. 1931)
2015 - Robert Craft, American astronomer (b. 1927)
2016 - Kazimierz Barburski, Polish fencer (b. 1942)
2016 - Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal (b. 1915)
2016 - Ted Dumitru, Romanian football manager (b. 1939)
2016 - Hedy Epstein, German-American Holocaust survivor and activist (b. 1924)
2016 - Angela Paton, American actress (b. 1930)
2016 - Arturo Pomar, Spanish chess player (b. 1931)
2016 - Bob Williams, American football player (b. 1930)
2017 - Toni Bertorelli, Italian actor (b. 1948)
2017 - Laura Biagiotti, Italian fashion designer (b. 1943)
2017 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American political scientist and diplomat (b. 1928)
2017 - Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician (b. 1931)
2018 - Alan Bean, American astronaut (b. 1932)
2018 - Pierre Bellemare, French television presenter, actor and radio personality (b. 1929)
2018 - Ted Dabney, American electrical engineer (b. 1937)
2018 - Roger Piantoni, French footballer (b. 1931)
2018 - Svetlin Rusev, Bulgarian artist (b. 1933)
2018 - Antonio Pujía, Italian-Argentine sculptor (b. 1929)
2019 - Abdel Latif El Zein, Lebanese politician (b. 1932)
2019 - Harry Hood, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
2019 - Ibrahim Lame, Nigerian educator and politician (b. 1953)
2019 - Bart Starr, American football player and coach (b. 1934)
2019 - Stephen Thorne, British actor (b. 1935)
2019 - Prem Tinsulanonda, Prime minister and Regent of Thailand (b. 1920)
2019 - Vittorio Zucconi, Italian-American journalist and writer (b. 1944)
Observances
Independence Day in Georgia and Guyana
Crown Prince's Birthday (Denmark)
Mother's Day (Poland)
National Sorry Day (Australia)
National Book Day (Uruguay)
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Events
Up to 1950
567 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
240 BC – First-recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors.
1420 - Henry the Navigator is appointed Governor of the Order of Christ.
1524 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of Worms, which declares Martin Luther an outlaw.
1644 - Ming Dynasty general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan Pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital, Beijing.
1659 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England.
1809 – The South American Wars of Independence begin.
1810 – May Revolution: The Argentine War of Independence begins.
1837 - Rebels in Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
1865 – 300 people are killed in Mobile, Alabama when an ordnance depot explodes.
1878 – The Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
1895 – The Republic of Formosa is founded.
1895 - The playwright, novelist and poet Oscar Wilde is convicted of "Committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to two years in prison.
1914 - The United Kingdom House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act of 1914 for devolution to Ireland.
1923 - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Iran, killing around 2,200 people.
1925 – John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Evolution.
1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties one, in track and field athletics in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1938 – Spanish Civil War: 313 people are killed in Alicante.
1946 – Abdullah I of Jordan is declared Emir by the Parliament of Transjordan.
From 1951
1953 – The US conducts its only nuclear artillery test in Nevada.
1955 – A night-time Force 5 tornado strikes the small city in Udall, Kansas, killing 80 people; it is the deadliest tornado ever to strike Kansas.
1955 – First successful climb of Kanchenjunga (8,586 metres), the third-highest mountain in the world on the India-Nepal border, by a British expedition led by Joe Brown and George Band.
1961 - The Bukit Ho Swee Fire occurs in Singapore.
1961 – John F. Kennedy announces before the United States Congress that the United States should set the target of landing a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s decade.
1962 - In England, the new Coventry Cathedral is consecrated. The original one had been badly damaged by German bombs in World War II.
1963 – The Organisation of African Unity is founded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1966 - Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
1967 – Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland, becomes the first football team from the UK to win the European cup.
1968 - The Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, Missouri is dedicated.
1969 - Thor Heyerdahl sets off from Morocco on his Papyrus boat Ra, in an attempt to prove that America was directly settled from Africa.
1977 – Star Wars is released in theatres.
1977 - The People's Republic of China's government removes its 10-year ban on the work of William Shakespeare.
1979 – American Airlines Flight 191, a McDonnell Douglas C-10, crashes during take-off from Chicago O'Hare International Airport, killing 273 people (271 on the plane and 2 on the ground).
1979 – 6-year-old Etan Patz disappears on his way to school near his home in New York City. This becomes one of the most notorious missing-child cases in US history and leads to Ronald Reagan declaring May 25 National Missing Children's Day in 1983.
1981 – In Riyadh the Guld Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1982 – British ship HMS Coventry is sunk by Argentine forces during the Falklands War.
1985 – A cyclone in Bangladesh kills 10,000 people and many more are made homeless.
1997 – A coup in Sierra Leone removes Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and replaces him with Johnny Paul Koromah as leader.
2000 – Israel withdraws most of its army from Lebanon.
2001 – Erik Weihenmayer of Boulder, Colorado becomes the first person with a visual impairment to reach the top of Mount Everest.
2002 – China Airlines Flight 611, a Boeing 747-200, breaks apart in mid-flight and plunges into the Taiwan Strait, killing 225 people.
2002 – A train crash kills 197 people in Tenga, Mozambique.
2003 - Néstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina.
2005 – Liverpool F.C. win the UEFA Champions League, defeating AC Milan in a penalty shoot-out.
2009 – North Korea is believed to have tested its second nuclear device.
2011 – The Oprah Winfrey Show airs for the last time.
2013 - Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
2013 - FC Bayern Munich defeat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the first UEFA Champions League final to be contested by two German teams.
2014 - Elections are held to the European Parliament. Far-right parties make strong gains and finish in the lead in some countries, such as Nigel Farage's UKIP (UK), Marine Le Pen's National Front (France) and Danish People's Party (Denmark). In Greece, the left-wing SYRIZA Party finishes first.
2014 - Petro Poroshenko is elected President of Ukraine.
2018 - The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation enters into force.
2018 - A referendum in the Republic of Ireland results in an-almost two-thirds majority (66.4%) voting to change the country's strict abortion laws.
Births
Up to 1900
1048 – Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
1271 – Shah Jalal of Bengal (d. 1346)
1334 – Emperor Suko of Japan (d. 1398)
1458 – Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d. 1511)
1572 - Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1632)
1606 – Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1661 – Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
1677 - Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1749)
1713 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1792)
1725 – Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)
1762 - Walter Leake, Governor of Mississippi (d. 1825)
1783 – Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician (d. 1841)
1791 - Ming Mang, Vietnamese Emperor (d. 1841)
1803 – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
1815 - Giovanni Caselli, Italian physicist (d. 1891)
1818 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (d. 1897)
1820 – Anne Brontë, English writer (d. 1849)
1845 – Lip Pike, baseball player (d.1883)
1846 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
1846 – Naim Frasheri, Albanian poet and writer (d. 1900)
1848 - Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, education and publisher (d. 1924)
1860 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
1863 - Camille Erlanger, French composer (d. 1919)
1865 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
1868 - Charles Hitchcock Adams, American chemist and astronomer (d. 1961)
1877 – Billy Murray, American singer (d. 1954)
1878 - Bill Robinson, American tap dancer and actor (d. 1949)
1879 – Lord Beaverbrook, English publisher (d. 1964)
1880 – Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
1882 – Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
1883 - Carl Johan Lind, Swedish hammer thrower (d. 1965)
1886 – Philip Murray, Scottish-American labor leader (d. 1952)
1886 – Rash Behari Bose, Indian revolutionary (d. 1945)
1887 – Francesco Forgione, Italian priest (d. 1968)
1888 – Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969)
1889 – Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor (d. 1972)
1897 - Gene Tunney, American boxer (d. 1978)
1898 - Bennett Cerf, American publisher (d. 1971)
1901 1950
1903 - Binnie Barnes, English-American actress and singer (d. 1998)
1907 – U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
1909 - Marie Menken, American actress, director and painter (d. 1970)
1909 - Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999)
1912 – Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
1913 – Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
1913 - Donald Maclean, British secret agent (d. 1983)
1916 - Brian Dickinson, Canadian politician (d. 1998)
1917 - Theodore Hesburgh, American priest (d. 2015)
1918 – Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
1921 – Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter (d. 2012)
1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1921 - Giorgio Orelli, Swiss writer (d. 2013)
1922 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
1922 - Kitty Kallen, American singer (d. 2016)
1924 – István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
1925 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (d. 1974)
1925 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)
1925 - Claude Pinoteau, French screenwriter and movie director (d. 2012)
1926 - Bill Sharman, American basketball player (d. 2013)
1926 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)
1927 – Robert Ludlum, writer (d. 2001)
1927 - Norman Petty, American singer-songwriter, pianist and producer (d. 1984)
1929 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
1931 – Aili Jogi, Estonian anti-Communist activist (d. 2007)
1931 – Georgi Grechko, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2017)
1931 - Herb Gray, former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2014)
1932 – John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003)
1933 - Jógvan Sundstein, 7th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1933 - Sarah Marshall, English-American actress (d. 2014)
1933 - Basdeo Panday, 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
1935 – Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
1936 – Tom T. Hall, American singer and songwriter
1938 – Raymond Carver, American writer (d. 1988)
1939 – Dixie Carter, American actress (d. 2010)
1939 – Ian McKellen, English actor
1939 - Ferdinand Bracke, Belgian cyclist
1941 – Vladimir Voronin, former President of Moldova
1943 – Jessi Colter, American singer
1944 – Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director
1947 - Mitch Margo, American singer (The Tokens) (d. 2017)
1948 – Klaus Meine, German singer (Scorpions)
1949 – Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist
1951 1970
1951 - François Bayrou, French politician
1953 – Daniel Passarella, Argentine footballer
1953 - Gaetano Scirea, Italian footballer (d. 1989)
1953 – Eve Ensler, Jewish-American playwright and feminist activist
1954 - Murali, Indian actor (d. 2009)
1955 – Alistair Burt, British politician
1956 – Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer (d. 2010)
1957 – Alastair Campbell, British politician
1957 - Robert Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Mark McGhee, Scottish footballer
1958 – Paul Weller, English musician
1959 – Julian Clary, English comedian
1959 - Vladimir Franz, Czech composer and painter
1960 - Amy Klobuchar, American politician, United States Senator from Minnesota
1960 - Anthea Turner, English television presenter
1961 - Robert Brylewski, Polish singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
1963 – Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
1963 - Anne Consigny, French actress
1963 - Torsten Albig, German politician
1964 - Ivan Bella, Slovakian astronaut
1965 – Simon Fowler, English singer (Ocean Colour Scene)
1965 - Yahya Jammeh, former President of the Gambia
1966 – McLoud, Swiss composer, musician, and multimedia artist
1966 - Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
1967 - Luc Nilis, Belgian footballer
1967 – Poppy Z. Brite, American writer
1968 – Kendall Gill, American basketball player
1969 – Anne Heche, American actress
1969 – Glen Drover, Canadian musician (Megadeth)
1970 – Jamie Kennedy, American actor
1970 - Octavia Spencer, American actress
From 1971
1971 – Sonya Smith, American actress
1972 - Karan Johar, Indian director, producer, writer and actor
1973 - Demetri Martin, American actor, comedian and musician
1973 - Molly Sims, American model and actress
1974 - Dougie Freedman, Scottish footballer and manager
1974 – Monica Keena, American actress
1974 - Frank Klepacki, American musician
1975 - Keiko Fujimori, Peruvian politician
1975 – Lauryn Hill, American singer
1975 – Blaise Nkufo, Swiss footballer
1976 – Miguel Tejada, Dominican Major League Baseball player
1976 - Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
1977 – Pat Burrell, baseball player
1978 – Brian Urlacher, American football player
1979 - Sayed Moawad, Egyptian footballer
1979 – Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player
1979 – Carlos Bocanegra, American soccer player
1979 - Caroline Ouellette, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Alex Hofmann, German motorcycle racer
1980 – David Navarro, Spanish footballer
1982 – Adam Boyd, English footballer
1982 – Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
1982 – Roger Guerreiro, Brazilian-Polish footballer
1984 - Emma Marrone, Italian singer
1984 - Marion Raven, Norwegian singer-songwriter, musician and actress
1984 – Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Icelandic model (Miss Iceland), former Miss World
1985 – Demba Ba, Senegalese footballer
1985 - Joe Anoa'i, American football player and wrestler
1986 – Lauren Crace, English actress
1986 - Yoan Gouffran, French footballer
1986 - Geraint Thomas, Welsh cyclist
1987 - Kamil Stoch, Polish ski jumper
1988 - Cameron van der Burgh, South African swimmer
1990 - Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player
1991 - Jillian Wheeler, American singer-songwriter and actress
1992 - Jon Dadi Bodvarsson, Icelandic footballer
1994 - Aly Raisman, American gymnast
1999 - Brec Bassinger, American actress
Deaths
Up to 1950
615 – Pope Boniface IV (b. 550)
675 - Li Hong, Chinese prince (b. 550)
709 – Aldhelm, English Christian saint (b. 639)
967 – Emperor Murakami of Japan (b. 926)
992 – Mieszko I of Poland (b. 935)
1085 – Pope Gregory VII (b. 1020)
1261 – Pope Alexander IV
1452 – John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
1555 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and mapmaker (b. 1508)
1555 – Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
1595 - Philip Neri, Italian priest and saint (b. 1515)
1632 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
1667 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b. 1620)
1681 – Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b. 1600)
1693 - Madame de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
1786 – King Peter III of Portugal (b. 1717)
1789 - Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
1805 – William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
1862 - Johann Nestroy, Austrian playwright, actor and opera singer (b. 1801)
1895 - Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman soldier, intellectual, bureaucrat, administrator and historian (b. 1822)
1899 - Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (b. 1822)
1899 - Emilio Castelar y Ripoll, Spanish politician and writer (b. 1832)
1911 - Vasily Klyuchevsky, Russian historian (b. 1841)
1912 - Austin Lane Crothers, 46th Governor of Maryland (b. 1860)
1919 – Madam C. J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (b. 1867)
1924 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
1926 – Symon Petliura, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1879)
1930 – Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
1934 – Gustav Holst, English composer (b. 1874)
1939 - Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1858)
1940 - Joe De Grasse, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1873)
1951 2010
1954 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
1958 - Steinn Steinarr, Icelandic poet (b. 1908)
1965 - Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1912)
1970 - Tom Patey, Scottish mountaineer and writer (b. 1932)
1977 – Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)
1981 - Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912)
1983 – King Idris I of Libya (b. 1890)
1986 - Chester Bowles, 78th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1901)
1988 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist (b. 1906)
1993 - Buddhadesa, Thai monk and philosopher (b. 1906)
1995 - Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927)
1996 - Renzo De Felice, Italian historian and politician (b. 1929)
2002 – Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
2005 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b. 1929)
2006 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican musician (b. 1941)
2009 – Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (b. 1906)
2010 – Siphiwo Ntshebe, South African singer (b. 1975)
From 2011
2011 – Leonora Carrington, British-Mexican painter (b. 1917)
2012 – Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer (b. 1919)
2014 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general and politician, last Communist leader of Poland (b. 1923)
2014 - Bunny Yeager, American model and photographer (b. 1929)
2014 - Herb Jeffries, American jazz and pop singer (b. 1913)
2014 - David Allen, English cricketer (b. 1935)
2014 - Tommy Blom, Swedish radio host and singer (b. 1947)
2014 - Malcolm Simmons, English motorcycle speedway racer (b. 1946)
2015 - John M. Murphy, American politician (b. 1926)
2015 - Mary Ellen Mark, American photographer (b. 1940)
2015 - Bill O'Herlihy, Irish broadcaster (b. 1938)
2016 - Yang Jiang, Chinese playwright, author and translator (b. 1911)
2016 - Gyula Kosice, Czechoslovakian-Argentine poet and sculptor (b. 1924)
2016 - Nancy Dow, American actress and model (b. 1936)
2016 - John Webster, British theologian (b. 1955)
2017 - Alistair Horne, British historian, journalist and spy (b. 1925)
2017 - Eva Estrada Kalaw, Filipino politician (b. 1920)
2017 - Frédérick Leboyer, French obstetrician and author (b. 1918)
2017 - Saucy Sylvia, Canadian-American radio personality and singer (b. 1920)
2018 - Piet Kee, Dutch composer and organist (b. 1927)
2018 - Sergio Graziani, Italian actor (b. 1930)
2018 - Naser Malek Motiei, Iranian actor (b. 1930)
2019 - Margaret-Ann Armour, Scottish-Canadian chemist (b. 1939)
2019 - Jean Burns, Australian aviatrix (b. 1919)
2019 - Anthony Graziano, American mobster (b. 1940)
2019 - Dmytro Kremin, Ukrainian poet, journalist and translator (b. 1953)
2019 - Thembinkosi Mbamba, South African footballer (b. 1995)
Observances
Africa Day
Geek Pride Day
Independence Day (Jordan)
Liberation Day (Lebanon)
National Day (Argentina)
National Missing Children's Day (United States), after the disappearance of Etan Patz on this day in 1979
Days of the year |
9911 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%2017 | May 17 |
Events
Up to 1900
1395 - In the Battle of Rovine, Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman Empire army.
1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham is executed for treason.
1536 - George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason in England.
1590 – Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
1642 – Paul Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve (1612 – 1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
1673 – Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
1697 - The Tre Kronor castle in Stockholm is almost completely destroyed by fire.
1724 - The Krafla volcano in Iceland erupts, creating the Viti crater.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
1808 – Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
1814 – Norway gets its own Constitution.
1814 – Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
1846 – The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax.
1849 - A large fire almost completely destroys Saint Louis, Missouri.
1861 - Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell demonstrates the first color photograph, an image of a tartan ribbon.
1863 – Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, her first book in the Galician language.
1865 – The International Telegraph Union (the later International Telecommunication Union) is established.
1875 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
1884 - The "Department of Alaska" is renamed "District of Alaska".
1900 – Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
1901 2000
1902 – Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism.
1914 - The Protocol of Corfu is signed.
1915 – The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
1919 – Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose Winnipeg General Strike.
1928 - The 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam begin.
1933 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
1940 – World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
1940 - World War II: The German Luftwaffe bombs the city of Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands.
1943 – World War II: Surviving RAF Dam Busters return.
1943 – The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
1944 – Type IX U-boat: U-884 is launched.
1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
1967 – Six-Day War: President Abdul Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
1973 – Watergate scandal: Hearings begin in the United States Senate and are televised.
1974 – Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
1974 – Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.
1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
1980 - On the eve of Presidential elections, Maoist Guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, Peru, beginning the internal conflict in Peru.
1983 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
1987 – Iran-Iraq War: The USS Stark (FFG-31) is struck by a missile from an Iraqi Mirage fighter killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
1990 – The World Health Organization removed homosexuality from ICD - the origin of the International Day Against Homophobia.
1992 – In Thailand, the so-called Black May begins. Thai police and protestors start attacking one another. By midnight, the current Thai government declares a state of emergency, and military troops with M-16 rifles open fire.
1994 - The first multi-party elections in Malawi are held.
1995 – After 18 years as the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac takes office as President of France.
1997 - Troops of Laurent Kabila enter Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1999 – Ehud Barak is elected Prime Minister of Israel.
2000 - Arsenal FC and Galatasaray fans clash before the UEFA Cup final in Copenhagen. Galatasaray wins 4-1 to become the first Turkish football team to win a major European trophy.
From 2001
2003 – Mozilla Firefox. Browser renamed from Phoenix to Firebird.
2004 – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Massachusetts.
2005 – Reverend Clarence Silva of Oakland is appointed fifth Bishop of Honolulu, Hawaii.
2006 - Aircraft carrier "USS Oriskany" is sunk off the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
2007 - Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments.
2010 - Portugal legalizes same-sex marriage.
2011 - Elizabeth II makes a historic state visit to the Republic of Ireland.
2014 - Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia both declare a State of Emergency after experiencing their worst flooding in over 100 years, killing at least 25 people.
2014 - A plane crash in Northern Laos kills 17 people.
2015 - Nine people are killed in a shoot-out between two biker gangs in Waco, Texas.
2016 - Christian Kern succeeds Werner Faymann as Chancellor of Austria.
2018 - Quim Torra is sworn in as President of Catalonia.
Births
Up to 1900
1155 – Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)
1443 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland (d. 1460)
1550 - Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Italian nobleman (d. 1540)
1628 – Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria, Regent of the Tyrol and Further Austria
1682 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
1732 – Francesco Pasquale Ricci, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1817)
1743 – Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (d. 1784)
1749 – Edward Jenner, British inventor of the vaccine (d. 1823)
1758 – John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (d. 1839)
1763 - Pierre Adet, French physician and chemist (d. 1834)
1768 – Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales (d. 1821)
1791 - Silas H. Jennison, Governor of Vermont (d. 1849)
1794 – Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (d. 1860)
1821 – Sebastian Kneipp, naturopathist (d. 1897)
1836 – Wilhelm Steinitz, chess player (d. 1900)
1836 - Norman Lockyer, British scientist and astronomer (d. 1920)
1842 – August Thyssen, German industrialist (d. 1926)
1844 – Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918)
1845 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (d. 1902)
1860 - Austin Lane Crothers, Governor of Maryland (d. 1912)
1866 – Erik Satie, French composer (d. 1925)
1868 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (d. 1920)
1873 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (d. 1935)
1873 – Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (d. 1957)
1879 – Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (d. 1926)
1886 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
1888 – Tich Freeman, record-breaking Kent leg-spinner (d. 1965)
1889 - Dorothy Gibson, American actress (d. 1946)
1891 – Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife (d. 1959)
1895 - Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American supercentenarian (d. 2010)
1897 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist (d. 1981)
1898 – Alfred Joseph Casson, painter (d. 1992)
1900 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (d. 1989)
1901 1950
1901 – Werner Egk, German composer (d. 1983)
1902 - Khuang Abhaiwongse, Thai politician (d. 1968)
1903 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (d. 1991)
1904 – Jean Gabin, actor (d. 1976)
1906 – Zinka Milanov, Croatian opera soprano (d. 1989)
1911 – Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish-born supermodel (d. 1992)
1911 – Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (d. 1998)
1912 - Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician (d. 2004)
1912 - Ace Parker, American football player (d. 2013)
1912 - Percy Young, British composer (d. 2004)
1913 - Hans Ruesch, Swiss racing driver (d. 2007)
1913 - Waldemar de Brito, Brazilian footballer (d. 1979)
1914 - Chang Ch'ung-ho, Chinese-American poet, educator and singer (d. 2015)
1917 - Boris Schnaiderman, Ukrainian-Brazilian translator, writer and essayist (d. 2016)
1918 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (d. 2005)
1919 – Merle Miller, Presidential biographer (d. 1986)
1919 - Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer, actor, movie producer and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1921 - Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (d. 2003)
1921 – Dennis Brain, English French horn player (d. 1957)
1922 – Antje Weisgerber, German actress (d. 2004)
1924 – Hannes Messemer, actor (d. 1991)
1925 - Michel de Certeau, French Jesuit and scholar (d. 1986)
1926 - David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer
1926 - Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian actor (d. 2014)
1931 – Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader, Heaven's Gate (d. 1997)
1932 - Rodric Braithwaite, English diplomat
1932 - Miloslav Vlk, Czech cardinal (d. 2017)
1933 - Thérèse Steinmetz, Dutch singer and painter
1934 – Ronald Wayne, American Apple Inc. co-founder
1934 - Friedrich-Wilhelm Kiel, German politician
1934 - Earl Morrall, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1935 – Dennis Potter, English writer (d. 1994)
1936 – Dennis Hopper, American actor, director (d. 2010)
1936 - Philippe Boesmans, Belgian composer
1936 - Lars Gustafsson, Swedish writer and philosopher (d. 2016)
1937 – Hazel R. O'Leary, United States Secretary of Energy
1940 – Alan Kay, American computer scientist
1941 – Ben Nelson, 40th Governor of Nebraska
1941 – Grace Zabriskie, American actress
1942 – Taj Mahal, American singer and guitarist
1943 - Alexander Lenkov, Russian actor (d. 2014)
1944 - Jesse Winchester, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
1944 - David Kelly, British weapons expert (d. 2003)
1945 – Tony Roche, Australian tennis player
1945 - B. S. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer
1946 – Udo Lindenberg, German musician
1948 - Dick Gaughan, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist and composer
1948 - Winfried Kretschmann, German politician
1949 - Andrew Latimer, British musician
1949 - Bill Bruford, British drummer and songwriter
1950 – Janez Drnovšek, Slovene politician (d. 2008)
1950 – Alan Johnson, British politician
1950 - Howard Ashman, American playwright and lyricist (d. 1991)
1950 - Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Russian politician (d. 2014)
1951 1975
1951 – Simon Hughes, British politician
1953 - Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kazakhstan
1953 - Luca Prodan, Italian-Argentine singer-songwriter
1954 - Dame Patsy Reddy, 21st Governor-General of New Zealand
1954 - David Zippel, American lyricist
1955 – Bill Paxton, American actor (d. 2017)
1956 – Sugar Ray Leonard, American boxer
1956 - Annise Parker, American politician
1956 – Bob Saget, actor (d. 2022)
1957 - Peter Hoeg, Danish writer
1958 – Paul Di'Anno, English singer
1958 - Paul Whitehouse, Welsh actor, writer and comedian
1958 - Ivor Bolton, British conductor
1959 – Jim Nantz, American broadcaster
1960 - Lou DiBella, American boxing promoter, actor and producer
1960 - Simon Fuller, Cypriot-English talent manager and producer
1961 – Enya, Irish singer
1962 – Lise Lyng Falkenberg, Danish writer
1962 - Craig Ferguson, Scottish-American comedian, actor and television host
1962 – Alan Johnston, Scottish journalist
1963 - Jon Koncak, American basketball player
1963 - Taimo Toonast, Estonian opera singer
1965 – Jeremy Vine, British broadcaster
1965 – Trent Reznor, American singer, songwriter ("Nine Inch Nails")
1966 – Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
1966 - Hill Harper, American actor
1967 - Joseph M. Acaba, American astronaut
1967 - Paul D'Amour, American bass player and author
1967 - Mohamed Nasheed, former President of the Maldives
1970 - Jordan Knight, American singer-songwriter
1970 - Angelica Agurbash, Belarussian singer
1970 - Jeremy Browne, English politician
1971 – Maxima Zorreguieta Cerruti, Queen Consort of the Netherlands
1971 – Shaun Hart, Australian rules footballer
1971 - Gina Raimondo, American politician, 75th Governor of Rhode Island
1973 - Sasha Alexander, American actress
1974 – Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs)
1974 – Sendhil Ramamurthy, American actor
1975 – Jonti Picking, internet cartoonist
1975 – Laura Voutilainen, Finnish singer
From 1976
1976 - Leehom Wang, American-Taiwanese singer-songwriter, actor, producer and director
1978 – Paddy Kenny, Irish footballer
1979 - David Jarolim, Czech footballer
1979 - Jimmie Akesson, Swedish politician
1980 - Juan Arango, Venezuelan footballer
1980 - Dallas Taylor, American singer, songwriter and musician
1981 - Cosma Shiva Hagen, German actress
1981 – Leon Osman, English footballer
1982 – Tony Parker, French-American basketball player
1982 - Clarence Goodson, American soccer player
1982 – Chloe Smith, British politician
1982 – Matt Cassel, American football player
1982 – Reiko Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
1983 – Channing Frye, American basketball player
1984 - Christine Ohuruogu, English athlete
1984 - Passenger, English singer and composer
1984 - Igor Denisov, Russian footballer
1984 - Teófilo Gutiérrez, Colombian footballer
1986 - Amy Gumenick, Swedish-born American actress
1986 - Bojan Jokic, Slovenian footballer
1986 - Jodie Taylor, English footballer
1987 - Evald Boasson Hagen, Norwegian cyclist
1987 - Ott Lepland, Estonian singer
1988 - Nikki Reed, American actress
1989 – Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer
1989 - Sarah Hargreaves, Danish-British handball player
1990 – Leven Rambin, American actress
1991 - Johanna Konta, Australian-born British tennis player
1991 - Daniel Curtis Lee, American actor
1996 - Ryan Ochoa, American actor
Deaths
Up to 1900
290 – Emperor Wu of Jin of China (b. 236)
1189 - Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
1336 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
1365 - Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)
1510 – Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (b. 1445)
1521 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1748)
1536 - George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford
1551 - Shin Saimdang, Korean writer, artist and poet (b. 1504)
1575 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1504)
1626 – Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)
1643 - Giovanni Picchi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1571)
1727 – Catherine I of Russia (b. 1683 or 1684)
1729 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (b. 1675)
1765 – Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1809 – Leon Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (b. 1722)
1822 – Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766)
1829 – John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)
1838 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)
1838 - René Caillié, French explorer (b. 1799)
1839 – Archibald Alison, Scottish writer (b. 1757)
1860 – Martin Kukučín, Slovak writer (b. 1757)
1870 - David Octavius Hill, Scottish artist and photographer (b. 1802)
1875 – John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
1880 - Ziya Pasha, Ottoman writer and translator (b. 1826)
1886 - John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer (b. 1804)
1888 - Giacomo Zanella, Italian poet (b. 1820)
1901 2000
1911 - Frederick August Otto Schwarz, German-American businessman (b. 1836)
1916 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862)
1917 – Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829)
1919 – Guido von List, German occultist and writer (b. 1848)
1923 - Thomas Scott Baldwin, American balloonist and aviation pioneer (b. 1854)
1935 – Paul Dukas, French composer (b.1865)
1936 - Panagis Tsaldaris, 124th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1868)
1943 - Johanna Elberskirchen, German activist (b. 1864)
1946 – William Jefferson Blythe III, father of U.S. President Bill Clinton (b. 1918)
1947 – George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
1947 – Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)
1963 - John Wilce, American football player (b. 1888)
1966 – Randy Turpin, English boxer (b. 1928)
1969 - Josef Beran, Czech cardinal (b. 1888)
1985 – Abe Burrows, songwriter, composer, and writer
1987 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist (b. 1898)
1992 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (b. 1903)
1995 - Joe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1912)
1999 - Lembit Oll, Estonian chess player (b. 1966)
2000 – Donald Coggan, 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909)
From 2001
2002 – Dave Berg, cartoonist (b. 1920)
2002 – Sharon Sheeley, songwriter (b. 1940)
2002 – Davey Boy Smith, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2004 – Tony Randall, American actor (b. 1920)
2004 – Jørgen Nash, artist (b. 1920)
2004 – Ezzedine Salim, leader of Iraqi Governing Council
2005 – Frank Gorshin, actor (b. 1934)
2007 – Lloyd Alexander, American writer (b. 1924)
2009 – Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (b. 1920)
2010 – Khattiya Sawasdipol, Thai general (b. 1951)
2010 – Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer (b. 1925)
2010 – Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (b. 1924)
2011 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (b. 1936)
2012 - Gideon Ezra, Israeli politician (b. 1937)
2012 – Donna Summer, American disco singer (b. 1948)
2013 - Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentine military leader (b. 1925)
2013 - Alan O'Day, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
2013 - Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist (b. 1973)
2013 - Peter Schulz, German politician, Mayor of Hamburg (b. 1930)
2014 - Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist (b. 1929)
2014 - Miss Beazley, pet dog of George W. Bush (b. 2004)
2015 - Chinx, American rapper (b. 1983)
2015 - Margaret Dunning, American philanthropist (b. 1910)
2015 - Michael Alfred Peszke, Polish-born American psychiatrist and historian (b. 1932)
2016 - Guy Clark, American folk singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
2016 - Benjamin de Roo, Dutch-Australian gymnast (b. 1940)
2017 - Viktor Gorbatko, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
2017 - Roxcy Bolton, American activist (b. 1926)
2017 - Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician, First Minister of Wales (b. 1939)
2017 - Chris Cornell, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1964)
2018 - Nicole Fontaine, French lawyer and politician (b. 1942)
2018 - Richard Pipes, Polish-American academic and political expert (b. 1923)
2018 - Mehdi Tabatabaei, Iranian politician (b. 1936)
2019 - Rallapalli, Indian actor (b. 1945)
2019 - Eduardo A. Roca, Argentine diplomat (b. 1921)
2019 - Kadavoor Sivadasan, Indian politician and trade unionist (b. 1932)
2019 - Herman Wouk, American author (b. 1915)
Observances
Constitution Day, National Day of Norway
Constitution Day (Nauru)
Liberation Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Navy Day (Argentina)
International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
National Famine Memorial Day (Republic of Ireland)
World Information Society Day
Galician Literature Day
Days of the year |
9912 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%203 | July 3 |
Events
Up to 1900
323 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine the Great defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium
533 – Battle of the Tenth Milestone: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals near Carthage.
987 – Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.
1035 - William the Conqueror becomes Duke of Normandy.
1250 – Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
1608 – Quebec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1721 - Norwegian Christian missionary Hans Egede arrives in Greenland expecting to convert descendants of Vikings, not knowing of their mysterious disappearance from there. Instead he converts local Inuit to Christianity.
1754 – George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces during the French and Indian War. He is allowed to retain his colors and march out of the fort with full honors the following day.
1767 - Norway's oldest newspaper in print, Addresseavisen, is first published.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1778 - American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley Massacre.
1836 - Wisconsin becomes a separate US territory from the Michigan territory.
1844 – The last pair of Great Auks is killed in Iceland.
1848 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) by Peter Scholten.
1849 - The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX.
1863 – American Civil War: The final and bloodiest day of the Battle of Gettysburg, and the fall of the besieged Vicksburg to Ulysses S. Grant in Pickett's Charge.
1866 – Austro-Prussian War is decided at Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
1880 - Thomas Edison founds the Science magazine.
1884 - Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
1886 - Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen - the first purpose-built automobile.
1890 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
1898 - Spanish-American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete is destroyed by the United States Navy at Santiago de Cuba.
1901 2000
1938 – World record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the "Mallard", which reaches a speed of 203 km/h (126 mph).
1940 - World War II: In order to stop the ships from falling into German hands, the French fleet of the Atlantic based near El Kebir is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar.
1944 - World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
1952 - The Constitution of Puerto Rico is accepted by the United States Congress.
1953 – Austrian Hermann Buhl climbs the Himalayan peak Nanga Parbat, at an elevation of 8,125 metres.
1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
1969 - The biggest-ever rocket explosion occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and destroys its Launchpad.
1970 – A British chartered jetliner crashes near Barcelona, Spain, killing 112
1976 – Adolfo Suárez is chosen by King Juan Carlos I of Spain to lead a transitional government as Prime Minister of Spain.
1976 – Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda.
1988 – United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
1996 – The Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
From 2001
2001 – A Vladivostokavia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
2004 – Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
2004 – At Wimbledon, Maria Sharapova, then-aged 17, wins her first singles' tennis title, defeating Serena Williams in the final.
2005 – Same-sex marriage is legalised in Spain.
2011 – Novak Djokovic wins his first Wimbledon singles' title, defeating Rafael Nadal in a four-set match.
2013 - King Albert II of Belgium announces his abdication from the throne. His son becomes King Philippe of Belgium on July 21.
2013 - President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is overthrown in a military coup after widespread protests.
2016 - A series of terrorist bombings in Baghdad results in 213 people being killed.
2017 - A bus crashes into a lorry in Northern Bavaria, Germany, and bursts into flames, killing 18 people.
Births
Up to 1900
1421 - Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Italian banker and patron of the arts (d. 1463)
1423 – King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
1442 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1518 - Li Shizhen, Chinese physician (d. 1593)
1590 - Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, Italian singer, organist and composer (d. 1662)
1676 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1747)
1709 - Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (d. 1758)
1728 – Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792)
1738 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
1743 – Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Queen Consort of Sweden (d. 1813)
1789 - Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (d. 1869)
1844 - Dankmar Adler, German-American architect (d. 1900)
1846 - Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer (d. 1919)
1848 - Lothar von Trotha, Prussian military officer (d. 1920)
1854 – Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
1860 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (d. 1935)
1863 - Ciro Luis Urriola, 8th President of Panama (d. 1922)
1866 - Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (d. 1906)
1869 - Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (d. 1933)
1870 – Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
1874 - Jean Collas, French rugby player (d. 1928)
1875 – Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)
1876 - Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher (d. 1957)
1876 - Robert Knud Richard Pilger, German botanist (d. 1953)
1878 - George M. Cohan, American actor, singer and dancer (d. 1942)
1883 – Franz Kafka, Austrian writer (d. 1924)
1886 - Harmodio Arias Madrid, 15th President of Panama (d. 1962)
1888 - Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
1893 – Mississippi John Hurt, American musician (d. 1966)
1899 - Ernst Fischer, Austrian journalist, writer and politician (d. 1972)
1900 - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
1901 1950
1903 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
1906 – George Sanders, Russian-born English actor (d. 1972)
1908 – M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
1908 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1990)
1909 – Stavros Spiros Niarchos, Greek ship owner (d. 1996)
1910 - Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1954)
1913 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist, and television personality (d. 1965)
1916 - John Kundla, American basketball player and coach (d. 2017)
1917 - Joao Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, coach and journalist (d. 1990)
1918 - S. V. Ranga Rao, Indian actor, director and producer (d. 1974)
1921 - Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)
1921 - François Reichenbach, French director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1922 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Dutch artist (d. 2010)
1924 – S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (d. 2016)
1926 - Laurence Street, Australian jurist (d. 2018)
1927 – Ken Russell, English director (d. 2011)
1928 – Günter Bruno Fuchs, writer (d. 1977)
1928 - Jan Machulski, Polish actor (d. 2008)
1930 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
1932 - Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, German politician (d. 2015)
1934 – Manfred Bieler, writer
1935 - Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1935 – Harrison Schmitt, American astronaut
1937 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-born playwright
1938 - Martin Brandtner, American Marine Corps general (d. 2017)
1939 – Brigitte Fassbaender, German mezzo-soprano
1939 - Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian politician
1939 - Angelo Sormani, Brazilian footballer
1940 - Fontella Bass, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
1940 – Jerzy Buzek, Polish politician, former Prime Minister of Poland
1940 – César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
1942 - Robert Dugard, English speedway rider (d. 2018)
1942 - Eddy Mitchell, French singer-songwriter and actor
1943 - Kurtwood Smith, American actor
1943 - Norman Thagard, American astronaut
1944 - Michel Polnareff, French singer-songwriter
1945 – Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, Scottish politician, former Speaker of the UK House of Commons (d. 2018)
1946 – Leszek Miller, former Prime Minister of Poland
1946 - Michael Shea, American author (d. 2014)
1947 – Dave Barry, American writer
1947 – Betty Buckley, American actress
1947 - Rob Rensenbrink, Dutch footballer
1949 – Jan Smithers, American actress
1949 - Bo Xilai, Chinese politician
1950 - James Hahn, American politician, 40th Mayor of Los Angeles
1951 1975
1951 – Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
1951 – Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc), Haitian politician (d. 2014)
1952 - Andy Fraser, English songwriter and bass guitarist (d. 2015)
1955 - Walter Veltroni, Italian politician, former Mayor of Rome
1956 – Montel Williams, American talk show host
1957 – Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
1957 - Poly Styrene, English singer (d. 2011)
1958 - Lisa De Leeuw, Dutch pornographic actress
1959 - Ian Maxtone-Graham, American screenwriter and producer
1960 - Vince Clarke, British musician
1961 – Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese principal ballet dancer
1962 – Tom Cruise, American actor
1963 – Tracey Emin, English artist
1964 – Joanne Harris, English writer
1964 – Yeardley Smith, American actress
1965 - Connie Nielsen, Danish actress
1965 - Tommy Flanagan, Scottish actor
1966 – Moises Alou, American Major League Baseball player
1966 - Daniel Plaza, Spanish race walker
1968 - Ramush Haradinaj, 4th Prime Minister of Kosovo
1969 – Kevin Hearn, Canadian singer and keyboardist (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 - Arlene Foster, Northern Irish politician, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and former First Minister of Northern Ireland
1970 - Audra McDonald, American actress and producer
1970 – Teemu Selänne, Finnish ice hockey player
1971 – Julian Assange, Australian internet activist, founder of the WikiLeaks website
1973 - Emma Cunniffe, British actress
1973 – Olafur Stefansson, Icelandic handball player
1973 - Fyodor Tuvin, Russian footballer (d. 2013)
1973 - Patrick Wilson, American actor and singer
From 1976
1976 – Andrea Barber, American actress
1976 – Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1979 - Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
1980 - Olivia Munn, American actress
1980 - Jenny Jones, English snowboarder
1980 - Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer
1981 - Aoi Tada, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
1981 - Justin Torkildsen, American actor
1983 – Steph Jones, American singer and model
1983 - Edinson Volquez, Dominican baseball player
1985 - Keisuke Minami, Japanese actor and singer
1986 - Ola Toivonen, Swedish footballer
1986 – Oscar Ustari, Argentine footballer
1987 – Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver
1988 – Winston Reid, New Zealand footballer
1988 - Vladislav Sesganov, Russian figure skater
1988 - James Troisi, Australian footballer
1989 - Elle King, American singer
1990 - Carly Lauren, American model
1991 - Will Grigg, English-Northern Irish footballer
1991 - Tomoni Itano, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
1991 - Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russian tennis player
1992 – Nathalia Ramos, Spanish-American actress and singer
1992 - Molly Sandén, Swedish singer and voice actress
1992 - Masado Sudo, Japanese singer
1993 - Roy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter
1993 - Kerem Demirbay, German footballer
Deaths
Up to 1900
458 - Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople (b. 449)
710 - Emperor Zhongzhong of Tang, Chinese Emperor (b. 656)
1570 - Aonio Paleario, Italian reformer (b. 1500)
1640 - Giuseppe Cesari, Italian painter (b. 1568)
1642 – Maria de'Medici, Queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
1778 – Anna Maria Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
1795 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general, explorer, author and astronomer (b. 1716)
1809 - Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
1863 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
1863 - Little Crow, American tribal leader (b. 1810)
1888 - Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1822)
1901 2000
1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
1904 - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
1908 - Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (b. 1845)
1914 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
1918 – Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
1918 - Benjamin Tillman, American politician, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1847)
1933 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
1935 – André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
1937 - Jacob Schick, American-Canadian captain and businessman, invented the electric razor (b. 1877)
1941 - Friedrich Akel, Estonian politician (b. 1871)
1957 - Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
1969 – Brian Jones, British musician (the Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
1971 – Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
1973 - Laurens Hammond, American inventor (b. 1895)
1979 – Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
1984 - Ernesto Mascheroni, Uruguayan-Italian footballer (b. 1907)
1986 – Rudy Vallée, American singer (b. 1901)
1987 - Viola Dana, American actress (b. 1897)
1989 – Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
1991 - Le Van Thiem, Vietnamese mathematician (b. 1918)
1991 - Domingo Tarasconi, Argentine footballer (b. 1903)
1993 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
1993 – Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
1994 - Lew Hood, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
1995 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
1995 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1998 – Danielle Bunten Berry, software developer (b. 1949)
1999 – Mark Sandman, musician (Morphine (band)) (b. 1952) (heart attack)
2000 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
From 2001
2001 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian writer (b. 1931)
2003 – Gaetano Alibrandi, papal diplomat (b. 1914)
2004 – Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1929)
2005 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1914)
2005 - Gaylord Nelson, American politician, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1914)
2006 - Joseph Goquen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
2007 - Claude Pompidou, First Lady of France (b. 1912)
2009 – Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuadorean writer (b. 1926)
2010 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian military commander (b. 1937)
2010 – Herbert Erhardt, German footballer (b. 1930)
2011 – Anna Massey, British actress (b. 1937)
2012 - Andy Griffith, American actor, singer and producer (b. 1926)
2012 - Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer and politician (b. 1926)
2013 - Radu Vasile, 57th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1942)
2014 - Jini Dellaccio, American photographer (b. 1917)
2014 - Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ukrainian-born American rabbi (b. 1924)
2015 - Phil Walsh, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1960)
2015 - Boyd K. Packer, American religious leader, member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1924)
2015 - Jacques Sernas, Lithuanian-French actor (b. 1925)
2015 - Diana Douglas, Bermudan-American actress (b. 1923)
2015 - John A. Williams, American writer (b. 1925)
2015 - György Szabad, Hungarian politician and historian (b. 1924)
2016 - Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark (b. 1927)
2016 - Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
2016 - Uma Shankar Mishra, Indian politician (b. 1923)
2016 - Noel Neill, American actress (b. 1920)
2016 - Mauricio Walerstein, Mexican film director (b. 1945)
2016 - Markus Werner, Swiss writer (b. 1944)
2017 - José Luis Cuevas, Mexican painter (b. 1934)
2017 - Rudy Rotta, Italian guitarist and singer (b. 1950)
2017 - Solvi Stubing, German actress and model (b. 1941)
2017 - Paolo Villaggio, Italian actor and writer (b. 1932)
2017 - Tom Blom, Dutch radio and television presenter (b. 1946)
2017 - Spencer Johnson, American author (b. 1938)
2017 - Joe Robinson, British actor (b. 1927)
2018 - Richard Swift, American singer-songwriter (b. 1977)
Holidays and observances
Emancipation Day (United States Virgin Islands)
Independence Day (Belarus)
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Events
Up to 1900
1189 - Richard I of England comes to the throne. He is known as "Richard the Lionheart" and spends most of his reign abroad fighting in the Crusades.
1348 - Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death.
1411 - Ming Dynasty China's Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presents the Sinhalese King, captured during the Ming-Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor.
1415 - Bohemian Christian reformer Jan Hus is burned and the stake and becomes a martyr.
1483 - King Richard III of England is crowned.
1484 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cao finds the mouth of the Congo River.
1495 - First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo - Charles VIII, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Holy League.
1535 - Thomas More is executed for treason on the orders of King Henry VIII of England.
1553 - King Edward VI of England dies at the age of 16. A succession crisis initially puts Lady Jane Grey on the throne for nine days, before Edward's sister becomes Queen Mary I of England.
1557 - King Philip II of Spain, consort of Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France. It results in England losing Calais and Mary and Philip never seeing each other again.
1560 - The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed between Scotland and England.
1573 - The city of Cordoba, Argentina, is founded by Jeronimo Luis de Cabrera.
1609 - Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
1630 - Thirty Years' War: 4,000 Swedish troops under King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden land in Pomerania on what is now Germany's Baltic Sea coast.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga - After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
1779 - Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
1785 – The dollar is chosen as the US monetary unit.
1801 - First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras.
1854 – The Republican Party meets for the first time, in Jackson, Mississippi.
1885 – Louis Pasteur tests the vaccine for rabies.
1887 - David Kalakaua, King of Hawai'i, is forced at gunpoint by the Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution, giving the Americans more power in Hawai'i, while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
1892 - Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian member of the UK Parliament.
1893 - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injuring 200.
1901 2000
1905 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
1917 - World War I: Arabian troops under T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and Auda ibn Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Brunete begins with Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
1939 - Holocaust: The last-remaining Jewish-owned businesses in Germany are shut down.
1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the secret annex in Amsterdam.
1944 - A circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut kills around 168 people.
1947 – The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
1950 - The Oder-Neisse Line is determined as the border between Poland and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
1957 – In Tennis, Althea Gibson becomes the first African American to win a Wimbledon title.
1957 – Paul McCartney and John Lennon meet for the first time.
1962 - The Late Late Show is first broadcast on US television.
1964 – Malawi becomes independent.
1966 – Malawi becomes a Republic, with Hastings Banda as President under a one-party system.
1967 – The Biafran War begins, as Biafra tries to become independent from Nigeria.
1967 - A train crash near Magdeburg in what was then East Germany kills 94 people.
1975 – The Comoros declare independence.
1988 – In the North Sea, a major fire occurs on the Piper Alpha oil rig off the east coast of Scotland, killing 167 people.
1989 - Tel Aviv-Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: 14 bus passengers are killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving was driven off the edge of a cliff.
1995 - Bosnian-Serb forces under Ratko Mladic start their assault on the town of Srebrenica.
2000 - Germany is given the right to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
From 2001
2003 – Tennis: Roger Federer wins his first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Mark Philippoussis of Australia in three sets. It is also the first of Federer's five consecutive Wimbledon titles.
2005 – The 2012 Summer Olympics are given to London at an IOC sitting in Singapore.
2005 - The 2005 G8 summit, lasting until July 9, held at Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland, begins.
2008 – Tennis: Rafael Nadal wins the men's singles title at Wimbledon, ending Roger Federer's run of five consecutive titles there.
2009 – Jadranka Kosor becomes Prime Minister of Croatia.
2011 – Pyeongchang, South Korea is announced as the host city for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
2013 - A 73-car oil train derails in Lac Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying much of the town center.
2017 - The European Union and Japan agree a trade deal.
2018 - Shoko Asahara and other members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult are executed for the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack, which was carried out in 1995.
2018 - Belgium defeat Brazil 2-1 in the Quarter Finals of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, meaning that, for the first time, neither Argentina, Brazil or Germany are in the semi-finals of the tournament.
Births
Up to 1900
1387 - Blanche I of Navarre (d. 1441)
1555 - Louis II, Cardinal of Guise (d. 1588)
1623 - Jacopo Melani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1676)
1678 - Nicola Francesco Haym, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1729)
1686 - Antoine de Jussieu, French biologist (d. 1758)
1724 - Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1748)
1747 – John Paul Jones, British-American naval commander (d. 1792)
1766 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (d. 1813)
1782 - Maria Luisa of Spain (d. 1824)
1785 – William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865)
1789 - Maria Isabella of Spain (d. 1846)
1796 – Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
1808 - Johann Gustav Droysen, German historian (d. 1884)
1818 – Adolf Anderssen, chess player (d. 1879)
1824 - John Lourie Beveridge, American politician, 16th Governor of Illinois (d. 1910)
1831 - Sylvester Pennoyer, American politician, 8th Governor of Oregon (d. 1902)
1832 – Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (d. 1867)
1838 – Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
1854 - Manuel Iradier, Spanish explorer (d. 1911)
1859 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer (d. 1940)
1864 - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer and conductor (d. 1920)
1868 – Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
1875 - Charles Perrin, French rower (d. 1954)
1876 - Louis J. Brann, American politician, Governor of Maine (d. 1948)
1878 – Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926)
1884 – Harold Vanderbilt, American businessman (d. 1970)
1885 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1886 - Marc Bloch, French historian (d. 1944)
1887 - Marc Chagall, Belarus-born French artist (d. 1985)
1887 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (d. 1975)
1887 – Walter Flex, writer (d. 1917)
1897 - Richard Krautheimer, German-American historian and scholar (d. 1994)
1898 – Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962)
1899 - Susannah Mushatt Jones, American supercentenarian (d. 2016)
1900 – Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright, screenwriter and writer (d. 2012)
1901 1950
1903 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist (d. 1982)
1904 - Erik Wickberg, Swedish General of the Salvation Army (d. 1996)
1907 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
1907 - George Stanley, Canadian soldier, historian and author (d. 2002)
1912 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and geographer (d. 2006)
1914 - Vince McMahon, Sr., American wrestling promoter (d. 1981)
1916 - Harold Norse, American poet (d. 2009)
1917 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand runner and coach (d. 2004)
1917 - Heribert Barrera, Catalan chemist and politician (d. 2011)
1918 – Sebastian Cabot, English actor (d. 1977)
1919 – Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor (d. 2007)
1919 - Unica Zürn, German author and artist (d. 1970)
1921 – Nancy Reagan, American actress and First Lady of the United States (d. 2016)
1921 - Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician (d. 2017)
1922 - William Schallert, American actor (d. 2016)
1923 – Wojciech Jaruzelski, President of Poland (d. 2014)
1924 - Louie Bellson, American jazz musician (d. 2009)
1925 – Merv Griffin, American game show developer and television show host (d. 2007)
1925 – Bill Haley, American singer (Bill Haley and the Comets) (d. 1981)
1927 – Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
1927 – Hein Donner, Dutch chess player
1927 – Dolores Claman, musician and composer
1927 – Pat Paulsen, American comedian and Presidential candidate (d. 1997)
1930 - Ian Burgess, British racing driver (d. 2012)
1930 – Herbert Erhardt, German footballer (d. 2010)
1931 – Della Reese, American singer and actress (d. 2017)
1931 - Carl E. Reichardt, American banking executive (d. 2017)
1931 - Antonella Lualdi, Italian actress
1932 - Herman Hertzberger, Dutch architect and educator
1935 – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
1936 – Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
1937 – Ned Beatty, American actor
1937 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor
1937 - Michael Sata, 5th President of Zambia (d. 2014)
1939 – Jet Harris, English musician (The Shadows) (d. 2011)
1939 - Bruce Hunter, American swimmer (d. 2018)
1939 - Mary Peters, British pentathlete
1940 – Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
1942 - Izora Armstead, American singer (The Weather Girls) (d. 2004)
1944 - Bernhard Schlink, German jurist and writer
1945 - Burt Ward, American actor
1946 – Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
1946 – Sylvester Stallone, American actor
1946 – George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
1946 - Toquinho, Brazilian musician
1949 - Phyllis Hyman, American singer and songwriter (d. 1995)
1949 - Noli de Castro, 14th Vice President of the Philippines
1951 1975
1951 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
1952 - Hilary Mantel, English writer
1952 - Grant Goodeve, American actor and television host
1953 – Nanci Griffith, American singer and songwriter
1953 - Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer (d. 2014)
1958 – Jennifer Saunders, English actress and comedienne
1959 – Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
1960 - Asahifuji Seiya, Japanese sumo wrestler
1961 - Jonas Jonasson, Swedish writer and journalist
1961 - Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, American Olympic hurdler
1962 - Peter Hedges, American author, director and screenwriter
1967 – Heather Nova, British-Bermudan guitarist and singer
1969 - Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer
1970 – Roger Cicero, German singer and musician (d. 2016)
1970 – Inspectah Deck, American rapper
1972 - Isabelle Boulay, Canadian singer
1974 – Zé Roberto, Brazilian footballer
1975 – 50 Cent, American rapper
From 1976
1977 - Audrey Fleurot, French actress
1977 – Max Mirnyi, Belarussian tennis player
1978 - Tamera Mowry, American actress
1978 - Tia Mowry, American actress
1979 - Kevin Hart, American actor and comedian
1980 – Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
1982 – Brandon Jacobs, American football player
1982 - Misty Upham, American actress (d. 2014)
1983 - Gregory Smith, Canadian-American actor
1984 - Zhang Hao, Chinese figure skater
1984 - Lauren Harris, English singer and actress
1984 - Natasha Zlobina, Uzbek-French actress and model
1985 - Ranveer Singh, Indian actor
1987 – Kate Nash, English singer and songwriter
1987 - Sophie Auster, American actress and singer
1988 - Brittany Underwood, American actress and singer
1989 - Elias Harris, German basketball player
1990 - Ajoo, South Korean singer and dancer
1991 - Victoire Thivisol, French actress
1994 – Camilla Rosso, British actress
1994 - Rebecca Rosso, British actress
1996 - Robert Naylor, Canadian actor
Deaths
Up to 1900
371 BC - Cleombrotus I, Spartan King
649 - Goar of Aquitaine, French-German bishop and saint (b. 585)
918 - William I, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 875)
1189 – King Henry II of England (b. 1133)
1218 - Odo III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
1249 - King Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198)
1415 – Jan Hus, Bohemian religious reformer and Christian martyr (b. 1369)
1476 - Regiomontanus, German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer (b. 1436)
1480 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1416)
1533 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)
1535 – Thomas More, English philosopher and Christian martyr (b. 1478)
1553 – King Edward VI of England (b. 1537)
1762 – Tsar Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)
1809 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)
1835 - John Marshall, 4th United States Secretary of State (b. 1755)
1854 – Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
1868 - Harada Sanosuke, Japanese captain (b. 1840)
1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French writer (b. 1850)
1901 2000
1901 - Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (b. 1819)
1902 - Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (b. 1890)
1904 - Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakhstani poet and philosopher (b. 1845)
1916 - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
1930 - Cormic Cosgrove, American soccer player (b. 1869)
1932 – Kenneth Grahame, British writer (b. 1859)
1937 - Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, 31st President of Colombia (b. 1867)
1952 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (b. 1867)
1954 - Julio Acosta Garcia, President of Costa Rica (b. 1872)
1959 – George Grosz, German painter (b. 1893)
1960 – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politician (b. 1897)
1962 – William Faulkner, American writer (b. 1897)
1962 - Paul Boffa, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1890)
1962 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria (b. 1872)
1963 - George, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1899)
1971 – Louis Armstrong, American musician (b. 1901)
1973 – Otto Klemperer, German conductor (b. 1895)
1974 - Francis Blanche, French actor (b. 1921)
1976 - Zhu De, Chinese general and politician (b. 1886)
1986 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
1989 – Janos Kadar, Hungarian politician (b. 1912)
1997 - Chetan Anand, Indian director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1921)
1998 - Roy Rogers, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1901)
2000 – Wladyslaw Szpilman, Polish pianist, composer and writer (b. 1911)
From 2001
2002 - John Frankenheimer, American movie director (b. 1930)
2004 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)
2004 - Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2005 – Claude Simon, French writer (b. 1913)
2005 – Evan Hunter, American writer (b. 1926)
2009 – Robert McNamara, American politician (b. 1916)
2009 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (b. 1932)
2009 - Bleddyn Williams, Welsh rugby player (b. 1923)
2013 - Ruby Keeling, American basketball player and coach (b. 1947)
2014 - Benedito de Assis da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1952)
2014 - Alan J. Dixon, former United States Senator from Illinois (b. 1927)
2014 - Andrew Mango, Turkish-English author (b. 1926)
2014 - Granville Austin, American historian and academic (b. 1927)
2015 - Jerry Weintraub, American film producer (b. 1937)
2016 - John McMartin, American actor (b. 1929)
2016 - Danny Smythe, American drummer (b. 1948)
2017 - Joan B. Lee, English-American actress (b. 1921)
2017 - Heinz Schneiter, Swiss footballer (b. 1935)
2017 - Michel Aurillac, French lawyer, politician and author (b. 1928)
2017 - Diane Von Hoffman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2018 - Shoko Asahara, Japanese founder of cult group Aum Shinrikyo (b. 1955)
2018 - Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player (b. 1990)
2018 - Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer (b. 1985)
2018 - Giuseppina Projetto, Italian supercentenarian (b. 1902)
2018 - Bruce Hunter, American swimmer (b. 1939)
Observances
Independence Day in Malawi (1966), and the Comoros (1975)
Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic)
Statehood Day (Lithuania)
First Day of the San Fermin Bull run festival in Pamplona, northern Spain
July 06 |
9914 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%207 | July 7 |
Events
Up to 1900
1456 – A retrial verdict clears Joan of Arc of heresy, 25 years after she was burnt to death at the stake.
1534 – The first exchange between Europeans and Native Americans takes place in present-day New Brunswick.
1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg.
1575 - Raid of the Redeswine, the last major battle between England and Scotland.
1585 - The Treaty of Nemours bans tolerance of Protestants in France.
1770 - The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and Ottoman Empire is fought.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated at the Battle of Hubbardton.
1807 - Napoleonic Wars: The Peace of Tilsit between France, Russia and Prussia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1846 – California is annexed by the United States.
1865 – The conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, are executed.
1881 - Pinocchio, written by Carlo Collodi, is published for the first time.
1898 – Hawaii becomes a United States Territory.
1901 2000
1911 - The United States, United Kingdom, France and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, banning open-water seal hunting.
1915 - World War I: End of the First Battle of Isonzo.
1915 - An International Railway trolley overloaded with 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, Canada, killing 15 people.
1928 – Commercially sliced bread is first sold in Chillicothe, Missouri.
1930 – Work on the Hoover Dam begins.
1937 – The Second Sino-Japanese War begins.
1941 – World War II: US forces land in Iceland.
1944 - World War II: American forces carry out an air raid over Leipzig, Germany.
1946 - Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
1947 - Roswell incident: Alleged crash of an alien spaceship in Roswell, New Mexico, United States.
1953 - Che Guevara starts out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.
1956 - Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers become the first people climb Gasherbrum II in the Himalayas.
1958 – Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law, allowing Alaska to become a State of the US on January 3, 1959.
1974 – West Germany beats the Netherlands 2-1 to win its second FIFA World Cup.
1978 – The Solomon Islands become independent.
1980 - Sharia law is installed in Iran.
1980 - During the Civil War in Lebanon, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what becomes known as the Safra massacre.
1981 - Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female member of the United States Supreme Court.
1983 – US schoolgirl Samantha Smith visits the Soviet Union, after an invitation from Yuri Andropov. Samantha Smith had written him a letter, expressing her fears over a nuclear war.
1985 – Boris Becker wins his first Wimbledon tennis title, aged 17.
1991 - The Brioni Agreement ends the 10-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
From 2001
2003 - NASA's Opportunity rover is launched into space on a Delta II rocket.
2003 - A Boeing 737 of Sudan Airways crashes in Port Sudan, Sudan, shortly after take-off, killing 116 people.
2005 – Four suicide bombers kill 52 people on London's public transport system. They are the first suicide bombers ever to strike in Europe.
2007 – Live Earth concerts take place worldwide, promoting protection of the Environment.
2009 - A public funeral service is held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, for Michael Jackson, who had died on June 25 aged 50.
2011 – Part of a roof at a football stadium in Enschede, the Netherlands, collapses, killing at least one person.
2011 - Adolf Hitler is removed as an honorary citizen in his birthplace of Braunau am Inn in Austria.
2013 - Andy Murray defeats Novak Djokovic to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon, becoming the first British player in 77 years (since Fred Perry) to win the men's title there.
2017 - A treaty banning nuclear weapons is voted for by 124 out of 193 countries.
Births
Up to 1900
1053 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
1119 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
1207 - Elizabeth of Hungary (d. 1231)
1528 – Archduchess Anna of Austria (d. 1590)
1656 - Guru Har Kishan, 8th Sikh Guru (d. 1664)
1752 – Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
1805 - Victor de Tornaco, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1875)
1836 - Rudolf Wolf, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1893)
1843 – Camillo Golgi, Italian doctor, won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1926)
1846 - Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian nationalist leader, doctor and author (d. 1916)
1848 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, 5th President of Brazil (d. 1919)
1852 - Vera Figner, Russian revolutionary (d. 1942)
1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
1860 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911)
1861 - Nettie Stevens, American geneticist (d. 1912)
1873 - A. Victor Donahey, American politician, 50th Governor of Ohio (d. 1946)
1874 - Wladyslaw Grabski, Polish politician, economist and historian (d. 1938)
1880 - Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented commercially sliced bread (d. 1960)
1882 - Yanka Kupala, Belarussian writer (d. 1942)
1883 - Toivo Kuula, Finnish composer and conductor (d. 1918)
1884 – Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
1887 – Marc Chagall, Belarussian-born painter (d. 1985)
1891 - Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese general (d. 1945)
1891 - Virginia Rappe, American model and actress (d. 1921)
1893 - Herbert Feis, American author (d. 1972)
1893 - Miroslav Krloza, Croatian author, poet and playwright (d. 1981)
1898 - Arnold Horween, American football player (d. 1985)
1898 - Teresa Hsu Chi Sing, Singaporean social worker and supercentenarian (d. 2011)
1899 - George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
1900 - Earle E. Partridge, American general (d. 1990)
1901 1950
1901 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and director (d. 1974)
1901 - Sam Katzman, American director and producer (d. 1973)
1901 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese cinematographer (d. 1970)
1903 - Ralph Tarrant, English supercentenarian (d. 2013)
1906 – Anton Karas, Austrian zither player (d. 1985)
1906 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1906 - William Feller, American mathematician (d. 1970)
1907 – Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988)
1911 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (d. 2007)
1911 – Gretchen Franklin, English actress (d. 2005)
1913 – Pinetop Perkins, American musician (d. 2011)
1917 - Iva Withers, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1917 - Fidel Sanchez Hernandez, President of El Salvador (d. 2003)
1919 – Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)
1921 - Ezzard Charles, American boxer (d. 1975)
1924 - Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (d. 2007)
1927 - Henri Dirickx, Belgian footballer (d. 2018)
1927 - Alan J. Dixon, former United States Senator for Illinois (d. 2014)
1930 - Hamish MacInnes, Scottish mountaineer and author
1930 - Theodore Edgar McCarrick, American cardinal
1930 - Hank Mobley, American jazz composer (d. 1986)
1931 – David Eddings, American writer (d. 2009)
1932 - Joe Zawinul, Austrian-American keyboardist and composer (d. 2007)
1936 - Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician (d. 2013)
1937 – Tung Chee-hwa, Chinese politician
1938 - Jan Assmann, German Egyptologist and cultural theorist
1939 - Elena Obraztsova, Russian soprano and actress (d. 2015)
1940 – Ringo Starr, English drummer (in the Beatles)
1940 – Wolfgang Clement, German politician, former Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
1941 – Michael Howard, British politician
1941 – Bill Oddie, British comedian and ornithologist
1943 - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer-songwriter
1944 - Feleti Sevele, former Prime Minister of Tonga
1944 - Tony Jacklin, English golfer
1944 - Glenys Kinnock, Welsh politician
1945 - Michael Ancram, English-Scottish lawyer and politician
1945 - Manuel Chaves, Spanish politician, former Prime Minister of Andalusia
1945 - Matti Salminen, Finnish opera singer
1947 – Gyanendra, former King of Nepal
1947 - Victor Manuel, Spanish singer-songwriter
1947 - Rob Townsend, English drummer
1948 - Kathy Reichs, American writer and forensic anthropologist
1949 – Shelley Duvall, American actress
1950 - Gerda Hasselfeldt, German politician
1950 - Vaughn Armstrong, American actor
1951 1975
1952 - Mando Guerrero, Mexican-American wrestler and stuntman
1954 - Rami Fortis, Israeli singer
1955 - Rolf Saxon, American actor and voice actor
1957 - Berry Sakharof, Israeli singer
1957 - Jonathan Dayton, American director and producer
1958 - Alexander Svinin, Russian figure skater and coach
1959 – Billy Campbell, American actor
1959 - Jessica Hahn, American model and actress
1959 - Alessandro Nannini, Italian racing driver
1960 - Kevin A. Ford, American colonel and astronaut
1960 - Ralph Sampson, American basketball player and coach
1963 – Vonda Shepard, American singer-songwriter
1963 - Geir Karlstad, Norwegian speed skater
1964 - Jennifer Gibney, Irish actress
1965 – Jeremy Guscott, English rugby player
1965 - Jeremy Kyle, English television presenter
1966 - Gundula Krause, German-American violinist
1968 - Amy Carlson, American actress
1968 – Jorja Fox, American actress
1969 – Sylke Otto, German luger
1969 - Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 - Robia LaMorte, American actress
1970 - Zoe Tyler, English voice coach, singer and performer
1970 – Erik Zabel, German cyclist
1972 – Lisa Leslie, American basketball player
1972 - Kirsten Vangsness, American actress
1973 - Kailash Kher, Indian singer
1973 - Troy Garity, American actor
1973 - Karlis Skrastins, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1973 - Natsuki Takaya, Japanese illustrator
1974 - Jennifer Jones, Canadian curler
1975 – Nina Hoss, German actress
1975 - Richard Arkless, Scottish politician
From 1976
1976 - Vasily Petrenko, Russian conductor
1976 - Erciment Olgundeniz, Turkish athlete
1976 - Hamish Linklater, American actor
1980 – Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
1981 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
1981 - Synyster Gates, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 - George Owu, Ghanaian footballer
1983 - Justin Davies, Australian footballer
1983 - Jakob Poulsen, Danish footballer
1984 – Alberto Aquilani, Italian footballer
1985 - Brandon Rush, American basketball player
1986 - Ana Kasparian, American journalist and producer
1987 - Julianna Guill, American actress
1988 - Iban Rubin, American drummer
1988 - Kaci Brown, American singer
1988 - Jack Whitehall, English comedian and actor
1989 - Kim Bum, South Korean actor and singer
1991 - Alesso, Swedish DJ and producer
1992 - Toni Garrn, German model
1994 - Ashton Irwin, Australian singer, 5 Seconds of Summer.
1997 - Erina Ikuta, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1998 - Dylan Sprayberry, American actor
2000 - Princess Purnika of Nepal
Deaths
Up to 1900
1162 – Haakon II of Norway (b. 1147)
1304 – Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
1307 – King Edward I of England (b. 1239)
1537 – Madeleine of Valois, French-born Queen Consort of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
1647 - Thomas Hooker, English Puritan settler in Connecticut (b. 1586)
1718 - Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (b. 1690)
1790 - Francois Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)
1819 – Sophie Blanchard, French balloonist (b. 1778)
1865 - Conspirators in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln:
George Atzerodt (b. 1853)
David Herold (b. 1842)
Lewis Payne (b. 1844)
Mary Surratt (b. 1823)
1889 - Giovanni Bottesini, Italian composer, conductor and double-bass virtuoso (b. 1821)
1890 – Henri Nestlé, German confectioner and businessman (b. 1814)
1901 2000
1901 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (b. 1827)
1922 - Cathal Brugha, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1874)
1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (b. 1859)
1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian author (b. 1880)
1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian and educator (b. 1844)
1939 - Deacon White, American baseball player and manager (b. 1847)
1950 - Fats Navarro, American trumpeter and composer (b. 1923)
1954 - Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter (b. 1874)
1956 - Gottfried Benn, German author and poet (b. 1886)
1964 - Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower (b. 1904)
1965 – Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
1967 – Vivian Leigh, British actress (b. 1913)
1971 – Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b. 1901)
1972 – King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
1972 - Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (b. 1886)
1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
1973 - Veronica Lake, American actress and singer (b. 1919)
1976 - Walter Giesler, American soccer player and referee (b. 1910)
1976 – Gustav Heinemann, President of Germany (b. 1899)
1978 - Francisco Mendes, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1933)
1983 – Herman Kahn, American futurologist (b. 1922)
1984 - Carl Bienish, American BASE jumper and cinematographer (b. 1941)
1987 - Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist (b. 1902)
1990 – Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)
1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1958)
1992 - Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish athlete (b. 1927)
1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
1994 - Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (b. 1924)
1994 - Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
1998 - Lenore Romney, mother of Mitt Romney (b. 1908)
From 2001
2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian conductor (b. 1924)
2003 - Vlado Kristl, Croatian painter, animator and director (b. 1923)
2006 – Syd Barrett, British musician (b. 1946)
2006 – Rudi Carrell, Dutch singer and entertainer (b. 1934)
2008 - Giovanni Viola, Italian footballer (b. 1926)
2008 - Dorian Leigh, American model (b. 1917)
2012 - Mouss Diouf, French actor (b. 1964)
2012 - Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (b. 1925)
2013 - Anna Wing, English actress (b. 1914)
2014 - Peter Underwood, 27th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1937)
2014 - Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet-Georgian politician, Soviet foreign minister and President of Georgia (b. 1928)
2014 - Andrew Mango, Turkish-British journalist (b. 1926)
2014 - Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer (b. 1926)
2014 - Dick Jones, American actor (b. 1927)
2015 - Maria Barroso, Portuguese actress and politician (b. 1925)
2015 - Fons van Wissen, Dutch footballer (b. 1933)
2016 - Sally Beauman, British writer (b. 1944)
2016 - James Gilbert, Scottish television producer (b. 1923)
2016 - Leonard Lee, Canadian businessman (b. 1938)
2016 - Cinna Lomnitz, German-born Chilean-Mexican geophysicist (b. 1925)
2016 - John O'Rourke, English footballer (b. 1945)
2016 - Wolfram Siebeck, German journalist and food critic (b. 1928)
2017 - Pam McConnell, Canadian politician (b. 1946)
2017 - Egil Monn-Iversen, Norwegian composer (b. 1928)
2017 - Jean-Pierre Bernard, French actor (b. 1933)
2017 - Pierrette Bloch, French-Swiss artist (b. 1928)
2017 - James B. Nutter Sr., American mortgage lender, philanthropist and power broker (b. 1928)
2017 - Marina Ratner, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1938)
2017 - Kenneth Silverman, American biographer (b. 1936)
2018 - William Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcyclist (b. 1985)
2018 - Hacène Lalmas, Algerian footballer (b. 1943)
2018 - Levko Lukyanenko, Ukrainian politician (b. 1928)
2018 - Firuz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani politician and former Prime minister of Azerbaijan (b. 1933)
Observances
National Holiday of the Solomon Islands
Tanabata Matsuri (Japan)
San Fermín festival in Pamplona, northern Spain: the bull run takes place.
July 07 |
9915 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%202 | July 2 | In a Common year of the Gregorian calendar, this date marks the half-way point of the year. This would be at 12 noon (or 1 p.m. if Daylight Saving Time is used). In a Leap year, the half-way point is at midnight between the 1 and 2 July (or 1 a.m. on July 2 if Daylight Saving Time is used).
Every year, this date falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Eve, and it also falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day in Common years.
Events
Up to 1900
437 - Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire.
626 - China: Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
706 - In China, Emperor Zhongzhong of Tang inters the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang, outside Chang'an.
1266 - The Treaty of Perth settles a territorial dispute between Scotland and Norway over the Hebrides and the Isle of Man.
1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
1555 - The Ottoman admiral Turgut Reis sacks the city of Paola.
1561 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
1578 – Martin Frobisher becomes the first European to reach Baffin Island.
1582 - Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomo Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
1644 - English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
1679 - Europeans visit present-day Minnesota for the first time.
1698 - Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
1767 - Philip Carteret's expedition discovers Pitcairn Island in the Southern Pacific Ocean, naming it after sea cadet Robert Pitcairn, who first sighted it.
1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution, severing ties with Great Britain.
1777 – Vermont abolishes Slavery.
1823 - Bahia Independence Day: End of Portuguese rule in Brazil.
1839 – Near Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves take over the ship, Amistad.
1853 - The Russian Army crosses the Pruth River into the Danubian Principalities - Moldavia and Wallachia - the final spark that set off the Crimean War.
1860 – The Russian city of Vladivostok is founded as a naval post.
1871 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome, having conquered it from the Papal States.
1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots US President James A. Garfield, who dies of an infection on September 19.
1897 – Guglielmo Marconi gets a patent for the radio in London.
1900 - The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen, Southern Germany.
1901 2000
1921 - World War I: US President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox-Porter Resolution, formally ending the US' state of war with Imperial Germany.
1928 – British women over the age of 21 are given the right to vote.
1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's purge of his political rivals, ends with the death of Ernst Roehm.
1937 – Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan go missing while flying over the Pacific Ocean. No remains are ever found, and many conspiracy theories have come out of their disappearance.
1940 - Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
1950 - The Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan, burns down.
1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens in Rodgers, Arkansas.
1964 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
1966 – France carries out its first nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean.
1974 - A magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes Iran, killing 1,200 people.
1976 - Fall of the Republic of Vietnam.
1990 - A mass panic in a pedestrian tunnel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, kills 1,427 people who were there for the Hajj pilgrimage.
1994 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer, is shot dead. The killer's motive was his own goal in the FIFA World Cup.
2000 – Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico.
2000 - The France national football team wins UEFA Euro 2000, defeating the Italy national football team 2-1 in extra time.
From 2001
2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to travel solo around the world in a hot-air balloon.
2003 – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insults German MEP Martin Schulz, comparing him to a Concentration camp guard.
2005 – Live 8 concerts take place worldwide.
2008 – After a captivity of more than six years, Ingrid Betancourt is released from FARC Guerrillas in Colombia.
2010 – A tanker explosion in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo kills more than 230 people.
2011 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco marries Charlene Wittstock.
2011 – Petra Kvitova wins the Women's Singles tennis title at Wimbledon, defeating Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-4.
2015 - A ferry capsizes in Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines, killing 62 people.
2016 - A terrorist attack and hostage taking in Dhaka, Bangladesh, results in the deaths of 20 people, mainly non-Bangladeshi citizens.
2016 - Tennis: In a shock result, multiple Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic is knocked out in the third round at Wimbledon, losing to Sam Querrey in four sets.
Births
Up to 1900
419 – Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
1262 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
1363 - Maria, Queen of Sicily (d. 1401)
1486 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1570)
1489 – Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)
1644 - Abraham a Santa Clara, German theologian and writer (d. 1709)
1648 - Arp Schnitger, German organ builder (d. 1719)
1667 - Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (d. 1740)
1698 - Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (d. 1780)
1714 – Christoph Willibald von Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
1724 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
1790 - Leopold, Prince of Salerno (d. 1851)
1807 - Arthur Conolly, British traveler, military and diplomat (d. 1842)
1819 - Charles-Louis Hanon, French pianist and composer (d. 1900)
1819 - Thomas Anderson, Scottish chemist (d. 1874)
1821 – Charles Tupper, shortest-serving Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
1824 - Juan N. Méndez, President of Mexico (d. 1895)
1841 - Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaitsev, Russian chemist (d. 1910)
1843 - Antonio Labriola, Italian philosopher (d. 1904)
1849 - Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (d. 1919)
1855 - Louis Maxson, American archer (d. 1916)
1862 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist (d. 1942)
1865 - Lily Braun, German author (d. 1916)
1869 - Liane de Pougy, French dancer (d. 1950)
1874 - Pedro Paulet, Peruvian scientist (d. 1945)
1876 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933)
1876 – Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)
1877 – Hermann Hesse, German writer (d. 1962)
1881 - Royal Hurlburt Weller, American lawyer and politician (d. 1929)
1882 – Marie Bonaparte, French psychoanalyst and writer (d. 1962)
1884 – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
1896 - Lydia Mei, Estonian painter (d. 1965)
1901 1950
1902 - Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch pianist (d. 1987)
1903 – King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
1903 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
1904 – René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman (d. 1996)
1906 – Hans Bethe, German physicist (d. 2005)
1906 - Séra Martin, French runner (d. 1993)
1908 – Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court Justice (d. 1993)
1911 - Reg Parnell, English racing driver (d. 1964)
1914 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d. 2004)
1914 - Mario Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
1914 - Alois Andritzki, German priest and martyr (d. 1943)
1915 - Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, English nobleman (d. 2014)
1916 - Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
1916 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German colonel and pilot (d. 1982)
1917 - André Lafargue, French journalist (d. 2017)
1917 – Murry Wilson, American songwriter and record producer (d. 1973)
1922 - Pierre Cardin, Italian-French fashion designer
1923 – Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet (d. 2012)
1925 – Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician (d. 1961)
1925 – Medgar Evans, American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
1927 - Brock Peters, American actor (d. 2005)
1928 - Line Renaud, French singer and actress
1929 – Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines
1930 – Carlos Menem, former President of Argentina (d. 2021)
1930 - Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist
1932 – Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's fast food chain (d. 2002)
1935 - Alain Berbérian, Lebanese-born French film director and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1936 - Omar Suleiman, Vice President of Egypt (d. 2012)
1937 – Polly Holliday, American actress
1937 - Richard Petty, American racing driver
1938 - David Owen, British politician
1939 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet (d. 1976)
1940 - Robert Broberg, Swedish singer and songwriter (d. 2015)
1940 - Christopher Awdry, son of Wilbert Awdry
1940 – Kenneth Clarke, British politician
1942 – Vicente Fox, former President of Mexico
1943 - Iva Eenmaa, Estonian politician
1943 - Walter Godefroot, Belgian singer
1946 – Richard Axel, American neuroscientist
1946 – Ron Silver, American actor (d. 2009)
1947 – Larry David, American television producer
1947 - Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton, English politician
1949 – Roy Bittan, American musician (E Street Band)
1951 1975
1952 – Ahmed Ouyahia, former Prime Minister of Algeria
1953 - Jean-Claude Borelly, French trumpeter and composer
1953 - Mark Hart, American guitarist and keyboardist
1954 - Pete Briquette, Irish bass player, songwriter and producer
1954 – Chris Huhne, British politician
1954 - Wendy Schaal, American actress
1957 - Bret Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
1959 - Mirandinha, Brazilian footballer
1960 - Maria Lourdes Sereno, Filipina lawyer
1961 - Samy Naceri, French actor
1963 - Mark Kermode, English movie critic
1964 – José Canseco, Cuban-American baseball player
1964 – Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-American baseball player
1964 - Doug Benson, American stand-up comedian and actor
1964 - Alan Tait, Scottish rugby player and coach
1966 - Jean-François Richet, French director, producer and screenwriter
1967 - Claudio Biaggio, Argentine footballer
1969 - Jenni Rivera, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress (d. 2012)
1971 - Bryan Redpath, Scottish rugby player and coach
1971 - Samantha Giles, English actress
1972 - Darren Shan, Irish author
1973 – Peter Kay, English comedian
1974 - Rocky Gray, American drummer, guitarist and songwriter
From 1976
1977 - Carl Froch, English boxer
1978 - Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia
1978 - Owain Yeoman, Welsh actor
1979 - Walter Davis, American triple jumper
1979 – Joe Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Alexander Petersson, Latvian-Icelandic handball player
1980 - Rachel Brown, English footballer
1983 - Michelle Branch, American singer, songwriter and guitarist
1984 - Ryan Keely, American pornographic actress, columnist and model
1984 - Maarten Martens, Belgian footballer
1984 – Johnny Weir, American figure skater
1985 - Corey Bringas, American actor
1985 - Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer (d. 2018)
1985 – Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
1986 – Lindsay Lohan, American actress
1987 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (d. 2008)
1988 – Lee Chung-Yong, South Korean footballer
1988 - Porta, Spanish rapper
1989 - Dev, American singer-songwriter and rapper
1989 - Alex Morgan, American soccer player
1990 – Roman Lob, German singer
1990 - Margot Robbie, Australian actress
1990 - Danny Rose, English footballer
1992 - Madison Chock, American ice dancer
1993 - Deysi Cori, Peruvian chess player
Deaths
Up to 1900
626 - Li Jiancheng, Chinese prince (b. 589)
626 - Li Yuanji, Chinese prince (b. 603)
649 - Li Jing, Chinese general (b. 571)
862 – Swithun, Anglo-Saxon bishop of Winchester (b. 789)
1298 - Adolf, King of Germany (b. 1220)
1504 - Stephen III of Moldavia (b. 1434)
1566 – Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)
1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian lute player and composer (b. 1520)
1621 - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer and mathematician (b. 1560)
1743 - Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1673)
1778 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher (b. 1712)
1822 – Denmark Vesey, freed slave (b. 1767) (hanged)
1833 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757)
1843 – Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755)
1850 – Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788)
1857 - Carlo Pisacane, Italian patriot and philosopher (b. 1818)
1901 2000
1903 – Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1867)
1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician (b. 1836)
1915 – Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830)
1916 - Louis Maxson, American archer (b. 1855)
1929 - Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1893)
1931 - Peter Kürten, German serial killer (b. 1883)
1932 – King Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
1934 – Ernst Roehm, Nazi politician (b. 1887)
1934 - Henry Hollis Horton, American politician, 40th Governor of Tennessee (b. 1866)
1937 – Amelia Earhart, American pilot (b. 1897)
1937 – Fred Noonan, American aviator (b. 1893)
1946 - Mary Alden, American actress (b. 1883)
1949 - Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian politician (b. 1882)
1950 - Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer (b. 1872)
1961 – Ernest Hemingway, American writer (b. 1899)
1966 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet and author (b. 1900)
1969 - Michael DiBiase, Italian-American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
1972 - Joseph Fielding Smith, American Mormon Church leader (b. 1876)
1973 – Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
1977 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (b. 1899)
1986 - Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
1989 – Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (b. 1909)
1991 - Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
1994 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (b. 1967)
1997 – James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
1999 – Mario Puzo, American writer (b. 1920)
From 2001
2007 – Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (b. 1929)
2010 – Beryl Bainbridge, British writer (b. 1932)
2010 – Laurent Terzieff, French actor (b. 1935)
2011 – Itamar Franco, 33rd President of Brazil (b. 1930)
2013 - Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
2013 - Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (b. 1921)
2013 - Anthony Llywellyn, Welsh-American astronaut (b. 1933)
2014 - Errie Ball, Welsh-American golfer (b. 1910)
2014 - Chad Brown, American poker player and actor (b. 1961)
2014 - Louis Zamperini, American athlete and writer (b. 1917)
2015 - Jacobo Zabludovsky, Mexican journalist (b. 1928)
2015 - Charlie Sanders, American football player (b. 1946)
2015 - James C. Weaver, American football player (b. 1945)
2015 - Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian composer and musician (b. 1929)
2016 - Caroline Aherne, English actress, comedienne and writer (b. 1963)
2016 - Roscoe Brown, American World War II veteran (b. 1922)
2016 - Michael Cimino, American screenwriter and director (b. 1939)
2016 - Roger Dumas, French comedian and actor (b. 1932)
2016 - Patrick Manning, 4th and 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1946)
2016 - Robert Nye, British poet (b. 1939)
2016 - Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France (b. 1930)
2016 - Jack C. Taylor, American businessman (b. 1922)
2016 - Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American activist and writer (b. 1928)
2017 - Smith Hart, American-Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1948)
2017 - Jack Collom, American poet (b. 1931)
2017 - Vladimir Malaniuk, Ukrainian chess player (b. 1957)
2017 - Chris Roberts, German singer (b. 1944)
2017 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Soviet-born Israeli chess player (b. 1935)
2017 - Ataullah Behmanesh, Iranian wrestler and sports journalist (b. 1923)
2017 - Minos Kyriakou, Greek businessman (b. 1942)
2017 - Bert Rossi, English gangster (b. 1922)
2018 - Henry Butler, American jazz musician (b. 1949)
2018 - Bill Watrous, American jazz trombonist (b. 1939)
Observances
Canada Day (observed on this date if July 1 is a Sunday)
Bahia Independence Day (Brazil)
July 02 |
9916 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%209 | July 9 |
Events
Up to 1900
455 – Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
660 - Battle of Hwangsanboel: Korean forces under General Kim Yu-shin of Silla defeat the army of Baekje at Nonsan, present-day South Korea.
869 - A magnitude 8.6 earthquake and tsunami strike the area around Sendai, Northern Honshu, Japan.
1357 5:31 AM – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assisted laying the foundation stone of the Charles Bridge in Prague.
1386 - The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its own territory by decisively defeating the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.
1540 – Henry VIII of England annulled his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
1572 - Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs in the Dutch town of Gorkum.
1609 - Bohemia is given freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.
1701 - War of the Spanish Succession: Austrian victory over the French in the Battle of Carpi.
1745 - War of the Austrian Succession: Victory in the Battle of Melle allows the French to capture Ghent in the days after.
1749 – Naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia founded as British answer to Louisbourg.
1755 – French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition – British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat to French and Native American forces. During the battle, British General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded. Colonel George Washington survives.
1776 - George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York City.
1789 – In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
1790 – Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund – In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
1793 – Act Against Slavery passed in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
1810 - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the first French Empire.
1815 – Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of France
1816 – Argentina declares independence from Spain.
1821 - 470 prominent Cypriots are executed in response to Cypriot aid to the Greek War of Independence.
1846 – By an Act of Congress, the Washington, DC area south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia.
1850 – US President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States.
1868 - The 14th Amendment (change) to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States Due Process of Law.
1875 - Outbreak of the Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman Empire rule.
1877 - The first Wimbledon tennis championships are played.
1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech.
1900 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
1901 2000
1903 - Joseph Stalin, future-Soviet leader, is exiled to Siberia for three years.
1918 – Great train wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
1922 – Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds, breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
1932 - The State of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian federal government.
1942 – Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1943 – World War II: Operation Husky – Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Saipan - American forces take Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.
1945 – A forest fire breaks out in the Tillamook Burn, the third fire in that area since 1933.
1955 – The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London.
1961 - Turkish voters approve the Turkish Constitution of 1961 in a referendum.
1962 - The United States detonates atom bomb Starfish Prime over Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1962 - Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibit opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, California.
1968 – Official opening of Hayward Gallery on London's South Bank.
1972 - In Belfast, Northern Ireland, British army snipers shoot and kill 5 civilians in the Springhill massacre.
1979 – A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
1981 - Donkey Kong, a video game created by Nintendo, is released. It is also Super Mario's first appearance.
1982 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 people on board and eight others on the ground.
1986 - Homosexuality is legalized in New Zealand.
1989 – Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
1989 - Boris Becker and Steffi Graf win the Men's and Women's Singles titles at Wimbledon respectively, making it the first occasion that two German tennis players win these titles at the same time.
1991 – International Human Rights Federation cites human rights violations committed by police and military personnel during Oka crisis in Quebec, Canada.
1991 – South Africa is reintroduced into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion.
1992 – Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton announces that Tennessee Senator Al Gore will be his running mate.
1993 - The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act, allowing the creation of the territory of Nunavut on April 1, 1999 out of part of the Northwest Territories.
1995 - The Sri Lankan air force bombs a church in the town of Navaly, killing more than 125 people.
1997 – Mike Tyson's boxing license is suspended for at least a year and he is fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear in a televised match.
1999 – Days of student protests begins after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory of University of Tehran.
From 2001
2002 – The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
2004 – After José Manuel Durão Barroso's appointment to the European Commission, Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio announces that he will invite the second-in-line leader of PSD, Pedro Santana Lopes to form a government.
2006 – A plane crash in Irkutsk, Siberia kills 122 people.
2006 – 2006 FIFA World Cup: Italy wins the FIFA World Cup for a fourth time, by beating France on penalties at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The game is most remembered for Zinedine Zidane's headbut on Marco Materazzi.
2007 – Argentina's capital city Buenos Aires is hit by its first snowfall since 1918.
2011 – South Sudan declares independence from Sudan, after a majority of 'yes' votes in a referendum the previous January. Salva Kiir Mayardit becomes the new nation's President.
2016 - Over 100 people are killed in violent clashes in Juba, South Sudan, on the fifth anniversary of the country's independence.
2016 - Tennis: Serena Williams equals the Open Era record of 22 Grand Slam singles titles, defeating Angelique Kerber in the Wimbledon championships final.
2018 - Boris Johnson resigns as the British Foreign Secretary; he is replaced with Jeremy Hunt.
2018 - The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea sign an agreement ending their border war.
Births
Up to 1900
1249 - Emperor Kameyama 90th Emperor of Japan (d. 1305)
1511 - Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1571)
1578 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
1654 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
1689 - Alexis Piron, French playwright (d. 1773)
1764 - Ann Radcliffe, English author (d. 1823)
1766 - Johanna Schopenhauer, German author (d. 1838)
1775 - Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1818)
1777 - Henry Hallam, English writer and historian (d. 1859)
1800 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist and anatomist (d. 1885)
1801 - Zénaïde Bonaparte, Princess of Spain (d. 1854)
1815 - Oran Milo Roberts, American politician, 18th Governor of Texas (d. 1898)
1819 – Elias Howe, American inventor (d. 1867)
1825 - Addison Crandall Gibbs, American politician, 2nd Governor of Oregon (d. 1886)
1828 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (d. 1913)
1834 – Jan Neruda, Czech poet (d. 1891)
1835 - William D. Bloxham, American politician, 13th and 17th Governor of Florida (d. 1911)
1847 - Wong Fei-hung, Chinese physician and martial artist (d. 1924)
1848 - Robert I, Duke of Parma (d. 1907)
1850 - Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian historian, writer and politician (d. 1921)
1853 - William Turner Dannat, American painter (d. 1929)
1856 - John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (d. 1932)
1858 – Franz Boas, German anthropologist (d. 1942)
1867 - Georges Lecomte, French author and playwright (d. 1958)
1879 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and parasitologist (d. 1934)
1879 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1934)
1887 - James Ormsbee Chapin, American-Canadian painter and illustrator (d. 1975)
1889 - Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian ice hockey player, coach and referee (d. 1964)
1894 – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist (d. 1984)
1896 – Maria Gomes Valentim, Brazilian supercentenarian (d. 2011)
1897 - Friedrich Adler, Austrian politician and assassin (d. 1960)
1898 - Petar Grabovski, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1945)
1901 1950
1901 – Barbara Cartland, British novelist (d. 2000)
1905 - Clarence Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 1984)
1907 - Eddie Dean, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
1910 – Govan Mbeki, South African anti-Apartheid activist (d. 2001)
1911 – John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist (d. 2008)
1911 – Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (d. 1968)
1914 – Willi Stoph, East German politician (d. 1999)
1915 - David Diamond, American composer (d. 2005)
1916 – Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
1924 - Leonard Pennario, American classical pianist and composer (d. 2008)
1925 - Guru Dutt, Indian actor, director and producer (d. 1964)
1926 – Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist
1926 - Pedro Dellacha, Argentine footballer (d. 2010)
1927 – Ed Ames, American singer and actor
1927 - Susan Cabot, American actress (d. 1986)
1927 - Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and politician
1928 - Federico Bahamontes, Spanish cyclist
1928 - Vince Edwards, American actor, singer and director (d. 1996)
1929 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer and songwriter (d. 2007)
1929 – King Hassan II of Morocco (d. 1999)
1929 - Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress (d. 2019)
1930 - Yu So-chow, Chinese actress and singer (d. 2017)
1930 - Robert Demarco, Scottish artist
1930 - K. Balachander, Indian actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1932 – Donald Rumsfeld, American politician (d. 2021)
1932 - Amitzur Shapira, Israeli runner (d. 1972)
1933 – Oliver Sacks, British-American neurologist and writer (d. 2015)
1934 - Michael Graves, American architect (d. 2015)
1935 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician (d. 2005)
1935 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (d. 2009)
1936 - Richard Wilson, Scottish actor
1936 - David Zinman, American conductor and violinist
1937 – David Hockney, English artist and photographer
1938 - Brian Dennehy, American actor, director and producer
1938 - Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1985)
1940 - Jair da Costa, Brazilian footballer
1940 - David B. Frohnmayer, American attorney and politician (d. 2015)
1942 - Richard Roundtree, American actor
1943 - John Casper, American colonel, pilot and astronaut
1943 - Soledad Miranda, Spanish actress (d. 1970)
1944 - Judith M. Brown, English historian and academic
1944 - John Cunniff, American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2002)
1945 – Dean Koontz, American writer
1945 - Root Boy Slim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
1946 - Natasha Pyne, English actress
1946 - Bon Scott, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
1947 - Haruomi Hosono, Japanese singer-songwriter, bass player and producer
1947 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (d. 2008)
1947 – O. J. Simpson, American football player, actor and criminal
1948 - Hassan Wirajuda, Indonesian politician
1950 - Adriano Panatta, Italian tennis player and sailor
1950 – Viktor Yanukovych, former President of Ukraine
1951 1975
1951 - Chris Cooper, American actor
1952 - John Tesh, American pianist, composer and radio host
1955 – Steve Coppell, English football manager
1955 - Lindsey Graham, American colonel, lawyer and politician
1956 – Tom Hanks, American actor
1957 - Marc Almond, English singer-songwriter (Soft Cell)
1957 – Paul Merton, English comedian
1959 – Jim Kerr, Scottish singer (Simple Minds)
1959 - Kevin Nash, American wrestler and actor
1960 - Marc Mero, American wrestler and boxer
1960 - Eduardo Montes-Bradley, Argentine journalist, photographer and author
1962 - Aloyzas Kveinys, Lithuanian chess player (d. 2018)
1964 – Courtney Love, American musician, singer and actress
1964 – Gianluca Vialli, Italian footballer
1966 - Pamela Adlon, American actress
1968 – Paolo Di Canio, Italian footballer
1970 - Masami Tsuda, Japanese author and illustrator
1971 - Marc Andreessen, American software developer
1971 - Scott Grimes, American singer-songwriter and actor
1972 - Ara Babajian, American drummer and songwriter
1974 - Ian Bradshaw, Barbadian cricketer
1975 – Jack White, American singer (The White Stripes)
From 1976
1976 – Fred Savage, American actor
1978 - Linda Park, Korean-American actress
1982 - Alecko Eskandarian, American soccer player and manager
1982 - Maggie Ma, Canadian actress, singer and dancer
1984 - Chris Campoli, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Hanna R. Hall, American actress
1985 – Ashley Young, English footballer
1986 - Sébastien Bassong, Cameroonian footballer
1986 - Kiely Williams, American singer-songwriter, dancer and actress
1987 - Rebecca Sugar, American animator, screenwriter, producer and screenwriter
1987 - Amanda Knox, American murder suspect
1988 - Paul Rusescu, Romanian footballer
1990 - Rafael Pereira da Silva, Brazilian footballer
1991 - Mitchel Musso, American actor and singer
1991 - Kyle Smith, Scottish curler
1993 - Mitch Larkin, Australian swimmer
1993 - DeAndre Yedlin, American soccer player
1993 - Jake Vargas, Filipino actor and singer
1994 - Akiane Kramarik, American poet and artist
1995 – Georgie Henley, English actress
1998 - Robert Capron, American actor
1999 - Claire Corlett, Canadian actress and singer
Deaths
Up to 1900
518 - Anastasius I Dicorus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 430)
1228 - Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1150)
1386 - Leopold III, Duke of Austria (b. 1351)
1553 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
1654 - Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (b. 1633)
1677 - Angelus Silesius, German poet (b. 1624)
1706 - Pierre Lemoyne d'Iberville, Canadian captain and explorer (b. 1661)
1737 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671)
1746 – King Philip V of Spain (b. 1683)
1766 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (b. 1720)
1797 – Edmund Burke, Irish-English writer, philosopher and politician (b. 1729)
1828 - Gilbert Stuart, American painter (b. 1755)
1850 – The Bab, founder of the Baha'i religion (b. 1819)
1850 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784)
1852 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1794)
1856 – Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (b. 1776)
1880 - Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
1901 2000
1903 - Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist and photographer (b. 1842)
1932 - King C. Gillette, American businessman (b. 1855)
1947 - Lucjan Zeligowski, Polish-Lithuanian general and politician (b. 1865)
1949 - Fritz Hart, English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1874)
1951 - Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1894)
1955 - Don Beaumon, English racing driver (b. 1928)
1955 - Adolfo de la Huerta, President of Mexico (b. 1881)
1962 - Georges Bataille, French philosopher (b. 1897)
1974 – Earl Warren, American jurist (b. 1891)
1977 – Alice Paul, American activist (b. 1885)
1979 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author (b. 1899)
1980 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet, playwright and composer (b. 1913)
1985 – Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
1986 - Patriarch Nicholas VI of Alexandria (b. 1915)
1992 - Eric Sevareid, American journalist (b. 1912)
From 2001
2002 – Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
2004 - Paul Klebnikov, American journalist and historian (b. 1963)
2004 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (b. 1919)
2004 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917)
2005 – Yevgeny Grishin, Russian figure skater (b. 1931)
2011 - Würzel, English guitarist (Motorhead) (b. 1949)
2012 - Terepai Maoate, 6th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1934)
2012 - Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (b. 1917)
2013 - Markus Büchel, 9th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (b. 1959)
2014 - David Azrieli, Polish-born Canadian-Israeli real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect and philanthropist (b. 1922)
2014 - Eileen Ford, American executive and businesswoman (b. 1922)
2014 - Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes, Brazilian geologist and mineralogist (b. 1950)
2014 - Don Lenhardt, American baseball player and coach (b. 1922)
2015 - Saud bin Faisal, Saudi royal and politician (b. 1940)
2015 - Christian Audigier, French fashion designer (b. 1958)
2015 - Jim Bede, American aircraft designer (b. 1933)
2015 - Caspar Bowden, British privacy advocate (b. 1961)
2016 - Johnny Barnes, Bermudian entertainer (b. 1923)
2016 - Erny Brenner, Luxembourgish footballer (b. 1931)
2016 - Geneviève Castrée, Canadian musician and comic book artist (b. 1981)
2016 - Vaughn Harper, American DJ (b. 1945)
2016 - Hugo Niebeling, German filmmaker (b. 1931)
2016 - Silvano Piovanelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1924)
2016 - Sydney Schanberg, American journalist (b. 1934)
2017 - Naresh Chandra, Indian politician (b. 1934)
2017 - Ilya Glazunov, Russian painter (b. 1930)
2017 - Anton Nossik, Israeli-Russian journalist and social media activist (b. 1966)
2017 - Paquita Rico, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1929)
2018 - Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, British politician (b. 1919)
2018 - Stefan Demert, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1939)
2018 - Hans Günter Winkler, German equestrian (b. 1926)
2019 - Philip Freelon, American architect (b. 1953)
2019 - Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (b. 1930)
2019 - Fernando de la Rúa, President of Argentina (b. 1937)
2019 - Rip Torn, American actor (b. 1931)
Observances
Independence Day in Argentina and South Sudan
Constitution Day in Australia and Palau
July 09 |
9917 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/July%208 | July 8 |
Events
Up to 1900
1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers: Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet, defeats an Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta in the Battle of Malta.
1497 – Vasco da Gama sets sail for his first voyage to India.
1579 - Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
1663 - Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
1709 - Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava - Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XIII of Sweden at Poltava, ending Sweden's role as a major European power.
1716 - Great Northern War: The naval Battle of Dynekilen takes place.
1730 - A magnitude 7.8 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages 1,000 kilometers of Chile's coastline.
1760 - French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche - British forces defeat the French in the last battle in New France.
1776 – The Declaration of Independence is read out for the first time and the Liberty Bell is rung, in Philadelphia.
1808 - Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as King of Spain.
1822 - Chippewas turn over a large section of land in present-day Ontario over to the United Kingdom.
1853 - US Commodore Matthew C. Perry arrives at Edo Bay (present-day Tokyo) with a treaty requesting trade.
1859 - Charles XV of Sweden/IV of Norway becomes King of Sweden-Norway.
1879 - Sailing ship USS Jeannette leaves San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
1889 – The Wall Street Journal is first published.
1892 - The city of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador is largely damaged by fire.
1898 – Crime boss Soapy Smith is killed in Skagway, Alaska.
1901 2000
1927 - Heavy rain in the night to July 9 causes major flooding in Saxony, Germany, killing 160 people.
1932 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, at 41.22.
1937 - Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1948 - The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a programme called Women In the Air Force.
1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
1966 - King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is removed from power by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
1982 - Assassination attempt on Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
1986 - Kurt Waldheim becomes President of Austria.
1989 - Carlos Menem becomes President of Argentina.
1990 – Germany wins the FIFA World Cup, defeating Argentina 1-0.
1992 - Thomas Klestil becomes President of Austria.
1994 – Kim Il-Sung dies. His son Kim Jong-Il takes over the role of supreme leader.
1997 – NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland to join.
From 2001
2001 - Goran Ivanisevic, as a rank outsider, wins the Men's Singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Patrick Rafter in the final.
2003 - The first attempted separation of conjoined twins, carried in Singapore, fails, as Ladan and Laleh Bijani die of complications from the operation to separate them.
2004 – Heinz Fischer becomes President of Austria, two days after the death of his predecessor, Thomas Klestil.
2005 – The G-8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, concludes, with promises of aid to developing countries.
2007 – Roger Federer wins his fifth consecutive Wimbledon Men's Singles tennis title, defeating Rafael Nadal in five sets.
2011 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches in the last launch of the Space Shuttle programme.
2014 - Israel launches Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, following the killing of Israeli teenagers which had led to tensions between Israel and Hamas.
2014 - Brazil v Germany: In the semi finals of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the Brazil national football team is beaten 7-1 by the Germany national football team in a shock result. Several footballing and World Cup records are beaten in this match, in which Germany's Miroslav Klose scored his record-breaking 16th World Cup goal.
2016 - The New European, a new British pro-European newspaper, publishes its first weekly edition, in response to the Brexit vote.
2018 - In the British Government, David Davis resigns as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, being replaced with Dominic Raab; Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson also resigns, doing so the next day.
Births
Up to 1900
1478 - Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian humanist, poet and linguist (d. 1550)
1528 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580)
1545 – Carlos, Prince of Asturias (d. 1568)
1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
1604 - Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet (d. 1651)
1621 – Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695).
1640 - Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1660)
1735 - Domenico Vandelli, Italian naturalist (d. 1816)
1760 - Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)
1792 – Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, Irish admiral and explorer (d. 1907)
1830 - Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1911)
1830 - Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer and politician (d. 1915)
1831 – John Pemberton, American inventor, of Coca-Cola (d. 1888)
1836 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914).
1838 - Eli Lilly, American soldier, chemist, industrialist and entrepreneur (d. 1898)
1838 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917).
1839 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1937)
1851 - Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (d. 1941)
1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist and graphologist (d. 1911)
1864 - F. Holland Day, American photographer (d. 1933)
1867 - Kaethe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (d. 1945)
1878 - Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (d. 1945)
1882 - Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (d. 1961)
1885 – Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977)
1885 - Hugo Boss, German fashion designer (d. 1948)
1890 - Walter Hasenclever, German playwright and poet (d. 1940)
1892 - Richard Aldington, English author and poet (d. 1962)
1892 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)
1894 - Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist (d. 1984)
1895 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist (d. 1971)
1898 - Melville Ruick, American actor (d. 1972)
1900 - George Antheil, American pianist, composer and author (d. 1959)
1901 1950
1904 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician (d. 2008)
1905 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (d. 1997)
1906 - Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005)
1907 - George W. Romney, American businessman and politician, 43rd Governor of Michigan (d. 1995)
1908 – Louis Jordan, American jazz and blues musician (d. 1975)
1908 – Nelson A. Rockefeller, American politician, 41st Vice President of the United States and 49th Governor of New York (d. 1979)
1914 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (d. 2010)
1914 - Billy Eckstine, American singer and trumpeter (d. 1993)
1918 - Paul B. Fay, American politician, 12th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2009)
1918 - Irwin Hasen, American comic artist and cartoonist (d. 2015)
1919 – Walter Scheel, President of West Germany (d. 2016)
1920 – Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (Lego group) (d. 1995)
1921 - Edgar Morin, French philosopher and politician
1923 - Harrison Dillard, American sprinter and hurdler
1924 - Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and blues musician (d. 2005)
1925 - Nicholas Brathwaite, former Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 2016)
1925 - Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
1926 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychologist and psychiatrist (d. 2004)
1926 - David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher (d. 2014)
1930 - Jerry Vale, American singer and actor (d. 2014)
1931 - Thorvald Stoltenberg, Norwegian politician (d. 2018)
1932 - Franca Raimondi, Italian singer (d. 1988)
1933 - Peter Orlovsky, American poet (d. 2010)
1934 – Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)
1935 - John David Crow, American football player and coach (d. 2015)
1935 – Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2010)
1938 - Dario Gradi, Italian-English football manager
1940 - Karin Hannak, Austrian artist
1941 - Michael K. Frith, British artist and television producer
1944 - Jai Johanny Johanson, American drummer
1944 - Jeffrey Tambor, American actor and singer
1945 – Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss Federal Councillor
1947 - Kim Darby, American actress
1947 - Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian religious leader
1948 – Raffi, Canadian children's entertainer
1949 – Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity chef
1949 - Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (d. 2009)
1951 1975
1951 – Anjelica Huston, American actress
1952 – Ahmad Nazif, former Prime Minister of Egypt
1952 - Larry Garner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 - Marianne Williamson, American author and activist
1955 – Monty Don, English gardener and television presenter
1956 - Millard Hampton, American sprinter
1957 - Carlos Cavazo, Mexican-American guitarist and songwriter
1957 - Aleksandr Gurnov, Russian journalist and author
1958 – Kevin Bacon, American actor and musician
1958 – Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician
1958 - Neetu Singh, Indian actress and costume designer
1959 - Tom Egeland, Norwegian writer and journalist
1959 - Billy Kimball, American screenwriter and producer
1959 - Robert Knepper, American actor
1959 – Pauline Quirke, English actress
1961 - Andrew Fletcher, English keyboardist
1961 - Toby Keith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 - Joan Osborne, American singer and songwriter
1964 - Linda de Mol, Dutch actress and screenwriter
1964 - Alexei Gusarov, Russian ice hockey player and manager
1965 - Dan Levinson, American clarinetist, saxophonist and bandleader
1968 - Billy Crudup, American actor
1968 - Michael Weatherly, American actor, producer and director
1970 – Beck, American singer
1970 - Todd Martin, American tennis player and coach
1971 - Neil Jenkins, Welsh rugby player and coach
1971 - Amy O'Neill, American actress
1973 - Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress and producer
1974 - Jeanna Friske, Russian actress and singer (d. 2015)
From 1976
1976 - Ellen MacArthur, English sailor
1976 - Wang Liping, Chinese race walker
1977 – Christian Abbiati, Italian footballer
1977 - Milo Ventimiglia, American actor, director and producer
1977 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
1980 – Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
1981 – Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
1982 – Sophia Bush, American actress
1982 - Pendleton Ward, American animator, screenwriter, producer and voice actor
1985 - Jamie Cook, English guitarist
1986 - Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer
1986 - Kenza Farah, Algerian-French singer-songwriter
1986 - Jake McDorman, American actor
1987 - Vlada Roslyakova, Russian model
1988 - Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)
1990 - Kevin Trapp, German footballer
1991 - Jamie Blackley, Manx actor
1991 - Devon Conway, New Zealand cricketer
1992 - Sky Ferreira, American singer-songwriter and actress
1992 – Benjamin Grosvenor, British pianist
1992 - Son Heung-min, South Korean footballer
1998 – Jaden Smith, American actor
2004 - Gayle, American singer
Deaths
Up to 1900
810 - Pepin of Italy (b. 773)
901 - Grimbald, French-English monk and saint (b. 827)
975 - Edgar the Peaceful, English King (b. 943)
1153 - Pope Eugene III (b. 1087)
1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer and general (b. 1475)
1623 – Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
1695 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch astronomer and scientist (b. 1629).
1721 – Elihu Yale, American university benefactor (b. 1649).
1822 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792).
1832 - Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (b. 1756)
1850 - Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
1855 – William Edward Parry, English arctic explorer (b. 1790).
1859 – King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799).
1864 - David Hazzard, American politician, Governor of Delaware (b. 1781)
1873 - Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter (b. 1805)
1893 - Abraham K. Allison, American politician, 6th Governor of Florida (b. 1810)
1897 - Isham G. Harris, American politician, 18th Governor of Tennessee (b. 1818)
1898 – Soapy Smith, American outlaw (b. 1860).
1901 2000
1905 - Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (b. 1834)
1930 – Joseph Ward, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
1933 - Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (b. 1863)
1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer and academic (b. 1848)
1939 - Havelock Ellis, English psychologist and author (b. 1859)
1941 - Moses Schorr, Polish historian, rabbi and politician (b. 1874)
1942 - Refik Saydam, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1881)
1943 – Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)
1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian sociologist, economist and philosopher (b. 1878)
1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian journalist, author and critic (b. 1881)
1957 – Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879).
1962 – Georges Pataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897).
1967 – Fatimah Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (b. 1893).
1971 - Charlie Shavers, American trumpeter (b. 1920)
1973 - Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
1973 - Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli educator and politician (b. 1884)
1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1975 - Lennart Skoglund, Swedish footballer (b. 1929)
1979 – Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist (b. 1906).
1979 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist (b. 1917)
1985 - Simon Kuznets, Russian-American economist (b. 1901)
1985 - Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French movie director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1909)
1986 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1909)
1987 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
1987 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
1988 – Ray Barbuti, American sportsman (b. 1905)
1990 - Howard Duff, American actor, director and producer (b. 1913)
1994 – Kim Il-Sung, President of North Korea (b. 1912)
1994 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American businessman and explorer (b. 1927)
1995 - Aleksander Arulaid, Estonian chess player (b. 1924)
1999 - Peter Conrad, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1930)
From 2001
2002 – Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)
2003 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins (b. 1974)
2004 – Paula Danziger, American writer (b. 1944)
2006 – June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
2007 - Chandra Shekhar, 9th Prime Minister of India (b. 1927)
2011 – Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (b. 1918)
2012 - Ernest Borgnine, American actor (b. 1917)
2014 - Ben Pangelinan, American-Guamanian politician (b. 1955)
2014 - John V. Evans, American politician, 27th Governor of Idaho (b. 1925)
2015 - Irwin Keyes, American actor (b. 1952)
2016 - Javed Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1940)
2016 - Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist, activist and humanitarian (b. 1928)
2016 - Harold A. Linstone, German-American mathematician and futurist (b. 1924)
2016 - William H. McNeill, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1917)
2016 - Jacques Rouffio, French director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2017 - Nelsan Ellis, American actor (b. 1977)
2017 - Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress and model (b. 1935)
2017 - Don Johns, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1937)
2018 - Alan Gilzean, Scottish footballer (b. 1938)
2018 - Tab Hunter, American actor and musician (b. 1931)
2018 - M. M. Jacob, Indian politician (b. 1927)
2018 - Oliver Knussen, Scottish composer (b. 1952)
2018 - Frank Ramsey, American basketball plauer (b. 1931)
2018 - Robert D. Ray, American politician, 38th Governor of Iowa (b. 1928)
Observances
Air Force and Air Defense Forces Day (Ukraine)
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Events
Up to 1900
1508 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated in Friuli by Venetian troops.
1513 - Italian Wars: Battle of Novara: Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored to power.
1523 – Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, ending the Kalmar Union.
1586 - Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine, Florida.
1644 - The Qing Dynasty Manchu forces under Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.
1674 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, is crowned.
1683 - The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1752 - One third of Moscow is destroyed by fire.
1808 – Joseph Bonaparte is proclaimed King of Spain.
1809 - Sweden introduces a new constitution.
1813 - War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek - A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
1833 - Andrew Jackson becomes the first President of the United States to ride on a train.
1838 - The Indian Removal Act enters into force. US troops under Winfield Scott start removing Native American Cherokees from their ancestral homeland to a reservation in Oklahoma in what becomes known as the Trail of Tears in which 4,000 to 10,000 Cherokees die.
1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association is founded in London.
1857 - Sophia of Nassau marries future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
1859 – Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales.
1862 - American Civil War: Union forces take Memphis, Tennessee from the Confederates.
1882 – A tropical storm kills over 100,000 people in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
1889 – The entire downtown area of Seattle is destroyed by fire.
1892 - The Chicago 'L' commuter rail system is introduced.
1901 2000
1912 – The Novarupta Volcano in Alaska erupts in one of the biggest volcanic eruptions of the 20th century. Because it happened in an uninhabited area, people believed that the nearby Katmai volcano had erupted.
1918 - World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood - The United States Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood of Chateau-Thierry.
1920 - The first Reichstag election in Germany's Weimar Republic takes place.
1921 - Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck.
1931 - Munich's Glass Palace is set on fire. The whole building, along with over 3,000 paintings, is destroyed.
1933 - The first drive-in theatre is opened in Camden, New Jersey.
1934 - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law.
1942 – World War II: In the Battle of Midway US navy dive bombers sink Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
1944 – World War II: The allied D-Day landings take place in Normandy.
1946 - The National Basketball Association is created.
1964 - Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Northern Germany, are abandoned, and never continue.
1966 – Civil Rights activist James Meredith is shot in the back and legs in Mississippi. He survives the attack.
1968 – American politician Robert F. Kennedy dies after being shot on the previous day.
1971 – Soviet space programme: Soyuz 11 launches.
1971 - A mid-air collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California, kills 50 people.
1971 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese Communist forces begins.
1981 – Bihar Train Disaster: A train crash kills an estimated 1,000 people.
1982 - The 1982 Lebanon War begins.
1984 - Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is released.
1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" in Brazil is exhumed. The remains are found to be those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, who died in 1979.
1993 – Mongolians vote in direct Presidential elections for the first time.
1994 - A Tupolev Tu-154 of China Northwest Airlines, crashes shortly after take-off from Xi'an, China, killing 160 people.
1994 - A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Colombia kills 795 people.
From 2001
2001 – Argentina's former President Carlos Menem is arrested on charges of selling weapons to Ecuador and Croatia.
2002 – A near-Earth asteroid explodes over the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Libya.
2004 - Tamil is established as a classical language of India.
2007 – Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is stripped of an honorary degree that was given to him by the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
2007 - The G-8 summit is held in Heiligendamm on Germany's Baltic Sea coast.
2012 - The 21st century's last Transit of Venus occurs.
2014 - Big commemorations are held to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
2015 - The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup begins in Canada. In Edmonton, Alberta, Canada defeats China 1-0 through a late penalty.
Births
Up to 1900
1236 - Wen Tianxiang, Chinese general and scholar (d. 1283)
1243 - Alix of Brittany, Dame du Pontarcy, Breton-French noblewoman (d. 1288)
1436 – Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), German astronomer (d. 1472)
1502 – King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
1519 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian botanist (d. 1603)
1553 – Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
1599 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
1606 – Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684)
1622 – Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1857)
1661 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (d. 1756)
1678 - Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, French aristocrat (d. 1737)
1714 – King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
1755 – Nathan Hale, American writer, patriot (d. 1776)
1756 – John Trumbull, American painter (d. 1843)
1772 - Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1807)
1799 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (d. 1837)
1807 - Thieu Tri, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1847)
1810 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German classical scholar (d. 1856)
1821 - François-Marie Luzel, French folklorist and Breton language poet (d. 1895)
1829 – Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
1850 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
1857 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
1862 – Henry John Newbolt, English writer (d. 1938)
1867 - David T. Abercrombie, American businessman (Abercrombie & Fitch) (d. 1931)
1868 – Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (d. 1912)
1868 - Dawid Janowski, Polish chess player (d. 1927)
1869 - Siegfried Wagner, German composer and conductor (d. 1930)
1872 – Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (d. 1918)
1875 – Thomas Mann, German novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1955)
1880 – W. T. Cosgrave, Irish politician (d. 1965)
1890 – Ted Lewis, American bandleader (d. 1971)
1892 – Donald Duncan, Sr., American marketer, modifier of yo-yo (d. 1971)
1896 – Henry Allingham, British World War I veteran and supercentenarian (d. 2009)
1896 - Italo Balbo, Italian marshal and politician (d. 1940)
1898 – Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer (d. 2001)
1898 - Walter Abel, American actor (d. 1987)
1901 1950
1901 – Sukarno, first President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
1903 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (d. 1978)
1906 – Max August Zorn, German-American mathematician (d. 1993)
1907 – Bill Dickey, American baseball player, coach, manager, and scout (d. 1993)
1909 - Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born British political philosopher (d. 1997)
1912 - Joan Hartigan, Australian tennis player (d. 2000)
1912 - María Montez, Dominican actress (d. 1951)
1916 – Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
1916 – Hamani Diori, first President of Niger (d. 1989)
1917 – Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman (d. 2015)
1918 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist (d. 2009)
1919 - Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, 6th Secretary-General of NATO (d. 2018)
1924 - Orna Porat, German-Israeli actress (d. 2015)
1925 - Fitzhugh L. Fulton, American pilot (d. 2015)
1925 - Maxine Kumin, American poet and author (d. 2014)
1926 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
1928 - George Deukmejian, 35th Governor of California (d. 2018)
1928 - Elio Sgreccia, Italian cardinal (d. 2019)
1929 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician
1930 - Frank Tyson, English cricketer (d. 2015)
1932 - Billie Whitelaw, British actress (d. 2014)
1932 - Anne Claire Poirier, Canadian director, actor and screenwriter
1932 - David Scott, American colonel, engineer and astronaut
1933 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (Nobel Prize 1986 for scanning tunneling microscope) (d. 2013)
1934 – King Albert II of Belgium
1934 – Gilbert Cates, producer, director
1934 - Roy Innis, American activist
1935 – Bobby Mitchel, American football player
1936 – Levi Stubbs, American musician (The Four Tops) (d. 2008)
1936 - Mompati Merafhe, Vice President of Botswana (d. 2015)
1938 - Ryuchi Matsuda, Japanese author (d. 2013)
1938 - Prince Louis of Orléans-Braganza
1939 – Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer
1939 – Gary U.S. Bonds, musician
1939 - Marian Wright Edelman, American activist
1940 – Larry Lujack, American disc jockey
1940 - Willie John McBride, Irish rugby player, coach and manager
1942 - Klaus Bednarz, German journalist (d. 2015)
1942 - Sandra Morgan, Australian swimmer
1942 - Norberto Rivera Carrera, Mexican cardinal
1943 - Asif Iqbal, Pakistani cricketer
1943 - Richard Smalley, American chemist (d. 2005)
1944 - Edgar Froese, German musician (d. 2015)
1944 - Phillip Sharp, American biologist
1945 – David Dukes, American actor (d. 2000)
1947 – David Blunkett, British politician
1947 – Robert Englund, American actor (aka. Freddy Krueger)
1949 - Ioannis Matzourakis, Greek footballer and manager
1949 - Noli de Castro, 14th Vice President of the Philippines
1950 - Chantal Akerman, Belgian movie director (d. 2015)
1951 1975
1952 - Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese drummer, producer and actor
1952 - Jean Hamel, Canadian ice hockey player
1953 – Jack Novak, American football player
1954 - Wladyslaw Zmuda, Polish footballer
1954 - Harvey Fierstein, American actor
1954 – Cynthia Rylant, writer
1955 – Sandra Bernhard, American actress, comedian
1955 - Sam Simon, American producer and writer (d. 2015)
1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player
1956 – Bubbi Morthens, Icelandic singer, songwriter and musician
1957 - Mike Gatting, English cricketer
1959 - Jimmy Jam, American keyboardist, songwriter and producer
1960 – Gary Graham, American actor
1960 – Steve Vai, American musician
1961 – Tom Araya, Chilean-American musician (Slayer)
1963 - Eric Cantor, American politician
1963 – Wolfgang Drechsler, German social scientist
1963 - Jason Isaacs, British actor
1964 - Jay Bentley, American singer and bass player
1964 - Jay Lake, American author (d. 2014)
1966 - Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer
1967 – Max Casella, American actor
1967 – Paul Giamatti, American actor
1969 - Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer
1970 - Albert Ferrer, Spanish footballer
1970 – James "Munky" Shaffer, American musician (Korn guitarist)
1970 - Richard Di Natale, Australian politician
1971 - Petr Korbel, Czech table tennis player
1972 - Cristina Scabbia, Italian rock music singer
1974 - Uncle Kracker, American rock musician
1975 – Staci Keanan, American actress
From 1976
1976 - Jonathan Nolan, British-American author, producer and director
1977 - Bryn Williams, Welsh chef
1978 - Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
1978 – Carl Barat, British singer and guitarist (The Libertines)
1978 – Judith Barsi, American actress (d. 1988)
1981 - Jackson Vroman, American-Lebanese basketball player (d. 2015)
1983 – Gemma Bissix, English actress
1983 - Michael Krohn-Dehli, Danish footballer
1984 – Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballer
1984 - Roman Hubník, Czech footballer
1984 - Shannon Stewart, American model
1985 - Sebastian Larsson, Swedish footballer
1985 - Becky Sauerbrunn, American soccer player
1986 - Bhavana, Indian actress
1986 - Kim Hyun-joong, South Korean singer, dancer and actor
1986 - Junichi Tazawa, Japanese-American baseball player
1987 – Niklas Hjalmarsson, Swedish ice hockey player player for the Chicago Blackhawks
1988 - Maria Alyokhina, Russian singer and activist (Pussy Riot)
1988 - Israel Dagg, New Zealand rugby player
1990 - Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer
1990 - Vid Belec, Slovenian footballer
1990 - Ellie Kendrick, English actress
1990 - Ryan Higa, American actor, comedian and YouTube personality
1990 - Rodri, Spanish footballer
1990 - Neha Kakkar, Indian singer
1992 - Hyuna, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, model, dancer and television presenter
1992 - Megumi Murakami, Japanese singer
1995 - Julian Green, American soccer player
Deaths
Up to 1950
1134 - Norbert of Xanten, German bishop and saint (b. 1060)
1252 - Robert Passelewe, English bishop
1393 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)
1480 - Vecchietta, Italian painter, sculptor and painter (b. 1412)
1560 - Joao de Castro, Portuguese seafarer (b. 1500)
1563 - Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese commander (b. 1519)
1583 - Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese daimyo (b. 1556)
1799 – Patrick Henry, American politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (b. 1736)
1832 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
1840 - Marcellin Champagnat, French priest and saint (b. 1789)
1843 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet (b. 1770)
1861 – Count Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
1878 - Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor (b. 1790)
1881 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820)
1891 – John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
1916 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese military officer and politician (b. 1859)
1922 – Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1861)
1935 - Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, English field marshal and politician, 12th Governor-General of Canada (b. 1862)
1941 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American racing driver and businessman (b. 1878)
1943 - Guido Fubini, Italian mathematician (b. 1879)
1946 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist (b. 1862)
1948 – Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864)
1951 2000
1954 - Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1910)
1961 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
1962 - Yves Klein, French painter (b. 1928)
1968 – Robert Kennedy, American politician (b. 1925)
1968 – Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
1976 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (b. 1892)
1979 – Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898)
1980 - Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player (b. 1918)
1987 - Fulton Mackay, Scottish actor and playwright (b. 1922)
1991 - Stan Getz, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
1992 - Larry Riley, American actor (b. 1953)
1994 - Mark McManus, Scottish actor (b. 1935)
1996 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist (b. 1903)
1996 - Harry Andersson, Swedish footballer (b. 1913)
1997 - Magda Gabor, Hungarian actress (b. 1915)
From 2001
2003 - Dave Rowberry, English singer-songwriter and pianist (The Animals) (b. 1940)
2004 - Simon Cumbers, Irish-born journalist (b. 1968)
2005 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
2006 - Billy Preston, American singer and musician (b. 1946)
2009 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist (b. 1916)
2012 - Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, Japanese royal (b. 1946)
2012 - Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
2013 - Jerome Karle, American chemist (b. 1918)
2013 - Tom Sharpe, English author (b. 1928)
2013 - Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
2014 - Ado Bayero, Nigerian chieftain, politician and diplomat (b. 1930)
2014 - Eric Hill, British author and illustrator (b. 1927)
2014 - Alexander Shilov, Russian chemist (b. 1930)
2014 - Lorna Wing, British psychiatrist and Autism researcher (b. 1928)
2015 - Pierre Brice, French actor (b. 1929)
2015 - Richard Johnson, English actor (b. 1927)
2015 - Ronnie Gilbert, American folk singer, songwriter and activist (b. 1926)
2015 - Aarthi Agarwal, Indian actress (b. 1984)
2015 - Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer (b. 1974)
2015 - Ludvík Vaculík, Czech journalist and author (b. 1926)
2016 - Ayaz Jani, Pakistani poet and journalist (b. 1967)
2016 - Viktor Korchnoi, Russian-Swiss chess player (b. 1931)
2016 - Peter Shaffer, English playwright (b. 1926)
2016 - Kimbo Slice, Bahamian-American mixed martial artist (b. 1974)
2016 - Steve Pisanos, American air force officer (b. 1919)
2016 - Theresa Saldana, American actress (b. 1954)
2017 - Horace Burrell, Jamaican soccer executive (b. 1950)
2017 - Vin Garbutt, British folk singer (b. 1947)
2017 - Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi businessman and arms dealer (b. 1935)
2017 - Latifur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1936)
2017 - Sandra Reemer, Dutch singer (b. 1950)
2017 - Márta Antal-Rudas, Hungarian javelin thrower (b. 1937)
2017 - Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad, Norwegian politician (b. 1939)
2017 - François Houtart, Belgian theologian (b. 1925)
2017 - Walter Noll, German-American mathematician (b. 1925)
2018 - Tinus Bosselaar, Dutch footballer (b. 1936)
2018 - Mateja Matevski, Macedonian poet (b. 1929)
2018 - Kira Muratova, Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and actress (b. 1934)
2018 - Ralph Santolla, American guitarist (b. 1969)
2018 - Red Schoendienst, American baseball player (b. 1923)
2018 - Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx, British poet (b. 1916)
2018 - Franz M. Wuketits, Austrian biologist and epistemologist (b. 1955)
2019 - Dr. John, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
2019 - Alexander Kuznetsov, Russian-American actor (b. 1959)
2019 - Johnny Robinson, English footballer (b. 1936)
Observances
National holiday (Sweden)
Birthday of King Albert II of Belgium
D-Day
Queensland Day
Teachers' Day (Bolivia)
Engineers' Day (Argentina)
UN Russian language Day
June 06 |
9919 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/June%202 | June 2 |
Events
Up to 1950
455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome and plunder the city for two weeks.
1098 – First Crusade: At the end of a siege, Crusade forces take Antioch.
1676 - Franco-Dutch War: France ensures the dominance of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war, with victory at the Battle of Palermo
1692 - Bridget Bishop becomes the first person to go on trial in the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. She is found guilty and executed on June 10.
1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: In present-day Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of Lacrosse, then chasing the ball into a fort.
1793 - French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat.
1805 - Napoleonic Wars: A French-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Riot, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
1835 – P. T. Barnum's circus starts touring the United States.
1848 – The Slavic Congress in Prague begins.
1855 - The Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
1858 – Comet C/1858 L1 is discovered by Italian astronomer Giambattista Donati.
1864 - The Ionian Islands, previously a British protectorate, are given to Greece.
1876 – Bulgarian revolutionary Hristo Botev is killed.
1886 – Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom.
1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for the radio.
1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a third time.
1910 – Charles Rolls becomes the first person to make a non-stop crossing of the English Channel by aeroplane.
1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set of bombs in eight separate United States cities.
1924 – US President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act, giving equal citizenship to Native Americans born within the territory of the United States.
1941 - World War II: German paratroopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
1946 – In a referendum, voters in Italy support the formation of a Republic.
1951 2000
1953 – Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1953 – The news of the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest reaches the UK.
1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade Declaration.
1962 – The most violent match of the FIFA World Cup occurs in Chile as police have to intervene between Chilean and Italian footballers.
1965 - A cyclone kills over 30,000 people in Pakistan.
1966 – The Surveyor 1 spacecraft on the Moon.
1967 – German student Benno Ohnesorg is shot dead by police at a demonstration outside the Iranian Embassy.
1973 - Amsterdam's Vincent van Gogh Museum opens to the public.
1974 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck is crowned King of Bhutan.
1976 - As part of Operation Condor, Bolivian President Juan José Torres is abducted and murdered. It is not known to what extent his successor Hugo Banzer was involved.
1976 - The Third Cod War between the United Kingdom and Iceland ends in a temporary agreement, as the UK recognizes Iceland's claimed fishing zone of 200 nautical miles.
1979 – The Uganda-Tanzania War ends, with Ugandan forces under Idi Amin being defeated.
1979 – Pope John Paul II visits Poland, his native country, for the first time in his papacy.
1980 - The Rubik's Cube goes on sale in West Germany.
1983 - After an emergency landing because of an inflight fire, 23 passengers on board Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open.
1990 - 66 tornadoes hit an area across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, killing 12 people, including 6 alone in Petersburg, Indiana.
1994 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Java, killing 277 people.
1997 – Timothy McVeigh is convicted of the Oklahoma City bombing.
1999 – Bhutan starts television transmission.
From 2001
2003 – The Mars Express Space Probe launches from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning run on the TV game show Jeopardy!.
2007 - Violence erupts at a demonstration in Rostock, northeastern Germany, while preparations are made for the G-8 summit in nearby Heiligendamm.
2010 – Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama announces his resignation, less than 9 months after taking office. Naoto Kan succeeds him.
2010 – Derrick Bird goes on a shooting rampage in Cumbria, England. 12 people are killed and 11 people are injured, before Derrick Bird kills himself.
2012 – Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison for ordering killings during the 2011 Egyptian protests.
2014 - In India, Telangana becomes the 29th State, as Andhra Pradesh is officially split in two. Hyderabad, which is in the new state, will serve as capital city of both states until 2024.
2014 - King Juan Carlos I of Spain announces his intent to abdicate (leave) the throne. An official date for the handover is not yet set, as Felipe, Prince of Asturias is to succeed him as King.
2015 - Sepp Blatter announces his intention to resign as President of FIFA, just four days after his controversial re-election to the post following a corruption scandal.
2016 - The German Bundestag officially recognizes the Armenian Genocide.
2017 - Leo Varadkar becomes the new leader of the Republic of Ireland's Fine Gael party, and is therefore set to become the country's next Taoiseach.
Births
Up to 1900
926 – Emperor Murakami of Japan (d. 967)
1423 - Ferdinand I of Naples (d. 1494)
1535 – Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
1699 - Marie-Therese Rodet Geoffrin, French writer (d. 1677)
1731 – Martha Washington, wife of George Washington, first First Lady of the United States (d. 1802)
1737 - Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (d. 1758)
1740 – Marquis de Sade, French writer (d. 1814)
1773 - John Randolph of Roanoke, American planter and politician (d. 1833)
1774 – William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales (d. 1850)
1793 - Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout, Belgian painter (d. 1861)
1813 – Daniel Pollen, 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1896)
1815 - Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
1821 - Ion C. Bratianu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1891)
1823 - Gédéon Ouimet, 2nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1905)
1835 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
1835 – Nikolai Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1881)
1838 - Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg (d. 1900)
1840 – Thomas Hardy, English poet, novelist (d. 1928)
1849 - Albert Besnard, French painter (d. 1934)
1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
1857 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer (d. 1919)
1860 - Roger de Barbarin, French trap shooter (d. 1925)
1861 – Helen Herron Taft, First Lady of the United States, wife of William Howard Taft (d. 1943)
1863 – Felix Weingartner, composer and conductor (d. 1942)
1881 - Walter Egan, American golfer (d. 1971)
1885 – Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, German neurologist (d. 1964)
1887 - Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
1891 – Takijiro Onishi, Japanese World War II figure (d. 1945)
1899 – Lotte Reiniger, German movie director (d. 1981)
1899 - Edwin Way Teale, American environmentalist and photographer (d. 1980)
1901 1950
1902 - Giuseppe Lepori, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
1906 - Carlo Scarpa, Italian architect (d. 1978)
1907 – Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998)
1909 - Rudolf Brandt, German SS officer (d. 1948)
1911 - Joe McCluskey, American runner (d. 2002)
1913 – Barbara Pym, English writer (d. 1980)
1913 - Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer-songwriter and playwright (d. 2002)
1913 - Elsie Tu, English-Hong Kong social activist (d. 2015)
1915 - Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian activist and agent (d. 1992)
1915 – Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
1917 – Max Showalter, American actor (d. 2000)
1917 - Heinz Sielmann, German photographer, biologist, zoologist and documentary filmmaker (d. 2006)
1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German literary critic (d. 2013)
1920 – Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
1922 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish movie director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1922 - Carmen Silvera, Canadian-English actress (d. 2002)
1922 - Charlie Sifford, American golfer (d. 2015)
1923 - Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist (d. 2016)
1925 - M. Caldwell Butler, American politician (d. 2014)
1926 - Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1977)
1926 - Milo O'Shea, Irish-American actor (d. 2013)
1927 - W. Watts Biggers, American novelist (d. 2014)
1928 – Stig Claesson, Swedish writer and illustrator (d. 2008)
1928 - Rafael Lecuona, Cuban-American gymnast (d. 2014)
1929 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007)
1930 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
1930 - Vic Firth, American musician and instruments manufacturer (d. 2015)
1931 - Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (d. 2017)
1933 - Horacio Ferrer, Uruguayan writer, poet and tango historian (d. 2014)
1935 – Carol Shields, American-Canadian novelist (d. 2003)
1936 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian race walker and Olympic champion
1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
1937 - Rosalyn Higgins, British jurist
1938 - Cliff Cushman, American hurdler (d. 1966)
1938 - Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverchiöld of Sweden
1940 – Constantine II, former King of Greece
1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor
1941 – Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1941 – William Guest, American singer
1941 - Lou Nanne, Canadian ice hockey player
1943 - Crescenzio Sepe, Italian cardinal
1943 - Ilaiyaraaja, Indian singer-songwriter and producer
1944 - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer (d. 2012)
1945 - Jon Peters, American movie producer
1946 – Lasse Hallström, Swedish movie director
1946 – Peter Sutcliffe, British serial killer
1947 - Mark Elder, British conductor
1948 – Todd Rundgren, American singer and producer
1951 1975
1951 - Larry Robinson, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Arnold Mühren, Dutch footballer
1951 - Khattiya Sawasdipol, Thai general (d. 2010)
1951 - Gilbert Baker, American gay rights activist (d. 2017)
1952 – Pete Farndon, British musician (The Pretenders) (d. 1983)
1953 – Keith Allen, British actor and comedian
1953 – Cornel West, American theologian and activist
1953 – Paul Engemann, American musician
1955 – Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
1956 – Mani Ratnam, Indian movie director
1957 – Mark Lawrenson, English footballer and commentator
1958 - Lex Luger, American wrestler and football player
1959 - Lydia Lunch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress
1960 – Olga Bondarenko, Russian Olympic gold medalist (athletics)
1960 – Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet)
1963 - Bernard Cazeneuve, French politician
1964 – Caroline Link, German movie director and screenwriter
1965 – Mark Waugh, Australian cricketer
1965 – Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
1966 - Pedro Guerra, Spanish singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress
1968 - Jon Culshaw, British comedian and actor
1968 - Beetlejuice, American comedian and actor
1968 - Jason Falkner, American musician, songwriter and producer
1969 - Paulo Sérgio Silvestre do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer
1970 - B-Real, American rapper, producer and actor
1971 - Anthony Montgomery, American actor
1972 - Wayne Brady, American actor, comedian, game show host and singer
1972 – Wentworth Miller, American actor
1973 - Carlos Acosta, Cuban dancer
1974 - Gata Kamsky, Russian-born American chess player
From 1976
1976 - Earl Boykins, American basketball player
1976 – Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
1976 – Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor
1978 – Dominic Cooper, English actor
1978 – Nikki Cox, American actress
1978 – Justin Long, American actor
1978 - Deon Richmond, American actor
1978 - A. J. Styles, American wrestler
1979 - Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress
1980 – Abby Wambach, American soccer player
1981 – Nikolay Davydenko, Russian tennis player
1983 – Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player
1983 - Leela James, American singer-songwriter
1983 - Brooke White, American singer and actress
1985 – Ana Cristina, American singer and actress
1987 - Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress
1987 - Angelo Mathews, Sri Lankan cricketer
1987 – Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer
1988 – Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player
1988 – Sergio Agüero, Argentine footballer
1988 - Takashi Inui, Japanese footballer
1989 – Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-born footballer
1990 – Brittany Curran, American actress and singer
1990 - Jack Lowden, Scottish actor
1992 – Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer
1994 - Jemma McKenzie-Brown, English actress
1995 - Sterling Beaumon, American actor
Deaths
Up to 1950
657 – Pope Eugene I
829 – Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)
910 – Richilde of Provence, Queen of West Francia (b. 845)
1418 - Catherine of Lancaster, Queen Consort of Henry III of Castile (b. 1373)
1567 - Shane O'Neill, Irish king (b. 1530)
1581 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland (b. 1525)
1701 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
1716 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter (b. 1658)
1754 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
1761 – Jonas Alstromer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
1785 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1875 - Jozef Kremer, Polish philosopher (b. 1806)
1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (b. 1807)
1933 – Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
1937 - Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
1941 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1942 - Bunny Berigan, American singer, trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1908)
1948 - Nazi war criminals executed:
Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904)
Karl Brandt, German SS officer (b. 1904)
Rudolf Brandt, German SS officer (b. 1909)
Karl Gebhardt, German physician (b. 1897)
Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (b. 1905)
1951 2000
1952 - Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect (b. 1880)
1956 - Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)
1961 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)
1962 – Vita Sackville-West, English writer (b. 1892)
1967 – Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
1968 - André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1929)
1969 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
1970 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand racing driver and team founder (b. 1937)
1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
1970 - Albert Lamorisse, French director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1976 – Juan José Torres, President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
1978 - Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer (b. 1895)
1981 - Rino Gaetano, Italian singer and musician (b. 1950)
1982 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
1983 – Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
1987 – Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
1988 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, movie producer and movie director (b. 1924)
1988 - Horace Hildreth, American politician, Governor of Maine (b. 1902)
1990 – Rex Harrison, British actor (b. 1908)
1992 – Philip Dunne, American movie director (b. 1908)
1994 – Henry Mancini, American composer (b. 1924)
1996 - Ray Combs, American comedian, actor and game show host (b. 1956)
1996 - Leon Garfield, English writer (b. 1921)
1997 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (b. 1908)
1998 - Junkyard Dog, American wrestler (b. 1952)
1999 – Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (b. 1949)
From 2001
2005 - Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian skier (b. 1930)
2006 – Vince Welnick, musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
2007 – Huang Ju, Chinese Vice Premier (b. 1938)
2008 – Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
2008 – Mel Ferrer, American actor and movie director (b. 1917)
2009 – David Eddings, American writer (b. 1931)
2010 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian operatic baritone (b. 1916)
2012 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939)
2012 - Richard Dawson, English-American actor, comedian and game show host (b. 1932)
2013 - Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (b. 1930)
2014 - Alexander Shulgin, American medical scientist and author (b. 1925)
2014 - Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal (b. 1924)
2014 - Kuaima Riruako, Namibian politician (b. 1935)
2014 - Anjan Das, Indian filmmaker (b. 1949)
2015 - Alberto De Martino, Italian movie director (b. 1929)
2015 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1926)
2015 - Theo Saat, Dutch Olympic sprinter (b. 1928)
2016 - Tom Kibble, British physicist (b. 1932)
2016 - Yevhen Lemeshko, Ukrainian football coach (b. 1930)
2016 - Abderrahmane Meziani, Algerian footballer (b. 1942)
2016 - Andrzej Niemczyk, Polish volleyball player and coach (b. 1944)
2016 - Freddie Wadling, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
2017 - Gordon Christian, American ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2017 - Iakovos Garmatis, Greek-American church leader (b. 1928)
2017 - Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, Pakistani lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
2017 - Peter Sallis, English actor (b. 1921)
2017 - Jeffrey Tate, English conductor (b. 1943)
2017 - Jack O'Neill, American businessman and surfer (b. 1923)
2018 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist (b. 1918)
2018 - Tony Morphett, Australian screenwriter (b. 1938)
2018 - Bernard E. Trainor, American Marine Corps general, military analyst and journalist (b. 1928)
2018 - Emil Wolf, Czech-born American physicist (b. 1922)
2018 - Fernando Mazariegos, Guatemalan chemist and inventor (b. 1938)
2019 - Momtazuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi dramatist and educator (b. 1935)
2019 - Alistair Browning, New Zealand actor (b. 1954)
2019 - Donald M. Fraser, American politician (b. 1924)
2019 - Barry Hughes, Welsh footballer (b. 1937)
2019 - Alexey Kazannik, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
2019 - Mart Nutt, Estonian politician and historian (b. 1962)
2019 - Maciej Parowski, Polish journalist, essayist, science fiction writer, editor and translator (b. 1946)
Observances
Republic Day (Italy)
Hristo Botev Day (Bulgaria)
June 02 |
9920 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/June%203 | June 3 |
Events
Up to 1950
350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, ending Rome, leading a group of gladiators.
1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod determines the border between Russia and the Finnmark region of northern Norway.
1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his 3rd voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
1621 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for the New Netherlands.
1665 - Future-King James II of England/James VII of Scotland defeats the Dutch fleet off Lowestoft, Suffolk, England.
1769 – At Tahiti, James Cook observes the transit of Venus.
1781 - American Revolutionary War: Jack Jouett makes a midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Legislature of coming British cavalry who had been sent to capture them.
1789 – From Fort Chipewyan, a Alexander MacKenzie-led expedition, to find a river link to the Pacific Ocean coast of Canada, sets off.
1839 - In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsu destroys 1.2 million kilograms of opium taken from British merchants, providing the United Kingdom with the "casus belli" to begin hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
1858 – Francis Thomas Gregory climbs the world's biggest monolith (single piece of rock), Mount Augustus in Western Australia. He names the rock after his brother, Augustus Gregory.
1861 – American Civil War: Union troops defeat Confederate forces in the Battle of Philippi in Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
1885 - Last military engagement on Canadian soil - Cree leader Big Bear escapes from the North-West Mounted Police.
1889 – The Transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, 14 miles (23 kilometres) from a Generator at Willamette Falls in Oregon to Portland, Oregon.
1916 - The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard.
1937 – Almost 6 months after his abdication as King, Edward VIII of the United Kingdom marries Wallis Simpson.
1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends, as Allied forces retreat.
1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
1940 - Franz Redemacher proposes Madagascar as the "Jewish Homeland".
1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the village of Kandanos, Greece, to the ground, killing 180 of its residents.
1942 – World War II: Japan begins its Aleutian Islands campaign by attacking Unalaska Island.
1947 - Viceroy Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma announces the planned Partition of India.
1950 – Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal climb Annapurna in the Himalayas. It is the first successful ascent of a mountain higher than 8000 metres.
From 1951
1959 - Singapore is declared a self-governing state, though remaining within the British Empire.
1961 - US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna, Austria, for talks.
1962 – A Boeing 707 plane crashes near Paris, killing 130 people.
1963 – A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes into the Pacific Ocean off British Columbia, Canada, killing 101 people.
1965 – NASA Gemini 4 mission: Crew member Edward Higgins White becomes the first American to perform a spacewalk.
1968 - Valerie Solanas attempts to kill artist Andy Warhol.
1969 – Off South Vietnam, Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts United States Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
1973 – The Supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 plane crashes in France, killing 14 people.
1979 – The Ixtoc I oil well explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, leading to one of the worst-ever oil spills.
1980 – Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, killing 5 people and destroying many homes.
1982 - Shlomo Argov, Israel's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, is shot and seriously injured in an assassination attempt in London.
1984 – The Indian government's Operation Blue Star military offensive begins at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
1989 – The crushing of protests at Tiananmen Square in Beijing begins. Hundreds of people are killed.
1989 – Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini dies.
1991 – Mount Unzen on Kyushu, Japan, erupts, killing 43 people, all of them researchers or journalists.
1992 - Aboriginal land rights are granted in Australia.
1993 - France and Spain recognize the independence of Andorra.
1998 – A major train derailment occurs in Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
2003 - A train crash in Chinchilla, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, kills 19 people and injures around 50.
2006 – Montenegro becomes independent.
2008 – Barack Obama secures the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States, over Hillary Clinton.
2010 – The name of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada, is officially changed back to Haida Gwaii.
2012 – Dana Air Flight 997 crashes into a building in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 153 people on board and more than 40 on the ground.
2017 - The June 2017 London attack is carried out, killing 8 people in a car-ramming and stabbing attack.
2018 - The Volcan de Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts, killing at least 69 people.
Births
Up to 1900
20 BC - Sejanus, Roman political figure (d. 31)
1537 – John Manuel, Prince of Portugal (d. 1554)
1540 – Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
1579 - Jens Munk, Danish-Norwegian explorer (d. 1628)
1635 - Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688).
1636 – John Hale, American minister (d. 1700)
1659 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
1723 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian naturalist (d. 1788)
1726 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
1770 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician and general (d. 1820)
1808 – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
1819 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader (d. 1892)
1832 – Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
1840 - Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the Abraham Lincoln assassination (d. 1867)
1843 – King Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)
1844 – Detlev von Lilencron, German poet (d. 1909)
1844 – Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
1853 – Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
1864 – Ransom E. Olds, American pioneer (d. 1950)
1865 – King George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
1872 – Habibullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (d. 1919)
1873 – Otto Loewi, German doctor, won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1961)
1876 - Nikolay Burdenko, Russian surgeon (d. 1946)
1877 – Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)
1878 - Barney Oldfield, American racing driver (d. 1946)
1879 - Alla Nazimova, Russian-American movie and theatre actress (d. 1945)
1881 - Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
1885 – Yakov Sverdlov, Russian revolutionary and politician (d. 1919)
1890 - Baburao Painter, Indian actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1954)
1895 – Zoltan Korda, movie director (d. 1961)
1897 – Memphis Minnie, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (d. 1973)
1899 – Georg von Bekesy, Hungarian physicist and physiologist (d. 1972)
1900 - Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist (d. 1997)
1901 1950
1901 – Maurice Evans, English actor (d. 1989)
1901 – Zhang Xueliang, Chinese warlord (d. 2001)
1903 – Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
1904 – Charles Drew, American surgeon (d. 1950)
1906 – Josephine Baker, American-born dancer (d. 1975)
1910 – Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)
1910 - Wilfred Thesiger, English explorer and writer (d. 2003)
1911 – Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)
1913 - Lloyd Percival, Canadian tennis player, boxer, cricketer and coach (d. 1974)
1917 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)
1922 - Alain Resnais, French director (d. 2014)
1923 - Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician (d. 2017)
1924 - M. Karunanidhi, Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 2018)
1924 - Ingrid Espelid Hovig, Norwegian television chef and cookbook author (d. 2018)
1924 - Bernard Glasser, American actor (d. 2014)
1924 - Jimmy Rogers, American singer and guitarist (d. 1997)
1924 – Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neuropsychologist and Nobel Prize winner
1925 – Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
1925 – Thomas Joseph Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow (d. 2001)
1926 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
1929 – Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and geneticist
1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (d. 1999)
1930 - George Fernandes, Indian journalist and politician
1930 – Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
1931 – Raul Castro, President of Cuba
1931 – Lindy Remigino, American athlete
1933 – Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, Emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
1935 - Enzo Jannacci, Italian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2013)
1936 - Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2017)
1937 - Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician
1937 – Edward Winter, American actor
1938 - David L. Mills, American computer engineer
1939 – Ian Hunter, English musician (Mott the Hoople)
1940 - Antonio Brack Egg, Peruvian ecologist and politician (d. 2014)
1940 - Loretta Long, American actress and singer
1942 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)
1943 - Billy Cunningham, American basketball player
1944 - Edith McGuire, American sprinter
1944 - Mary Thom, American feminist
1945 - Ramon Jacinto, Filipino singer, guitarist and businessman
1945 – John Derbyshire, British-American mathematician and political commentator
1945 – Hale Irwin, American golfer
1946 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (d. 1993)
1946 - Eddie Holman, American singer
1946 - Penelope Wilton, English actress
1947 - Mickey Finn, English singer and musician (d. 1993)
1948 - Jan Reker, Dutch footballer and manager
1949 - Floyd Lloyd, Jamaican singer
1950 - Melissa Mathison, American film and television screenwriter (d. 2015)
1950 – Suzi Quatro, American rock musician
1950 - Deniece Williams, American singer
1951 1975
1951 - Jill Biden, Second Lady of the United States
1952 – Billy Powell, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009)
1954 - Dan Hill, Canadian singer
1954 – Bajram Rexhepi, former Prime Minister of Kosovo (d. 2017)
1956 – George Burley, Scottish football manager
1956 - Danny Wilde, American singer and guitarist (The Quick and The Rembrandts)
1957 - Peter de Villiers, South African rugby coach
1962 – Susannah Constantine, English television presenter
1963 - Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Wallonia
1964 – Kerry King, American rock guitarist (Slayer)
1964 - James Purefoy, British actor
1965 – Michael Moore, British politician
1965 – Thomas Ohrner, German actor and television presenter
1966 – Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
1967 – Anderson Cooper, American broadcast journalist
1968 - Saffron, Nigerian singer and dancer
1970 - Greg Hancock, American motorcycle speedway racer
1972 - Julie Gayet, French actress
1974 – Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
From 1976
1976 - Laila Samuelsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1977 – Cristiano Marques Gomes, Brazilian footballer
1979 - Christian Malcolm, British sprinter
1980 – Amauri, Brazilian-Italian footballer
1980 - Ibrahim Yattara, Guinean footballer
1980 - Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar
1982 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
1982 - Jodie Whittaker, English actress
1984 – Emily Scott, Australian model
1984 – Prince Félix of Luxembourg
1985 – Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan, Mongolian boxer
1985 - Papiss Cissé, Senegalese footballer
1985 - Lukasz Piszczek, Polish footballer
1986 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
1986 – Tomas Verner, Czech ice skater
1986 - Al Horford, Dominican basketball player
1987 - Angela Crawley, Scottish politician
1987 - Michelle Keegan, English actress
1987 - Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
1987 – Lalaine, American actress
1989 – Katie Hoff, American swimmer
1989 - Imogen Poots, British actress
1990 – Fabian Götze, German footballer
1992 – Mario Götze, German footballer
1993 - Otto Porter, American basketball player
2006 - Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkrouwe van Amsberg, Dutch royal
Deaths
Up to 1975
628 - Liang Shidu, Chinese rebel leader
800 - Staurakios, Byzantine general
1395 - Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria (b. 1350)
1397 - William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (b. 1328)
1411 – Leopold IV, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
1649 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
1657 – William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
1780 – Thomas Hutchinson, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
1826 – Nikolai Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
1858 – Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
1861 – Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
1875 – Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
1882 - Christian Wiberg, German painter (b. 1839)
1894 – Karl Eduard Zachariae, expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
1899 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
1900 – Mary Kingsley, English explorer (b. 1862)
1906 - John Maxwell, American golfer (b. 1871)
1918 - Ramon Maximiliano Valdes, 7th President of Panama (b. 1867)
1924 – Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist (b. 1883)
1928 – Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
1946 – Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet-Russian politician (b. 1875)
1963 – Nazim Hikmet (b. 1902)
1963 – Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
1964 – Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, Finnish writer (b. 1888)
1969 - George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)
1970 – Hjalmar Schacht, Minister of Economics and President of the Reichsbank under Adolf Hitler (b. 1877)
1971 – Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
1975 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1901)
1975 – Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
1976 2010
1977 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian movie director, father of Isabella Rossellini, husband of Ingrid Bergman (b. 1906)
1977 – Archibald Hill, English mathematician, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
1986 - Anna Neagle, English actress (b. 1904)
1987 - Will Sampson, American actor and artist (b. 1933)
1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite Islamic leader (b. 1900)
1990 – Stiv Bators, American musician, punk rock singer with The Dead Boys (b. October 22, 1949)
1990 – Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)
1991 – Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1942)
1991 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (b. 1946)
1991 – Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
1992 – Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
1994 - Puig Aubert, French rugby player (b. 1925)
1997 - Dennis James, American actor and game show host (b. 1917)
2000 - Merton Miller, American economist (b. 1923)
2001 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (b. 1915)
2002 - Lew Wasserman, American talent agent and studio executive (b. 1913)
2003 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
2004 – Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
2005 – Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer and lawyer (b. 1945)
2006 - Johnny Grande, American singer (b. 1932)
2009 – Koko Taylor, American musician (b. 1928)
2009 – David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
2010 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician (b. 1937)
2010 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
From 2011
2011 – Jack Kevorkian, American physician and assisted suicide activist (b. 1928)
2011 – James Arness, American actor (b. 1923)
2012 – Roy Salvadori, British racing driver (b. 1922)
2013 - Frank Lautenberg, United States Senator for New Jersey (b. 1924)
2013 - Jiah Khan, American-born British-Indian actress (b. 1988)
2013 - Atul Chitnis, German-Indian technician (b. 1962)
2014 - Gopinath Munde, Indian politician (b. 1949)
2014 - James Alan Shelton, Australian bluegrass guitarist (b. 1960)
2014 - Karl Harris, British motorcycle racer (b. 1979)
2014 - Svyatoslav Belza, Russian scholar, critic and essayist (b. 1942)
2014 - Virginia Luque, Argentine actress (b. 1927)
2015 - Avi Beker, Israeli academic (b. 1951)
2015 - Margaret Juntwait, American radio host (b. 1957)
2016 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer (b. 1942)
2016 - Jocelyn Lovell, Canadian cyclist (b. 1950)
2016 - Sten Lundin, Swedish motocross racer (b. 1931)
2016 - Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1991)
2016 - Dave Swarbrick, English musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
2016 - Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen, Dutch malacologist (b. 1929)
2017 - David Choby, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1947)
2017 - Niels Helveg Petersen, Danish politician (b. 1939)
2017 - Jimmy Piersall, American baseball player (b. 1929)
2017 - John K. Watts, Australian footballer and broadcaster (b. 1937)
2017 - Vincent Tshabalala, South African golfer (b. 1942)
2018 - Robert Brylewski, Polish singer-songwriter (b. 1961)
2018 - Frank Carlucci, American politician (b. 1930)
2018 - Jerry Hopkins, American journalist and blogger (b. 1935)
2018 - Miguel Obando y Bravo, Nicaraguan cardinal (b. 1926)
2018 - Mario Toros, Italian politician (b. 1922)
2018 - Georg von Tiesenhausen, German-American rocket scientist (b. 1914)
Observances
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Events
Up to 1900
411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
AD 53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
AD 68 – Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
747 – Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.
1311 – Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
1523 – The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.
1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.
1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
1762 – British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years' War.
1772 – The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield.
1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.
1815 – Luxembourg declares independence from the French Empire.
1856 – Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail.
1862 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
1885 – Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
1900 – Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies in a British prison of cholera.
1901 to 1950
1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the .
1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
1930 – A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1944 – World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
1944 – World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
1948 – Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
From 1951
1953 – The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
1957 – First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
1959 – The is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
1965 – The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
1965 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
1968 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1972 – Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.
1973 – In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
1979 – The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.
1983 – Margaret Thatcher's Cosnservative Party is re-elected by a large margin the United Kingdom's general election.
1999 – Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
2006 – The 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany begins, with host nation Germany defeating Costa Rica 4-2.
2008 – Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
2009 – An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
2010 – At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.
2019 – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev wins Kazakhstan's Presidential election, having succeeded Nursultan Nazarbayev in March.
Births
Up to 1800
1016 – Deokjong of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (d. 1034)
1424 – Blanche II of Navarre (d. 1464)
1580 – Daniel Heinsius, Belgian poet and scholar (d. 1655)
1588 – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and theorist (d. 1666)
1595 – Władysław IV Vasa, Polish king (d. 1648)
1597 – Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Dutch painter (d. 1665)
1640 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
1661 – Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
1672 – Peter the Great, Russian emperor (d. 1725)
1686 – Andrey Osterman, German-Russian politician, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1747)
1696 – Shiva Rajaram, infant Chattrapati of the Maratha Empire (d. 1726)
1732 – Giuseppe Demachi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1791)
1754 – Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth, English general and politician, Governor of Barbados (d. 1815)
1768 – Samuel Slater, English-American engineer and businessman (d. 1835)
1781 – George Stephenson, English engineer, designed the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (d. 1848)
1801 to 1900
1810 – Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor (d. 1849)
1812 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer and academic (d. 1910)
1835 – Ramón Barros Luco, President of Chile (d. 1919)
1836 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and politician (d. 1917)
1837 – Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, English author (d. 1919)
1842 – Hazard Stevens, American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer (d. 1918)
1843 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
1845 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier, academic, and politician, 36th Governor-General of India (d. 1914)
1845 – Frank Norton, American baseball player (d. 1920)
1849 – Michael Ancher, Danish painter and academic (d. 1927)
1851 – Charles Joseph Bonaparte, American lawyer and politician, 46th United States Attorney General (d. 1921)
1861 – Pierre Duhem, French physicist, mathematician, and historian (d. 1916)
1861 – Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Russian-German chemist and physicist (d. 1938)
1864 – Jeanne Bérangère, French actress (d. 1928)
1865 – Albéric Magnard, French composer and educator (d. 1914)
1865 – Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1931)
1868 – Jane Avril, French model and dancer (d. 1943)
1874 – Launceston Elliot, Scottish weightlifter and wrestler (d. 1930)
1875 – Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1879 – Harry DeBaecke, American rower (d. 1961)
1882 – Robert Kerr, Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach (d. 1963)
1885 – Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Polish general and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Poland (d. 1962)
1890 – Leslie Banks, English actor, director, and producer (d. 1952)
1891 – Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (d. 1964)
1893 – Irish Meusel, American baseball player and coach (d. 1963)
1895 – Archie Weston, American football player and journalist (d. 1981)
1898 – Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
1900 – Fred Waring, American singer, bandleader, and television host (d. 1984)
1901 to 1925
1902 – Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1969)
1903 – Felice Bonetto, Italian race car driver (d. 1953)
1903 – Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (d. 1996)
1906 – Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice (d. 1997)
1908 – Luis Kutner, American lawyer, author, and activist (d. 1993)
1908 – Branch McCracken, American basketball player and coach (d. 1970)
1910 – Robert Cummings, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1990)
1910 – Ted Hicks, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (d. 1984)
1912 – Ingolf Dahl, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1970)
1915 – Jim McDonald, American football player and coach (d. 1997)
1915 – Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009)
1916 – Jurij Brězan, German soldier and author (d. 2006)
1916 – Siegfried Graetschus, German SS officer (d. 1943)
1916 – Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2009)
1917 – Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (d. 2012)
1918 – John Hospers, American philosopher and politician (d. 2011)
1921 – Arthur Hertzberg, American rabbi and scholar (d. 2006)
1921 – Jean Lacouture, French journalist, historian, and author (d. 2015)
1922 – George Axelrod, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1922 – John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Chinese-American pilot and poet (d. 1941)
1922 – Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (d. 1988)
1923 – Gerald Götting, German politician (d. 2015)
1924 – Tony Britton, English actor (d. 2019)
1924 – Ed Farhat, American wrestler and manager (d. 2003)
1925 – Keith Laumer, American soldier and author (d. 1993)
1925 – Herman Sarkowsky, German-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Seattle Seahawks (d. 2014)
1926 to 1950
1926 – Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, American singer and bass player (d. 2010)
1926 – Mona Freeman, American actress and painter (d. 2014)
1926 – Happy Rockefeller, American philanthropist, 31st Second Lady of the United States (d. 2015)
1927 – Jim Nolan, American basketball player (d. 1983)
1928 – R. Geraint Gruffydd, Welsh critic and academic (d. 2015)
1929 – Johnny Ace, American singer and pianist (d. 1954)
1930 – Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
1930 – Jordi Pujol, Spanish physician and politician, 126th President of the Generalitat de Catalonia
1931 – Jackie Mason, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
1931 – Nandini Satpathy, Indian author and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Odisha (d. 2006)
1931 – Bill Virdon, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1932 – Denise Robertson, English television personality (d. 2016)
1933 – Al Cantello, American javelin thrower and coach
1934 – Michael Mates, English colonel and politician
1934 – Jackie Wilson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
1935 – Dutch Savage, American wrestler and promoter (d. 2013)
1936 – Mick O'Dwyer, Irish Gaelic footballer and manager
1936 – George Radda, Hungarian chemist and academic
1937 – Harald Rosenthal, German hydrobiologist and academic
1938 – Jeremy Hardie, English economist and businessman
1938 – Giles Havergal, Scottish actor, director, and playwright
1938 – Charles Wuorinen, American composer and educator (d. 2020)
1939 – Ileana Cotrubaș, Romanian soprano and actress
1939 – Eric Fernie, Scottish historian and academic
1939 – David Hobbs, English race car driver and sportscaster
1939 – Dick Vitale, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1939 – Charles Webb, American author
1940 – André Vallerand, Canadian businessman and politician
1941 – Jon Lord, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2012)
1942 – Anton Burghardt, German footballer and manager
1942 – Nicholas Lloyd, English journalist
1943 – John Fitzpatrick, English race car driver
1943 – Charles Saatchi, Iraqi-English businessman, co-founded Saatchi & Saatchi
1944 – Janric Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon, English accountant and politician
1944 – Wally Gabler, American football player and sportscaster
1946 – Deyda Hydara, Gambian journalist and publisher, co-founded The Point (d. 2004)
1946 – James Kelman, Scottish author and playwright
1946 – Peter Kilfoyle, English politician
1946 – Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, Italian politician and diplomat, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1947 – Robert Indermaur, Swiss painter
1947 – Robbie Vincent, UK disc jockey and radio presenter
1948 – Jim Bailey, American football player
1948 – Gudrun Schyman, Swedish social worker and politician
1949 – Kiran Bedi, Indian police officer and activist
1950 – Trevor Bolder, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (d. 2013)
1950 – Fred Jackson, American football player and coach
1950 – Giorgos Kastrinakis, Greek-American basketball player
1951 to 1975
1951 – Michael Patrick Cronan, American graphic designer and academic (d. 2013)
1951 – James Newton Howard, American composer, conductor, and producer
1951 – Dave Parker, American baseball player and coach
1951 – Brian Taylor, American basketball player
1952 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
1952 – Billy Knight, American basketball player
1953 – Ken Navarro, Italian-American guitarist and composer
1954 – Pete Byrne, English singer-songwriter (Naked Eyes)
1954 – Paul Chapman, Welsh guitarist and songwriter (d. 2020)
1954 – Gregory Maguire, American author
1954 – Elizabeth May, American-Canadian environmentalist, lawyer, and politician
1954 – George Pérez, American author and illustrator
1956 – Berit Aunli, Norwegian skiier
1956 – Patricia Cornwell, American journalist and author
1956 – Marek Gazdzicki, Polish nuclear physicist
1956 – Joaquín, Spanish footballer
1956 – John Le Lievre, British squash player
1956 – Kayhan Mortezavi, Iranian director
1956 – Francine Raymond, French Canadian singer songwriter
1956 – Nikolai Tsonev, Bulgarian politician
1956 – Rudolf Wojtowicz, Polish footballer
1957 – Randy Read, English crystallographer and academic
1958 – David Ancrum, American basketball player and coach
1958 – Tony Horwitz, American journalist and author (d. 2019)
1959 – Peter Fowler, Australian golfer
1959 – Benny Gantz, Israeli politician
1960 – Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist and author
1961 – Thomas Benson, American football player
1961 – Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer, and author
1961 – Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer, and playwright
1962 – Yuval Banay, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 – Ken Rose, American football player
1962 – David Trewhella, Australian rugby league player
1963 – Gilad Atzmon, Israeli-English saxophonist, author, and activist
1963 – Johnny Depp, American actor
1963 – David Koepp, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1964 – Gloria Reuben, Canadian-American actress
1964 – Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player and bass player (d. 2009)
1967 – Rubén Maza, Venezuelan runner
1968 – Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper and coach
1969 – André Racicot, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Eric Wynalda, American soccer player, coach, and sportscaster
1971 – Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer and sportscaster
1971 – Jean Galfione, French pole vaulter and sportscaster
1971 – Jackie McKeown, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 – Matt Horsley, Australian footballer and coach
1973 – Aigars Apinis, Latvian discus thrower and shot putter
1973 – Tedy Bruschi, American football player and sportscaster
1973 – Frédéric Choffat, Swiss director, producer, and cinematographer
1973 – Grant Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Samoth, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 – Otto Addo, German-Ghanaian footballer and manager
1975 – Andrew Symonds, English-Australian cricketer
From 1976
1977 – Usman Afzaal, Pakistani-English cricketer
1977 – Paul Hutchison, English cricketer
1977 – Olin Kreutz, American football player
1977 – Peja Stojaković, Serbian basketball player
1978 – Shandi Finnessey, American model and actress, Miss USA 2004
1978 – Miroslav Klose, German footballer
1978 – Heather Mitts, American soccer player
1978 – Hayden Schlossberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1979 – Dario Dainelli, Italian footballer
1979 – Amanda Lassiter, American basketball player
1980 – D'banj, Nigerian singer-songwriter and harmonica player
1980 – Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
1980 – Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
1980 – Lehlohonolo Seema, South African footballer
1981 – Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress
1982 – Yoshito Ōkubo, Japanese footballer
1982 – Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer-songwriter
1983 – Firas Al-Khatib, Syrian footballer
1983 – Josh Cribbs, American football player
1983 – Dwayne Jones, American basketball player
1983 – Danny Richar, Dominican-American baseball player
1984 – Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
1984 – Jake Newton, Guyanese footballer
1984 – Asko Paade, Estonian basketball player
1984 – Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
1984 – Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
1985 – Richard Kahui, New Zealand rugby player
1985 – Sonam Kapoor, Indian model and actress
1985 – Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
1986 – Doug Legursky, American football player
1986 – Yadier Pedroso, Cuban baseball player (d. 2013)
1986 – Ashley Postell, American gymnast
1987 – Jaan Mölder, Estonian race car driver
1988 – Jason Demers, Canadian ice hockey defenseman
1988 – Sara Isaković, Slovenian swimmer
1988 – Mae Whitman, American actress
1989 – Dídac Vilà, Spanish footballer
1989 – Tanya Burr, English YouTuber
1990 – Matthias Mayer, Austrian skier
1992 – Zach Hyman, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 – Yannick Agnel, French swimmer
1992 – Boyd Cordner, Australian rugby league player
1993 – George Jennings, Australian rugby league player
2000 – Laurie Hernandez, American artistic gymnast
Deaths
Up to 1900
AD 68 – Nero, Roman emperor (b. 37)
373 – Ephrem the Syrian, hymnographer and theologian (b. 306)
597 – Columba, Irish missionary and saint (b. 521)
630 – Shahrbaraz, king of the Persian Empire
889 – Aimoin, Frankish monk and archivist
908 – Yang Wo, Prince of Hongnong
1075 – Gebhard of Supplinburg, Saxon count
1087 – Otto I of Olomouc (b. 1045)
1238 – Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester
1252 – Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1348 – Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sienese painter (b. 1290)
1361 – Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet (b. 1291)
1563 – William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English accountant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1506)
1572 – Jeanne d'Albret, Navarrese queen and Huguenot leader (b. 1528)
1583 – Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1525)
1597 – José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1534)
1647 – Leonard Calvert, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1606)
1656 – Thomas Tomkins, Welsh-English composer (b. 1572)
1716 – Banda Singh Bahadur, Indian commander (b. 1670)
1717 – Jeanne Guyon, French mystic and author (b. 1648)
1834 – William Carey, English minister and missionary (b. 1761)
1870 – Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (b. 1812)
1875 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and conchologist (b. 1795)
1889 – Mike Burke, American baseball player (b. 1854)
1892 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (b. 1863)
1901 to 2000
1901 – Adolf Bötticher, German historian and author (b. 1842)
1923 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (b. 1846)
1927 – Victoria Woodhull, American activist for women's rights (b. 1838)
1929 – Louis Bennison, American stage and silent film actor (b. 1884)
1929 – Margaret Lawrence, American stage actress (b. 1889)
1942 – František Erben, Czech gymnast (b. 1874)
1952 – Adolf Busch, German-Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1891)
1953 – Ernest Graves, Sr., American football player, coach, and general (b. 1880)
1954 – Alain LeRoy Locke, American writer, professor and philosopher (b. 1885)
1956 – Chandrashekhar Agashe, Indian industrialist and lawyer (b. 1888)
1956 – Hans Bergsland, Norwegian fencer (b. 1878)
1956 – Thomas Hicks, Australian tennis player (b. 1869)
1956 – Ferdinand Jodl, German general (b. 1896)
1958 – Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
1959 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1960 – Harry S. Hammond, American football player and businessman (b. 1884)
1961 – Camille Guérin, French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1872)
1963 – Jacques Villon, French painter (b. 1875)
1964 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, British businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1879)
1968 – Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
1972 – Gilberto Parlotti, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1940)
1973 – Chuck Bennett, American football player and coach (b. 1907)
1973 – John Creasey, English author and politician (b. 1908)
1973 – Erich von Manstein, German general (b. 1887)
1974 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1979 – Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (b. 1884)
1981 – Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
1984 – Helen Hardin, American painter (b. 1943)
1989 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1991 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-American pianist and educator (b. 1903)
1993 – Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1921)
1994 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1997 – Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (b. 1908)
1998 – Lois Mailou Jones, American painter and academic (b. 1905)
2000 – John Abramovic, American basketball player (b. 1919)
2000 – Jacob Lawrence, American painter and academic (b. 1917)
From 2001
2004 – Rosey Brown, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
2004 – Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist, co-founded J-FLAG (b. 1945)
2006 – Drafi Deutscher, German singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2007 – Frankie Abernathy, American purse designer, cast-member on The Real World: San Diego (b. 1981)
2008 – Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American author and critic (b. 1931)
2008 – Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian and author (b. 1919)
2009 – Dick May, American race car driver (b. 1930)
2010 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (b. 1908)
2011 – M. F. Husain, Indian painter and director (b. 1915)
2011 – Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (b. 1970)
2011 – Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (b. 1956)
2012 – Régis Clère, French cyclist (b. 1956)
2012 – John Maples, Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (b. 1943)
2012 – Ivan Minatti, Slovene poet and translator (b. 1924)
2012 – Hawk Taylor, American baseball player and coach (b. 1939)
2012 – Abram Wilson, American-English trumpet player and educator (b. 1973)
2013 – Iain Banks, Scottish author (b. 1954)
2013 – Bruno Bartoletti, Italian conductor (b. 1926)
2013 – John Burke, English rugby player (b. 1948)
2013 – Walter Jens, German philologist, historian, and academic (b. 1923)
2013 – Zdeněk Rotrekl, Czech poet and historian (b. 1920)
2014 – Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal (b. 1926)
2014 – Reinhard Höppner, German politician (b. 1948)
2014 – Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1958)
2014 – Elsie Quarterman, American ecologist and academic (b. 1910)
2014 – Alicemarie Huber Stotler, American lawyer and judge (b. 1942)
2014 – Gustave Tassell, American fashion designer (b. 1926)
2014 – Bob Welch, American baseball player and coach (b. 1956)
2015 – Pumpkinhead, American rapper (b. 1975)
2015 – James Last, German musician and bandleader (b. 1929)
2015 – Fred Anton Maier, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1938)
2015 – Pedro Zerolo, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1960)
2016 – Hamza Ali, English cricketer (b. 1996)
2017 – Adam West, American actor and investor (b. 1928)
2017 – Natig Aliyev, Azerbaijani politician (b. 1947)
2017 – Andrzej Baturo, Polish photographer (b. 1940)
2018 – Fadil Vokrri, Kosovo Albanian football administrator and player (b. 1960)
2018 – Reinhard Hardegen, German U-boat commander and politician (b. 1913)
2019 – Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (b. 1966)
2019 – Erich Iltgen, German politician (b. 1940)
2019 – Juhani Wahlsten, Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2019 – William D. Wittliff, American screenwriter (b. 1940)
2020 – Parviz Aboutaleb, Iranian footballer (b. 1942)
2020 – Paul Chapman, Welsh musician (b. 1954)
2020 – Pau Donés, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1966)
2020 – Simon Henshaw, American politician
2020 – Ain Kaalep, Estonian novelist, poet and editor (b. 1926)
2020 – Kim Chang-sop, North Korean politician (b. 1946)
2020 – Nemir Kirdar, Iraqi-British banker (b. 1933)
Holidays and observances
Anniversary of the Accession of King Abdullah II (Jordan)
Autonomy Day (Åland Islands)
Christian feast day:
Aidan of Lindisfarne (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
Bede (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
Columba
Ephrem the Syrian (Roman Catholic Church and Church of England)
José de Anchieta
Primus and Felician
June 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Coral Triangle Day
La Rioja Day (La Rioja)
Murcia Day (Murcia)
National Heroes' Day (Uganda)
References
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Events
Up to 1950
68 – The Roman Senate proclaims Galba Emperor.
218 - Battle of Antioch.
793 – Vikings or raiding tribes from Scandinavia, attack and steal valuable objects from Lindisfarne, a monastery off the coast of Northumbria in England.
1042 - Edward the Confessor becomes King of England.
1191 – Richard I of England arrives in Acre, Palestine, beginning his Crusade.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois Rivieres - American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec, present-day Canada.
1783 – An eruption occurs in the Laki crater in Iceland. It causes widespread famine, killing several thousand Icelanders and also has devastating effects on other parts of Europe and in other parts of the World.
1794 – Maximilien Robespierre founds the cult of Supreme Being.
1856 – A group of Pitcairn Islanders, descendents of Bounty mutineers, land on Norfolk Island and settle there.
1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys - Confederate forces save the army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula.
1866 - Canada's Parliament meets at Parliament Hill in Ottawa for the first time.
1867 - Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Elisabeth of Bavaria are crowned King and Queen of Hungary in Budapest.
1887 - Herman Hollerith applies for a US patent for his punched card calculator.
1895 - In Ecuador, Eloy Alfaro comes to power in a military coup and starts a series of liberal reforms.
1906 - Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law.
1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1912 – In the High Jump, Marc Wright becomes the first person to clear a height of 4 metres.
1914 - The Brazilian Sports Federation is founded - a precursor to the Brazilian Football Federation.
1924 – Climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine go missing while attempting to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. It is unknown whether they managed to reach the summit.
1928 – The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, renaming it Beiping.
1929 – Margaret Bondfield becomes the first female cabinet minister in the UK, when she becomes Minister of Labour.
1930 - Carol II of Romania becomes King.
1941 – World War II: The Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
1942 – World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell Sydney and Newcastle, New South Wales.
1949 – The novel 1984 by George Orwell goes on sale in London.
1949 - The FBI publishes a list of celebrities it considers to be members of the Communist Party.
1950 - Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born field marshal in Australian history.
From 1951
1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, DC can't refuse to serve black patrons.
1953 – Flint, Michigan is hit by a tornado, killing 115 people.
1959 - The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
1966 – Topeka, Kansas is hit by a tornado that kills 16 people.
1966 - An F-4 Starfighter aircraft collides with an XB-70 Valkyrie Prototype No.2, destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base, killing 2 people.
1967 - Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 people and injuring 171. On the same day, Israel's army enters Hebron.
1968 – James Earl Ray is arrested in London for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr..
1972 – US bombers drop a napalm bomb in South Vietnam. One of the most striking images of the Vietnam War was taken on this day, of 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc running down a road with burns resulting from the attack.
1975 - The Soviet Venera 9 probe is sent to Venus.
1982 – Falklands War: 56 servicemen are killed in an Argentine attack on two British landing ships.
1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in New South Wales.
1986 - Kurt Waldheim is elected President of Austria over Kurt Steyrer.
1987 - The New Zealand government creates a national nuclear-free zone.
1990 – The 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy begins.
1992 – World Ocean Day is observed for the first time.
1996 – UEFA Euro 1996 in England begins.
2001 - Mamoru Takuma kills 8 people and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka prefecture of Japan.
2002 - Lennox Lewis defeats Mike Tyson in their Heavyweight Boxing fight in Memphis, Tennessee. They had previously fought each other during a press conference in January of the same year.
2003 – In a referendum in Poland, 77% of voters approve joining the EU.
2004 - The first transit of Venus since 1882 occurs.
2006 - Raphaella de Gouvello reaches the island of Réunion, completing the first journey-by-surfboard across the Indian Ocean.
2007 - Newcastle, New South Wales is hit by flooding, killing 9 people.
2007 – Paris Hilton, heiress and celebrity, gets a 45-day jail sentence for drunk driving which gets much attention.
2008 – Akihabara shopping district, Chiyoda, Tokyo: Tomohiro Kato drives a two-ton truck into a crowd before attacking people with a knife.
2009 – Gabon's President Omar Bongo dies after more than 41-and-a-half years in office.
2012 – UEFA Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine begins. In the opening game, the Poland national football team and the Greece national football team draw 1-1.
2014 - Abdel Fattah el-Sisi becomes President of Egypt.
2014 - At least 28 people are killed in an attack on Jinnah International Airport in Lahore, Pakistan.
2017 - United Kingdom general election, 2017: Theresa May's Conservative Party loses its overall majority despite keeping its status as the largest party and making gains in Scotland; Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party performs better than expected, including gains in Kensington and Canterbury; The Scottish National Party loses 21 seats but remains by-far the largest Scottish party; UKIP lose heavily.
Births
Up to 1900
862 - Emperor Xizong of Tang (d. 888)
1438 - Melozzo de Forli, Italian painter (d. 1494)
1552 - Gabriello Chiabera, Italian poet (d. 1638)
1594 – Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim, German general (d. 1632)
1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist (d. 1712)
1671 - Tommaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
1717 - John Collins, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1795)
1724 – John Smeaton, British civil engineer (d. 1794)
1743 – Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian adventurer (d. 1795)
1745 – Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (d. 1818)
1772 - Robert Stevenson, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1850)
1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
1837 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)
1840 - Manuel José de Arriaga, President of Portugal (d. 1917)
1842 – John Q. A. Brackett, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
1847 – Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States (d. 1907)
1851 - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist, physician and inventor (d. 1940)
1852 - Guido Banti, Italian physician (d. 1925)
1855 - George Charles Haité, British painter and illustrator (d. 1924)
1859 – Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure (d. 1947)
1860 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940)
1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959)
1872 - Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
1885 - Karl Genzken, German physician (d. 1957)
1895 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
1897 – John G. Bennett, British scientist and writer (d. 1974)
1901 1950
1901 - Salustiano Sanchez, Spanish-American supercentenarian, oldest-living man (d. 2013)
1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-born American writer (d. 1987)
1903 – Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator and Texas politician (d. 1996)
1904 - Bruce Goff, American architect (d. 1982)
1910 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003)
1910 – John W. Campbell Jr., science fiction writer, publisher, editor (d. 1971)
1911 – Edmundo Rivero, Argentine singer (d. 1986)
1912 – Harry Holtzman, American abstract artist (d. 1987)
1915 - Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian independence activist (d. 2015)
1916 – Francis Crick, British scientist, Nobel laureate, helped discover the molecular structure of DNA (d. 2004)
1916 – Luigi Comencini, Italian movie director (d. 2007)
1917 – Byron White, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 2002)
1918 – Robert Preston, actor (d. 1987)
1918 - John D. Roberts, American chemist
1918 - George Edward Hughes, British philosopher and logician (d. 1994)
1921 – Suharto, former President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
1921 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)
1923 - Alice Coleman, English geographer and academic
1924 – Lyn Nofziger, American political operative
1924 - Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (d. 2013)
1925 – Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States (d. 2018)
1926 - Julio Silva Solar, Chilean lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1927 – LeRoy Neiman, American painter
1929 – Jerry Stiller, American comedian, actor
1930 – Robert Aumann, German-Israeli mathematician
1930 - Marcel Léger, Canadian politician (d. 1993)
1933 – Joan Rivers, American comedienne, writer (d. 2014)
1934 – Millicent Martin, English singer and actress
1934 - Mikio Aoki, Japanese politician
1936 – James Darren, actor, singer
1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist (d. 2013)
1936 - Robert Floyd, American computer scientist (d. 2001)
1938 - Angelo Amato, Italian cardinal
1939 - Bernie Casey, American football player and actor
1940 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer
1941 – Fuzzy Haskins, American musician ("P Funk")
1941 - George Pell, Australian cardinal and Archbishop of Sydney
1942 - Jacques Dubochet Swiss biochemist
1942 - Chuck Negron, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 – Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
1942 – Horst Wolter, German footballer
1943 – Colin Baker, British actor
1943 – William Calley, American war criminal
1944 – Boz Scaggs, singer, songwriter
1944 - Marc Ouellet, Canadian cardinal
1946 - Graham Henry, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1946 – Pearlette Louisy, Governor-General of Saint Lucia
1947 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist
1947 – Sara Paretsky, American writer
1947 - Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter
1948 – Jürgen von der Lippe, German show master
1950 – Sonia Braga, Brazilian actress
1950 - Kathy Baker, American actress
1950 - Steven Fromholz, American entertainer, singer and songwriter (d. 2014)
1951 1975
1951 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer and guitarist
1953 – Ivo Sanader, former Prime Minister of Croatia
1953 - Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1954 - Sergei Storchak, Russian politician
1954 - Greg Ginn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955 – Griffin Dunne, actor
1955 – Sir Tim Berners-Lee, British inventor of the World Wide Web
1955 - José Antonio Camacho, Spanish footballer
1956 – Udo Bullmann, German politician
1957 – Scott Adams, American cartoonist ("Dilbert")
1957 - Dimple Kapadia, Indian movie actress
1958 – Keenen Ivory Wayans, comedian, actor, director
1960 – Mick Hucknall, English singer/songwriter ("Simply Red")
1961 - Mary King, English equestrian
1962 – Nick Rhodes, English musician ("Duran Duran")
1962 - Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1962 - Kristine W, American singer-songwriter and producer
1964 - Butch Reynolds, American athlete
1965 – Rob Pilatus, German-born singer and dancer (d. 1998)
1966 – Julianna Margulies, American actress (ER)
1969 – Marcos Siega, American director
1970 – Gabrielle Giffords, United States Congresswoman
1970 – Kelli Williams, actress (The Practice)
1970 - Kwame Kilpatrick, 68th Mayor of Detroit
1971 – Troy Vincent, American football player
1973 – Lexa Doig, Canadian actress (Andromeda)
1973 - Shappi Khorsandi, Iranian-English comedienne
1973 - Bryant Reeves, American basketball player
1975 – Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
From 1976
1976 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
1977 – Kanye West, American rapper, producer
1978 - Eun Ji Won, South Korean rapper, producer and actor
1978 – Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse)
1979 - Derek Trucks, American musician
1981 - Alex Band, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1981 - Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author (d. 2019)
1981 – Sara Watkins, violinist (Nickel Creek)
1982 - Irina Lazareanu, Romanian model
1982 – Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
1982 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
1983 – Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
1983 – Pantelis Kapetanos, Greek footballer
1984 – Javier Mascherano, Argentine footballer
1984 – Andrea Casiraghi, Monegasque royalty
1985 – Pierre Spies, South African rugby player
1985 - Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver
1986 - Carl Ikeme, English-born footballer
1986 - Patrick Kaleta, American ice hockey player
1987 - Issiar Dia, Senegalese footballer
1987 - Danielle Foote, Australian singer
1989 - Amaury Vassili, French singer
1989 - Richard Fleeshman, English singer-songwriter and actor
1990 - Mickey Bushell, British Paralympic athlete
1990 - Alexander Yakin, Russian actor
1991 - Nick Benson, American actor
1997 - Jelena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
2002 - Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau van Amsberg, Dutch royal
2004 - Francesca Capaldi, American actress
2006 - Deng Minghe, Chinese actor (d. 2015)
Deaths
Up to 1900
62 - Octavia, daughter of Nero
632 – Muhammad the Prophet, founder of Islam (b. 570)
1042 – Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (b. 1018)
1154 - William of York, English saint and archbishop
1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
1383 - Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English crusader (b. 1338)
1384 – Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
1476 - George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (b. 1432)
1505 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1470)
1611 - Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1522)
1621 - Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
1628 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
1701 - Philippe, Duke of Orléans (b. 1640)
1714 – Sophia of Hanover (b. 1630)
1716 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
1771 - George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, British statesman (b. 1716)
1795 – Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
1809 – Thomas Paine, American writer (b. 1737)
1835 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
1845 – Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
1874 – Cochise, Apache chief (b. between 1810 and 1823)
1876 – George Sand, French writer (b. 1804)
1889 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (b. 1844)
1900 - Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington, English nobleman (b. 1846)
1901 2000
1924 – George Mallory, English mountain climber (b. 1886)
1924 – Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (b. 1902)
1945 – Karl Hanke, Nazi official (b. 1903)
1951 - Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
1956 – Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
1966 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
1969 - Aino Sibelius, wife of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (b. 1871)
1970 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (b. 1908)
1980 – Ernst Busch, German actor and singer (b. 1900)
1980 – Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian footballer (b. 1904)
1982 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
1984 - Gordon Jacob, English composer (b. 1895)
1987 - Alexander Iolas, Greek-American gallery owner and art collector (b. 1907)
1990 – José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (b. 1906)
1993 - Root Boy Slim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
1998 – Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
1998 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
From 2001
2003 - Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
2006 - Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
2007 – Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, 1st President of Somalia (b. 1908)
2007 – Richard Rorty, American philosopher (b. 1931)
2009 – Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
2009 - Harold Norse, American writer and poet (b. 1916)
2013 - Willi Sitte, German artist (b. 1921)
2013 - Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli writer, artist and journalist (b. 1930)
2013 - Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, husband of Megawati Sukarnoputri (b. 1942)
2013 - Paul Cellucci, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1948)
2014 - Yoshihito, Prince Katsura, Japanese royal (b. 1948)
2014 - Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist and supercentenarian, oldest-living man (b. 1903)
2014 - J. Stanley Marshall, American educator and academic (b. 1923)
2015 - Chea Sim, Cambodian politician (b. 1932)
2015 - David Rotem, Israeli politician (b. 1949)
2015 - Frank Cappuccino, American boxing referee (b. 1929)
2016 - Qahhor Mahkamov, former President of Tajikistan (b. 1932)
2016 - Pierre Aubert, Swiss politician (b. 1927)
2016 - Sascha Lewandowski, German football manager (b. 1971)
2016 - Marina Malfatti, Italian actress (b. 1933)
2017 - Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaraguan diplomat, priest and politician (b. 1933)
2017 - Marcelo Guinle, Argentine politician (b. 1947)
2017 - Glenne Headly, American actress (b. 1955)
2017 - Jan Notermans, Dutch footballer (b. 1932)
2017 - Jill Singer, Australian journalist (b. 1957)
2017 - Sam Panopoulos, Greek-American cook (b. 1934)
2017 - Norro Wilson, American country singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1938)
2018 - Per Ahlmark, Swedish politician and writer (b. 1939)
2018 - Anthony Bourdain, American chef, author and television personality (b. 1956)
2018 - Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (b. 1939)
2018 - Freddy Eugen, Danish cyclist (b. 1941)
2018 - Eunice Gayson, British actress (b. 1928)
2018 - Danny Kirwan, British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
2018 - Liu Yichang, Hong Kong writer (b. 1918)
2018 - John McKenzie, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1937)
2018 - Theodore J. Sophocleus, American politician (b. 1939)
2018 - Thomas Stuttaford, British medical columnist and politician (b. 1931)
2019 - Lucho Avilés, Uruguayan-Argentine entertainment journalist (b. 1938)
2019 - Spencer Bohren, American guitarist (b. 1950)
2019 - Jorge Brovetto, Uruguayan engineer, academic and politician (b. 1933)
2019 - Norman Dewis, British racing driver and engineer (b. 1920)
2019 - Justin Edinburgh, English footballer and manager (b. 1969)
2019 - Frank Lucchesi, American baseball player, coach and manager (b. 1927)
2019 - Andre Matos, Brazilian heavy metal singer and guitarist (b. 1971)
Observances
World Ocean Day
Bounty Day (Norfolk Island)
Primoz Trubar Day (Slovenia)
Engineers' Day (Peru)
World Brain Tumor Day
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Events
Up to 1900
1099 - First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1420 - Troops of the Republic of Venice capture the city of Udine.
1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas splits the "New World" between Spain and Portugal.
1628 - The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted Royal Assent by King Charles I of England and becomes law.
1654 – Louis XIV of France is crowned King.
1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is destroyed by an earthquake, killing 1,000 people.
1776 - Richard Henry Lee presents the Lee Resolution to the Continental Congress.
1788 - Citizens of Grenoble, France, toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1810 - The "Gazeta de Buenos Ayres" newspaper in Argentina is published for the first time.
1832 - Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, killing 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1840 - Frederick William IV of Prussia becomes King.
1862 - The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
1880 - War of the Pacific: Battle of Arica (then part of Peru, now part of Chile).
1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first US President to attend a baseball game.
1893 - Mahatma Gandhi does his first act of civil disobedience, while living in South Africa.
1901 2000
1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves the Union with Sweden.
1906 - The Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard in Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland.
1909 - Mary Pickford makes her first movie appearance at the age of 16.
1913 - Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America, is climbed successfully for the first time, by Hudson Stuck.
1917 - World War I: Battle of Messines - Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
1919 - Sette Giugno: A riot in Malta kills 4 people.
1929 – The Lateran Treaty creates the Vatican City state, the world's smallest country.
1940 – Haakon VII of Norway and Crown Prince Olav go into exile in London. They return to Norway five years later.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
1942 - World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign - Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu Island and Kiska.
1944 - World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 360 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans is sunk without survivors off the island of Santorini.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy - At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian POWs.
1945 - Norway's Royal Family returns from exile, after the end of World War II and Nazi occupation of Norway.
1948 - Edvard Benes resigns as President of Czechoslovakia, in order to avoid signing the Ninth of May Constitution that makes his country a Communist state.
1959 - The Viqueque Rebellion begins against Portuguese colonists in present-day East Timor.
1967 – Israeli forces enter Jerusalem in the Six-Day War.
1968 - The first LEGOLAND opens in Billund, Denmark.
1973 – Willy Brandt becomes the first Chancellor of Germany to visit Israel.
1973 - Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Federal Republic of Germany.
1975 – The first Cricket World Cup begins in England.
1977 - 500 million people watch television coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee (25th anniversary of her reign in the UK and Commonwealth realms).
1979 - The first elections to the European Parliament are held.
1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Usiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
1982 - Rebel leader Hissene Habri takes power through a coup in Chad.
1982 - Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public.
1989 – Suriname Airways Flight 764 crashes in jungle near Paramaribo in thick fog. More than 170 people on board are killed.
1991 – Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupts.
1995 - The long-range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
2000 – The UN defines the Blue Line as the Israel-Lebanon border.
From 2001
2001 - Tony Blair is elected to a second term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
2006 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed in a US airstrike.
2008 – UEFA Euro 2008 begins as the Switzerland national football team, as co-host with Austria, loses the opening match to the Czech Republic national football team.
2009 – In European elections, Social-Democratic political parties suffer heavy losses, as more Conservative MEPs are elected. Far-right politicians also gain several seats in the European Parliament.
2013 - A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people.
2014 - At least 37 people are killed in an attack in South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2014 - Petro Poroshenko is sworn in as President of Ukraine.
2016 - Hillary Clinton declares victory in the race for the Democratic nomination for US President, which would make her the first woman to achieve this.
2017 - 2017 Tehran attacks: 12 people are killed in attacks on the Iranian parliament and mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran.
2019 - The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup begins: Hosts France beat South Korea 4-0 in the opening game.
Births
Up to 1900
1502 - King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
1529 - Etienne Pasquier, French lawyer and writer (d. 1615)
1561 - Johann VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1623)
1660 - King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
1686 - Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1852)
1687 - Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian alto castrato (d. 1734)
1732 - Giuseppe Demachi, Italian composer (d. 1791)
1757 - Georgina Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)
1761 - John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
1770 – Robert Jenkinson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828)
1809 - William Forbes Skene, Scottish historian and antiquarian (d. 1892)
1811 – James Young Simpson, Scottish physician (d. 1870)
1825 - R. D. Blackmore, English novelist (d. 1900)
1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
1837 – Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)
1840 - Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (d. 1927)
1845 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930)
1848 – Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
1849 - Manuel Bonilla, President of Honduras (d. 1913)
1851 - Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 1922)
1862 – Philipp Lenard, German physicist (d. 1947)
1863 - Bones Ely, American baseball player (d. 1952)
1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish artist and architect (d. 1928)
1877 - Roelof Klein, Dutch rower (d. 1960)
1879 – Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic explorer (d. 1933)
1880 - Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (d. 1956)
1883 - Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
1886 - Henri Coanda, Romanian engineer and inventor (d. 1972)
1888 - Clarence DeMar, American long-distance runner (d. 1958)
1892 - Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975)
1894 - Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American aviator, author and inventor (d. 1974)
1896 – Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist (d. 1986)
1896 – Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
1897 - Kirill Meretskov, Russian marshal (d. 1968)
1897 - George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor (d. 1970)
1901 1950
1906 - Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1963)
1907 - Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg, Swedish royal (d. 2002)
1909 – Jessica Tandy, British actress (d. 1994)
1909 - Virginia Apgar, American physician (d. 1974)
1909 - Peter W. Rodino, American politician (d. 2005)
1910 - Bradford Washburn, American explorer, mountaineer, photographer and mapmaker (d. 2007)
1910 - Arthur Gardner, American actor and movie producer (d. 2014)
1911 - Mario Perazzolo, Italian footballer (d. 2001)
1914 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Indian director, producer and journalist (d. 1987)
1917 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (d. 2000)
1917 – Dean Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1995)
1920 - Georges Marchais, French politician (d. 1997)
1921 - Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician (d. 2012)
1922 - Leo Reise, Jr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1927 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)
1927 - Ian McColl, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2008)
1927 - Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (d. 2014)
1928 - Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer (d. 1995)
1928 - James Ivory, American director
1928 – Randy Turpin, English boxer (d. 1966)
1929 – John Turner, former Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2020)
1929 - Antonio Carbajal, Mexican footballer
1929 - Mickey Duff, Polish-born British boxing trainer and promoter (d. 2014)
1930 - Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014)
1930 - Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1974)
1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress
1933 - Arkady Arkanov, Russian writer and satirist (d. 2015)
1936 - Pippo Baudo, Italian television presenter
1937 - Neeme Jarvi, Estonian conductor
1938 - Ian St John, Scottish footballer
1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer
1940 - Ronald Pickup, English actor
1942 – Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libyan colonel and military leader (d. 2011)
1943 - Ken Osmond, American actor
1944 - Annette Lu, Taiwanese politician and lawyer
1944 - Miguel Ríos, Spanish singer
1945 – Wolfgang Schüssel, former Chancellor of Austria
1947 - Thurman Munson, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1949 - Lou Macari, Scottish footballer
1950 - Gary Graham, American actor
1951 1975
1952 – Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor
1952 – Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer
1953 - Johnny Clegg, British musician
1953 - Libuse Safrankova, Czech actress
1955 - William Forsythe, American actor
1956 - L.A. Reid, American recording executive, songwriter and record producer
1957 - Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer, songwriter and producer
1957 - Fred Vargas, French writer, historian and archaeologist
1957 - Paulo Vitor, Brazilian footballer
1957 – Iain Gray, Scottish politician
1958 – Prince, American singer and musician (d. 2016)
1958 - Surakiart Sathirathai, Thai politician and diplomat
1959 - Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States and 50th Governor of Indiana
1960 - Bill Prady, American television writer and producer
1960 - Steffen Seibert, German television journalist and government spokesman
1961 - Dave Catching, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1962 - Michael Cartellone, American drummer
1962 - Thierry Hazard, French singer-songwriter
1962 - Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese racing driver
1963 - Judie Aronson, American actress
1963 - Luca Fusi, Italian footballer
1964 - Geir Lippestad, Norwegian lawyer
1965 - Mick Foley, American professional wrestler and actor
1965 - Jean-Pierre François, French footballer and singer
1965 – Damien Hirst, British artist
1967 – Dave Navarro, American guitarist
1969 – Prince Joachim of Denmark
1969 - Alex Aguinaga, Ecuadorean footballer
1969 - Adam Buxton, English comedian and actor
1969 - Kim Rhodes, American actress
1970 - Helen Baxendale, British actress
1970 – Cafu, Brazilian footballer
1970 - Mike Hodano, American ice hockey player
1970 - Andrei Kovalenko, Russian ice hockey player
1970 - Cha Seung-won, South Korean actor and model
1970 - Alexander Dobrindt, German politician
1972 - Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
1973 - Song Yun-ah, South Korean model, actress and singer
1974 - Sunshine Anderson, American singer
1974 – Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
1974 – Bear Grylls, British adventurer
1974 - Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian writer (d. 2014)
1975 - Shane Bond, New Zealand cricketer
1975 - Allen Iverson, American basketball player
From 1976
1976 - Necro, American rapper, producer and actor
1976 - Mirsad Türkcan, Turkish basketball player
1977 - Marcin Baszczynski, Polish footballer
1978 - Bill Hader, American comedian, actor, writer and producer
1978 - Mini Andén, Swedish-American model, actress and producer
1979 - Viktor Kostyuchenko, Belarussian ice hockey player
1980 - Ed Moses, American swimmer
1981 – Anna Kournikova, Russian model and tennis player
1981 – Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
1981 - Larisa Oleynuk, American actress
1982 - German Lux, Argentine footballer
1983 - Pierre Pierce, American basketball player
1984 - Ari Koivunen, Finnish singer
1985 - Dani Evans, American model
1985 – Charlie Simpson, English musician
1986 - Keegan Bradley, American golfer
1988 - Milan Lucic, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Michael Cera, Canadian actor
1988 – Philipp Tischendorf, German figure skater
1990 - Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper
1990 - Amy Childs, English TV personality
1990 - Alison Schmitt, American swimmer
1991 - Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress
1991 - Fetty Wap, American rapper
1993 - George Ezra, English singer-songwriter
1993 - Jordan Fry, American actor
1993 - Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer, actress and dancer
Deaths
Up to 1900
555 - Pope Vigilius (b. 500)
1329 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274)
1358 - Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
1394 - Anne of Bohemia, Queen Consort of Richard II of England (b. 1367)
1594 - Roderigo Lopez, Portuguese-English physician
1676 – Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
1810 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
1821 - Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebel leader (b. 1780)
1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
1840 – Frederick William III of Prussia (b. 1770)
1842 - James Barbour, Governor of Virginia (b. 1775)
1843 – Alexis Bouvard, French astronomer (b. 1767)
1854 - Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
1863 - Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian composer (b. 1787)
1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1871 - August Immanuel Bekker, German philologist (b. 1785)
1876 - Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1807)
1901 2000
1911 - Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
1916 - Emile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
1927 - Edmund James Flynn, 10th Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
1931 - Viktor Schwanneke, German director and actor (b. 1880)
1933 - Dragutin Domjanic, Croatian poet (b. 1875)
1936 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
1937 - Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
1945 - Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher (b. 1870)
1951 - Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
1954 – Alan Turing, British mathematician (b. 1912)
1965 - Judy Holliday, American actress (b. 1921)
1966 - Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter and poet (b. 1866)
1967 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1967 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
1968 - Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907)
1970 - E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879)
1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist (b. 1897)
1980 - Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
1988 - Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
1989 - Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)
1992 - Bill France, Sr., American racing driver and businessman, co-founder of NASCAR (b. 1909)
1996 - Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (b. 1904)
1996 – Jan Kerouac, American writer (b. 1952)
From 2001
2001 – Charles Templeton, Canadian cartoonist and television evangelist (b. 1915)
2001 – Victor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian President (b. 1907)
2002 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, 5th Vice president of India (b. 1912)
2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian terrorist, leader in Al-Qaeda (b. 1966)
2008 – Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
2008 – Dino Risi, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1916)
2009 – Baron Vaea, Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1921)
2010 – Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (b. 1970)
2011 – Jorge Semprun, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1923)
2012 – Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Spanish footballer (b. 1957)
2012 – Bob Welch, American musician (b. 1945)
2012 – J. Michael Riva, American production designer (b. 1948)
2012 – Abid Hamid Mahmud, Iraqi military officer (b. 1957)
2013 – Pierre Mauroy, former Prime Minister of France (b. 1928)
2013 – Richard Ramirez, American serial killer (b. 1960)
2014 – Jane Gray, Scottish-Australian supercentenarian (b. 1901)
2014 – Fernandao, Brazilian footballer (b. 1978)
2014 – Rafael Lecuona, Cuban-American gymnast (b. 1928)
2014 – Jacques Herlin, French actor (b. 1927)
2014 – Pierre Patry, Canadian filmmaker (b. 1933)
2015 – Vasili Zhupikov, Russian footballer (b. 1954)
2015 – Sir Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)
2016 – Johnny Brooks, English footballer (b. 1931)
2016 – Amber Gurung, Nepalese musician and composer (b. 1937)
2016 – Sean Rooks, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2016 – Thomas J. Perkins, American businessman (b. 1932)
2016 – Stephen Keshi, Nigerian footballer and manager (b. 1962)
2017 – Arthur Bunting, English rugby player and coach (b. 1936)
2017 – Trento Longaretti, Italian painter (b. 1916)
2017 – James Hardy, American football player (b. 1985)
2017 – France Rode, Slovenian engineer (b. 1934)
2018 – David Douglas Duncan, American photojournalist (b. 1916)
2018 – Fu Da-ren, Taiwanese sports broadcaster and assisted suicide activist (b. 1933)
2018 – Francis Smerecki, French footballer and manager (b. 1946)
2018 – Stefan Weber, Austrian singer (b. 1946)
2019 – Noémi Ban, Hungarian-American public speaker and Holocaust survivor (b. 1922)
2019 – Ryszard Bugajski, Polish film director (b. 1943)
2019 – Nonnie Griffin, Canadian actress (b. 1933)
2019 – Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Uruguayan-Spanish film director (b. 1935)
2019 – Noel Lloyd, Welsh academic (b. 1946)
2019 – Tony Rodham, American businessman and political consultant, brother of Hillary Clinton (b. 1954)
2021 - Ben Roberts, British actor (b. 1950)
Observances
Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation
Birthday of Prince Joachim of Denmark
Flag Day (Peru)
Journalist Day (Argentina)
Sette Giugno (Malta)
Union Dissolution Day (Norway)
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Events
Up to 1900
1332 – Lucerne joins the Swiss Confederation.
1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite strikes Earth in a wheatfield in the Alsace.
1619 - Elizabeth of Bohemia is crowned.
1659 - France and Spain sign the Treaty of the Pyrenees, agreeing on their border in northern Catalonia.
1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest-surviving journal, is first published.
1775 - John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America.
1786 - The Stoughton Musical Society, the oldest musical organization in the United States, is founded.
1801 – Alessandro Volta demonstrates the first battery.
1848 – Zachary Taylor is elected President of the United States.
1861 – Denver, Colorado is incorporated as a city.
1872 – The ship Mary Celeste sails from New York City.
1876 – Rutherford B. Hayes is controversially elected President of the United States over Samuel J. Tilden, as Tilden had won the popular vote.
1885 – Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
1893 - Colorado becomes the first US State to allow women to vote.
1901 1950
1908 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in Bolivia.
1911 - Marie Curie wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, becoming the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.
1913 - First Day of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913.
1916 – Woodrow Wilson is elected to a second term as President of the United States.
1916 – Jeannette Rankin becomes the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
1917 – The October Revolution begins in Russia.
1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in Bavaria.
1918 - The 1918 Spanish flu outbreak reaches Western Samoa.
1929 - The Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City.
1931 - The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed.
1933 - Fiorello La Guardia is elected the 99th Mayor of New York City.
1936 - Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco's troops begin their assault on Madrid.
1940 – The original bridge in Tacoma, Washington collapses in a wind storm, only 4 months after its completion.
1941 - World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes.
1944 - A passenger train derails in Puerto Rico, killing 16 people.
1944 - Soviet spy Richard Sorge is executed by his Japanese captors.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Thomas E. Dewey, as he is elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States, though he only serves this term for a short time, as he dies on April 12, 1945, when he is succeeded by Harry S. Truman.
1951 2000
1956 – Suez Crisis: The UN General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to withdraw from Egypt.
1963 – Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, 11 miners are rescued from a collapsed mine, after surviving for 14 days.
1967 - Carl B. Stokes is elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American Mayor of a major US city.
1972 – Richard Nixon is elected to a second term as President of the United States, defeating George McGovern, who only manages to win in Massachusetts and Washington, DC.
1975 - In Bangladesh, a joint force of civilians and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the house-arrested army chief and future President Major General Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
1982 - In Burkina Faso, Saye Zerbo is removed from power by Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo.
1987 – Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali becomes the 2nd President of Tunisia.
1989 - Chandra Shekhar becomes Prime Minister of India.
1989 – In Virginia, Douglas Wilder is elected the first African-American Governor in the United States.
1989 – David Dinkins is elected the first African-American Mayor of New York City.
1989 – Willi Stoph and the entire East German cabinet resigns.
1990 – Mary Robinson is elected the first female President of Ireland.
1991 - Magic Johnson announces he has AIDS, and declares his retirement from professional basketball.
1996 - A Boeing 727 crashes in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 143 people on board.
2000 – Hillary Clinton becomes the first First Lady of the United States to be elected to the United States Senate.
2000 – The Presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore in the United States ends in controversy. Gore wins the popular votes, but after narrowly winning Florida, Bush wins the electoral college vote. The result is not known for a month, when Bush is declared as the next President of the United States.
From 2001
2001 - SABENA, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt.
2002 - Iran bans advertising of US products.
2006 - US Mid-Term Elections: The Democrats gain a majority in both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives halfway through Republican George W. Bush's second term in office as President.
2007 – Jokela School Shooting: A shooting in Tuusula, Finland, kills 9 people.
2008 - The Pétion-Ville school collapse in Haiti kills 94 people.
2011 – Dr. Conrad Murray is found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson.
2012 - A magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes off Guatemala.
2018 - Donald Trump fires United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
2018 - Twelve people are killed in the Thousand Oaks shooting in a country music bar near Los Angeles, California.
Births
Up to 1900
630 – Constans II, Byzantine Emperor (d. 668)
994 - Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
1598 - Francisco Zurbaran, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
1612 – Pierre Mignard, French painter (d. 1695)
1687 - William Stukeley, English antiquarian, physician and clergyman (d. 1765)
1706 - Carlo Cecere, Italian composer (d. 1761)
1720 - Erekle II, Georgian King (d. 1798)
1728 – James Cook, English explorer (d. 1879) (born on Oct. 27 in the Julian calendar)
1790 - Luigi Legnani, Italian singer, guitarist and composer (d. 1877)
1805 - Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
1832 - Andrew Dickson White, American educator and diplomat (d. 1918)
1833 - Rafael Pombo, Colombian poet (d. 1912)
1838 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
1846 – Ignaz Bruell, Austrian pianist (d. 1907)
1849 - Ernesto Hinze Ribeiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1907)
1855 - Edwin Hall, American physicist (d. 1938)
1858 - Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian political activist (d. 1932)
1867 – Marie Curie, Polish-French chemist and physicist (d. 1934)
1872 - Leonora Speyer, American poet and novelist (d. 1956)
1876 - Alex Smith, Scottish footballer (d. 1954)
1876 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
1879 – Leon Trotsky, Ukrainian revolutionary and Marxist (d. 1940)
1879 - King Baggot, American actor (d. 1958)
1885 – Frank Knight, American economist (d. 1972)
1886 – Aaron Nimzovich, Latvian chess player (d. 1935)
1888 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist (d. 1970)
1890 - Jan Matulka, American painter (d. 1972)
1891 - Miriam Cooper, American actress (d. 1976)
1893 - Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter, director and producer (d. 1953)
1897 - Armstrong Sperry, American author (d. 1976)
1899 - Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli poet and columnist (d. 1954)
1901 1950
1903 – Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)
1903 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist (d. 1989)
1903 - Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
1903 - Ary Barroso, Brazilian pianist and composer (d. 1964)
1904 - Gino Rosetti, Italian footballer (d. 1992)
1905 - Aurélio de Lira Tavares, President of Brazil (d. 1998)
1908 - Marijac, French author and illustrator (d. 1994)
1913 – Albert Camus, French writer (d. 1960)
1913 - Alekos Sakellarios, Greek writer and movie director (d. 1991)
1914 - Archie Campbell, American comedian and writer (d. 1987)
1915 - Philip Morrison, American physicist (d. 2005)
1917 – Helen Suzman, South African political activist (d. 2009)
1918 – Billy Graham, American religious leader (d. 2018)
1918 - Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese Fado singer (d. 1993)
1921 - Jack Fleck, American golfer (d. 2014)
1922 - Ghulam Azam, Bangladeshi politician (d. 2014)
1925 - János Horváth, Hungarian economist and politician (d. 2019)
1926 – Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (d. 2010)
1927 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman, 3rd president of Nintendo (d. 2013)
1929 – Eric Kandel, Austrian-American neuroscientist
1930 - Antonio Marchesano, Uruguayan lawyer and politician (d. 2019)
1936 – Dame Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano
1938 - Ian Balding, American-English horse trainer
1938 – Barry Newman, American actor
1940 - Antonio Skármeta, Chilean writer
1941 - Angelo Scola, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Milan
1942 - Jean Shrimpton, British supermodel and actress
1942 – Johnny Rivers, American musician
1943 – Silvia Cartwright, former Governor-General of New Zealand
1943 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician
1943 – Michael Spence, American economist
1943 - Michael Byrne, British actor
1943 - Boris Gromov, Russian general
1944 - E. Hunter Harrison, American railroad executive (d. 2017)
1944 – Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
1944 - Bob Windle, Australian swimmer
1947 - Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese baseball player
1949 – Queen Aishwarya of Nepal (d. 2001)
1950 - Lindsay Duncan, British actress
1951 1975
1951 - Lawrence O'Donnell, American journalist, actor and producer
1952 - Valeriy Zuyev, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2016)
1952 – David Petraeus, American general and CIA director
1952 – Modibo Sidibe, former Prime Minister of Mali
1953 - Lucinda Green, British horse rider and journalist
1955 - Norbert Eder, German footballer (d. 2019)
1955 - Detlef Ultsch, German judoka
1957 - Christopher Knight, American actor
1957 - John Benitez, American DJ, songwriter and producer
1957 - King Kong Bundy, American wrestler and actor (d. 2019)
1959 - Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
1959 - Alexandre Guimaraes, Costa Rican football manager
1959 - Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
1960 - Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (Kiss)
1961 - Sergei Aleinikov, Belarussian footballer
1962 – Bettina Hoy, German equestrian showjumper
1963 – John Barnes, English footballer
1964 - Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999)
1964 - Bonnie St. John, American Paralympic ski racer
1965 - Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
1967 – David Guetta, French DJ
1967 – Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer
1969 - Michel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Morgan Spurlock, American movie director and producer
1970 - Neil Hannon, Irish singer-songwriter
1971 - Robin Finck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973 – Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress
1973 – Martín Palermo, Argentine footballer
1974 - Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Jamaican track athlete
1975 - Venkat Prabhu, Indian movie director
From 1976
1976 – Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
1976 - Rob Caggiano, American musician (Anthrax)
1977 - Andres Oper, Estonian footballer
1978 - Tomoya Nagase, Japanese actor and singer
1978 – Mohamed Aboutrika, Egyptian footballer
1978 – Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
1978 – Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
1978 – Barry Robson, Scottish footballer
1979 – Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
1979 - Mike Commodore, American ice hockey player
1979 - Barney Harwood, English television presenter and actor
1980 - Luciana Salazar, Argentine model, actress and singer
1980 - Karthik, Indian singer and composer
1981 – Anushka Shetty, Indian actress
1982 - Pascal Leclaire, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Amelia Vega, Dominican model
1984 – Jonathan Bornstein, American footballer
1985 - Tom Croft, English rugby player
1987 - Rachele Brooke Smith, American actress and dancer
1988 – Tinie Tempah, English rapper and musician
1988 - Yuki Muto, Japanese footballer
1988 - Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukrainian tennis player
1989 - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Russian singer and actress (Pussy Riot)
1990 – Matt Corby, Australian singer
1990 – David de Gea, Spanish footballer
1994 - Haruna Iikubo, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1996 - Lorde, New Zealand singer-songwriter
Deaths
Up to 1950
641 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, 2nd Caliph od Islam
739 - Willibrord, Anglo-Saxon missionary and saint
1225 - Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
1550 – Jon Arason, last Roman Catholic bishop in Iceland (b. 1484)
1574 - Solomon Luria, Polish rabbi (b. 1510)
1581 - Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon and educator (b. 1546)
1633 - Cornelis Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)
1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
1872 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
1906 – Heinrich Seidel, German engineer, poet and writer (b. 1842)
1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and explorer (b. 1823)
1919 – Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
1922 - Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1930 - Okido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1878)
1933 - Harold Weber, American golfer (b. 1882)
1944 – Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
1951 2010
1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, activist and wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt (b. 1884)
1967 - John Nance Garner, Vice President of the United States (b. 1868)
1968 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1978 - Jivraj Narayan Mehta, 6th Chief Minister of Gujarat (b. 1887)
1978 – Gene Tunney, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1897)
1980 – Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
1981 – Will Durant, American philosopher and writer (b. 1885)
1990 - Lawrence Durrell, British writer (b. 1912)
1991 - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
1992 – Alexander Dubcek, Czechoslovakian politician (b. 1921)
1992 - Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
1993 - Adelaide Hall, American-English singer, actress and dancer (b. 1901)
1995 – Ann Dunham, American anthropologist and mother of Barack Obama (b. 1942)
2000 – Ingrid of Sweden, mother of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (b. 1910)
2002 – Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (Der Spiegel magazine) (b. 1923)
2004 – Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 - Harry Thompson, English author, screenwriter and producer (b. 1960)
2007 - Earl Dodge, American politician (b. 1932)
From 2011
2011 – Joe Frazier, American heavyweight boxer and world champion (b. 1944)
2012 - Clive Dunn, British actor, comedian and writer (b. 1920)
2012 - Carmen Basilio, American boxer (b. 1927)
2013 - Manfred Rommel, German politician, former Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, and son of Erwin Rommel (b. 1928)
2013 - Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
2014 - Lincoln D. Faurer, American air force officer (b. 1928)
2014 - Connie Dion, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
2014 - Juan Taverna, Argentine footballer (b. 1948)
2015 - Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic-American actor (b. 1947)
2016 - Janet Reno, United States Attorney General (b. 1938)
2016 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (b. 1934)
2017 - Roy Halladay, American baseball player (b. 1977)
2017 - Brad Harris, American actor and stuntman (b. 1933)
2017 - Carl Sargeant, Welsh politician (b. 1968)
2017 - Wendell Eugene, American jazz trombonist (b. 1923)
2017 - Hans-Michael Rehberg, German actor (b. 1938)
2018 - Francis Lai, French film score composer (b. 1932)
2018 - Alan Watson, British legal scholar (b. 1933)
2019 - Remo Bodei, Italian philosopher (b. 1938)
2019 - Leo Klejn, Russian archaeologist and philologist (b. 1927)
2019 - Heinz Höher, German footballer and manager (b. 1938)
2019 - Maria Perego, Italian television writer and animator (b. 1923)
2019 - Margarita Salas, Spanish biochemist and academic (b. 1938)
2019 - Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Indian novelist and poet (b. 1938)
Observances
Anniversary of the Treaty of the Pyrenees (Northern Catalonia)
National Revolution and Solidarity Day (Bangladesh)
November 07 |
9925 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/November%206 | November 6 |
Events
Up to 1950
355 - Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin, Julian the Apostate, to the rank of Caesar.
1429 – Henry VI becomes King of England.
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first-known European to set foot in what is now Texas.
1789 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
1844 – The first Constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States.
1861 – Jefferson Davis is chosen as President of the Confederate States of America.
1869 - In New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first inter-college game in American football takes place. Rutgers University defeats Princeton University 6-4.
1880 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran discovers the malaria parasite called "Plasmodium falciparum".
1888 – Benjamin Harrison is elected President of the United States.
1900 – William McKinley is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States, of which he is only able to serve 6 months, as he is fatally shot by Leon Czolgosz the following September.
1913 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested after leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 - World War I: The Third Battle of Ypres in Belgium ends.
1918 – The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed.
1928 – Herbert Hoover is elected President of the United States, defeating Al Smith.
1936 - Spanish Civil War: The Spanish government relocates to Valencia from Madrid.
1939 - World War II: The "Sonderaktion Krakau" takes place, as the Gestapo arrests 184 professors in Krakow.
1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his rule.
1942 - World War II: German U-boat U 68 sinks British passenger ship City of Cairo, killing 104 people.
1943 - World War II: The Red Army recaptures Kiev.
1944 – The element Plutonium is created.
1947 – The American TV show Meet the Press debuts.
1951 2000
1956 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States.
1956 - Building work on the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River in Southern Africa begins.
1957 - Félix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France.
1962 – The UN General Assembly condemns South Africa's Apartheid policy, encouraging its members to break-off military and economic ties with the country.
1963 – Duong Vanh Minh takes over the leadership of South Vietnam.
1965 - Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States.
1975 - Green March: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tafarya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II to cross into Western Sahara.
1977 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, US, fails, killing 39 people.
1978 – Franz Josef Strauss is elected Minister-President of Bavaria.
1981 - Larry Holmes becomes Boxing Heavyweight World Champion, defeating Renaldo Snipes.
1982 – Paul Biya becomes President of Cameroon.
1984 – Ronald Reagan is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States. His challenger Walter Mondale only managed to win in Minnesota and Washington, DC.
1985 – Leftist Guerrillas in Colombia seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogota, killing 115 people, including 11 Supreme Court Justices.
1985 - Anibal Cavaco Silva becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
1985 – Iran-Contra Affair: The American press reports that Ronald Reagan had authorised arms shipments to Iran.
1986 – Joaquim Chissano is chosen to succeed Samora Machel, who had been killed in a plane crash, as President of Mozambique.
1986 – Alex Ferguson becomes the manager of Manchester United. He serves for over 26-and-a-half years, until May 2013.
1986 - Sumburgh Disaster: British International Helicopter Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes into the sea to the east of Sumburgh Airport, at the southernmost point of Shetland. 45 people are killed.
1991 – Leningrad is renamed St. Petersburg.
1991 – The KGB no longer exists from this date.
1995 – In Antananarivo, the former residence of sovereign rulers of Madagascar, is destroyed by fire.
1999 – Voters in Australia decide to keep Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as their head of state.
1999 - In Berlin, American Bryan Berg builds the world's biggest card house, at 7.71 meters tall, with 91,800 playing cards, at 131 levels high.
From 2001
2001 – Michael Bloomberg is elected Mayor of New York City.
2001 - TV Series 24 is first shown.
2004 – A train collides with a stationary car at a level crossing near the village of Ufton Nervet in southern England, killing 7 people.
2005 – The Evansville Tornado of 2005 kills 25 people in northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
2005 – The Burmese military leaders begin moving government ministries from Rangoon to Pyinmana-Naypidaw.
2012 - Barack Obama is elected to a second term as President of the United States, defeating his Republican Party challenger Mitt Romney.
2012 - Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
2012 - Puerto Rico holds a referendum on its future status, with indications of a majority vote in favour of becoming the 51st US State.
2018 - Mid-term elections are held in the United States: The Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives and also gain some state governorships; the Republicans keep their majority in the Senate.
Births
Up to 1900
15 – Agrippina the Younger, Roman Empress (d. 59)
1391 - Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425).
1479 – Queen Joanna of Castile (d. 1555)
1494 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566).
1550 - Karin Mansdotter, Queen of Sweden (d. 1612)
1617 - Leopoldo de' Medici, Italian cardinal (d. 1675)
1661 – King Charles II of Spain (d. 1700)
1692 – Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)
1753 - Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)
1753 - Jean-Baptiste Bréval, French composer (d. 1823)
1771 – Alois Senefelder, Austrian actor, playwright and inventor (d. 1834)
1794 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881)
1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor of the Saxophone (d. 1894)
1825 – Charles Garnier, French architect (d. 1898)
1832 - Joseph Smith III, American religious leader (d. 1914)
1833 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian writer (d. 1908)
1835 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician (d. 1909)
1841 – Armand Fallières, President of France (d. 1931)
1841 - Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (d. 1915)
1850 - Ernest von Koerber, Austrian politician (d. 1919)
1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d. 1902)
1854 – John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932)
1861 – James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (d. 1939)
1861 - Thomas Watt Gregory, United States Attorney General (d. 1933)
1880 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
1880 - George Poage, American athlete (d. 1962)
1882 - Thomas Harper Ince, American movie actor, director and producer (d. 1924)
1886 - Ida Barney, American astronomer (d. 1982)
1887 - Walter Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1891 - Galaktion Tabidze, Georgian poet (d. 1959)
1892 - Harold Ross, American editor (d. 1951)
1893 – Edsel Ford, American chief executive of the Ford Motor Company (d. 1943)
1901 1950
1903 - June Marlowe, American actress (d. 1984)
1908 - Teizo Takeuchi, Japanese footballer (d. 1946)
1914 - Jonathan Harris, American actor (d. 2002)
1916 – Ray Conniff, American musician (d. 2002)
1919 - Christoph Probst, German Resistance activist (White Rose) (d. 1943)
1921 – James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)
1925 - Michel Bouquet, French actor
1926 - Zig Ziglar, American author (d. 2012)
1931 – Mike Nichols, German-born American television, stage and movie director (d. 2014)
1931 - Peter Collins, British racing driver (d. 1958)
1932 - François Englert, Belgian theoretical physicist, joint-winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
1932 - Stonewall Jackson, American country music singer
1932 - Eugene H. Peterson, American clergyman and biblical scholar (d. 2018)
1932 - Ron Saunders, English footballer and manager (d. 2019)
1938 - Seishiro Shimatani, Japanese footballer (d. 2001)
1939 - Michael Schwerner, American Civil Rights activist (d. 1964)
1941 - John Carter, American politician
1941 - Guy Clark, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 2016)
1943 - Roberto Telch, Argentine footballer (d. 2014)
1946 – Sally Field, American actress
1946 - Fred Penner, Canadian children’s entertainer
1946 - George Young, Scottish-Australian musician (d. 2017)
1947 - Carolyn Seymour, English actres
1947 - Larry James, American athlete (d. 2008)
1948 - Glenn Frey, American rock musician (d. 2016)
1949 – Arturo Sandoval, Cuban jazz musician
1949 - Brad Davis, American actor (d. 1991)
1950 - Marvin Goodfriend, American economist (d. 2019)
1951 1975
1951 - Nigel Havers, British actor
1952 - Michael Cunningham, American writer
1954 – Karin Fossum, Norwegian writer
1954 - Mango, Italian singer (d. 2014)
1955 – Maria Shriver, American journalist, was married to Arnold Schwarzenegger
1956 – Marc Dutroux, Belgian serial killer
1957 - Lori Singer, American actress
1958 - Trace Beaulieu, American actor, puppeteer, producer and screenwriter
1961 - Florent Pagny, French singer-songwriter and actor
1962 - Annette Zilinskas, American musician and singer
1964 – Arne Duncan, American politician
1965 - Valérie Benguigui, French actress (d. 2013)
1966 - Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer
1967 - Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (d. 1989)
1968 - Jerry Yang, Taiwanese-American businessman, co-founder of Yahoo!
1968 - Kelly Rutherford, American actress
1970 – Ethan Hawke, American actor
1972 - Rebecca Romijn, American actress and model
1972 - Thandie Newton, English actress
1973 - Nell McAndrew, English model and runner
1973 – Sandy Robson, Canadian actor
1974 - Susan Calman, Scottish comedienne and television presenter
1974 – Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (d. 2009)
From 1976
1976 - Jodi Martin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 - Pat Tillman, American football player and soldier (d. 2004)
1977 - Sienna West, American pornographic movie actress
1978 - Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
1978 - Taryn Manning, American singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer
1979 - Brad Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor
1981 - Cassie Bernall, American student (d. 1999)
1983 - Nicole Hosp, Austrian skier
1983 - Jon Hume, Australian singer
1984 - Ricky Romero, American baseball player
1986 - Craig Bryson, Scottish footballer
1986 - Katie Leclerc, American actress
1986 - Conor Sammon, Irish footballer
1987 – Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
1988 – Erik Lund, Swedish footballer
1988 - Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer and performer, winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest
1988 – Emma Stone, American actress
1989 – Jozy Altidore, American footballer
1990 – André Schürrle, German footballer
1990 - Kris Wu, Chinese rapper, singer-songwriter and actor
1991 - Mike van Duinen, Dutch footballer
1991 - Doron Lamb, American basketball player
1992 - Kim Yura, South Korean singer
2002 - Mya-Lecia Naylor, English actress (d. 2019)
Deaths
Up to 1900
1231 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
1406 - Pope Innocent VII
1492 - Antoine Busnois, French composer and poet (b. 1430)
1650 – William II, Prince of Orange (b. 1626)
1656 – King John IV of Portugal (b. 1604)
1656 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer and astronomer (b. 1583)
1672 – Heinrich Schütz, German composer (b. 1585)
1771 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
1790 - James Bowdoin, Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1726)
1816 - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
1822 – Claude-Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
1836 – King Charles X of France (b. 1757)
1846 – Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (b. 1800)
1846 - Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general (b. 1786)
1893 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
1901 2000
1905 - George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (b. 1821)
1910 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b. 1838)
1914 - Carl Hans Lody, German naval reserve officer (b. 1877)
1925 – Emperor Khai Dinh of Vietnam (b. 1885)
1929 – Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1867)
1933 - Andrei Lyapchev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1866)
1935 - Henry Fairfield Osborn, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1857)
1937 - Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
1944 – Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, British politician (b. 1880)
1951 - Tom Kiely, Irish athlete (b. 1869)
1964 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German chemist (b. 1873)
1965 - Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1898)
1970 – Agustin Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1897)
1978 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (b. 1915)
1982 - Shiro Teshima, Japanese footballer (b. 1907)
1985 – Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1938)
1987 - Ross Barnett, American politician, 52nd Governor of Mississippi (b. 1898)
1991 – Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
1997 – Anne-Stine Ingstad, Norwegian archaeologist (b. 1918)
1999 - Regina Ghazaryan, Armenian painter (b. 1915)
2000 - David Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)
From 2001
2001 - Anthony Shaffer, British writer, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1926)
2002 - Sid Jackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
2003 – Mike Lockwood, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
2004 - Fred Dibnah, British television personality (b. 1938)
2005 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
2006 - Fernando Fernandez Ochoa, Spanish skier (b. 1950)
2007 – Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
2007 – Hank Thompson, American musician (b. 1925)
2007 - George Osmond, American patriarch of the Osmond family (b. 1917)
2008 - Larry James, American athlete (b. 1947)
2010 - Siddhartha Shankar Roy, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1920)
2011 - Margaret Field, American actress (b. 1922)
2012 - Maxim of Bulgaria, Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (b. 1914)
2012 - Clive Dunn, British actor, comedian and singer (b. 1920)
2013 - Ace Parker, American football and baseball player (b. 1912)
2014 - Rick Rosas, American musician (b. 1949)
2014 - Victor Kostetskiy, Russian actor (b. 1941)
2014 - Tommy Macpherson, Scottish army officer (b. 1920)
2014 - Alok Nembang, Nepalese movie director (b. 1973)
2015 - Yitzhak Navon, President of Israel (b. 1921)
2017 - Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut (b. 1929)
2017 - Karin Dor, German actress (b. 1938)
2017 - Abdul Aziz bin Fahd, Saudi prince (b. 1973)
2017 - Feliciano Rivilla, Spanish footballer (b. 1936)
2018 - Jonathan Cantwell, American racing cyclist (b. 1982)
2018 - Bernard Landry, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1937)
2019 - Lev Anninsky, Russian literary critic, journalist and screenwriter (b. 1934)
Observances
Constitution Day (Dominican Republic, Tajikistan, Tatarstan)
Finnish-Swedish Heritage Day (Finland)
Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden)
Green March (Morocco)
November 06 |
9926 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/November%205 | November 5 |
Events
Up to 1900
1138 - Ly Anh Tong becomes Emperor of Vietnam at the age of two years, starting a 37-year reign.
1530 - The St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands.
1605 – The Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Parliament fails. Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators are arrested, ending the plot led by Robert Catesby.
1688 – Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham. James II of England is prevented from meeting him in battle because many of his officers and men desert to the other side.
1743 - Coordinated scientific observations of the planet Mercury are organised by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.
1757 - Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
1811 - Priest José Matías Delgado begins El Salvador's 1811 independence campaign.
1831 - Nat Turner, American slave rebellion leader, is tried, convicted and sentenced to death in Virginia.
1838 - The Federal Republic of Central America begins to dissolve when Nicaragua breaks away.
1844 - James K. Polk is elected President of the United States.
1854 - Crimean War: The Battle of Inkerman takes place.
1862 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union army for the second, and final, time.
1872 – Susan B. Anthony defies the ban on female suffrage (voting), by voting in the United States Presidential election; In the election, Ulysses S. Grant is elected to a second term.
1895 - George B. Selden is granted the first US patent for an automobile.
1901 2000
1911 - After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, Italy takes control of Tripoli and Cyrenaica in present-day Libya.
1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the United States. William Taft, in finishing third (behind Theodore Roosevelt running for the Progressive Party), scores the worst-ever result of a US President seeking re-election.
1913 - Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, the Prince-Regent, who becomes Ludwig III of Bavaria.
1914 - World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed.
1917 – The provisional government of Estonia is overthrown, in the run-up to the October Revolution in Russia, which is so named because of the Julian Calendar in use in Russia at the time.
1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to serve a record third term as President of the United States.
1942 – World War II: The United Kingdom wins the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt.
1943 - World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
1945 – Colombia joins the UN.
1967 – A train crash at Hither Green, in Southeast London, kills 49 people.
1968 – Richard Nixon is elected President of the United States, over Hubert H. Humphrey.
1970 - Vietnam War: The US Military Assistance command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years, at 24.
1982 - The Itaipu Dam is opened on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. São Paulo is among the places that it supplies electricity to.
1987 – Anti-Apartheid activist Govan Mbeki is released after 24 years in prison.
1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after giving a speech in a New York City hotel.
1994 – President Ronald Reagan announces that he has Alzheimer's disease in order to raise public awareness of the disease.
1994 - George Foreman wins the Heavyweight World Boxing Title, 20 years after his win in the Rumble in the Jungle in 1974.
1995 - André Dallaire attempts to kill Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien.
1996 – Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari dismisses Benazir Bhutto's government, and dissolves Pakistan's National Assembly.
1996 – Flooding is caused in thinly-inhabited parts of Iceland, after the volcano under the Grimsvotn ice cap erupts.
1996 – Bill Clinton is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States, defeating Senator Bob Dole.
From 2001
2003 - Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder.
2006 – Saddam Hussein is found guilty of crimes against humanity. He is sentenced to death.
2007 - China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
2009 – United States Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan goes on a shooting rampage, killing 13, and wounding 30 people at Fort Hood, Texas. It is the worst mass shooting ever to take place at a US military base.
2013 - The Indian Mars Orbiter Mission (Magalyaan) is successfully launched by the ISRO.
2013 - US Elections: Democrat Bill de Blasio is elected Mayor of New York City over Joseph Lhota; Democrat Terry McAuliffe is elected Governor of Virginia over Ken Cuccinelli; Republican Chris Christie is re-elected Governor of New Jersey over Barbara Buono.
2017 - Sutherland Springs church shooting: 26 people are killed in a shooting in at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
2017 - Paradise Papers: The Süddeutsche Zeitung publishes 13.4 million documents leaked from offshore firm Appleby, revealing business dealings (including controversial tax arrangements) of celebrities, politicians (and their close associates), major companies and business leaders. The documents are shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Births
Up to 1800
1271 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
1494 – Hans Sachs, German meistersinger (d. 1576)
1549 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)
1592 - Charles Chauncy, English-born President of Harvard College (d. 1672)
1607 - Anna Maria von Schurman, Dutch-German polymath (d. 1678)
1613 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)
1615 – Ibrahim I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1648)
1666 - Attilio Ariosti, Italian composer (d. 1729)
1667 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
1701 - Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)
1705 - Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French composer and violinist (d. 1770)
1739 - Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglington, Scottish peer, composer and politician (d. 1819)
1754 - Alejandro Malaspina, Italian-Spanish admiral and nobleman (d. 1809)
1779 - Washington Allston, American painter and writer (d. 1843)
1787 - John Richardson, Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer (d. 1865)
1801 1900
1810 - Alphonso Taft, United States Attorney General, father of William Howard Taft (d. 1891)
1818 - Benjamin Franklin Butler, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893)
1851 – Charles Dupuy, Prime Minister of France (d. 1923)
1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist (d. 1941)
1855 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)
1855 - Eugene V. Debs, American socialist leader (d. 1926)
1857 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist (d. 1944)
1864 - Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, English-Scottish artist and designer (d. 1933)
1870 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian politician (d. 1925)
1873 - Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player (d. 1935)
1878 - Kuzma Petrov-Vadkin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1885 – Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian pianist (d. 1961)
1889 - Andrejs Kapmals, Latvian runner (d. 1994)
1890 - Jan Zrzavy, Czech painter (d. 1977)
1891 - Greasy Neale, American football coach and baseball player (d. 1973)
1892 - John Alcock, British pilot (d. 1919)
1892 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (d. 1964)
1893 - Raymond Loewy, French-American industrial designer (d. 1986)
1895 – Walter Gieseking, German pianist (d. 1956)
1900 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
1901 1950
1904 - Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian footballer (d. 1980)
1905 – John Whedon, American screenwriter (d. 1991)
1906 – Fred Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
1911 - Marie Osborne, American actress (d. 2010)
1911 – Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
1913 – Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)
1914 - Emmanuel Nsubuga, Archbishop of Kampala (d. 1991)
1916 - Willoughby Gray, English actor (d. 1993)
1917 – Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (d. 2000)
1917 - Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
1920 – Douglass North, American economist (d. 2015)
1920 - John H. Land, American politician, Mayor of Apopka, Florida (d. 2014)
1921 - Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist (d. 2004)
1921 - Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Queen of Iran (d. 2013)
1922 - Cecil H. Underwood, 25th Governor of West Virginia (d. 2008)
1923 – Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (Der Spiegel magazine) (d. 2002)
1926 - John Berger, English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (d. 2017)
1929 - Lennart Johansson, Swedish football official, former UEFA President
1930 - Clifford Irving, American author (d. 2017)
1930 - Hans Mommsen, German historian (d. 2015)
1931 – Charles Taylor, Canadian philosopher
1931 – Ike Turner, American musician (d. 2007)
1931 - Geoffrey Bolton, Australian historian (d. 2015)
1934 - Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004)
1935 – Lester Piggott, British jockey
1936 – Uwe Seeler, German footballer
1938 – Joe Dassin, American singer (d. 1980)
1938 – César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer
1938 - Jim Steranko, American graphic artist
1939 - Lobsang Tenzin, 5th Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile
1940 – Anthony Rolfe Johnson, British tenor (d. 2010)
1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress
1940 – Ted Kulongoski, American politician and former Governor of Oregon
1941 – Art Garfunkel, American musician
1941 - Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director and screenwriter
1942 - Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
1943 – Sam Shepard, American actor, writer and playwright (d. 2017)
1946 - Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)
1947 - Peter Noone, British singer
1947 - Franco Trappoli, Italian politician
1948 – Bob Barr, American politician
1948 – William Daniel Phillips, American physicist
1948 - Bernard-Henri Lévy, French writer
1950 – Thorbjorn Jagland, Norwegian politician
1951 1975
1951 - Tony Evers, American politician, elected 66th Governor of Wisconsin
1952 – Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer
1952 - Bill Walton, American basketball player
1953 - Joyce Maynard, American author
1954 - Alejandro Sabella, Argentine footballer and coach
1954 - Jeffrey Sachs, American economist
1955 - Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist
1955 - Kris Jenner, American television personality
1957 - Kellen Winslow, American football player
1957 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American model and actor (d. 1984)
1958 - Don Falcone, American musician and producer
1958 - Mo Gaffney, American actress and comedienne
1958 - Robert Patrick, American actor
1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer and songwriter
1960 – Tilda Swinton, British actress
1961 - Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (d. 2012)
1962 - Turid Birkeland, Norwegian politician (d. 2015)
1963 - Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer
1963 - Andrea McArdle, American actress
1963 – Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer
1963 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress
1964 – Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer
1964 - Famke Janssen, Dutch actress, director, producer, screenwriter and model
1966 - Georgia Apostolou, Greek actress
1966 - Nayim, Spanish footballer
1967 - Judy Reyes, American actress
1968 - Sam Rockwell, American actor
1969 - Pat Kilbane, American actor and comedian
1970 – Tamzin Outhwaite, British actress
1970 - Shaun Murphy, Irish-Australian footballer
1971 - Chris Addison, English comedian
1971 - Jonny Greenwood, English musician (Radiohead)
1971 - Dana Jacobson, American sportscaster
1971 - Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player
1973 – Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player
1973 - Johnny Damon, American baseball player
1973 - Danniella Westbrook, British actress
1974 – Ryan Adams, American singer
1974 – Dado Prso, Croatian footballer
1974 - Chris Sununu, American politician, 82nd Governor of New Hampshire
1975 - Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter (Steps)
From 1976
1976 - Claudia Llosa, Peruvian movie director
1977 - Yonas Kifle, Eritrean runner
1977 - Brittney Skye, American pornographic actress
1978 - Bubba Watson, American golfer
1978 - Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2011)
1979 - Keith McLeod, American basketball player
1979 - David Suazo, Honduran footballer
1979 - Michalis Hatzigiannis, Greek-Cypriot songwriter and singer
1979 – Patrick Owomoyela, German footballer
1980 – Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
1980 - Eva González, Spanish model and beauty queen
1980 - Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman and politician
1981 - Ksenia Sobchak, Russian television personality and politician
1982 - Rob Swire, Australian singer, musician and record producer
1983 - Alexa Chung, British television presenter and former fashion model
1983 – Mike Hanke, German footballer
1983 - Andrew Hayden-Smith, English actor
1984 - Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
1986 – BoA, South Korean singer
1986 – Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
1986 - Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer
1986 - Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player
1987 - O. J. Mayo, American basketball player
1987 – Kevin Jonas, American musician (The Jonas Brothers)
1988 - Bailey Jay, American pornographic actress
1988 - Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
1992 - Odell Beckham Jr., American football player
1992 - Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
1994 - AJ Pritchard, English dancer and choreographer
Deaths
Up to 1950
1370 – Casimir III the Great, King of Poland (b. 1310)
1515 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1476)
1714 - Bernardino Ramazzani, Italian physician (b. 1633)
1758 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
1807 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (b. 1741)
1828 – Maria Fyodorovna of Russia (b. 1759)
1876 - Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (b. 1824)
1879 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist (b. 1858)
1933 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress and musician (b. 1884)
1933 - Walther von Dyck, German mathematician (b. 1856)
1937 - Hadji Ali, vaudeville performance artist (b. between 1887 and 1892)
1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer and composer (b. 1878)
1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
1951 2000
1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
1956 – Art Tatum, American jazz musician (b. 1909)
1960 – Johnny Horton, American country singer (b. 1925)
1975 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (b. 1887)
1975 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist (b. 1909)
1977 – René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926)
1977 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (b. 1902)
1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
1981 - Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa Lama, Tibetan religious figure (b. 1924)
1985 - Spencer W. Kimball, American religious figure (b. 1895)
1986 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (b. 1925)
1987 - Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and TV host (b. 1922)
1989 – Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-born pianist (b. 1903)
1990 – Meir Kahane, rabbi (b. 1932)
1991 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media tycoon (b. 1923)
1991 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)
1992 - Adile Ayda, Turkish diplomat (b. 1912)
1997 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian philosopher and educator (b. 1909)
2000 - Jimmie Davis, American country music singer and politician (b. 1899)
From 2001
2001 - Gholam Reza Azhari, Prime Minister of Iran
2002 - Billy Guy, American singer (b. 1925)
2003 – Bob Hatfield, American singer (The Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
2006 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician (b. 1925)
2006 – Pietro Rava, Italian footballer (b. 1916)
2007 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer (b. 1922)
2010 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
2010 - Shirley Verrett, American opera singer (b. 1931)
2012 - Elliott Carter, American composer (b. 1908)
2014 - Manitas de Plata, French flamenco guitarist (b. 1921)
2014 - Lane Evans, American politician (b. 1951)
2014 - Alexei Devotchenko, Russian actor and activist (b. 1965)
2015 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (b. 1923)
2015 - George Barris, American automobile designer (b. 1925)
2015 - Hans Mommsen, German historian (b. 1930)
2015 - Czeslaw Kiszczak, former Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1925)
2017 - Nancy Friday, American author (b. 1933)
2017 - Devin Patrick Kelley, American mass shooter (b. 1991)
2017 - Robert Knight, American singer (b. 1973)
2017 - Dionatan Teixeira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1992)
2017 - Mansour bin Muqrin, Saudi businessman and politician (b. 1973
2017 - Lothar Thoms, German track cyclist (b. 1956)
2018 - Keith Christiansen, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1944)
2018 - Héctor Ferrer, Puerto Rican politician (b. 1970)
2019 - Omero Antonutti, Italian actor (b. 1935)
2019 - Ernest J. Gaines, American author (b. 1933)
Holidays
Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, Canada and New Zealand
November 05 |
9927 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/November%202 | November 2 |
Events
Up to 1900
676 – Donus becomes Pope.
1502 - Christopher Columbus reaches present-day Panama.
1721 - Peter I of Russia declares himself Tsar of the Russian Empire.
1772 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.
1783 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
1852 - Franklin Pierce is elected President of the United States.
1856 - French passenger steamer Lyonnais collides with a barge off Nantucket, Massachusetts, sinking the next day, killing 130 of the 146 people on board.
1861 – American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally, and is perhaps the first country to do so.
1880 - James A. Garfield is elected President of the United States.
1882 - Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Fire of 1882.
1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1898 - Cheerleading starts in the United States; Johnny Campbell leads a crowd in cheering the University of Minnesota American football team.
1899 – The Boers started their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
1901 2000
1914 - World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1917 – Zionism: The Balfour Declaration proclaims support for Jewish settlement in Palestine.
1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
1920 - Warren G. Harding, on his 55th birthday, is elected to become the 29th President of the United States. It is also the first US Presidential Election in which women can vote.
1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1930 – Geologist Alfred Wegener departs for an expedition in Greenland, from which he does not return. His remains are found in 1931.
1936 - BBC television transmissions begin.
1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
1936 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome–Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built (flight lasted only eight minutes).
1948 – U.S. presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey for the US presidency. Many had predicted Dewey would win, and the false Chicago Tribune headline Dewey defeats Truman has become famous.
1953 - Pakistan is officially named the "Islamic Republic of Pakistan".
1959 – Quiz show scandals: "Twenty-One" game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1959 – Ice Hockey: After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play.
1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis ends as US President John F. Kennedy announces that Soviet nuclear missiles are to be withdrawn from Cuba.
1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated following a military coup.
1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
1974 – 78 die as the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after club official barred the doors after the fire started.
1976 – U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Ford to become the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.
1982 - Channel 4 goes on transmission in the United Kingdom.
1983 – Martin Luther King Day: At the White House Rose Garden, US President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet distributed computer worms to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT.
1991 – Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople, the "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox Communion.
1991 – Jermaine Jackson's single Word to the Badd!, which attacks his brother Michael, is leaked to radio station KPWR in Los Angeles.
1995 – The Hubble space telescope takes a picture of a gas plume 7000 light years away from Earth that appears to contain an image of Jesus of Nazareth to many people.
1997 - Typhoon Linda devastates areas around the Gulf of Thailand.
2000 – The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
From 2001
2001 – Monsters, Inc. debuts with the best ticket sales ever for an animated movie and the 6th best of all time.
2004 – 2004 U.S. presidential election: George W. Bush defeats Senator John Kerry to win a second term as President of the United States.
2008 - Lewis Hamilton wins the Formula One championship. At the time, he is the youngest driver to achieve this, until Sebastian Vettel becomes its youngest winner in 2010.
2014 - An suicide attack in Pakistan, near the Indian border, kills over 60 people.
2017 - The discovery of a previously-unknown orangutan species is announced, called the "Tapanuli".
2019 - South Africa wins the Rugby union World Cup for a third time, defeating England 32-12 in Tokyo, Japan.
2019 - The city of Dresden in eastern Germany declares a Nazi State of Emergency over the activities of the Far-right there.
Births
Up to 1900
1082 – Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)
1154 - Constance, Queen of Sicily (d. 1198)
1470 - King Edward V of England (d. 1483)
1475 - Anne of York, Lady Howard (d. 1511)
1534 - Archduchess Eleonor of Austria (d. 1594)
1549 - Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1580)
1636 – Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (died 1721)
1667 – James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (died 1737)
1692 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (died 1766)
1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon-Chardin, French painter (died 1779)
1709 – Anne, Princess Royal, Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
1734 – Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (died 1820)
1739 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (died 1799)
1741 – Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (died 1784)
1755 – Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)
1766 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
1767 – Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (d. 1820)
1777 - Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
1795 – James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
1799 - John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (d. 1885)
1799 - Titian Peale, American entomologist and photographer (d. 1885)
1808 – Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (died 1889)
1815 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (died 1864)
1821 - George Bowen, British colonial administrator, 1st Governor of Queensland (d. 1899)
1827 - Paul de Lagarde, German philosopher (d. 1891)
1840 - Victorino de la Plaza, President of Argentina (d. 1919)
1844 – Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (died 1918)
1847 - Georges Sorel, French philosopher (d. 1922)
1858 - Dimitar Petkov, 14th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1907)
1862 - Maironis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1932)
1865 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (died 1923)
1877 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (died 1933)
1877 - Agha Khan III (d. 1957)
1877 - Claire McDowell, American actress (d. 1966)
1878 - Okido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1930)
1879 - Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (d. 1965)
1881 - Pencho Zlatev, 25th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
1882 - Leo Perutz, Austrian writer (d. 1957)
1884 - Sigurd Savonius, Finnish architect and inventor (d. 1931)
1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (died 1972)
1888 - Scott Duncan, Scottish footballer (d. 1975)
1890 - Nishinoumi Kajiro III, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1933)
1892 – Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (d. 1960)
1892 - Alice Brady, American actress (d. 1939)
1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (died 1976)
1897 – Vito Genovese, American gangster (died 1969)
1899 - Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1973)
1901 1950
1902 - Santos Iriarte, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1938)
1904 – Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000)
1906 – Daniil Andreev, Russian poet, writer, and mystic (died 1959)
1906 – Luchino Visconti, Italian director (d. 1976)
1908 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (died 1983)
1910 - Alfredo de Angelis, Argentine composer (d. 1992)
1911 - Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, theorist and philosopher (d. 1995)
1911 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer (died 1996)
1913 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (died 1994)
1913 - Rafael Aburto, Spanish architect (d. 2014)
1913 - Carmen Amaya, Spanish Flamenco dancer, singer and actress (d. 1963)
1915 - Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)
1917 - Ann Rutherford, Canadian-born American actress (d. 2012)
1918 - Alexander Vraciu, American Navy fighter ace (d. 2015)
1921 - William Donald Schaefer, American politician, 58th Governor of Maryland (d. 2011)
1923 - Cesare Rubini, Italian basketball coach and water polo player (d. 2011)
1924 - Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer (d. 2016)
1924 - David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (d. 1988)
1927 – Steve Ditko, American artist (d. 2018)
1928 - Vladimir Beara, Yugoslavian footballer (d. 2014)
1929 – Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President of Pakistan
1929 – Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
1929 - Amar Bose, American businessman (d. 2013)
1929 - Robert Gover, American journalist (d. 2015)
1929 - Rachel Ames, American actress
1931 - Phil Woods, American musician (d. 2015)
1932 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist (d. 2006)
1934 - Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
1936 – Jack Starrett, American actor and director (died 1989)
1938 – Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
1938 – Queen Sofía of Spain
1939 – Richard Serra, American sculptor
1940 - Vincenzo Cerami, Italian writer (d. 2013)
1941 - Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter
1942 – Shere Hite, American writer
1942 – Stefanie Powers, American actress
1944 - Patrice Chéreau, French actor, director and producer (d. 2013)
1944 - Keith Emerson, English musician (d. 2016)
1946 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (died 2001)
1949 - Lois McMaster Bujold, American writer
1951 1975
1953 - Tom Lyle, American comics artist and illustrator (d. 2019)
1954 – Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
1957 - Carter Beauford, American musician
1957 - Lucien Favre, Swiss footballer and manager
1958 – Willie McGee, American baseball player
1959 - Peter Mullan, Scottish actor and filmmaker
1960 - Andy Borg, Austrian Schlager singer and television presenter
1961 – k.d. lang, Canadian singer
1962 - Ron McGovney, American musician
1963 - Borut Pahor, former Prime Minister, and current President, of Slovenia
1963 - Bobby Dall, American musician
1964 - Lynn Nottage, American playwright
1965 - Pawel Adamowicz, Polish politician, Mayor of Gdansk (d. 2019)
1965 – Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
1966 – Tim Kirkman, American movie maker
1966 – David Schwimmer, American actor
1967 – Zvonimir Soldo, Croatian footballer
1967 - Scott Walker, American politician and former Governor of Wisconsin
1968 - Jaume Balaguero, Spanish director, screenwriter and producer
1969 – Reginald Arvizu, American bassist (KoЯn)
1969 - Lucy Hawking, English novelist, journalist, educator and philanthropist
1969 - Jenny Palmqvist, Swedish football referee
1972 - Samantha Womack, British actress and singer
1973 - Marisol Nichols, American actress
1974 - Ruslan Salei, Belarussian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1974 – Nelly, American rapper
1974 - Sofia Polgar, Hungarian chess player
1974 - Orlando Cabrera, Colombian-American baseball player
1974 - Prodigy, American rapper (d. 2017)
1975 - Chris Walla, American musician
From 1976
1976 - Thierry Omeyer, French handball player
1977 - Emma Reynolds, English politician
1977 - Randy Harrison, American actor
1979 - Cliff Compton, American professional wrestler
1980 – Diego Lugano, Uruguayan footballer
1980 - Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
1980 - Mustafa Ceceli, Turkish singer
1981 - Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress
1981 - Ai, Japanese-American singer
1982 – Charles Itandje, French-Cameroonian footballer
1986 – Lara Sacher, Australian actress
1986 - Yurizan Beltran, American pornographic actress (d. 2017)
1987 – Danny Cipriani, English rugby player
1988 - Julia Görges, German tennis player
1989 – Stevan Jovetic, Montenegrin footballer
1989 - Katelyn Tarver, American singer-songwriter and actress
1990 - Kendall Schmidt, American actor and singer
1992 - Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress and singer
1998 - Nadav Guedj, Israeli singer
Deaths
Up to 1950
943 - Emma of France (b. 894)
1083 - Matilda of Flanders, Queen of William the Conqueror
1285 - King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
1327 - King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
1483 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1454)
1610 - Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)
1618 – Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)
1807 - Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French politician (b. 1730)
1810 - Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (b. 1783)
1846 - Esaias Tegnér, Swedish poet and bishop (b. 1782)
1852 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
1877 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
1887 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
1905 - Horace Austin, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1831)
1930 - Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, shooter, gymnast and athlete (b. 1874)
1941 - Bengt Djurberg, Swedish actor and singer (b. 1898)
1945 – Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)
1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (b. 1856)
1951 2000
1958 - Jean Couzy, French mountaineer and engineer (b. 1923)
1959 - Michael Considine, Australian politician (b. 1885)
1960 - Dimitris Metropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnamese politician (b. 1901)
1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch chemist (b. 1884)
1966 – Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (b. 1892)
1970 - Richard Gosling, American cardinal and Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1895)
1973 - Greasy Neale, American football coach and baseball player (b. 1891)
1975 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian movie director (b. 1922)
1984 - Velma Barfield, American serial killer (b. 1932)
1991 - Irwin Allen, American director and producer (b. 1916)
1992 - Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)
1996 – Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
2000 - Robert Cormier, French writer and journalist (b. 1925)
From 2001
2002 - Charles Sheffield, American writer and physicist (b. 1935)
2003 - Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)
2004 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch movie maker (b. 1957)
2004 - Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)
2005 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1919)
2007 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
2007 - The Fabulous Moolah (Lillian Ellison), American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
2008 - Madelyn Lee Payne, grandmother of Barack Obama, died two days before he was elected President (b. 1922)
2009 - Amir Pnueli, Israeli computer scientist (b. 1941)
2010 - Rudolf Barshai, Russian conductor and violist (b. 1924)
2010 - Andy Irons, American professional surfer (b. 1978)
2012 - Milt Campbell, American decathlete (b. 1933)
2012 - Han Suyin, Chinese novelist (b. 1917)
2013 - Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (b. 1939)
2014 - Acker Bilk, English jazz musician (b. 1929)
2015 - Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Polish-British art historian (b. 1924)
2015 - Barbara Snelling, American politician (b. 1928)
2015 - Colin Welland, English actor (b. 1934)
2016 - Oleg Popov, Russian clown and circus performer (b. 1930)
2017 - Orval H. Hansen, American politician (b. 1926)
2017 - Yisrael Rosen, Israeli rabbi (b. 1941)
2017 - Aboubacar Somparé, Guinean politician (b. 1944)
2017 - Dina Wadia, Indian political figure (b. 1919)
2018 - Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer (b. 1927)
2018 - Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1969)
2018 - Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, Pakistani senator (b. 1937)
2018 - Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale, British peer (b. 1945)
2018 - Merete Skavlan, Norwegian actress, director and writer (b. 1920)
2019 - Dick Dearden, American politician (b. 1938)
2019 - Norbert Eder, German footballer (b. 1955)
2019 - Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (b. 1930)
2019 - Irwin Fridovich, American biochemist (b. 1929)
2019 - Leo Iorga, Romanian rock singer and guitarist (b. 1964)
2019 - Marie Laforet, French-Swiss singer and actress (b. 1939)
2019 - Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologer and television personality (b. 1932)
2019 - Dean Prentice, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
2019 - James I. Robertson Jr., American historian (b. 1930)
Observances
All Souls Day - Observed in Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism
Statehood Day (North Dakota and South Dakota)
Third Day of the Day of the Dead (Mexico)
November 02 |
9928 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/November%203 | November 3 |
Events
Up to 1900
1333 - Flooding of the River Arno causes damage to the city of Florence, Italy.
1493 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Dominica.
1592 - The city of San Luis Potosí in present-day Mexico is founded.
1783 - The American Continental Army is dissolved.
1793 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
1812 - Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
1817 - The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
1838 - The Times of India, the world's best-selling broadsheet English language newspaper, is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Finance.
1848 - A revised Dutch constitution is announced, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, it makes the powers of parliament stronger, while strongly restricting the powers of the monarchy.
1867 - Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana.
1868 – Ulysses S. Grant is elected President of the United States.
1883 - American Old West: Self-described Black Bart the Poet gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that will eventually lead to his capture.
1893 - The freight ship Cabo Machichaco explodes in the harbour of Santander, northern Spain. Some of its load included dynamite, and the resulting fire kills 590 people.
1896 – William McKinley is elected President of the United States.
1901 2000
1903 – Panama becomes independent, separating from Colombia.
1908 – William Taft is elected President of the United States.
1911 - Chevrolet enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1918 – Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the Allies, dissolving the Habsburg-ruled Empire.
1918 – Poland declares independence from Russia.
1918 - The German Revolution of 1918-1919 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port city of Kiel.
1930 - Getulio Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government of Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
1932 - Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
1935 - George II of Greece regains his throne.
1936 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a second term as President of the United States.
1943 - World War II: 500 aircraft of the US 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven Harbor in Germany.
1946 - Constitution of Japan is officially created.
1954 - The first Godzilla movie is shown in Japan for the first time.
1956 - The Khan Yunis killings are committed by Israel's Defense Forces in Egyptian-controlled Gaza, resulting in the deaths of 215 male Arabs.
1957 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2, with Laika, the world's first space dog, on board. Laika does not survive the mission.
1964 - Washington, DC residents are able to vote in a Presidential Election for the first time.
1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson is elected to continue as President of the United States.
1966 – A series of tropical storms over the Bay of Bengal kill over 1,000 people.
1973 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 probe towards the planet Mercury.
1975 - Four Bangladeshi politicians loyal to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman are murdered in Dhaka Central Jail.
1978 – Dominica receives independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 - Greensboro massacre: Five Communist Party members are shot dead and seven are injured by a group of Klansmen and Neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1982 - The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills 2,000 people.
1986 - The Federated States of Micronesia become independent from the United States.
1986 - Iran-Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shirga reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
1988 - Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries attempt to overthrow the government of the Maldives.
1991 - Ayrton Senna wins the Formula One world championship for the third time.
1992 – Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States, defeating George H. W. Bush.
1997 - The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to human rights abuses and assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and East Africa.
From 2001
2003 – Michael Howard becomes leader of the British Conservative Party.
2007 – Pervez Musharraf declares emergency rule in Pakistan, and suspends the constitution.
2012 - The 2012 New York Marathon is cancelled late on, due to the clean-up after Hurricane Sandy.
2016 - Two boats carrying refugees sink in the Mediterranean Sea, killing over 200 people.
2016 - A train crash near Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 20 people.
Births
Up to 1900
39 – Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
1500 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (d. 1571)
1560 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
1587 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (d. 1654)
1604 – Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1622)
1618 – Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor (d. 1707)
1633 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
1656 - Georg Reutter, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1738)
1689 - Jan Josef Ignac Brentner, Czech composer (d. 1742)
1718 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, British diplomat and statesman (d. 1792)
1749 - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
1757 - Robert Smith, 6th United States Secretary of State (d. 1842)
1777 - Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
1793 - Stephen F. Austin, American founder of the Republic of Texas (d. 1836)
1799 - William Sprague III, American politician (d. 1856)
1801 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
1801 - Karl Baedeker, German writer and publisher (d. 1859)
1816 - Jubal Early, American Confederate general (d. 1894)
1845 - Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
1852 – Emperor Meiji of Japan (d. 1912)
1856 - Marcelino Menéndez, Spanish historian (d. 1912)
1877 - Carlos Ibanez del Campo, President of Chile (d. 1960)
1879 – Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Icelandic-Canadian explorer (d. 1962)
1884 - Joseph W. Martin, Jr., American politician (d. 1968)
1887 - Samuil Marshak, Russian writer (d. 1964)
1893 – Edward Albert Doisy, American biochemist (d. 1986)
1894 - Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek politician (d. 1964)
1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna Romanova of Russia (d. 1918)
1896 - Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970)
1899 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist and academic (d. 1986)
1900 – Adolf Dassler, German sporting goods executive (Adidas) (d. 1978)
1901 1950
1901 – King Leopold III of Belgium, King of Belgium (d. 1983)
1901 - André Malraux, French writer (d. 1976)
1903 – Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
1908 – Giovanni Leone, 6th President of Italy (d. 2001)
1910 - Richard Hurndall, English actor (d. 1984)
1910 - Karel Zeman, Czech director, animator, production designer and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1912 – Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (d. 2006)
1918 – Bob Feller, American baseball player (d. 2010)
1918 – Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (d. 2010)
1920 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)
1921 – Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
1922 - Luis Villoro, Spanish-Mexican philosopher, diplomat and writer (d. 2014)
1924 - Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast (d. 2019)
1926 – Valdas Adamkus, former President of Lithuania
1926 - Maurice Couture, Canadian bishop
1927 - Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (d. 2004)
1927 - Peggy McCay, American actress (d. 2018)
1927 - Odvar Nordli, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 2018)
1928 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese animator and producer (d. 1989)
1930 – Lois Smith, American actress
1930 - Bill Dana, American pilot and astronaut (d. 2014)
1930 - Phil Crane, American politician (d. 2014)
1931 - Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)
1931 - Monica Vitti, Italian actress
1932 - Albert Reynolds, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 2014)
1933 – John Barry, British movie score composer (d. 2011)
1933 - Ken Berry, American actor (d. 2018)
1933 – Michael Dukakis, 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts
1933 - C. K. Jaffer Sharief, Indian politician (d. 2018)
1933 – Amartya Sen, Indian economist
1933 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (d. 1995)
1933 - Mildred McDaniel, American athlete
1934 - Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker, English poet and politician
1935 - Abune Paulos, Ethiopian church leader (d. 2012)
1935 - Gero Bisanz, German football coach (d. 2014)
1936 - Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
1937 - Lynn Woolsey, American politician
1938 - Akira Kobayashi, Japanese singer
1938 – Jean Rollin, French movie producer (d. 2010)
1942 - Martin Cruz Smith, American writer
1943 – Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician, singer and songwriter (d. 2011)
1945 – Gerd Müller, German footballer
1945 - Nick Simper, British musician
1946 - Richard Karl, German mountaineer, photographer and author (d. 1982)
1946 - Tom Savini,American actor, stuntman, director and make-up artist
1947 - Mazie Hirono, Japanese-American lawyer and politician
1948 – Lulu, Scottish actress and singer
1948 - Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian racing driver (d. 1974)
1949 – Larry Holmes, American boxer
1949 - Anna Wintour, English-American fashion magazine editor
1950 - James E. Rothman, American biochemist
1951 1975
1952 – Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedienne
1952 – Jim Cummings, American voice actor
1953 – Dennis Miller, American comedian
1953 – Kathy Kinney, American actress
1953 – Kate Capshaw, American actress
1954 – Adam Ant, British singer
1956 – Kevin Murphy, American actor, puppeteer, producer and screenwriter
1956 – Cathy Jamieson, Scottish politician
1956 – Bob Welch, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1957 – Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor
1958 – Tony McNulty, British politician
1959 – Hal Hartley, American film producer, director, screenwriter and composer
1960 – Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player
1960 – William Monahan, American screenwriter and author
1961 – Dave Hahn, Japanese-American mountaineer and journalist
1961 – David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley, British businessman
1962 - Antti Rinne, Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland
1962 – Jacqui Smith, British politician
1963 – Ian Wright, English footballer
1964 – Paprika Steen, Danish actress and film director
1965 – Gert Heerkes, Dutch footballer and manager
1970 – Andrzej Juskowiak, Polish footballer
1971 – Unai Emery, Spanish footballer and manager
1971 – Dylan Moran, Irish comedian
1971 – Dwight Yorke, footballer from Trinidad and Tobago
1971 – Alison Williamson, English archer
1972 – Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer (d. 2017)
1973 – Mick Thomson, American musician (Slipknot)
1973 – Ben Fogle, British television personality, writer and broadcaster
1974 – Tariq Abdul-Wahad, French basketball player and coach
1974 – Benedict Akwuegbu, Nigerian footballer
From 1976
1976 – Tom Brosseau, American singer-songwriter
1976 – Guillermo Franco, Mexican footballer
1979 – Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
1981 - Rodrigo Millar, Chilean footballer
1981 - Jermaine Jones, German-American soccer player
1982 – Evgeni Plushenko, Russian figure skater
1985 - Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player
1986 - Piet Velthuizen, Dutch footballer
1986 - Paul Derbyshire, Italian rugby player
1986 - Beth Kingston, English actress
1986 - Heo Young-saeng, South Korean singer and entertainer
1987 – Gemma Ward, Australian model
1987 - Colin Kaepernick, American football player
1988 - Stephanie Inglis, Scottish judoka
1988 - Angus McLaren, Australian actor
1989 - Paula DeAnda, American singer-songwriter and actress
1989 - Joyce Jonathan, French singer, composer and actress
1990 - Joe Clarke, English slalom canoeist
1991 - Lauren Gray, Scottish curler
1992 - Stevie May, Scottish footballer
1995 - Kendall Jenner, American model
1998 - Maddison Elliott, Australian swimmer
Deaths
Up to 1900
361 – Constantinus II, Roman Emperor (b. 317)
753 - Pirminius, German saint (b. 700)
1254 - John III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1193)
1584 - Charles Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1538)
1600 - Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)
1639 - Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (b. 1579)
1643 - John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
1643 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
1793 – Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)
1794 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal (b. 1715)
1858 - Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher (b. 1807)
1890 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1811)
1891 - Louis Lucien Bonaparte, English-Italian philologist and politician (b. 1813)
1901 2000
1914 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (b. 1887)
1917 – Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist (b. 1846)
1918 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1857)
1926 – Annie Oakley, American sharp-shooter (b. 1860)
1929 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
1933 - Pierre Paul Emile Roux, French physician, immunologist and bacteriologist (b. 1853)
1940 - Manuel Azaña, Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (b. 1880)
1949 - Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (b. 1861)
1954 – Henri Matisse, French painter (b. 1869)
1957 – Laika, Soviet-Russian space dog (b. 1954)
1970 – King Peter II of Yugoslavia (b. 1923)
1973 - Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1975 - Syed Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
1975 - A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1919)
1975 - Tajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
1975 - Syed Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
1975 - Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1919)
1981 – Eraldo Monzeglio, Italian footballer (b. 1906)
1983 - Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
1990 – Mary Martin, American actress (b. 1913)
1993 – Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (b. 1895)
1996 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African dictator (b. 1921)
1998 – Bob Kane, American cartoonist (b. 1915).
1999 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
From 2001
2004 - Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1972)
2006 - Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
2006 - Paul Mauriat, French pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2008 - Jean Fournet, French conductor (b. 1913)
2009 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer (b. 1906)
2010 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (b. 1938)
2012 - Kailashpati Mishra, Indian politician, 18th Governor of Gujarat (b. 1923)
2013 - Nick Cardy, American illustrator (b. 1920)
2014 - Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (b. 1950)
2014 - Tinus Linee, South African rugby player (b. 1969)
2014 - Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Egyptian actress (b. 1933)
2014 - Augusto Martelli, Italian composer (b. 1940)
2014 - Nina Timofeeva, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1935)
2014 - Gordon Tullock, American economist (b. 1922)
2015 - Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi politician (b. 1944)
2015 - Howard Coble, American politician (b. 1931)
2015 - Adriana Campos, Colombian actress (b. 1979)
2015 - Tom Graveney, English cricketer (b. 1927)
2016 - Yawar Hayat Khan, Pakistani producer and director (b. 1933)
2016 - Kay Starr, American singer (b. 1922)
2017 - Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh (b. 1926)
2017 - Renzo Calegari, Italian cartoonist (b. 1933)
2018 - Mari Hulman George, American motorsport executive (b. 1934)
2018 - John Large, English engineer (b. 1943)
2018 - Sondra Locke, American actress (b. 1944)
2019 - Gert Boyle, German-American businesswoman (b. 1924)
2019 - Ian Cross, New Zealand author and journalist (b. 1925)
2019 - Yvette Lundy, French resistance activist (b. 1916)
2019 - Taku Mayumura, Japanese science fiction novelist (b. 1934)
Observances
Independence Day (Panama, Dominica, Federated States of Micronesia)
Day of Culture (Japan, after birthday of Emperor Meiji)
Independence Day at Cuenca (Ecuador)
Victory Day (Maldives)
November 03 |
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Events
Up to 1900
1493 - Christopher Columbus lands on Guadeloupe.
1501 - Catherine of Aragon meets Arthur Tudor, the brother of Henry VIII of England.
1576 - Eighty Years' War: Spain captures Antwerp, Flanders.
1677 – Future queen Mary II of England marries future king William III of England.
1783 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1786 - Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse lands on an island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, which he names after Jacques Necker.
1798 - Beginning of the Russo-Ottoman Siege of Corfu.
1828 - Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States.
1847 - Scottish doctor James Young Simpson discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
1852 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which later expands to become Italy.
1856 - James Buchanan is elected President of the United States.
1861 - The University of Washington is founded.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Johnson - Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars of material.
1875 - Paddle steamer Pacific collides with Orpheus sailing boat off Cape Flattery, Washington, killing 273 people.
1884 - Grover Cleveland is elected to his first term as President of the United States.
1890 - London's deep-level railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
1901 2000
1918 – World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
1921 – Prime Minister of Japan Hara Takashi is murdered.
1921 - Italy's unknown soldier is buried in the Fatherland Altar in Rome.
1922 – A team of archaeologists led by Howard Carter finds the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt.
1924 - Calvin Coolidge is elected to continue as President of the United States, after he had served out Warren G. Harding's term.
1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first woman elected governor in a US State.
1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein - Disobeying a direct order from Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces to a five-month retreat.
1950 - European Convention on Human Rights is adopted.
1952 - The United States Government creates the National Security Agency.
1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected President of the United States.
1955 – The rebuilt Vienna State Opera is re-opened.
1956 – Soviet troops crush the Hungarian Revolution. Thousands are killed.
1960 - In Tanzania, Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees making tools, the first-ever such observation in non-humans.
1966 - The Arno River in Florence, Italy floods at record levels, making thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.
1970 - Genie, aged 13, is found in Los Angeles, having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life until that point.
1977 - The UN ends its weapons embargo on Apartheid-era South Africa.
1979 - The Iran hostage crisis begins - A group of Iranians, mostly students, invades United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran, and takes 90 people hostage, including 53 Americans.
1980 – Ronald Reagan is elected President of the United States, defeating Jimmy Carter.
1984 - French Pay-TV channel Canal+ starts transmission.
1991 - Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines, is given a Presidential pardon by Corazon Aquino.
1993 - A China Airlines Boeing 747 overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.
1993 - Jean Chrétien becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
1994 - The first conference focusing exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web is held in San Francisco, California.
1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is murdered, being shot dead by Yigal Amir.
1999 - Ilir Meta becomes Prime Minister of Albania.
From 2001
2001 - Northern Ireland: The Police Service of Northern Ireland is created, replacing the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
2005 – Nintendo's Game Boy Micro is released in Europe.
2006 - A widespread power failure affects parts of Western Europe.
2008 – Barack Obama wins the vote to become President of the United States, over Senator John McCain. Obama becomes the US' first African American President.
2010 - Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.
2014 - US Mid-term elections are held, with the Republican Party reclaiming the majority it lost in the Senate in 2006.
2015 - Justin Trudeau becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
2015 - A cargo plane crashes near Juba International Airport in South Sudan, killing 37 people.
2015 - A building collapses in Lahore, Pakistan, killing 45 people.
2016 - The Paris climate change agreement enters into force.
2018 - New Caledonia holds an independence referendum, where a smaller-than expected majority (56%) votes to remain an overseas territory of France.
2019 - Sir Lindsay Hoyle is chosen to succeed John Bercow as Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Births
Up to 1900
1448 - King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
1470 – Edward V, King of England (d. 1483?)
1575 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
1592 - Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter (d. 1656)
1618 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor (d. 1707)
1631 – Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, daughter of Charles I of England, and mother of William III (d. 1660)
1640 - Carlo Mannelli, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1697)
1661 - Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)
1732 - Thomas Johnson, Governor of Maryland (d. 1819)
1765 - Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
1766 - John Adams, English mutineer (d. 1829)
1772 - François-Frédéric Lemot, French sculptor (d. 1827)
1782 - John Branch, Governor of North Carolina and last territorial Governor of Florida (d. 1863)
1783 - Gaspard Gourgaud, French historian (d. 1852)
1787 - Edmund Kean, English actor (d. 1833)
1836 - Charles B. Andrews, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1902)
1840 - William Giblin, Australian politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1887)
1845 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (d. 1883)
1853 - Anna Baverova, Czech physician (d. 1924)
1861 - Dimitrios Ioannou, Greek general (d. 1926)
1868 - La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer and dancer (d. 1965)
1872 - Barbu Stirbey, Romanian politician (d. 1946)
1873 - G. E. Moore, English philosopher (d. 1958)
1874 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920)
1874 - Charles Despiau, French sculptor (d. 1946)
1879 – Will Rogers, American humorist (d. 1935)
1883 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general (d. 1953)
1884 - Harry Ferguson, British aviator and inventor (d. 1960)
1884 - George Underwood, American athlete (d. 1943)
1887 - Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist, philanthropist and scientific research patron (d. 1975)
1890 - Klabund, German writer (d. 1928)
1896 – Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines (d. 1971)
1897 - C. B. van Niel, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1985)
1899 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourg cyclist (d. 1985)
1900 - Lucretiu Patrascanu, Romanian Communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
1901 1950
1901 - Bangja, Crown Princess Euimin of Korea (d. 1989)
1902 - Reg Dean, British supercentenarian (d. 2013)
1904 - Tadeusz Zylinski, Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967)
1906 - Sterling North, American writer (d. 1974)
1907 - Draga Matkovic, German concert pianist
1908 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish physicist (d. 2005)
1908 - Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (d. 1997)
1909 – Bert Patenaude, American footballer (d. 1974)
1909 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1911 – Dixie Lee, American actress, dancer and singer (d. 1952)
1912 - Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (d. 1978)
1913 - Gig Young, American actor (d. 1978)
1916 – Walter Cronkite, American news reporter (d. 2009)
1916 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, inventor of the Barbie doll (d. 2002)
1918 – Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
1919 - Oscar Holderer, German rocket scientist (d. 2015)
1920 - Val Heim, American baseball player (d. 2019)
1923 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (d. 2002)
1923 - Gunnar Huseby, Icelandic athlete (d. 1995)
1923 - Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player
1925 - Ritwik Ghatab, Bangladeshi-Indian filmmaker and scriptwriter (d. 1976)
1925 - Doris Roberts, American actress (d. 2016)
1928 - Larry Bunker, American jazz musician (d. 2005)
1929 - Shakuntala Devi, Indian child prodigy and mental calculator (d. 2013)
1929 - Leopold Gratz, Austrian politician (d. 2006)
1929 - Athanasios of Albania, Greek-Albanian archbishop
1930 - Dick Groat, American baseball and basketball player
1930 - Dick MacPherson, American football coach (d. 2017)
1931 - Bernard Francis Law, American cardinal and former Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2017)
1932 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
1933 - Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist (d. 2018)
1933 - C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian military leader and politician (d. 2011)
1935 - Elgar Howarth, English conductor, composer and trumpeter
1936 - Didier Ratsiraka, former President of Madagascar (d. 2021)
1936 - C. K. Williams, American poet (d. 2015)
1937 - Loretta Swit, American actress
1938 - Jorge Manicera, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2012)
1939 - Michael Meacher, British politician (d. 2015)
1940 - Marlène Jobert, French actress
1943 - Marilyn Ware, American diplomat and businesswoman (d. 2017)
1944 - Scherrie Payne, American singer
1944 - Linda Gary, American voice actress (d. 1995)
1946 – Laura Bush, former First Lady of the United States
1948 – Amadou Toumani Touré, President of Mali
1948 - Alexis Hunter, New Zealand photographer and painter (d. 2014)
1951 1975
1951 – Traian Basescu, President of Romania
1952 - Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, Coptic Church leader
1953 - Tina Theune, German footballer
1953 - Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
1953 - Derek Johnstone, Scottish footballer
1953 - Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian racing driver
1953 - Peter Lord, English animator, film producer and director
1954 - Aleksandr Aksinin, Russian athlete
1954 - Chris Difford, rock music singer
1955 – Matti Vanhanen, former Prime Minister of Finland
1956 - James Honeyman-Scott, English musician (d. 1982)
1956 - Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
1957 – Tony Abbott, 28th Prime Minister of Australia
1958 - Lee Jasper, English activist and politician
1960 - Kathy Griffin, American comedienne
1961 – Ralph Macchio, American actor
1961 – Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer
1962 - Arvo Volmer, Estonian conductor
1963 – Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer (d. 1999)
1963 – Horacio Elizondo, Argentine football referee
1963 - Rosario Flores, Spanish singer and actress
1963 - Michel Therrien, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 - Yuko Mizutani, Japanese voice actress and singer (d. 2016)
1965 - Malandra Burrows, English actress and singer
1965 - Wayne Static, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
1969 – Sean Combs (P-Diddy), American rapper and producer
1969 – Matthew McConaughey, American actor
1969 - Samantha Smith, American actress
1970 - Malena Ernman, Swedish singer
1970 - Tony Sly, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
1971 - Perry Moore, American writer and movie producer (d. 2011)
1972 – Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer
1972 - Myles Pollard, Australian actor
1974 - Louise Redknapp, English television personality
1975 - Heather Tom, American actress
From 1976
1976 - Daniel Bahr, German politician
1976 – Mario Melchiot, Dutch footballer
1976 - Alexander Popp, German tennis player
1979 - Trishelle Cannatella, American model and actress
1980 - Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2015)
1981 - Guy Martin, English motorcycle racer
1982 - Kamila Skolimowska, Polish hammer thrower (d. 2009)
1983 - Anton Buslov, Russian astrophysicist and blogger (d. 2014)
1984 - Dustin Brown, American ice hockey player
1985 – Marcell Jansen, German footballer
1986 - Alexz Johnson, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer and actress
1986 - Szymon Pawlowski, Polish footballer
1986 - Adrian Zaugg, South African racing driver
1987 - T.O.P, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
1989 - Enner Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
1991 - Lesley Kerkhove, Dutch tennis player
1998 - Darcy Rose Byrnes, American actress and singer
Deaths
Up to 1950
1411 - Khalil Sultan, Timurid ruler (b. 1384)
1652 - Jean-Claude de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)
1669 - Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
1801 - William Shippen, American physician and Continental Congressman (b. 1712)
1847 - Thieu Tri, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1807)
1847 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
1893 - Pierre Tirard, Prime Minister of France (b. 1827)
1906 - John H. Ketcham, American general and politician (b. 1832)
1918 – Wilfred Owen, English poet (b. 1893)
1921 – Hara Takashi, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1865)
1924 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
1931 - Luigi Galleani, Italian activist (b. 1861)
1932 - Belle Bennett, American actress (b. 1891)
1950 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player and coach (b. 1887)
1951 2000
1951 - Ernesto Ambrosini, Italian athlete (b. 1894)
1955 – Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
1968 - Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892)
1969 - Carlos Marighella, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1911)
1969 - Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (b. 1920)
1969 - Ernest W. Gibson, Governor of Vermont (b. 1901)
1974 – Bert Patenaude, American footballer (b. 1909)
1982 - Jacques Tati, French actor and director (b. 1907)
1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
1988 - Kleanthis Vikelidis, Greek footballer (b. 1916)
1990 - David Stirling, British founder of the SAS (b. 1915)
1992 - George Klein, Canadian inventor (b. 1904)
1994 – Sam Francis, American painter (b. 1923)
1995 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
1995 – Yitzhak Rabin, 5th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1922)
1997 - Richard Hooker, American writer (b. 1924)
1998 - Marion Donovan, American architect and inventor (b. 1917)
From 2001
2008 – Michael Crichton, American writer (b. 1942)
2009 - Hubertus Brandenburg, German-born Swedish Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1923)
2010 – Eugenie Blanchard, French-Caribbean supercentenarian (b. 1896)
2010 - Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager (b. 1934)
2011 - Alfonso Cano, Colombian FARC leader (b. 1948)
2011 - Andy Rooney, American journalist (b. 1919)
2011 - Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist (b. 1915)
2012 - Ted Curson, American trumpeter (b. 1935)
2013 - Hans von Borsody, Austrian-German actor (b. 1929)
2014 - Jeremy Dale, American comic book artist (b. 1979)
2014 - Enrique Olivera, Argentine politician (b. 1940)
2014 - Richard Schaal, American actor (b. 1928)
2014 - Eddie Stuart, South African footballer (b. 1931)
2015 - René Girard, French-American historian, literary critic and philosopher of social science (b. 1923)
2015 - Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter (b. 1950)
2015 - Piotr Domaradzki, Polish-American journalist (b. 1946)
2015 - Ole Knapp, Norwegian politician (b. 1931)
2016 - Jean-Jacques Perrey, French electronic music producer (b. 1929)
2016 - Mansour Pourheidari, Iranian footballer (b. 1946)
2017 - Michael Augustine, Indian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1933)
2017 - Anna Diggs Taylor, American judge (b. 1932)
2017 - Dudley Simpson, Australian composer and conductor (b. 1922)
2017 - Tamara Natalie Madden, Jamaican-American artist (b. 1975)
2018 - Karl-Heinz Adler, German artist (b. 1927)
2018 - Manohar Prahlad Awati, Indian vice-admiral (b. 1927)
2018 - Donna Axum, American model (b. 1942)
2018 - Marco Dezzi Bardeschi, Italian architect (b. 1934)
2018 - Tetsugen Bernard Glassman, American Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1939)
2018 - Jeremy Heywood, British economist and civil servant (b. 1961)
2018 - Harris Hines, American judge (b. 1943)
2018 - Vince Manuwai, American football player (b. 1980)
2018 - Grant R. Osborne, American theologian (b. 1942)
2018 - Wolfgang Zuckermann, German-American harpsichord maker and activist (b. 1922)
2019 - Gay Byrne, Irish broadcaster (b. 1934)
2019 - Jacques Dupont, French racing cyclist (b. 1928)
2019 - Sadeque Hossain Khoka, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1952)
2019 - Virginia Leith, American actress (b. 1925)
Observances
Flag Day (Panama)
National Unity and Armed Forces Day (Italy)
Unity Day (Russia)
November 04 |
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Events
Up to 1900
800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
1420 - Henry V of England enters Paris.
1640 – Portugal regains its independence from Spain.
1821 – The first constitution of Costa Rica is issued.
1822 – Emperor Pedro I of Brazil is crowned.
1824 - The United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner of the US Presidential Election after no candidate got an overall majority of Electoral College votes.
1828 - Argentine general Juan Lavalle carries out a coup against Governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
1835 – Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first book of fairy tales.
1864 - Great Fire of Brisbane.
1865 - Shaw University, the first historically black university in the Southern United States, is founded in North Carolina.
1885 - The fizzy drink Dr Pepper is first served at a drug store in Waco, Texas.
1901 1950
1913 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
1913 – Crete is annexed by Greece.
1913 - The Buenos Aires Metro opens to the public.
1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
1918 - Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania.
1919 - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor officially takes her seat in the House of Commons as the UK's first female Member of Parliament.
1923 – The dam of the Gleno Reservoir near Bergamo, Italy, bursts, killing around 600 people.
1934 - In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolaev at Communist Headquarters in Leningrad.
1941 - World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to begin war against the United States.
1941 - World War II: New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia signs the Administration Order No. 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
1948 - Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, South Australia, involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a rare book. The case remains unsolved.
1951 2000
1953 - Hugh Hefner publishes the first edition of Playboy magazine.
1955 – In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1958 – Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
1958 - The Our Lady of the Angels school fire in Chicago kills 92 children and 3 nuns.
1959 – Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent.
1960 - Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested in Hamburg after being accused of attempted arson.
1961 – The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.
1963 – Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
1964 – Malta, Malawi and Zambia join the UN.
1965 - India's Border Security Force is founded.
1966 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger succeeds Ludwig Erhard as Chancellor of West Germany.
1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
1971 – Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
1971 – The Indian Army occupies part of Kashmir.
1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia.
1974 - TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport near Washington, DC, killing all 92 people on board.
1974 - Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of JFK International Airport outside New York City, killing all 3 crew members. There were no passengers on board at the time.
1976 – Angola joins the UN.
1981 - Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
1986 - The Musee d'Orsay art museum in Paris opens.
1988 - Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1989 - A right-wing rebel group attempts to remove then-President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino from power in a failed coup attempt.
1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the seabed.
1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
2000 – Vicente Fox becomes President of Mexico.
From 2001
2006 – Felipe Calderon becomes President of Mexico.
2006 – A typhoon causes landslides on the Mayon Volcano in the Philippines, burying about 1,000 people.
2009 – The European Union's Lisbon Treaty takes effect.
2012 - Enrique Peña Nieto becomes President of Mexico.
2013 - A train derails in the Bronx, New York City, on the banks of the Hudson River, killing four people and injuring around 60.
2014 - The Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab rounds up and kills 36 Non-Muslims in northeastern Kenya.
2016 - Vajiralongkorn officially becomes King of Thailand.
2017 - Japanese Emperor Akihito's abdication date is set for April 30, 2019.
2017 - The groups are drawn for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
2018 - Andrés Manuel López Obrador becomes President of Mexico.
2019 - Ursula von der Leyen takes office as the first female President of the European Commission.
Births
Up to 1900
1081 – Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
1083 – Anna Komnene, Byzantine princess and scholar (d. 1153)
1438 - Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1503)
1443 - Magdalena of France, French princess (d. 1495)
1521 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese daimyo (d. 1573)
1580 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)
1690 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician (d. 1764)
1709 - Franz Xaver Richter, Austrian-Moravian singer, violinist, composer and conductor (d. 1789)
1716 - Etienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (d. 1817)
1761 – Marie Tussaud, French creator of waxworks (d. 1850)
1766 – Nikolay Karamzin, Russian writer (d. 1826)
1785 - Victor de Broglie, French politician and diplomat (d. 1850)
1792 - Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856)
1823 - Karl Schenk, Swiss politician (d. 1895)
1840 - Marie Bracquemond, French painter (d. 1916)
1844 – Alexandra of Denmark, queen consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1925)
1847 - Julia Ann Moore, American poet (d. 1920)
1855 - John Evans, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (d. 1943)
1864 - Carsten Borchgrevink, Norwegian polar explorer (d. 1934)
1867 - Ignacy Moscicki, Polish scientist and politician (d. 1946)
1869 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (d. 1923)
1873 - Valery Bryusov, Russian poet (d. 1924)
1873 - Viktor Chernov, Russian politician (d. 1952)
1884 - Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (d. 1976)
1886 – Rex Stout, American writer (d. 1975)
1895 – Henry Williamson, English writer (d. 1977)
1896 – Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
1898 - Stuart Garson, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1977)
1901 1950
1901 - Ilona Feher, Hungarian violinist (d. 1988)
1901 - Jane Gray, Scottish-Australian supercentenarian (d. 2014)
1905 – Clarence Zener, American physicist (d. 1993)
1910 – Alicia Markova, British ballet dancer (d. 2004)
1911 – Franz Binder, Austrian footballer (d. 1989)
1911 - Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (d. 1984)
1911 - Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman (d. 1999)
1912 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (d. 1986)
1913 – Mary Martin, American actress (d. 1990)
1916 - Wan Li, Chinese politician (d. 2015)
1922 – Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey player (d. 1979)
1923 – Morris, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2001)
1923 - Stansfield Turner, American admiral (d. 2018)
1925 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist (d. 1998)
1926 - Keith Michell, Australian actor (d. 2015)
1928 - Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1991)
1928 - Malachi Throne, American actor (d. 2013)
1929 – Alfred Moisiu, former President of Albania
1929 - Karl Otto Pöhl, German economist (d. 2014)
1929 - David Doyle, American actor (d. 1997)
1930 - Marie Bashir, 37th Governor of New South Wales
1930 – Matt Monro, English singer (d. 1985)
1931 - Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (d. 1986)
1931 - George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2018)
1933 - Fujiko Fujio, Japanese writer and illustrator (d. 1996)
1933 - Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (d. 2006)
1933 - Violette Verdy, French ballerina (d. 2016)
1933 - James Wolfensohn, 9th President of the World Bank
1934 – Billy Paul, American singer (d. 2016)
1935 – Woody Allen, American director and actor
1936 - María Romilda Servini, Argentine lawyer and judge
1936 - Igor Rodionov, Russian general and politician (d. 2014)
1937 – Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former President of Latvia
1938 - Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani politician, Governor of Sindh (d. 2017)
1939 – Lee Trevino, American golf player
1940 – Richard Pryor, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
1942 - Mohamed Kamel Amr, Egyptian diplomat
1943 - Finn E. Kydland, Norwegian economist
1943 - Kenny Moore, American runner and journalist
1944 - Pierre Arditi, French actor
1944 - A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (d. 2017)
1944 - Michael Hagee, American general
1944 - Tahar Ben Jelloun, Moroccan-French poet
1944 - Daniel Pennac, French writer
1944 – John Densmore, American musician
1945 – Bette Midler, American singer and actress
1946 – Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer
1947 – Alain Bashung, French singer (d. 2009)
1948 – Luciano Re Cecconi, Italian footballer (d. 1977)
1948 – Neil Warnock, English footballer and manager
1948 - Themba Dlamini, Prime Minister of Swaziland
1948 - Sarfraz Nawaz, Pakistani cricketer
1949 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian druglord (d. 1993)
1949 – Sebastian Pinera, President of Chile; 2010 - 2014, and since 2018
1950 - Ueli Maurer, Swiss politician
1950 - Seiichi Sakiya, Japanese footballer
1950 - Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and drummer
1951 1975
1951 – Jaco Pastorius, American musician (d. 1987)
1951 - Treat Williams, American actor
1952 - Stephen Poliakoff, British playwright and television dramatist
1952 - Ellen McLain, American opera singer and voice actress
1952 - Pegi Young, American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, educator and philanthropist (d. 2019)
1954 - Viv Albertine, Australian-British singer and songwriter
1954 - Medha Patkar, Indian activist
1954 - François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (d. 2017)
1956 - Julee Cruise, American singer-songwriter and actress
1956 - Billy Stark, Scottish footballer
1957 - Chris Poland, American guitarist
1957 - Deep Roy, Kenyan actor
1958 – Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and manager
1958 - Candace Bushnell, American author, journalist and television producer
1958 - Lisa Fischer, American singer-songwriter
1958 - Charlene Tilton, American actress
1959 - Billy Childish, English singer and musician
1960 – Carol Alt, American supermodel
1961 – Jeremy Northam, British actor
1961 - Armin Meiwes, German cannibal and murderer
1962 - Pamela McGee, American basketball player and coach
1963 - Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer and politician
1964 – Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer
1965 - Peter Greste, Australian journalist
1966 - Andrew Adamson, New Zealand movie director
1966 - Katherine LaNasa, American actress
1966 - Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player
1967 - Nestor Carbonell, American actor, director and screenwriter
1968 - Justin Chadwick, English actor and director
1968 - Anders Holmertz, Swedish swimmer
1968 - Stephan Beckenbauer, German footballer (d. 2015)
1970 – Sarah Silverman, American comedienne
1971 – Emily Mortimer, English actress
1971 – Mika Pohjola, Finnish jazz pianist and composer
1971 - Melanie Peres, German-Israeli model, actress and singer
1974 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer
1974 - Simon Donnelly, Scottish footballer and manager
1974 - Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboardist and producer (d. 2014)
From 1976
1976 – Laura Ling, American journalist
1976 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d. 1998)
1977 - Brad Delson, American guitarist and producer
1977 - Akiva Schaffer, American actor, rapper, director, producer and screenwriter
1979 - Shinji Murai, Japanese footballer
1981 - Park Hyo-shin, South Korean singer-songwriter
1982 - Alfredo Pacheco, El Salvadorean footballer (d. 2015)
1985 – Emiliano Viviano, Italian footballer
1985 - John Coughlin, American figure skater
1985 - Chanel Preston, American pornographic actress
1986 - DeSean Jackson, American football player
1988 – Jay Simpson, English footballer
1988 – Zoe Kravitz, American actress
1989 - Barry Bannan, Scottish footballer
1990 - Chanel Iman, American model
1991 - Sun Yang, Chinese swimmer
1991 - Dion Waiters, American basketball player
1992 - Masahudu Alhassan, Ghanaian footballer
1992 - Marco van Ginkel, Dutch footballer
1995 - Eva Boto, Slovenian singer
2001 – Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan
2001 - Savannah McReynolds, American actress
2001 - Alice Robinson, New Zealand alpine ski racer
Deaths
Up to 1900
660 - Saint Eligius (b. c. 588)
1135 – Henry I, King of England (b. 1068)
1241 – Isabella of England, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1214)
1377 – King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316)
1433 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
1455 - Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor (b. 1378)
1521 – Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
1530 - Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (b. 1480)
1580 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
1581 - Alexander Briant, English priest, martyr and saint (b. 1556)
1581 - Edmund Campion, English priest, martyr and saint (b. 1540)
1581 - Ralph Sherwin, English priest, martyr and saint (b. 1550)
1602 - Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese warlord (b. 1582)
1633 - Isabella Clara Eugenia, Spanish consort of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (b. 1566)
1640 - Miguel de Vasconcelos, Portuguese politician (b. 1590)
1660 - Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist (b. 1592)
1750 - Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer (b. 1671)
1755 - Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696)
1825 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
1830 – Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
1864 - William L. Dayton, American politician (b. 1807)
1866 – George Everest, Welsh surveyor (b. 1790)
1884 - William Swainson, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician (b. 1809)
1886 – Emil Hartwich, German lawyer (b. 1843)
1901 2000
1913 - Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and writer (b. 1864)
1914 - Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
1916 - Charles de Foucauld, French priest (b. 1858)
1917 - John January, American soccer player (b. 1882)
1934 – Sergey Kirov, Soviet politician (b. 1886)
1941 - Alva B. Adams, American politician (b. 1875)
1943 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian (b. 1862)
1947 – Aleister Crowley, English occultist and writer (b. 1875)
1947 – G.H. Hardy, English mathematician (b. 1877)
1954 - Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter and publisher (b. 1898)
1964 - J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist (b. 1892)
1964 - Charilaos Vasilakos, Greek runner (b. 1877)
1968 - Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer, composer and conductor (b. 1887)
1969 - Magic Sam, American guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
1972 – Antonio Segni, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1891)
1973 – David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
1975 - Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American writer (b. 1906)
1981 - Russ Manning, American comic book artist (b. 1929)
1987 – James Baldwin, American writer (b. 1924)
1987 - Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager (b. 1918)
1990 - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian politician and diplomat (b. 1900)
1991 – George J. Stigler, American economist (b. 1911)
1993 - Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
1995 - Maxwell R. Thurman, American general (b. 1931)
1997 – Stephane Grappelli, French violinist (b. 1908)
1997 - Endicott Peabody, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1920)
1998 – Bertil Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1917)
From 2001
2001 - Roger Leach, British actor (b. 1948)
2004 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
2005 - Jack Colvin, American actor (b. 1934)
2006 – Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
2007 - Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (b. 1929)
2008 – Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
2010 – Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (b. 1914)
2011 – Christa Wolf, German writer (b. 1929)
2012 - Mitchell Cole, English footballer (b. 1985)
2012 - Phil Taylor, English footballer (b. 1917)
2012 - Jovan Belcher, American football player (b. 1987)
2013 - Heinrich Boere, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1922)
2013 - Lino Grech, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
2013 - Edward Heffron, American World War II veteran (b. 1923)
2014 - Sita Murt, Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman (b. 1946)
2014 - Mario Abramovich, Argentine violinist and composer (b. 1926)
2014 - Roberto Sagastume Pinto, Guatemalan politician (b. 1944)
2015 - Joseph Engelberger, American engineer (b. 1925)
2015 - Robert E. Glennen, American academic (b. 1933)
2015 - Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2017 - Adarsh Sein Anand, former Chief Justice of India (b. 1936)
2017 - Philipp Graf Lerchenfeld, German politician (b. 1952)
2017 - Fredy Schmidtke, German cyclist (b. 1961)
2017 - Arif Dirlik, Turkish-born American historian (b. 1940)
2017 - Les Whitten, American investigative reporter (b. 1928)
2018 - Ken Berry, American actor (b. 1933)
2018 - Ennio Fantastichini, Italian actor (b. 1955)
2018 - Anwar Hossain, Bangladeshi photographer and cinematographer (b. 1948)
2018 - Scott Stearney, American Vice Admiral (b. 1960)
2018 - Stefanie Tücking, German television presenter (b. 1962)
2018 - Shoucheng Zhang, Chinese-American physicist (b. 1963)
2019 - Henri Biancheri, French footballer (b. 1932)
2019 - Shelley Morrison, American actress (b. 1936)
2019 - Lil Bub, American-bred celebrity cat (b. 2011)
2019 - Paul Sirba, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1960)
2019 - Pat Sullivan, American football player (b. 1950)
Holidays and observances
World AIDS Day
Portugal – Restoration of Independence Day
Costa Rica – Military Abolition Day
Romania – The National Day of Romania, Union of Transylvania with Romania
Angola's Pioneers' Day
Australia – First day of Summer
Iceland - Self-governance Day
Teachers' Day (Panama)
Chad - Freedom and Democracy Day
Mexico - Traditionally the date the President is sworn into office every six years, last in 2012
Saint Eligius in Western Christianity
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Events
Up to 1900
771 – Austrasian King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.
963 - Pope Leo VIII is elected.
1110 – First Crusade: The Crusaders conquer Sidon.
1154 - Nicholas Breakspear is elected to become Pope Adrian IV, and is the only Englishman to have been Pope.
1259 – Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels.
1563 – The final session of the Council of Trent is held (it opened on December 13, 1545).
1619 – 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
1639 – Jeremiah Horrocks made the first observation of a transit of Venus. (November 24 under the Julian calendar.)
1674 – Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois).
1676 – Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt.
1745 - Charles Edward Stuart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the second Jacobite Rising.
1783 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, United States General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.
1791 – The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
1829 – In the face of fierce opposition, British governor Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide.
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta (Union forces did suffer more than three times the Confederate casualties, however).
1867 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange movement).
1872 – The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia (the ship was abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged).
1875 – Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain.
1881 - The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
1893 - First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South African company soldiers is ambushed and wiped out by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland in present-day Zimbabwe.
1901 1950
1906 – Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity in the United States established for men of African descent, was founded at Cornell University.
1909 - The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team is founded.
1918 – United States President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first United States President to travel to Europe while in office.
1921 – The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.
1934 - Daisetzuan National Park is created in Japan.
1937 - The first issue of the Dandy is published.
1942 – Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz set up Żegota.
1943 – World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
1943 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration.
1944 - World War II: An Allied air raid on the German city of Heilbronn kills 6,500 people.
1945 – By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations (the UN was established on October 24, 1945).
1951 2000
1951 – Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf appointed President of Azad Kashmir Government.
1952 – Great Smog of 1952: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing up to 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.
1954 - The first Burger King opens in Miami, Florida.
1958 – Dahomey (present-day Benin) becomes a self-governing country within the French Community.
1967 – Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage NLF troops in the Mekong Delta.
1969 – Black Panther members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago, Illinois police officers.
1969 – Surfer Greg Noll rides a 65-foot wave on the North Shore of Oahu, still the highest ever recorded.
1971 – UN Security Council calls emergency session to consider deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.
1971 – The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert.
1974 - A Dutch Douglas DC-8 airliner, carrying Indonesian pilgrims to Mecca, crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing all 191 people on board.
1975 – Suriname joins the UN.
1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
1977 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100.
1978 – Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco, California's first woman mayor (she served until January 8, 1988).
1979 – The Hastie fire in Hull, kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.
1980 – The rock group Led Zeppelin formally announce their breakup.
1981 – South Africa grants "homeland" Ciskei independence (not recognized outside South Africa).
1982 – The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
1984 - Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan army soldiers kill between 107 and 150 civilians.
1984 - Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwaiti Airlines plane, killing 4 passengers.
1991 – Journalist Terry Anderson is released after 7 years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut (he was the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon).
1991 – United States airline Pan Am ends operations.
1992 – Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia.
1993 – A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
1994 – Pakistan wins World Hockey Championship after 12 years, beating the Netherlands by four goals to three, in Sydney.
1998 – Unity, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
From 2001
2001 – Lisa Beamer, wife of Todd Beamer, through the Todd M. Beamer Foundation, registers the trademark "Let's Roll" with the United States Patent and Trademark Office less than three months after his death in the September 11 attacks in the United States.
2005 – Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protested for democracy and called on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
2006 – An adult giant squid is caught on video for the first time near the Ogasawara Islands of Japan.
2009 – A fire in a night club in Perm, Russia, kills 113 people.
2016 - Alexander Van der Bellen defeats Norbert Hofer in the re-run of Austria's presidential election.
2016 - Constitutional reform is rejected by a majority in a national referendum in Italy, leading to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's announcement that he is to resign from office.
Births
Up to 1900
34 - Persius, Roman poet (d. 62)
1555 - Heinrich Meibom, German poet and historian (d. 1625)
1585 - John Cotton, English clergyman (d. 1652)
1595 - Jean Chapelain, French poet (d. 1674)
1647 - Daniel Eberlin, German composer and conductor (d. 1715)
1670 - John Aislabie, English politician (d. 1742)
1711 – Barbara of Portugal, Queen of Spain (d. 1758)
1713 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and playwright (d. 1785)
1791 - Jane Franklin, British adventurer (d. 1875)
1795 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (d. 1881)
1798 - Jules Armand Dufaure, 33rd Prime Minister of France (d. 1884)
1808 – Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (d. 1888)
1817 - Nikoloz Baratashvili, Georgian poet (d. 1845)
1835 – Samuel Butler, English writer (d. 1902)
1844 - Franz Xavier Wernz, German religious leader (d. 1914)
1849 – Crazy Horse, Native American leader (d. 1877)
1852 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (d. 1934)
1861 – Hannes Hafstein, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1922)
1861 – Lillian Russell, American actress and singer (d. 1922)
1865 – Edith Cavell, British nurse (d. 1915)
1875 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and writer (d. 1926)
1878 - Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (d. 1918)
1881 – Erwin von Witzleben, German general and Resistance activist (d. 1944)
1889 - Lloyd Bacon, American actor and director (d. 1955)
1892 – Liu Bocheng, Chinese military commander (d. 1986)
1892 – Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (d. 1975)
1893 - Herbert Read, English art historian and philosopher (d. 1968)
1895 – Fung Yu-lan, Chinese philosopher (d. 1990)
1899 - Charlie Spencer, English footballer and manager (d. 1953)
1901 1950
1908 – Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist (d. 1997)
1909 - Archduke Karl Pius of Austria, Prince of Tuscany (d. 1953)
1910 – R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (d. 2009)
1913 - Robert Adler, American physicist and inventor (d. 2007)
1913 - Mark Robson, Canadian-American movie director, producer and editor (d. 1978)
1914 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (d. 1993)
1917 - Movita Castaneda, American actress and singer (d. 2016)
1918 – Robert Ettinger, American academic and pioneer of Cryonics (d. 2011)
1919 - I. K. Gujral, Prime Minister of India (d. 2012)
1920 - Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter (d. 2013)
1921 – Deanna Durbin, Canadian actress (d. 2013)
1921 – Carlos Franqui, Cuban writer and journalist (d. 2010)
1923 - Charles Keating, American lawyer, financier and real estate developer (d. 2014)
1923 - Demmus Hentze, Faroese politician (d. 2016)
1923 - John Krish, British screenwriter and director (d. 2016)
1925 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountain climber (d. 2009)
1926 - Shigeo Sugimoto, Japanese footballer (d. 2002)
1926 - Monty M. Wyche, American judge (d. 2014)
1927 - Gae Aulenti, Italian architect and designer (d. 2012)
1927 - Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (d. 2019)
1930 – Ronnie Corbett, Scottish actor and comedian (d. 2016)
1930 - Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger (d. 2013)
1931 - Alex Delvecchio, Canadian ice hockey player
1932 - Roh Tae-woo, former President of South Korea
1933 – Horst Buchholz, German actor (d. 2003)
1935 - Paul Henry O'Neill, 72nd United States Secretary of the Treasury
1939 – Freddy Cannon, American rock musician
1939 - Stephen W. Bosworth, American diplomat (d. 2016)
1939 - Etienne Mourrut, French politician (d. 2014)
1940 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (d. 1977)
1942 - Gemma Jones, English actress
1944 – Anna McGarrigle, Canadian folk musician, singer and songwriter
1944 – Dennis Wilson, American musician (d. 1983)
1944 - Chris Hillman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945 - Roberta Bondar, Canadian astronaut
1949 – Jeff Bridges, American actor
1949 - Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born actress and psychologist
1951 1975
1951 – Gary Rossington, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1951 - Patricia Wettig, American actress and playwright
1953 - Jean-Marie Pfaff, Belgian footballer
1954 - Tony Todd, American actor and movie producer
1955 – Philip Hammond, British politician
1955 - Cassandra Wilson, American singer
1956 - Bernard King, American basketball player
1956 - Nia Griffith, Welsh politician
1957 - Eric S. Raymond, American computer programmer and author
1959 - Christa Luding-Rothenburger, German speed skater
1960 – Glynis Nunn, Australian athlete
1962 - Nixon Kiprotich, Kenyan middle-distance runner
1963 – Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter
1964 – Sertab Erener, Turkish singer
1964 - Marisa Tomei, American actress
1965 - Carlos Carvalhal, Portuguese footballer and manager
1965 - Alex de la Iglesia, Spanish movie director, screenwriter and producer
1965 – Ulf Kirsten, German footballer
1966 - Fred Armisen, American actor, writer, producer, director, musician and comedian
1969 – Jay-Z, American rapper
1970 - Kevin Sussman, American actor
1972 – Jassen Cullimore, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Tyra Banks, American model
1974 - Tadahito Iguchi, Japanese baseball player
From 1976
1976 – Mbo Mpenza, Belgian footballer
1979 – Jay DeMerit, American footballer
1982 – Waldo Ponce, Chilean footballer
1984 – Lindsay Felton, American actress
1984 - Lauren London, American actress
1984 - Brooke Adams, American wrestler and model
1985 - Krista Siegfrids, Finnish singer
1986 - Kaija Udras, Estonian skier
1987 – Orlando Brown, American actor
1988 - Andriy Pylyavskyi, Ukrainian footballer
1988 - Mario Maurer, Thai actor and singer
1990 - Igor Sjunin, Estonian triple jumper
1990 - Lukman Haruna, Nigerian footballer
1992 - Jean-Claude Iranzi, Rwandan footballer
1992 - Guan Xueting, Chinese ice dancer
1995 - Dina Asher-Smith, English track-and-field athlete
1996 - Diogo Jota, Portuguese footballer
Deaths
Up to 1900
749 - John of Damascus, Syrian monk, priest and saint (b. 676)
771 – Carloman, Frankish ruler
1075 - Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne (b. 1010)
1123 – Omar Khayyam, Persian poet, philosopher, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1048)
1214 – William the Lion, King of Scotland (b. 1143)
1334 – Pope John XXII (b. 1249)
1576 - George Joachim Rheticus, Austrian-Slovakian mathematician (b. 1544)
1609 - Alexander Hume, Scottish poet (b. 1560)
1642 – Cardinal Richelieu (b. 1885)
1679 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)
1680 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician and theologian (b. 1616)
1696 – Empress Meisho of Japan (b. 1624)
1798 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (b. 1737)
1828 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
1850 – William Sturgeon, British physicist and inventor (b. 1783)
1891 - Frederick Whitaker, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812)
1893 – John Tyndall, Irish physicist (b. 1820)
1894 - Leon Ribbett, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1836)
1897 - Griffith Rhys Jones, Welsh conductor (b. 1834)
1901 2000
1902 - Charles Dow, American journalist (b. 1851)
1916 - Preston Lea, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1841)
1926 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian poet (b. 1861)
1935 – Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1850)
1935 - Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1864)
1937 - Wilbur L. Adams, Governor of Delaware (b. 1884)
1938 - Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1903)
1942 - Juhan Kukk, Estonian politician (b. 1885)
1945 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist and embryologist (b. 1866)
1967 - Bert Lahr, American actor and singer (b. 1895)
1971 - Shunryu Suzuki, Japanese-American spiritual teacher (b. 1904)
1975 – Hannah Arendt, German philosopher (b. 1906)
1976 – Benjamin Britten, English composer (b. 1913)
1976 - Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (b. 1951)
1980 – Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
1980 – Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish athlete (b. 1911)
1984 - Jack Mercer, American animator, screenwriter, voice actor and singer (b. 1910)
1987 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American movie director (b. 1897)
1993 – Frank Zappa, American musician (b. 1940)
2000 - Henck Arron, 1st Prime Minister of Suriname (b. 1936)
From 2001
2004 - Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell, Argentine poet and translator (b. 1933)
2007 – Pimp C, American rapper (b. 1973)
2008 - Forrest J Ackerman, American science fiction publisher (b. 1916)
2009 – Eddie Fatu, professional wrestler better known as Umaga (b. 1973)
2011 – Dev Anand, Indian actor, director and producer (b. 1923)
2011 – Socrates, Brazilian footballer (b. 1954)
2011 - Hubert Sumlin, American blues guitarist (b. 1931)
2011 – Matti Yrjana Joensuu, Finnish crime fiction writer (b. 1948)
2012 - Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer (b. 1971)
2012 – Besse Cooper, American supercentenarian, oldest person in the world from June 21, 2011 (b. 1896)
2013 - Joana Raspall i Juanola, Catalan writer (b. 1913)
2014 - Claudia Emerson, American poet (b. 1957)
2014 - V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian judge (b. 1914)
2014 - Lynne Kosky, Australian politician (b. 1958)
2014 - Jeremy Thorpe, English politician (b. 1929)
2015 - Bill Bennett, Canadian politician, Premier of British Columbia (b. 1932)
2015 - Robert Loggia, American actor (b. 1930)
2015 - Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (b. 1940)
2015 - Dag Skogheim, Norwegian writer (b. 1928)
2015 - Erik De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist (b. 1945)
2016 - Gotlib, French comics artist (b. 1934)
2017 - Jimmy Hood, Scottish politician (b. 1948)
2017 - Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor (b. 1938)
2017 - Christine Keeler, English model (b. 1942)
2017 - Manuel Marín, Spanish politician (b. 1949)
2017 - Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of Yemen (b. 1942)
2017 - Carles Santos, Spanish pianist (b. 1940)
2017 - Rudolph G. Wilson, American professor, storyteller, writer and public speaker (b. 1935)
2018 - Kadyrzhan Batyrov, Kyrgyz businessman and political activist (b. 1956)
2018 - Selma Engel-Wijnberg, Dutch Holocaust survivor (b. 1922)
2018 - Nika Rurua, Georgian politician (b. 1968)
2019 - Thomas Elsaesser, German film historian and critic (b. 1943)
2019 - Leonard Goldberg, American film and television producer (b. 1934)
2019 - Rosa Morena, Spanish flamenco pop singer and actress (b. 1941)
2019 - Margaret Morgan Lawrence, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (b. 1914)
2019 - Bob Willis, English cricketer (b. 1949)
Observances
Navy Day (India and Italy)
Miners' Day (Poland)
Thai Environment Day
Tupou I Day (Tonga)
St. Barbara - Christian Saint
December 04 |
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Events
Up to 1900
1082 - Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
1484 – Pope Innocent VIII writes a Papal Bull that sets the inquisition into full swing and leads to the deaths hundreds of thousands of people accused of being witches
1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
1496 - King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of "heretics" from the country.
1560 – Francis II of France dies and is succeeded by Charles IX of France.
1757 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen - Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale (he later founded Christie's, the world's oldest auction house).
1776 – At the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the Phi Beta Kappa is founded as the first scholastic fraternity in the United States.
1792 - George Washington is re-elected President of the United States by the Electoral College.
1831 – Former US President John Quincy Adams takes a seat in the United States House of Representatives.
1847 – Jefferson Davis enters the United States Senate.
1848 – California gold rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1873 – In Boston, Massachusetts, Warren Avenue Baptist Church sexton Thomas Piper strangles and beats to death his first victim, Bridget Landregan (the press later dubbed the then unknown serial killer "The Boston Belfry Murderer").
1876 - The Brooklyn Theater Fire kills 278 people in New York City.
1901 2000
1916 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom H. H. Asquith resigns.
1917 - Sidonio Pais takes power in Portugal.
1920 - Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
1926 – Sergei Eisenstein's movie Battleship Potemkin debuts.
1932 – German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa
1933 – Prohibition ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 3/4th of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had outlawed alcohol in the United States).
1934 – Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Ethiopia (it took four days to capture the city).
1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution.
1939 - The remains of Pedro II of Brazil, who was removed in a republican coup in 1889, are taken back to Brazil and reburied on the 48th anniversary of his death, and just over 50 years after losing power.
1941 – The nonfiction book Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck is published (Steinbeck used knowledge gained writing this book to develop the marine biologist character Doc in Cannery Row).
1945 – Flight 19, a United States Navy training flight, was lost in the Bermuda triangle.
1952 – The Abbott and Costello Show starring comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, debuts.
1952 - London's "Great Smog" begins.
1955 – The trade unions American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations decide to merge and form the AFL-CIO.
1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by the Queen when she dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost.
1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon of Saugerties, New York is given the first Medal of Honor of the war.
1969 - The four node ARPANET network is established.
1974 – The last new episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast on the BBC.
1978 – The Soviet Union signs a "friendship treaty" with the communist government of Afghanistan.
1979 – Sonia Johnson is formally excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her outspoken criticism of the church concerning the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
1992 – Kent Conrad of North Dakota resigns his seat in the United States Senate and is sworn into the other seat from North Dakota, becoming the only US Senator ever to have held two seats on the same day.
1983 - Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
1993 – Helmut Zilk, Mayor of Vienna, is injured by a letter bomb.
From 2001
2003 - The Icelandic language Wikipedia publishes its first articles.
2005 - The Lake Tanganyika earthquake occurs.
2005 – The United Kingdom Civil Partnership Act enters effect.
2006 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the Government of Fiji in a coup. Jona Senilagakali is installed as Prime Minister, a post that he holds for a month.
2007 - A gunman shoots 8 people dead at Westroads Mall, Omaha, Nebraska, with an assault rifle, before killing himself.
2013 - Former South African President Nelson Mandela dies at the age of 95. See Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela.
2016 - Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key announces his resignation.
2017 - Austria's highest court rules in favour of same-sex marriage.
2017 - The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, for doping offences.
Births
Up to 1850
852 - Zhu Wen, Chinese Emperor of the Later Liang Dynasty (d. 912)
1377 – Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402)
1443 – Pope Julius II (d. 1513)
1495 - Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish philologist (d. 1542)
1537 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Ashikaga shogun (d. 1597)
1547 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625)
1595 - Henry Lawes, English composer (d. 1662)
1661 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (d. 1724)
1666 - Francesco Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1741)
1687 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762)
1782 – Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (d. 1862)
1792 - Andres de Santa Cruz, President of Peru (d. 1865)
1803 – Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet (d. 1873)
1820 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (d. 1892)
1822 – Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, American educator, first president of Radcliffe College (d. 1907)
1825 - E. Marlitt, German writer (d. 1887)
1829 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 4th Premier of Quebec (d. 1908)
1830 – Christina Rossetti, English poet (d. 1894)
1839 – George Armstrong Custer, American general (d. 1876)
1841 – Marcus Daly, American mining tycoon (d. 1900)
1850 - Alexander Girardi, Austrian actor and tenor (d. 1918)
1851 1900
1855 – C. Hart Merriam, ornithologist (d. 1942)
1859 - John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, English admiral, 2nd Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1935)
1861 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1863 - Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician (d. 1933)
1867 - Antti Aarne, Finnish folklorist (d. 1925)
1867 – Jozef Pilsudski, Polish politician (d. 1935)
1868 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (d. 1951)
1870 – Vitezslav Novák, composer (d. 1949)
1872 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, chess player (d. 1906)
1879 – Clyde Cessna, founder Cessna Aircraft Company (d. 1954)
1886 – Rose Wilder Lane, American writer, reporter (d. 1968)
1890 – David Bomberg, painter (d. 1957)
1890 – Fritz Lang, movie director (d. 1976)
1894 - Charles Roberts Swart, State President of South Africa (d. 1982)
1895 - Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician and academic (d. 1969)
1896 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1984)
1897 - Gershom Scholem, Jewish theologian and religious historian (d. 1982)
1898 – Grace Moore, American singer, opera star (died in plane crash 1947)
1901 1925
1901 – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist (d. 1976)
1901 – Walt Disney, American movie producer (d. 1966)
1901 - Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (d. 1980)
1902 - Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian-British screenwriter, movie director and producer (d. 1988)
1902 – Strom Thurmond, American politician (d. 2003)
1903 – Johannes Heesters, Dutch-born singer and actor (d. 2011)
1903 – Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist (d. 1969)
1905 - Gus Mancuso, American baseball player, coach and sportscaster (d. 1984)
1906 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-American director, producer (d. 1986)
1907 - Lin Biao, Chinese politician (d. 1971)
1911 - Wladyslaw Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer (d. 2000)
1914 – Hans Hellmut Kirst, German writer (d. 1989)
1916 - Hilary Koprowski, Polish virologist (d. 2013)
1917 - Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress and singer (d. 2011)
1925 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (d. 1980)
1926 1950
1927 – Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand (d. 2016)
1930 - Vladimir Curbet, Moldovan choreographer (d. 2017)
1930 - Roger Vonlanthen, Swiss footballer
1932 – Little Richard, American singer (d. 2020)
1932 – Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist
1932 - Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs, Czech-born English politician
1932 - Fazu Aliyeva, Russian poet and journalist (d. 2016)
1934 - Hassan Akesbi, Moroccan footballer
1934 – Joan Didion, American writer
1935 – Calvin Trillin, writer
1938 - JJ Cale, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1940 – Peter Pohl, Swedish writer
1940 - Boris Ignatiev, Russian footballer and manager
1942 - Klaus Sammer, German footballer
1943 – Eva Joly, French-Norwegian magistrate
1943 - Jim Marrs, American author and conspiracy theorist (d. 2017)
1944 – Jeroen Krabbé, actor
1945 – Moshe Katsav, former President of Israel
1946 – José Carreras, Spanish tenor
1946 - Andy Kim, Canadian singer-songwriter
1947 – Bruce Golding, former Prime Minister of Jamaica
1947 – Jim Messina, musician
1947 – Jim Plunkett, American football player
1948 - Russell Trood, Australian politician and academic (d. 2017)
1949 - David Manning, British diplomat
1949 - Abdullah Senussi, Sudanese-Libyan military officer
1951 1975
1951 - Link Byfield, Canadian politician (d. 2015)
1954 - Hanif Kureishi, English writer
1956 – Klaus Allofs, German footballer
1956 - Brian Backer, American actor
1956 – Krystian Zimerman, pianist
1958 - Dynamite Kid, British professional wrestler (d. 2018)
1960 - Frans Adelaar, Dutch footballer
1961 - Ralf Dujmovits, German mountaineer
1962 – José Cura, Argentine tenor
1963 - Doctor Dre, American TV and radio host
1963 - Alberto Nisman, Argentine lawyer (d. 2015)
1963 - Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards, British ski jumper
1965 - John Rzeznik, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1966 – Patricia Kaas, French singer
1968 – Margaret Cho, American comedienne and actress
1969 - Sajid Javid, British politician
1970 - Tim Hetherington, British photojournalist (d. 2011)
1971 – Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, German politician, former Defence Minister
1971 - Ashia Hansen, British athlete
1973 - Sorin Grindeanu, former Prime Minister of Romania
1973 – Lubos Motl, physicist
1973 - Andrei Krasnopjorov, Estonian footballer
1975 – Ronnie O'Sullivan, English snooker player
1975 - Paula Patton, American actress
From 1976
1976 - Amy Acker, American actress
1978 – Marcelo Zalayeta, Uruguayan footballer
1979 – Matteo Ferrari, Italian footballer
1979 - Gareth McAuley, Irish footballer
1979 - Nick Stahl, American actor
1980 - Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese-French trumpeter and composer
1982 – Keri Hilson, American singer
1982 – Eddy Curry, NBA Player, (Chicago Bulls)
1982 - Ján Mucha, Slovakian footballer
1984 - Abdelkader Ghezzal, Algerian footballer
1984 - Faouzi Chaouchi, Algerian footballer
1984 - Rais M'Bolhi, Algerian footballer
1985 - Shikhar Dhawan, Indian cricketer
1985 – Josh Smith, NBA Player (Atlanta Hawks)
1985 – Frankie Muniz, American actor
1987 – James Argent, British singer and radio host
1988 - Ross Bagley, American actor
1988 - Miralem Sulejmani, Serbian footballer
1988 - Joanna Rowsell, British cyclist
1988 - Tsukasa Shiotani, Japanese footballer
1989 - Kwon Yu-ri, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
1990 - Cléber Reis, Brazilian footballer
1993 - Ross Barkley, English footballer
1994 - Ondrej Duda, Slovakian footballer
1995 - Anthony Martial, French footballer
2006 – Knut, world famous polar bear (d. 2011)
Deaths
Up to 1950
63 BC - Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, Roman statesman
1082 - Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona
1355 - John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300)
1560 – Francis II of France (b. 1544)
1570 – Johan Friis, Danish statesman (b. 1494)
1663 - Severo Bonini, Italian composer (b. 1582)
1770 - James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (b. 1692)
1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1756)
1860 - Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, German historian and statesman (b. 1785)
1870 – Alexandre Dumas, French writer (b. 1802)
1891 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
1892 - Daniel D. T. Farnsworth, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1819)
1916 - Gustav Sack, German poet and dramatist (b. 1885)
1918 – Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician (b. 1852)
1924 - Martin H. Glynn, Governor of New York (b. 1871)
1925 – Wladislaw Reymont, Polish writer (b. 1867)
1926 – Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
1931 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
1940 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (b. 1880)
1950 – Sri Aurobindo, Indian spiritual figure (b. 1872)
1951 2000
1951 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1889)
1953 - Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1911)
1955 - Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and businessman (b. 1886)
1963 – Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Pakistani politician (b. 1892)
1965 – Joseph Erlanger, American doctor, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874)
1969 – Princess Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885)
1973 – Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1892)
1977 - Katherine Milhous, American illustrator and author (b. 1894)
1989 - John Pritchard, English conductor (b. 1921)
1991 - Richard Speck, American serial killer (b. 1941)
1998 - Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1907)
From 2001
2002 – Ne Win, Burmese political leader (b. 1911)
2005 - Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (b. 1905)
2007 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
2008 – Patriarch Alexius II of Russia (b. 1929)
2008 - Constantin Ticu Dimitrescu, Romanian politician (b. 1928)
2008 - Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (b. 1924)
2009 – Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (b. 1926)
2009 – Alfred Hrdlicka, Austrian artist (b. 1928)
2011 – Violetta Villas, Belgian-born Polish singer, songwriter, composer and actress (b. 1938)
2012 - Dave Brubeck, American musician, composer and bandleader (b. 1920)
2012 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (b. 1907)
2012 - Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian philanthropist (b. 1909)
2013 - Fred Bassetti, American architect (b. 1917)
2013 - Barry Jackson, English actor (b. 1938)
2013 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Anti-Apartheid activist, statesman and Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1918)
2013 - Colin Wilson, English writer (b. 1931)
2014 - Manuel De Sica, Italian composer (b. 1949)
2014 - Jackie Healy-Rae, Irish politician (b. 1931)
2014 - Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Spanish-born Queen Consort of Belgium (b. 1928)
2015 - William McIlvanney, Scottish writer (b. 1936)
2015 - Siddhi Savetsila, Thai politician (b. 1919)
2015 - Dimitar Iliev Popov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1927)
2016 - Geydar Dzhemal, Russian Islamic revolutionist and activist (b. 1947)
2016 - Jayalalithaa, Indian actress and politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1948)
2017 - August Ames, Canadian-American pornographic actress (b. 1994)
2017 - Jean d'Ormesson, French writer and journalist (b. 1925)
2017 - Henning Jensen, Danish footballer (b. 1949)
2017 - Michael I of Romania (b. 1921)
2017 - Maurice Green, American virologist (b. 1926)
2017 - Johnny Hallyday, French rock musician (b. 1943)
2018 - Dynamite Kid, British professional wrestler (b. 1958)
2018 - Thor Hansen, Norwegian poker player (b. 1947)
2018 - Harry W. Shlaudeman, American politician (b. 1926)
2019 - Marvin Goodfriend, American economist (b. 1950)
2019 - Robert Walker, American actor (b. 1940)
Observances
Saint Nicholas Eve - Including Sinterklaas in the Netherlands
The King's Birthday (Thailand)
December 05 |
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Events
Up to 1900
1060 - Bela I of Hungary is crowned king.
1240 - Mongol Empire's invasion of the Rus': Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols.
1534 – The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers.
1745 - Charles Edward Stuart's army begins its retreat during the Second Jacobite Rising, after getting as far south as Derby.
1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
1865 – The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
1877 - The first edition of the Washington Post is published.
1884 – The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host motorised taxi cabs.
1901 1950
1905 - In France, the senate votes for separation of church and state.
1907 - A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.
1916 – David Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1917 – Finland declares its independence from Russia.
1917 - A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, kills over 1,900 people.
1917 - World War I: The USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.
1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives
1922 – One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
1923 - The United Kingdom's most recent December general election (until 2019) is held.
1928 - The Colombian government sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
1941 - World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
1947 - The Everglades National Park is created in Florida.
1951 2000
1953 - Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
1956 - A violent water polo match is played between Hungary and the Soviet Union during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, shortly after the Soviet Union crsuhed the Hungarian Revolution.
1956 - At the 1956 Summer Olympics, 14-year-old swimmer Sandra Morgan becomes the youngest Olympic champion until that point.
1957 - Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion on Vanguard TV3 ends the first US attempt to launch a satellite into Earth's orbit.
1967 - Adrian Kantrowitz performs US' first heart transplant.
1971 – Pakistan ends diplomatic ties with India following New Delhi's recognition of Bangladesh.
1973 – The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3).
1975 - The Troubles: Fleeing from police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street in London, beginning a six-day siege.
1977 – South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
1978 – Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
1982 - The Troubles: The Irish National Liberation Army bomb a pub frequently used by British soldiers in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing 11 soldiers and 6 civilians.
1985 - The Boston Celtics pick up their only home loss of the 1985-86 NBA season, losing to the Portland Trail Blazers at Boston Garden. They establish the best single-season NBA home court record of all time.
1988 – The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.
1989 – At the École Polytechnique in Montreal, an anti-feminist gunman shoots and kills 14 young women.
1991 – The Yugoslav People's Army bombards Dubrovnik, Croatia, after laying siege to the city in May.
1992 – The burning of the Babr Masjid Mosque in Ayodhya, India by Hindu extremists begins.
1997 - A Russian Antonov An-24 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia, killing 67 people.
1998 - Hugo Chávez is elected President of Venezuela.
From 2001
2001 – In Canada, the province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.
2004 - The US Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is bombed, killing 12 people.
2005 - Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
2005 - An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing 84 people on board and 44 on the ground.
2005 – David Cameron becomes the leader of the British Conservative Party, succeeding Michael Howard.
2006 – NASA reveals photographs of Mars from the Mars Global Surveyor, suggesting a liquid presence on the planet.
2008 – Riots erupt in Greece after the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a police officer.
2011 - Elio Di Rupo becomes Prime Minister of Belgium. The country had, until then, been without an official government for over a year-and-a-half.
2013 - The groups are drawn for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
2017 - US President Donald Trump officially recognises Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel.
Births
Up to 1900
1285 – King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312)
1421 – Henry VI, King of England (d. 1471)
1478 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529)
1550 - Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (d. 1605)
1608 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician (d. 1670)
1640 - Claude Fleury, French historian (d. 1723)
1642 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703)
1685 - Princess Marie Adelaide of Savoy (d. 1712)
1721 - James Elphinston, Scottish educator and language expert (d. 1809)
1721 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French lawyer, botanist and politician (d. 1794)
1730 - Sophie von La Roche, German writer (d. 1807)
1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (d. 1850)
1792 – King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849)
1803 - Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (d. 1829)
1805 - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861)
1805 - Richard Hanson, Australian politician, 4th Premier of South Australia (d. 1876)
1823 – Max Mueller, German linguist and scholar of Sanskrit (d. 1900)
1835 - Germanus V of Constantinople (d. 1920)
1841 – Frédéric Bazille, French painter (d. 1870)
1844 - Petko Voyvoda, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1900)
1853 - Haraprasad Shastri, Indian historian and scholar (d. 1931)
1869 - Otto Nordenskiöld, Swedish geologist (d. 1928)
1872 - William S. Hart, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1946)
1875 - Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot (d. 1946)
1876 - Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman (d. 1932)
1881 - Helen Aitchison, British tennis player (d. 1947)
1884 - Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, 2nd President of Israel (d. 1963)
1886 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (d. 1918)
1887 - Lynn Fontanne, British-American actress (d. 1983)
1887 - Joseph Lamb, American composer (d. 1960)
1889 - Max Pulver, Swiss psychologist and writer (d. 1952)
1890 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (d. 1951)
1892 - Osbert Sitwell, English author (d. 1969)
1896 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (d. 1983)
1898 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photographer (d. 1995)
1898 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist (d. 1987)
1900 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974)
1901 1925
1904 – Eve Curie, French writer (d. 2007)
1907 - Giovanni Ferrari, Italian footballer (d. 1982)
1908 - Pierre Graber, Swiss politician (d. 2003)
1908 – Baby Face Nelson, American bank robber (d. 1936)
1913 - Mykola Amosov, Russian-Ukrainian heart surgeon and author (d. 2002)
1913 - Karl Haas, German-American pianist, conductor and radio host (d. 2005)
1913 - Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (d. 2004)
1916 – Kristjan Eldjarn, 3rd President of Iceland (d. 1982)
1916 - Yekaterina Budanova, Soviet pilot (d. 1943)
1917 - Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman (d. 2008)
1917 - Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese political leader (d. 1977)
1919 - Paul de Man, Belgian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1983)
1920 – Dave Brubeck, American musician and composer (d. 2012)
1920 – George Porter, British chemist (d. 2002)
1921 - Nobuo Matsunaga, Japanese footballer (d. 2007)
1921 - Piero Piccioni, Italian lawyer and composer (d. 2004)
1922 - Guy Thys, Belgian footballer (d. 2003)
1922 - Benjamin A. Gilman, American politician (d. 2016)
1924 - Wally Cox, American actor (d. 1973)
1925 - Andy Robustelli, American football player (d. 2011)
1926 1950
1926 - Marie Takvam, Norwegian writer (d. 2008)
1928 - Bobby Van, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
1929 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German-Austrian conductor (d. 2016)
1929 - Alain Tanner, Swiss movie director
1930 – Daniel Lisulo, Zambian Prime Minister (d. 2000)
1931 - Zeki Muren, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1996)
1932 - Kamleshwar, Indian author, screenwriter and critic (d. 2007)
1933 – Henryk Gorecki, Polish composer (d. 2010)
1933 - Daniel J. Kutyna, American general
1934 - Nick Bockwinkel, American wrestler (d. 2015)
1935 - Jean Lapointe, Canadian actor, singer and politician
1936 - Bill Ashton, English saxophonist and composer
1937 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (d. 2006)
1938 - Patrick Bauchau, Belgian actor
1940 - Richard Edlund, American cinematographer
1942 – Peter Handke, Austrian writer
1945 - Shekhar Kapur, Indian director and producer
1946 - Willy van de Kuijlen, Dutch footballer
1946 - Martin Moore-Bick, English lawyer
1947 - Lawrence Cannon, Canadian politician
1948 – Keke Rosberg, Finnish racing driver
1948 - Don Nickles, American politician
1948 - Marius Müller-Westernhagen, German actor and musician
1949 - Linda Barnes, American mystery writer
1949 - Peter Willey, English cricketer
1950 - Helen Liddell, Baroness Lidell of Coatdyke, Scottish politician
1951 1975
1952 - Craig Newmark, American computer programmer and businessman
1952 - Edward Etzel, American competitive shooter
1953 - Geoff Hoon, English politician
1953 - Tom Hulce, American actor
1955 - Anne Begg, Scottish politician
1955 - Steven Wright, American comedian and actor
1955 – Tony Woodcock, English footballer
1956 – Peter Buck, American musician in R.E.M.
1956 - Randy Rhoads, American musician (d. 1982)
1957 – Andrew Cuomo, American politician, 56th Governor of New York
1957 - Arabella Weir, British actress and comedienne
1958 – Nick Park, British movie maker and animator
1959 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese president and CEO of Nintendo (d. 2015)
1961 - David Lovering, American drummer
1962 - Janine Turner, American actress
1965 - Gordon Durie, Scottish footballer and manager
1967 - Judd Apatow, American director, producer, screenwriter and photographer
1969 - Torri Higginson, Canadian actress
1970 - Ulf Ekberg, Swedish singer-songwriter, keyboardist and producer
1970 - Adrian Fenty, American politician, 6th Mayor of the District of Columbia
1970 - Michaela Schaffrath, German actress
1970 - Mark Reckless, English politician, UKIP MP
1971 - Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
1974 – Jens Pulver, American mixed martial artist
1975 – Ashin (陳信宏 Chen Hsin Hung), singer from Taiwanese rock band Mayday
1975 – Andrea Agnelli, Italian businessman
From 1976
1976 – Lindsay Price, American actress
1976 - Alicia Machado, Venezuelan actress and singer
1976 - Colleen Haskell, American actress and producer
1977 – Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer
1978 - Ramiro Pez, Argentine-Italian rugby player
1979 – Tim Cahill, Australian soccer player
1979 – Francisco Yeste, Spanish footballer
1980 - Steve Lovell, English footballer
1980 - Sabrina Mockenhaupt, German athlete
1981 – Federico Balzaretti, Italian footballer
1982 – Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist
1982 - Susie Wolff, Scottish racing driver
1985 - Dulce Maria, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
1985 - Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian cricketer
1986 – Matt Niskanen, American ice hockey player
1986 - Georgia Horsley, English model
1986 - Sean Edwards, English racing driver (d. 2013)
1988 - Sandra Nurmsalu, Estonian singer
1990 - Tamira Paszek, Austrian tennis player
1991 - Coco Vandeweghe, American tennis player
1992 - Viktor Antipin, Russian ice hockey player
1992 – Britt Assombalonga, Congolese footballer
1992 – Johnny Manziel, American football player
1993 - Elian Gonzalez, Cuban figure in child custody case
1994 - Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player
1994 – Raheem Sterling, English footballer
1995 - Joy Gruttman, German singer
1996 - Stefanie Scott, American actress and singer
1997 - Sabrina Ionescu, American basketball player
2000 - Pablo Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
Deaths
Up to 1900
343 – Saint Nicholas
735 - Prince Toneri of Japan (b. 1676)
1185 – Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
1352 – Pope Clement VI (b. 1290)
1550 – Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter (b. 1502)
1672 - John II Casimir Vasa, King of Poland (b. 1609)
1675 - John Lightfoot, English churchman, academic and scholar (b. 1602)
1748 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and playwright (b. 1674)
1771 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)
1779 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1899)
1799 - Joseph Black, Scottish physicist and chemist (b. 1728)
1855 - William John Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789)
1862 - Claiborne Fox Jackson, Governor of Missouri (b. 1806)
1868 – August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
1879 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (b. 1814)
1882 - Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician (b. 1819)
1882 – Anthony Trollope, British writer (b. 1815)
1889 – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
1892 – Ernst Werner von Siemens, German inventor, scientist and businessman (b. 1816)
1901 2000
1921 - Jesse Carleton, American golfer (b. 1862)
1924 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and screenwriter (b. 1863)
1926 - Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
1949 – Lead Belly, American musician (b. 1889)
1951 - Harold Ross, American journalist (b. 1892)
1956 – Bhimrao Ambedkar, Indian politician and social activist (b. 1891)
1961 - Frantz Fanon, Central African writer and psychiatrist (b. 1925)
1972 - Janet Munro, English actress (b. 1934)
1976 – Joao Goulart, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
1983 – Raymond Roseliep, American poet (b. 1917)
1983 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
1985 - Carroll Cole, American serial killer (b. 1938) (executed)
1988 – Roy Orbison, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter (b. 1936)
1989 - John Payne, American actor (b. 1912)
1989 - Marc Lepine, Canadian gunman (b. 1964)
1990 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1903)
1991 – Richard Stone, British economist (b. 1913)
1993 – Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
From 2001
2001 - Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman, sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948)
2003 – Carlos Arana Osorio, Guatemalan politician (b. 1918)
2004 - Raymond Goethals, Belgian footballer (b. 1921)
2005 – Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
2005 - Charly Gaul, Luxembourg cyclist (b. 1932)
2007 - Katy French, Irish model (b. 1983)
2008 – Sunny von Bülow, American heiress (b. 1932)
2008 – Alexander Grigoropoulos, Greek youth murdered by a policeman in Athens
2010 – Don Meredith, American football player and television broadcaster (b. 1938)
2010 – Hugues Cuenod, Swiss tenor (b. 1902)
2011 - Barbara Orbison, widow of Roy Orbison (b. 1950)
2012 - Miguel Abia Biteo, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (b. 1961)
2013 - Stan Tracey, British jazz pianist and trombonist (b. 1926)
2013 - Nya Quesada, Argentine actress (b. 1919)
2014 - Fred Hawkins, American golfer (b. 1923)
2014 - Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game pioneer, inventor and engineer (b. 1922)
2015 - Holly Woodlawn, Puerto Rican actress (b. 1946)
2015 - Nicholas Smith, English actor (b. 1934)
2015 - Franzl Lang, German yodeller (b. 1930)
2016 - Peter Vaughan, English actor (b. 1923)
2017 - Johnny Hallyday, French rock musician and singer (b. 1943)
2017 - Conrad Brooks, American actor (b. 1931)
2017 - William H. Gass, American novelist, critic and philosophy professor (b. 1924)
2017 - Cy Young, American javelin thrower (b. 1928)
2018 - José de Anchieta Júnior, Brazilian politician (b. 1965)
2018 - Ace Cannon, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
2018 - José Castillo, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1981)
2018 - Larry Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1936)
2018 - Joseph Joffo, French writer (b. 1931)
2018 - Jim Meehan, American poker player (b. 1952)
2018 - Pete Shelley, English singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
2018 - Luis Valbuena, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1985)
2019 - Piet Huyg, Dutch footballer (b. 1951)
2019 - Irena Laskowska, Polish actress (b. 1925)
2019 - Ron Leibman, American actor (b. 1937)
2019 - Kimmi Lewis, American politician (b. 1957)
2019 - Stoyanka Mutafova, Bulgarian actress (b. 1922)
Holidays and observances
Eastern Catholic Church – St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra – Patron of the Byzantine Catholic Church
Canada – National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
Finland – Independence Day (from Russia, 1917)
Spain – Spanish Constitution of 1978
December 06 |
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Events
Up to 1900
43 BC - Roman writer, lawyer and statesman Cicero is assassinated.
574 - Roman Emperor Justin II retires.
1703 - The Great Storm of 1703 in Great Britain makes landfall.
1724 – religious troubles were followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
1732 – The Royal Opera House opens in London.
1776 - Glibert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a general.
1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the US Constitution.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
1869 - American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
1901 1950
1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1941 – World War II: Canada declares war on Finland, Hungary, Romania, and Japan.
1941 – The Japanese attack the Hawaiian city of Pearl Harbor during World War II. 2,403 people are killed, 188 planes are destroyed, and 8 US ships are damaged or destroyed.
1946 - A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, kills 119 people.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei.
1951 2000
1962 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
1970 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt makes a gesture of reconciliation towards the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, known as the "Kniefall", as he falls to his knees in front of the city's memorial.
1972 - First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos escapes an assassination attempt.
1972 - Apollo 17 launches, as the last mission to-date to fly to the Moon; On this mission, the famous "Blue Marble" photograph of the Earth is taken.
1975 – Indonesia invades East Timor.
1983 - An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxing down the runway at Madrid-Barajas Airport, killing 93 people.
1987 - Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 people on board.
1987 - The Alianza Lima air disaster occurs.
1988 – In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 people homeless.
1988 – Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
1995 - The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter.
1999 – The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of copyright infringement.
From 2001
2003 – The newly formed Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognised.
2006 - A tornado strikes Kensal Green, Northwest London.
2007 - The "Hebei Spirit" oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge that had broken free from a tug collides with the very large crude carrier, Hebei Spirit.
2015 - Then-US Presidential candidate Donald Trump calls for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States.
2016 - An earthquake in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, kills around 100 people.
2016 - All 47 people on board die when a Pakistan International Airlines plane crashes near Islamabad.
2017 - Australia legalises same-sex marriage.
Births
Up to 1900
521 - Columba, Irish missionary, monk and saint (d. 597)
903 - Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Persian astronomer and author (d. 986)
1302 - Azzone Visconti, Italian ruler (d. 1339)
1546 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1567)
1561 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyo (d. 1625)
1598 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian artist (d. 1680)
1627 - Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau (d. 1667)
1637 – Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (d. 1710)
1643 - Giovanni Battista Falda, Italian architect and engraver (d. 1678)
1724 - Louise of Great Britain (d. 1751)
1784 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish author and poet (d. 1842)
1801 – Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist and actor (d. 1862)
1810 – Theodor Schwann, German biologist (d. 1882)
1823 – Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (d. 1891)
1830 - Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (d. 1903)
1838 - Thomas Bent, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Victoria (d. 1909)
1847 - Deacon White, American baseball player and manager (d. 1939)
1860 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
1863 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (d. 1945)
1863 - Felix Calonder, Swiss politician (d. 1952)
1863 - Richard Warren Sears, American businessman (d. 1914)
1873 - Willa Cather, American writer (d. 1947)
1879 - Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist and composer (d. 1972)
1884 - John Carpenter, American sprinter (d. 1933)
1885 - Mason Phelps, American golfer (d. 1945)
1887 - Ernst Toch, Austrian-American composer and songwriter (d. 1964)
1888 - Hamilton Fish III, American captain and politician (d. 1991)
1889 - Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher, dramatist and critic (d. 1973)
1891 – Fay Bainter, American actress (d. 1968)
1900 - Christian Matras, Faroese poet (d. 1988)
1901 1950
1905 – Gerard Kuiper, Dutch astronomer (d. 1973)
1908 - Slim Bryant, American musician (d. 2010)
1909 - Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet (d. 1942)
1910 - Duncan McNaughton, Canadian high jumper (d. 1998)
1910 - Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpeter and actor (d. 1978)
1910 - Vere Bird, 1st Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (d. 1999)
1910 – Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian bandleader (d. 2011)
1912 - Daniel Jones, Welsh composer (d. 1993)
1915 – Eli Wallach, American actor (d. 2014)
1918 - Max Merkel, Austrian footballer (d. 2006)
1920 – Manuel Pereira da Silva, Portuguese sculptor (d. 2003)
1920 - Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and author (d. 2002)
1920 - Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist (d. 2012)
1920 - Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
1924 - Jovanka Broz, First Lady of Yugoslavia (d. 2013)
1924 – Mario Soares, former President of Portugal (d. 2017)
1928 – Noam Chomsky, American linguist, philosopher and political writer
1930 - Christopher Nicole, English author
1932 - Ellen Burstyn, American actress
1933 - Krsto Papic, Croatian actor (d. 2013)
1935 - Armando Manzanero, Mexican musician, singer and composer
1940 - Stan Boardman, English comedian and actor
1942 - Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)
1943 – Sue Johnston, English actress
1947 - Johnny Bench, American baseball player and sportscaster
1947 - Tony Thomas, American screenwriter and producer
1947 - Garry Unger, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1947 - Anne Fine, British author
1948 - Gary Morris, American singer and actor
1951 1975
1952 – Susan Collins, American senator
1952 - Georges Corraface, French actor and producer
1954 - Mike Nolan, Irish singer
1955 - Priscilla Barnes, American actress and producer
1955 - John Watkins, Australian educator and politician
1956 – Larry Bird, American basketball player
1956 - Anna Soubry, English politician
1956 - Iveta Radicova, former Prime Minister of Slovakia
1958 - Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, President of Malta
1959 - Barbara Wilshere, British actress
1960 - Craig Scanlon, English guitarist and songwriter
1962 - Alain Blondel, French decathlete
1962 - Grecia Colmenares, Venezuelan-Argentine actress
1962 - Imad Mughniyah, Lebanese resistance leader and freedom fighter
1963 - Theo Snelders, Dutch footballer and coach
1964 – Ilse Aigner, German politician
1965 - Colin Hendry, Scottish footballer
1965 - Jeffrey Wright, American actor and director
1969 - Andrea Claudio Galluzzo, Italian historian and archaeologist
1971 - Chasey Lain, American pornographic actress
1972 – Hermann Maier, Austrian skier
1972 - Tammy Lynn Sytch, American wrestler and manager
1973 - Damien Rice, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1973 – Terrell Owens, American football player
1974 - Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer and actress
From 1976
1977 – Dominic Howard, English drummer (Muse)
1977 - Luke Donald, English golfer
1979 - Jennifer Carpenter, American actress
1979 – Sara Bareilles, American singer
1980 – Clemens Fritz, German footballer
1980 – John Terry, English footballer
1984 – Robert Kubica, the first Polish Formula One racing driver
1984 - Aaron Gray, American basketball player
1984 - Marko Vujin, Serbian handball player
1985 - Dean Ambrose, American wrestler
1987 – Aaron Carter, American singer
1988 - Emily Browning, Australian actress
1988 - Andrew Goudelock, American basketball player
1989 - Nicholas Hoult, English actor
1989 - Caleb Landry Jones, American actor
1989 - Alessandro Marchi, Italian footballer
1990 - Yasiel Puig, Cuban baseball player
1990 - David Goffin, Belgian tennis player
1990 – Urszula Radwanska, Polish tennis player
1991 - Dori Sakurada, Japanese actor, singer and dancer
1993 - Jasmine Villegas, American actress
1994 - Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater
2003 – Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange, Dutch royal
Deaths
Up to 1900
43 BC – Cicero, Roman politician and writer (b. 106 BC)
283 - Pope Eutychian
983 – Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 955)
1254 - Pope Innocent IV (b. 1195)
1279 - Boleslaw V the Chaste, Polish prince (b. 1226)
1295 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (b. 1243)
1649 - Charles Garnier, French missionary and saint (b. 1606)
1683 - Algernon Shirley, English philosopher and politician (b. 1623)
1723 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (b. 1677)
1772 - Martín Sarmiento, Spanish monk, missionary, scholar and author (b. 1695)
1793 - Joseph Bara, French soldier and drummer (b. 1779)
1817 – William Bligh, British naval officer and Governor of New South Wales (b. 1754)
1879 – Jon Sigurdsson, Icelandic independence campaigner (b. 1811)
1894 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur (b. 1805)
1899 - Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
1901 2000
1902 - Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (b. 1840)
1906 - Elie Ducommun, Swiss educator and journalist (b. 1833)
1913 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (b. 1828)
1917 - Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1826)
1938 - Anna Marie Hahn, German-American murderer (b. 1906)
1947 - Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (b. 1866)
1947 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher, diplomat and educator (b. 1862)
1970 - Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist, sculptor and author (b. 1883)
1975 - Thornton Wilder, American author and playwright (b. 1897)
1978 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (b. 1886)
1985 – Robert Graves, English poet (b. 1895)
1990 – Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)
1993 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 1st President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
1993 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (b. 1913)
1994 - J. C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)
1997 – Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (b. 1942)
1998 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist (b. 1925)
From 2001
2005 - Lucy d'Abreu, Indian-born supercentenarian (b. 1892)
2006 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, American diplomat (b. 1926)
2010 - Elizabeth Edwards, American lawyer and author (b. 1949)
2011 – Harry Morgan, American actor (b. 1915)
2011 - Jerry Robinson, American comic artist (b. 1922)
2012 - Marty Reisman, American table tennis player and author (b. 1930)
2013 - Edouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2014 - Khalil Ullah Khan, Bangladeshi actor (b. 1934)
2014 - Mango, Italian singer, songwriter and musician (b. 1954)
2014 - Ken Weatherwax, American actor (b. 1955)
2015 - Ko Chun-hsiung, Taiwanese actor and producer (b. 1945)
2015 - Shirley Stelfox, English actress (b. 1941)
2015 - Martin E. Brooks, American actor (b. 1925)
2016 - Greg Lake, English musician (b. 1947)
2017 - Fred J. Doocy, American politician and banker (b. 1913)
2017 - Ivan Korsak, Ukrainian writer and journalist (b. 1946)
2017 - Philippe Maystadt, Belgian politician (b. 1948)
2017 - Roland Taylor, American basketball player (b. 1946)
2018 - Belisario Betancur, Colombian politician, President of Colombia (b. 1923)
2018 - Shmuel Flatto-Sharon, French-Israeli politician (b. 1930)
2018 - Luigi Radice, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1935)
2019 - Berkley Bedell, American politician and businessman (b. 1921)
2019 - Reinhard Bonnke, German evangelist (b. 1940)
2019 - Bump Elliott, American football player (b. 1925)
2019 - Giuseppe Frigo, Italian politician and lawyer (b. 1935)
2019 - Herbert Joos, German jazz trumpeter (b. 1940)
2019 - Ali Mufuruki, Tanzanian businessman (b. 1958)
Holidays and observances
Saint Ambrose Feast Day
United States – Pearl Harbor Day
Colombia – Día de las Velitas (Day of the Candles): Festivity
India – The Armed Forces Flag Day
Armenia - Spitak Remembrance Day
International Civil Aviation Day
December 07 |
9935 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/December%208 | December 8 |
Events
Up to 1975
395 - China: Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal of Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
757 - China: Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.
1432 - First battle of the Lithuanian Civil War.
1626 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned King of Hungary.
1660 – A woman appears on an English public stage for the first time, as Desdemona, in a production of William Shakespeare's Othello.
1792 – Frankfort becomes the capital city of Kentucky.
1813 - Ludwig van Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is performed for the first time.
1864 – The Clifton Suspension Bridge in England, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is opened.
1907 – Gustav V becomes King of Sweden.
1912 - Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility of war breaking out.
1914 - World War I: A squadron of the UK's Royal Navy defeats a weaker squadron of the German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1922 - Northern Ireland stops being part of the Irish Free State.
1941 – World War II: Japan invades Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines, just after the Pearl Harbor attack. On the same day, the United States and the Republic of China declare war on Japan.
1953 – Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the start of the American 'Atoms for Peace' program.
1956 - The 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, end.
1962 - Workers at four US newspapers (later nine) go on strike for 114 days.
1963 – PanAm Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning in Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
1966 – The ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200 people.
1969 - An Olympic Airways Douglas DC-6 hits a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90.
1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on the Pakistani city of Karachi.
1972 - United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after abandoning its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45 people.
1974 – Greek voters reject a proposal to restore the Greek monarchy.
From 1976
1980 – John Lennon is shot dead by Mark David Chapman outside the Dakota Apartment building in New York City.
1982 – December murders: In Suriname, 13 civilians and 2 military officers, opposed to the military regime of Desi Bouterse, are killed.
1987 - Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills 8 people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, Australia, before committing suicide.
1987 - The entire Alianza Lima football team is killed in a plane crash.
1988 - A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50.
1991 – Romania's Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
1991 – Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and forming the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1993 – The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed into law by Bill Clinton.
1994 – Ethiopia adopts a new Constitution.
1994 - SWAPO wins the most seats in the election to the Namibian parliament (53 out of 72).
1998 - 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
2003 – Zimbabwe leaves the Commonwealth of Nations.
2004 – Dimebag Darrell is shot dead in Columbus, Ohio by paranoid schizophrenic Nathan Gale.
2004 - The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, creating the South American Community of Nations.
2007 – The office of Benazir Bhutto is stormed by gunmen. Three people are killed.
2009 – A bombing in Baghdad kills 127 people.
2012 - At the UN Climate Change Conference in Qatar, it is agreed that the Kyoto Protocol is to be extended until 2020.
2019 - A clothing factory fire in Delhi, India, kills at least 43 people.
2019 - Sanna Marin is elected as the new Prime Minister of Finland.
Births
Up to 1900
65 BC – Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)
1542 – Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1587)
1574 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1616)
1626 – Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689) (N.S. December 18 on Gregorian calendar)
1642 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703)
1678 - Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, English diplomat (d. 1757)
1685 – Johann Maria Farina, Italian perfume designer (d. 1766)
1699 – Maria Josepha of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1757)
1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765)
1724 - Claude Balbastre, French composer (d. 1799)
1730 - Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physiologist, biologist and chemist (d. 1799)
1756 – Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria (d. 1801)
1765 – Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825)
1790 - Augustus Meineke, German philologist (d. 1870)
1795 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer (d. 1874)
1817 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, 10th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1896)
1818 – Charles III, Prince of Monaco (d. 1889)
1831 - William Pitt Kellogg, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1918)
1832 – Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian writer (d. 1910)
1848 - Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and writer (d. 1908)
1857 - Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg, German politician (d. 1920)
1861 – Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter (d. 1944)
1861 - William C. Durant, American businessman (d. 1947)
1864 – Camille Claudel, French graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1943)
1865 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (d. 1963)
1865 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (d. 1957)
1873 - William Watson, Baron Thankerton, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1948)
1875 - Wilfred Hudson Osgood, American zoologist (d. 1947)
1880 - Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist (d. 1973)
1886 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d. 1957)
1890 – Bohuslav Martinu, Czech composer (d. 1959)
1892 – E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (d. 1938)
1894 - Marthe Vinot, French actress (d. 1974)
1894 - Florbela Espanca, Portuguese poet (d. 1930)
1899 - John Qualen, Canadian actor (d. 1987)
1899 - Anselmo Alliegro y Mila, Cuban politician (d. 1961)
1900 - Ants Oras, Estonian writer (d. 1982)
1900 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (d. 1990)
1901 1950
1902 - Wifredo Lam, Cuban painter (d. 1982)
1908 - John A. Volpe, American politician (d. 1994)
1909 - Gratien Gelinas, Canadian author, actor and director (d. 1999)
1911 - Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
1913 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966)
1915 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
1916 - Richard Fleischer, American movie director (d. 2006)
1919 – Peter Tali Coleman, American politician, former Governor of American Samoa (d. 1997)
1922 – Lucian Freud, German-born British painter (d. 2011)
1922 - Jean Porter, American actress (d. 2018)
1922 - Jean Ritchie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1923 - Pio Taufinu'u, Samoan cardinal (d. 2006)
1923 - Rudolph Pariser, American chemist
1925 – Sammy Davis, Jr., American actor and singer (d. 1990)
1925 – Arnaldo Forlani, Italian politician, former Prime Minister of Italy
1926 – Joachim Fest, German historian (d. 2006)
1926 - Revaz Chkheidze, Georgian movie director (d. 2015)
1927 - Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet-Kazakhstani cosmonaut and general
1928 - Jimmy Smith, American musician (d. 2005)
1928 - Ulric Neisser, German-American psychologist (d. 2012)
1929 - Johnny Anderson, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
1929 - Gérard de Villiers, French writer (d. 2013)
1930 – Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor and director (d. 2014)
1931 - Bob Arum, American boxing promoter
1932 - Charly Gaul, Luxembourg cyclist (d. 2005)
1933 - Flip Wilson, American comedian and actor (d. 1998)
1935 - Dharmendra, Indian actor
1935 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player
1936 – David Carradine, American actor (d. 2009)
1936 - Ralph Brand, Scottish footballer
1937 - James MacArthur, American actor (d. 2010)
1938 – John Kufuor, former President of Ghana
1939 – James Galway, Northern Irish flautist
1939 - Jerry Butler, American singer-songwriter
1939 - Dariush Mehrjui, Iranian director, screenwriter and producer
1939 - Red Berenson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1941 – Geoff Hurst, English footballer
1941 - Bobby Elliott, English drummer
1942 - Mario Savio, American activist (d. 1996)
1943 – Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
1943 - James Tate, American writer (d. 2015)
1944 - Ted Irvine, Canadian ice hockey player
1945 - John Banville, Irish author
1946 - John Rubinstein, American actor, composer and director
1947 – Thomas R. Cech, American chemist
1947 – Gregg Allman, American musician (d. 2017)
1948 - Luis Caffarelli, Argentine-American mathematician and academic
1950 - Dan Hartman, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1994)
1951 1975
1951 – Bill Bryson, American writer
1952 - Bobby McKean, Scottish footballer (d. 1978)
1953 – Kim Basinger, American actress
1953 - Norman Finkelstein, American academic, author and activist
1954 - Louis de Bernières, English writer
1955 - Martin Semmelrogge, German actor
1956 - Warren Cuccurullo, American guitarist
1956 - Andrius Kubilius, 9th Prime Minister of Lithuania
1956 - Pierre Pincemaille, French organist
1957 - James Cama, American martial arts teacher (d. 2014)
1957 – Phil Collen, English guitarist (Def Leppard)
1959 - Paul Rutherford, English singer
1959 - Jim Yong Kim, Korean-American former President of the World Bank
1960 - Lim Guam Eng, Malaysian politician
1960 - Aaron Allston, American author (d. 2014)
1961 – Ann Coulter, American political commentator
1962 – Marty Friedman, American guitarist
1963 - Greg Howe, American guitarist, composer and producer
1963 - Brian McClair, Scottish footballer
1964 – Teri Hatcher, American actress
1964 - Mike Ruiz, Canadian-American model, photographer and director
1964 - Richard David Precht, German philosopher
1965 - David Harewood, English actor
1966 – Les Ferdinand, English footballer
1966 – Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer
1966 – Hope Powell, English footballer and coach
1972 – Marco Abreu, Angolan footballer
1973 – Corey Taylor, American singer
From 1976
1976 – Dominic Monaghan, English actor
1977 – Sébastien Chabal, French rugby player
1978 – Frédéric Piquionne, French footballer
1978 - Ian Somerhalder, American actor
1979 – Christian Wilhelmsson, Swedish footballer
1980 - Lisa Kelly, American trucker (Ice Road Truckers)
1982 – Halil Altintop, Turkish footballer
1982 – Hamit Altintop, Turkish footballer
1982 – Nicki Minaj, Trinidad and Tobago-born American singer
1982 - DeeDee Trotter, American athlete
1983 - Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014)
1984 - Dustin Brown, Jamaican-German tennis player
1984 - Emma Green Tegaro, Swedish high jumper
1985 - Meagan Duhamel, Canadian ice skater
1985 - Dwight Howard, American basketball player
1986 – Amir Khan, English boxer
1986 – Kate Voegele, American musician
1987 - Susanne Riesch, German skier
1989 - Drew Doughty, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 - Katie Stevens, American singer and actress
1993 – AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
1994 - Raheem Sterling, English footballer
1995 - Jordon Ibe, English footballer
1996 - Teala Dunn, American actress
1996 - Scott McTominay, English-Scottish footballer
Deaths
Up to 1900
592 - Emperor Sushun of Japan
899 - Arnulf of Carinthia, King of East Francia (b. 850)
1495 - Alfonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
1691 – Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615)
1709 – Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (b. 1625)
1722 – Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (b. 1652)
1744 - Marie Anne de Mailly, mistress to Louis XV of France (b. 1711)
1793 – Madame du Barry, French mistress (b. 1743)
1830 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French writer (b. 1767)
1859 - Thomas De Quincey, English author (b. 1785)
1864 - George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)
1869 - Narcisa de Jesus, Ecuadorean Catholic laywoman and saint (b. 1832)
1885 - William Henry Vanderbilt, American railroad executive and philanthropist (b. 1821)
1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
1901 2000
1903 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher and sociologist (b. 1820)
1907 – King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
1914 – Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (b. 1861)
1930 - Florbela Espanca, Portuguese poet (b. 1894)
1933 – Yamamoto Gonnohyoe, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1852)
1952 - Charles Lightoller, English officer on the RMS Titanic (b. 1874)
1955 - Hermann Weyl, German mathematician, physicist and philosopher (b. 1885)
1956 - Jimmie Angel, American pilot (b. 1899)
1963 - Sarit Thanarat, 11th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
1967 – John Mills, Sr., American singer (b. 1889)
1971 - Ernst Krenkel, Soviet Arctic explorer and radio operator (b. 1903)
1975 - Gary Thain, New Zealand musician (Uriah Heep) (b. 1948)
1978 – Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)
1980 – John Lennon, English singer, songwriter and musician (The Beatles) (b. 1940)
1981 – Ferruccio Parri, Italian politician (b. 1890)
1982 - Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter and racing driver (b. 1925)
1982 – Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (b. 1951)
1982 - Andre Kramperveen, Surinamese footballer and politician (b. 1924)
1983 – Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
1983 - Keith Holyoake, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)
1984 - Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
1990 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish theatre director (b. 1915)
1991 - Buck Clayton, American trumpeter (b. 1911)
1992 – William Shawn, American magazine editor (b. 1917)
1996 – Howard Rollins, American actor (b. 1950)
1996 - Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1938)
1997 - Laurean Rugambwa, Tanzanian cardinal (b. 1912)
1998 - Aaron Hopa, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1971)
From 2001
2003 – Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1919)
2004 – Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (b. 1966)
2008 – Oliver Postgate, British animator, puppetteer and writer (b. 1925)
2011 – Zelman Cowen, 19th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1919)
2013 - John Cornforth, Australian chemist (b. 1917)
2014 - Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, Indian singer (b. 1927)
2014 - Knut Nystedt, Norwegian composer (b. 1915)
2014 - Russ Kemmerer, American baseball player (b. 1930)
2015 - Alan Hodgkinson, English footballer (b. 1936)
2015 - Elsie Tu, English-Hong Kong social activist (b. 1913)
2015 - Mattiwilda Dobbs, American coloratura soprano (b. 1925)
2015 - John Trudell, American activist and poet (b. 1946)
2015 - Bonnie Lou, American singer (b. 1924)
2015 - Douglas Tompkins, American businessman (b. 1943)
2016 - John Glenn, American astronaut and politician (b. 1921)
2016 - Joseph Mascolo, American actor (b. 1929)
2017 - Vladimir Curbet, Moldovan choreographer (b. 1930)
2017 - Sunny Murray, American jazz drummer (b. 1936)
2017 - Atsutoshi Nishida, Japanese businessman (b. 1943)
2018 - Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Russian activist (b. 1927)
2018 - Enrico Crispolti, Italian art critic and historian (b. 1933)
2018 - Pentti Tiusanen, Finnish politician (b. 1949)
2018 - David Weatherall, British physician and molecular geneticist (b. 1933)
2019 - René Auberjonois, American actor (b. 1940)
2019 - Hirokazu Kanazawa, Japanese karate practitioner and teacher (b. 1931)
2019 - Caroll Spinney, American actor and puppeteer (b. 1933)
2019 - Paul Volcker, American economist (b. 1927)
2019 - Zvonimir Vujin, Serbian boxer (b. 1943)
2019 - Juice Wrld, American rapper (b. 1998)
Observances
CARICOM-Cuba Day
Constitution Day (Romania and Uzbekistan)
Roman Catholic Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception
Students' Day (Bulgaria)
National Youth Day (Albania)
Bodhi Day (Japan)
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Events
Up to 1950
480 - Odoacer, the first King of Italy, occupies Dalmatia in present-day Croatia.
536 - Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed.
1531 - The Virgin of Guadalupe is said to have first appeared to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: British troops lose in the Battle of Great Bridge and leave Virginia shortly after.
1793 - New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is created by Noah Webster.
1824 – Battle of Ayacucho: Peruvian troops defeat the Spanish, who then end their colonial rule over Peru.
1835 – The Texan Army captures San Antonio, Texas.
1851 – The YMCA in North America is founded in Montreal.
1872 – P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African American State Governor in the US, in Louisiana.
1888 - Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States Department of War.
1892 - English football club Newcastle United is created.
1897 – Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris.
1905 – France passes the law separating church and state.
1911 – A mine explosion in Briceville, Tennessee kills 84 miners.
1917 - World War I: Hussein al-Husseyni, Ottoman Mayor of Jerusalem, surrenders the city to the British.
1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz is confirmed as President of Poland.
1931 - The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
1935 - American football: The trophy that later becomes the Heisman Trophy is given for the first time. The winner is Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
1937 – In the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese troops launch an assault on the city of Nanjing.
1940 - World War II: Operation Compass - British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani, Egypt.
1941 – World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Republic of Korea and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Japan.
1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets to write the Constitution.
1946 - The Doctors' trial begins over physicians believed to have committed Nazi war crimes and medical experiments on people.
1948 - The Genocide Convention is adopted.
1950 - Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in prison for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.
From 1951
1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces the discharge of all Communist employees.
1956 - Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, killing all 62 people on board.
1960 – Coronation Street is broadcast for the first time on British television.
1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent. In 1964 it joins with Zanzibar to form Tanzania.
1962 – Tanganyika joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1962 - The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona is created.
1966 – Barbados joins the UN.
1968 - Douglas Engelbart demonstrates the computer mouse and hypertext.
1971 – The United Arab Emirates join the UN.
1973 – Britain and Ireland sign the Sunningdale Agreement.
1979 – The eradication of Smallpox is announced.
1990 – Lech Walesa becomes President of Poland.
1998 - In the Swiss Federal Council, Ruth Dreifuss is chosen to be Switzerland's President for the year 1999, making her the first woman to take up the role, on January 1, 1999.
2003 – A blast in central Moscow kills 6 people.
2005 - End of the London Routemaster Red Double-Decker Bus Service.
2008 – Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is arrested by federal agents on a number of crimes, including trying to sell the United States Senate Seat of Barack Obama, who had been elected President.
2009 - Carwyn Jones becomes First Minister of Wales, succeeding Rhodri Morgan.
2016 - President of South Korea Park Geun-hye is impeached by the country's National Assembly, as a result of a major corruption scandal.
2016 - A suicide bomb attack in Madagali, Nigeria, kills at least 45 people.
2019 - 2019 Whakaari/White Island eruption: The Whakaari-White Island volcano in New Zealand erupts, killing at least 18 people.
2019 - A Chilean plane crashes en-route from Chile to Antarctica with 38 people on board.
Births
Up to 1900
1392 - Peter, Duke of Coimbra, Portuguese prince (d. 1449)
1447 – Chenghua Emperor of China (d. 1487)
1508 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and mapmaker (d. 1555)
1571 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
1579 - Martín de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)
1594 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
1608 – John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
1610 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian singer and actor (d. 1680)
1652 - Augustus Quirinus Rivenus, German physician and botanist (d. 1723)
1667 - William Whiston, English mathematician, historian and theologian (d. 1752)
1748 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
1751 – Maria Luisa of Parma, Queen of Spain (d. 1819)
1787 - John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)
1842 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist and writer (d. 1921)
1845 - Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (d. 1908)
1850 – Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
1863 - John Burnet, Scottish classical philologist (d. 1928)
1868 – Fritz Haber, German chemist (d. 1934)
1872 - Thomas W. Hardwick, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1944)
1873 - Henry S. Caulfield, American politician, 37th Governor of Missouri (d. 1966)
1876 - Berton Churchill, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1940)
1877 - Mart Kuusik, Russian-Estonian rower (d. 1964)
1882 - Joaquin Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
1883 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician, theorist and academic (d. 1950)
1883 – Alexander Papagos, Greek general and Prime Minister (d. 1955)
1883 - Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness expert (d. 1967)
1886 – Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food manufacturer (d. 1956)
1887 - Tim Moore, American actor (d. 1958)
1889 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (d. 1966)
1890 - Laura Salverson, Canadian author (d. 1970)
1896 - Goodwin Knight, American politician, 31st Governor of California (d. 1970)
1897 - Hermione Gingold, English-American actress and singer (d. 1987)
1898 - Emmett Kelly, American clown (d. 1979)
1900 - Albert Weisbord, American activist (d. 1977)
1901 1950
1901 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
1901 – Carol Dempster, American actress (d. 1991)
1901 – Odon von Horvath, Austro-Hungarian writer (d. 1938)
1902 - Rab Butler, British politician (d. 1982)
1902 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
1906 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist (d. 1992)
1909 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (d. 2000)
1911 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)
1912 – Tip O'Neill, American politician (d. 1994)
1914 - Max Manus, Norwegian resistance activist (d. 1996)
1915 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German soprano (d. 2006)
1916 – Kirk Douglas, American actor (d. 2020)
1917 – James Rainwater, American physicist (d. 1986)
1919 – William Lipscomb, American chemist (d. 2011)
1920 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, former President of Italy (d. 2016)
1924 - Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher and poet (d. 2014)
1926 - Erhard Eppler, German politician (d. 2019)
1926 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist (d. 1999)
1928 - Dick Van Patten, American actor (d. 2015)
1929 – Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2019)
1929 – John Cassavetes, American director and actor (d. 1989)
1930 - Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (d. 2010)
1930 - Buck Henry, American actor, director and writer (d. 2020)
1931 - William Reynolds, American actor
1933 - Milt Campbell, American decathlete (d. 2012)
1933 - Morton Downey, Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor and talk show host (d. 2001)
1934 – Judi Dench, English actress
1941 - Beau Bridges, American actor
1942 – Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
1942 - Germain Gagnon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1942 - Joe McGinniss, American writer (d. 2014)
1943 - Joanna Trollope, English writer
1944 - Bob O'Connor, American politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh
1944 - Neil Innes, English musician and composer (d. 2019)
1944 - Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, 80th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (d. 2020)
1945 - Michael Nouri, American actor
1946 - Mervyn Davies, Welsh rugby player (d. 2012)
1946 – Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician
1948 – Dennis Dunaway, American musician
1949 – Tom Kite, American golfer
1949 – Nando Parrado, Uruguayan plane crash survivor
1950 – Joan Armatrading, British musician and singer-songwriter.
1951 1975
1952 - Michael Dorn, American actor and director
1953 – John Malkovich, American actor
1954 – Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission and former Prime Minister of Luxembourg
1954 - Phil Bryant, American politician, 63rd Governor of Mississippi
1954 - Mary Fallin, American politician, Governor of Oklahoma
1954 - Henk ten Cate, Dutch footballer and manager
1954 - Kip Hanrahan, American musician and producer
1955 - Otis Birdsong, American basketball player
1956 – Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French author
1957 – Donny Osmond, American singer and actor
1960 – Caroline Lucas, English politician, MP for and former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
1960 - Juan Samuel, Dominican-American baseball player and manager
1961 - John Anthony Higgins, American actor
1961 - Joe Lando, American actor
1962 – Felicity Huffman, American actress
1963 – Empress Masako of Japan
1963 – Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (d. 2005)
1964 – Hape Kerkeling, German comedian, actor and television presenter
1964 – Johannes B. Kerner, German television presenter
1964 – Paul Landers, German guitarist
1964 - Michael Müller, German politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin
1966 – Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
1966 - Spencer Rochfort, American-Canadian actor
1966 - Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli lawyer and politician
1966 - Shane Scott, American director, producer, cinematographer and screenwriter
1967 - Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
1968 – Kurt Angle, American professional wrestler
1969 – Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
1970 - Lance Krall, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1971 - Geoff Barrow, English drummer, DJ, composer and producer
1972 - Michael Corcoran, American singer-songwriter and producer
1972 – Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-French tennis player
1972 – Tré Cool, American musician (Green Day)
From 1976
1976 - Booba, French rapper
1977 – Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter
1978 – Jesse Metcalfe, American actor
1981 - Gemma Fay, Scottish footballer
1981 – Mardy Fish, American tennis player
1981 - Dia Mirza, Indian model, actress and producer
1983 – Jermaine Beckford, English footballer
1983 – Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
1987 - Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese-American chess player
1987 - Adam Szalai, Hungarian footballer
1988 - Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
1989 – Lindsey Evans, American glamour model
1990 – LaFee, German singer
1991 – Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
1991 - Choi Minho, South Korean singer, dancer and actor
1995 - McKayla Maroney, American gymnast
Deaths
Up to 1950
638 - Sergius I of Constantinople
1165 – King Malcolm IV of Scotland (b. 1141)
1437 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
1565 – Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
1625 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
1641 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599)
1669 – Pope Clement XI (b. 1600)
1706 – King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
1718 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian monk, cosmographer and cartographer (b. 1650)
1830 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and academic (b. 1757)
1858 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (b. 1804)
1916 – Natsume Soseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
1930 - Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
1937 – Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist (b. 1869)
1941 - Dmitry Merezhovsky, Russian author, poet and philosopher (b. 1865)
1951 2000
1955 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885)
1964 – Edith Sitwell, English poet (b. 1887)
1967 - Charles Leon Hammes, Luxembourgish lawyer and judge (b. 1898)
1970 - Artem Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman (b. 1905)
1970 - Feroz Khan Noon, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
1971 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat (b. 1904)
1972 - Louella Parsons, American journalist and screenwriter (b. 1881)
1975 - William A. Wellman, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1896)
1977 - Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (b. 1920)
1979 - Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (b. 1895)
1981 – Daniel Faulkner, Philadelphia police officer (b. 1955)
1982 – Asmundur Sveinsson, Icelandic sculptor (b. 1893)
1991 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898)
1993 - Danny Blanchflower, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926)
1995 - Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (b. 1907)
1996 – Mary Leakey, British archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
1996 - Alain Poher, French politician (b. 1909)
1998 – Archie Moore, American boxer (b. 1913)
From 2001
2004 – Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
2005 – György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)
2009 – Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919)
2010 – James Moody, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
2012 - Jenni Rivera, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress (b. 1969)
2012 - Patrick Moore, English astronomer, writer and broadcaster (b. 1923)
2012 - Charles Rosen, American pianist and musicologist (b. 1927)
2013 - Eleanor Parker, American actress (b. 1922)
2014 - Mary Ann Mobley, American actress (b. 1939)
2014 - Jane Freilicher, American painter (b. 1924)
2014 - Karl Otto Pöhl, German economist (b. 1929)
2015 - Rusty Jones, American jazz drummer (b. 1942)
2017 - James Joseph Brady, American judge (b. 1944)
2017 - Leonid Bronevoy, Ukrainian-Russian actor (b. 1928)
2017 - Lando Fiorini, Italian actor (b. 1938)
2017 - Grant Munro, Canadian animator, filmmaker and actor (b. 1923)
2017 - Joe Newton, American track and field coach (b. 1929)
2018 - Yigal Bashan, Israeli singer and composer (b. 1950)
2018 - Robert Bergland, American politician (b. 1928)
2018 - William Blum, American author and historian (b. 1933)
2018 - Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American astrophysicist (b. 1931)
2018 - Bob Giggie, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2018 - Gordon Scholes, Australian politician (b. 1931)
2018 - Dick Van Orden, American rear admiral (b. 1921)
2019 - John R. Broxson, American politician (b. 1932)
2019 - Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer (Roxette) (b. 1958)
2019 - Omar Graffigna, Argentine air force officer (b. 1926)
2019 - William Luce, American writer (b. 1931)
2019 - Veijo Puhjo, Finnish politician (b. 1948)
2019 - Imre Varga, Hungarian sculptor and painter (b. 1923)
Observances
National holiday in Tanzania, celebrating independence of Tanganyika in 1961
Anna's Day (Sweden and Finland)
Armed Forces Day (Peru)
International Anti-Corruption Day
December 09 |
9937 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/November%208 | November 8 |
Events
Up to 1900
1278 - Tran Thanh Tang, second Emperor of Vietnam's Tran Dynasty, decides to pass the throne to crown prince Tran Kham.
1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.
1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 persons.
1576 - Eighty Years' War: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
1602 - The Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
1605 - Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
1620 – The Battle of White Mountain, the first battle in the Thirty Years' War, takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
1644 - Shunzhi Emperor, the first Emperor of China's Qing Dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing.
1745 - Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of around 5,000 that would later take part in the Battle of Culloden.
1793 – In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.
1798 - British seafarer John Fearn becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Nauru, which he names Pleasant Island.
1861 - American Civil War: The Trent Affair - The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparkinga diplomatic crisis between the UK and the USA.
1864 – U.S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George McClellan.
1867 - Two explosions occur at the Ferndale Colliery in Wales, killing 178 people.
1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
1892 – U.S. presidential election: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays.
1901 2000
1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
1932 – U.S. presidential election: Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
1933 - As part of the New Deal program, Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for over 4 million unemployed.
1935 – Fernand Bouisson becomes Prime Minister of France.
1936 - Spanish Civil War: Start of the Siege of Madrid.
1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
1940 - Greco-Italian War: Italy's invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units push back the Italians in the Battle of Elaia-Kalamas.
1942 – World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
1942 – World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, by which 400 Civil French patriots neutralized Vichyist XIXth Army Corps during 15 hours, arrested Vichyist generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.), and so allowed the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers, then, from there, to the whole French North Africa.
1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dog fight in history.
1957 - The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the South Pacific Ocean.
1959 - Basketball player Elgin Baylor of the Minneapolis Lakers sets a new NBA record, scoring 64 points, against the Boston Celtics.
1960 – U.S. presidential election: John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard M. Nixon in a very close election. He becomes the youngest man elected to that office.
1965 – The British Indian Ocean Territory is created. It includes Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
1965 – The soap opera Days of Our Lives debuts on NBC in the United States.
1966 – Former Massachusetts attorney general Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
1973 - The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million United States Dollars.
1974 – In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.
1976 - A series of earthquakes spreads panic in Thessaloniki, Greece.
1977 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist and professor, discovers the tomb of Philip of Macedon at Vergina, Greece.
1982 – Wethersfield, Connecticut, a meteorite crashed through the roof of Wanda and Bob Donahue's house at 461 Church Street.
1983 - Lubango, Angola - A Boeing 727 of Angola Airlines crashes and explodes shortly after take-off, killing all 130 people on board.
1987 – Eleven people are killed in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, when a bomb explodes.
1988 – U.S. presidential election: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
1991 - A typhoon causes massive flooding in the Philippines, killing 7,000 people.
1994 – For the first time in 40 years the United States Republican Party takes control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections.
2000 - A re-count of electoral votes in Florida takes place, because of a dispute in the 2000 United States Presidential Election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
From 2001
2002 - Iraq Disarmament Crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 - The United Nations Security Council approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm, or face "serious questions".
2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2005 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is elected President of Liberia. This leads to her becoming Africa's first elected female President on January 16, 2006.
2006 - After the Republican Party made losses in the mid-term elections, Donald Rumsfeld, United States Secretary of Defense, submits his resignation to George W. Bush. Robert Gates succeeds him.
2011 - Asteroid 2005 YU55 passes within 35,000 kilometers of Earth.
2013 - Typhoon Haiyan strikes the Philippines with some of the strongest typhoon winds recorded. It is estimated to have killed over 6,000 people and caused over 1 billion US Dollars in damage.
2014 - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warns that the world is close to another Cold War, over tensions between the West and Russia and armed conflicts in the Middle East, in a speech marking 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
2016 - United States presidential election, 2016: Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States over Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College, though Clinton had won more votes overall.
2017 - Priti Patel resigns from the British cabinet because of a controversy over undeclared meetings with Israeli government ministers.
2018 - Camp Fire: A massive fire kills 85 people in Butte County, California; it is one of the deadliest-ever forest fires in the United States, and destroys the town of Paradise.
Births
Up to 1900
30 – Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor (d. 98)
1342 - Julian of Norwich, English saint (d. 1416)
1491 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544)
1563 - Henry II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1624)
1622 – King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1660)
1656 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer (d. 1742)
1706 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
1710 – Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
1715 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1797)
1723 - John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786)
1737 - Antoine Bruni d'Entrecastaeux, French explorer (d. 1793)
1768 – Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
1777 - Désirée Clary, French-born Queen Consort of Sweden (d. 1860)
1802 - Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, Welsh civil engineer and politician (d. 1867)
1810 - Pierre Bosquet, Marshal of France (d. 1861)
1823 - Joseph Monier, French gardener, inventor and businessman (d. 1906)
1831 - Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, English poet and diplomat, 30th Governor-General (d. 1880)
1836 - Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
1837 – Ilia Chavchavadze, national hero of Georgia (d. 1907)
1846 - William Robertson Smith, Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar and Free Church of Scotland minister (d. 1894)
1847 – Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (Dracula) (d. 1912)
1847 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
1848 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1925)
1852 – Lin Shu, Chinese translator (d. 1924)
1854 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
1864 - Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1910)
1866 - Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)
1868 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
1869 - Zinaida Gippius, Russian poet (d. 1945)
1869 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious leader (d. 1942)
1873 - Gaetano Salvemini, Italian politician, historian and publicist (d. 1957)
1875 - Qiu Jin, Chinese writer (d. 1907)
1881 - Clarence Gagnon, French-Canadian artist and painter (d. 1942)
1883 - Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953)
1884 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922)
1885 - Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (d. 1966)
1885 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese admiral (d. 1946)
1893 – Clarence Williams, American pianist and composer (d. 1965)
1893 – Prajadhipok, King of Siam (d. 1941)
1897 - Dorothy Day, American social activist and journalist (d. 1980)
1898 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
1900 – Margaret Mitchell, American writer (d. 1949)
1900 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d. 1943)
1901 1950
1903 - Luigi Allemandi, Italian footballer (d. 1978)
1910 - Elfriede Brüning, German journalist and novelist (d. 2014)
1912 - Stylianos Pattakos, Greek military officer (d. 2016)
1912 – June Havoc, Canadian-American actress (d. 2010)
1914 - Norman Lloyd, American director, producer and actor (d. 2021)
1914 - George Dantzig, American mathematician (d. 2005)
1916 - Peter Weiss, German-born Swedish writer, painter and experimental movie maker (d. 1982)
1918 - Hermann Zapf, German designer (d. 2015)
1920 - Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
1922 – Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (d. 2001)
1922 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996)
1923 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer (d. 2005)
1925 - Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress (d. 2019)
1927 - L. K. Advani, Indian politician
1927 - Patti Page, American singer (d. 2013)
1927 – Ken Dodd, English comedian (d. 2018)
1927 – Nguyen Khanh, South Vietnamese Prime Minister (d. 2013)
1929 – Jona Senilagakali, Fijian physician, diplomat and 7th Prime Minister of Fiji (d. 2011)
1931 – Morley Safer, Canadian-American journalist (d. 2016)
1931 - Dorla Hood, American actress (d. 1979)
1932 - Simo Salminen, Finnish comic actor (d. 2015)
1933 - Peter Arundell, British racing driver (d. 2009)
1935 - Alain Delon, French movie actor
1936 - Edward Wilson, American astronaut
1936 - Virna Lisi, Italian actress (d. 2014)
1938 - Richard Stoker, English composer and writer
1938 - Murtala Mohammed, President of Nigeria (d. 1976)
1939 - Elizabeth Dawn, English actress (d. 2017)
1940 - Charles T. Kowal, American astronomer (d. 2011)
1941 - Nerys Hughes, Welsh actress
1942 - Sandro Mazzola, Italian footballer
1943 – Martin Peters, English footballer
1945 - Arduino Cantafora, Italian-Swiss architect and writer
1945 - Vincent Nichols, English cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster
1946 – Guus Hiddink, Dutch football manager
1946 - Roy Wood, British musician
1947 - Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979)
1947 - Margaret Rhea Seddon, American physician and astronaut
1948 - Dale Gardner, American astronaut (d. 2014)
1949 - Bonnie Raitt, American rock musician
1949 - Wayne LaPierre, American Executive President of the National Rifle Association
1950 - Mary Hart, American television host
1951 1975
1952 - Christie Hefner, former CEO of Playboy Enterprises
1952 - Alfre Woodard, American actress
1953 - John Musker, American animation director
1954 - Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-British writer
1954 - Bill Joy, American computer scientist
1954 - Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
1954 - Rickie Lee Jones, American singer-songwriter
1955 - Patricia Barber, American singer, songwriter, pianist and bandleader
1956 - Mari Boine, Norwegian musician
1956 – Richard Curtis, English screenwriter
1957 – Alan Curbishley, English football manager
1957 - Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
1958 - Don Byron, American jazz musician
1960 - Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor
1960 - Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor (d. 2017)
1961 - Leif Garrett, American singer-songwriter
1965 - Robert Tappan Morris, American computer scientist
1966 – Gordon Ramsay, Scottish chef and television personality
1967 - José Luis Caminero, Spanish footballer
1967 - Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
1968 - Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer
1968 – Parker Posey, American actress
1968 - Zara Whites, Dutch-French pornographic actress
1969 - Roxana Zal, American actress
1970 – Tom Anderson, co-founder of Myspace
1970 - José Porras, Costa Rican footballer
1972 - Aksel V. Johannesen, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1972 – Gretchen Mol, American actress
1974 - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga writer
1974 - Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga writer
1974 – Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor
1975 - Tara Reid, American actress and producer
From 1976
1976 – Brett Lee, Australian cricketer
1978 – Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer
1978 - Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
1979 – Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
1979 - Paul Sackey, English rugby player
1980 – Luís Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
1981 – Joe Cole, English footballer
1982 – Sam Sparro, Australian singer, performer and producer
1982 - Mika Kallio, Finnish motorcycle racer
1982 - Ted DiBiase, Jr., American professional wrestler
1982 - Lynndie England, former United States Army reservist
1983 - Chris Rankin, New Zealand actor
1983 - Pavel Pogrebnyak, Russian footballer
1983 - Blanka Vlasic, Croatian high jumper
1985 - Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress
1985 – Jack Osbourne, English television personality
1986 – Aaron Swartz, American activist and computer programmer (Twitter) (d. 2013)
1986 - Jamie Roberts, Welsh rugby player
1987 - Kazuchika Okada, Japanese professional wrestler
1987 - Samantha Droke, American actress
1987 - Eduardo Gurbindo, Spanish handball player
1988 - Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress
1989 - Morgan Schneiderlin, French footballer
1991 - Riker Lynch, American singer, actor and musician
1994 - Lauren Alaina, American country music singer
2000 - Jasmine Thompson, British pianist, dancer, singer and actress
2001 - Matilda Ramsay, British chef and television personality
2003 – Lady Louise Windsor, British royal
Deaths
Up to 1900
397 - Saint Martin of Tours
618 - Pope Adeodatus I
955 - Pope Agapetus II
1115 - Godfrey of Amiens, French bishop (b. 1066)
1171 - Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
1195 - Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1135)
1226 – King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
1246 - Berengaria of Castile (b. 1180)
1308 – Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher
1517 - Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, Spanish statesman and cardinal (b. 1436)
1599 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
1605 - Robert Catesby, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (b. 1573)
1627 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor (b. 1569)
1658 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch captain (b. 1599)
1674 - John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
1719 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
1817 - Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754)
1830 – King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
1858 - Benjamin Franklin Butler, United States Attorney General (b. 1795)
1873 - Breton de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (b. 1796)
1887 – Doc Holliday, American Western figure (b. 1851)
1890 – César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)
1901 2000
1905 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
1917 - Colin Blythe, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1879)
1933 - Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1883)
1934 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
1944 - Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German soldier and pilot (b. 1920)
1949 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (b. 1874)
1953 – Ivan Bunin, Russian writer (b. 1870)
1959 - Frank S. Land, American activist (b. 1890)
1965 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American actress and television presenter (b. 1913)
1968 - Peter Mohr Dam, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1898)
1976 - Giorgio Ferrini, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
1978 – Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)
1979 – Yvonne de Gaulle, First Lady of France (b. 1900)
1983 - James Booker, American jazz singer (b. 1939)
1985 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourg cyclist (b. 1899)
1985 - Masten Gregory, American racing driver (b. 1932)
1986 – Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet politician (b. 1890)
1998 – John Hunt, Baron Hunt, English mountaineer (b. 1910)
1998 - Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Leon Stukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
From 2001
2007 - Stephen Fumio Hamao, Japanese cardinal (b. 1930)
2007 – Chad Varah, English humanitarian (b. 1911)
2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
2010 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer (b. 1925)
2011 – Hal Bruno, American journalist (b. 1928)
2011 – Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Russian footballer (b. 1934)
2011 – Heavy D, American rapper (b. 1967)
2012 - Lucille Bliss, American actress (b. 1916)
2014 - Phil Crane, American politician (b. 1930)
2014 - Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-American basketball player (b. 1928)
2014 - Otto Ziege, German cyclist (b. 1926)
2015 - Rhea Chiles, American philanthropist (b. 1930)
2017 - Antonio Carluccio, Italian chef (b. 1937)
2017 - Roger Grenier, French writer and journalist (b. 1919)
2017 - Wood Moy, Chinese-American actor (b. 1918)
2018 - Harold Basch, American-born Israeli chemist (b. 1940)
2018 - Bartolomé Bennassar, French historian (b. 1929)
2018 - François N. Macerola, Canadian lawyer and film executive (b. 1942)
2018 - Wallace Triplett, American football player (b. 1926)
2018 - Marvin Zuckerman, American psychologist and writer (b. 1928)
2019 - Fred Bongusto, Italian singer-songwriter and composer (b. 1935)
2019 - Lucette Destouches, French ballet dancer and instructor (b. 1912)
2019 - Jackie Moore, American singer (b. 1946)
Observances
World Urbanism Day
World Radiography Day
November 08 |
9938 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/November%209 | November 9 |
Events
Up to 1900
1282 - Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
1313 - Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin, Frederick I of Austria, in the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1456 - Ulrich II of Celje, the last prince of the Celje principality in present-day Slovenia, is murdered in Belgrade.
1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
1494 – Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence.
1520 - Over 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
1620 - Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at present-day Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1688 - Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter, Devon.
1729 – Spain, France & England sign the Treaty of Seville.
1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Fishdam Ford.
1791 - Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire.
1802 - From Callao, Peru, Alexander von Humboldt observes the transit of the planet Mercury.
1861 - The first-documented Canadian football match is played at University College, University of Toronto.
1862 - American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside takes over control of the Army of the Potomac.
1867 - The Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872 occurs in Boston, Massachusetts.
1880 - A large earthquake strikes Zagreb, present-day Croatia. The city's cathedral is among the buildings either destroyed or heavily damaged.
1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1901 2000
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the Panama Canal).
1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to Edward VII of the United Kingdom on his 66th birthday.
1913 - The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 occurs, destroying 19 ships and killing over 250 people.
1914 - World War I: The SMS Emden is sunk by the HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
1917 - Joseph Stalin enters the Provisional Governor of Soviet Russia.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1918 – Kurt Eisner, Provisional National Council Minister-President, declares Bavaria to be a republic.
1923 – In Munich, Germany, policeman and troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt by the Nazi Party.
1936 - Nazis remove the statue of Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig in the night to November 10.
1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
1938 – Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.
1944 - Otto Hahn wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1953 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
1953 - Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, the first King of Saudi Arabia, dies. As of 2013, he is the father of all the Saudi Kings that have reigned since his death.
1960 - Robert McNamara becomes President of the Ford Motor Company, the first person from outside Henry Ford's family to get this position.
1963 - At Miike Coal Mine in Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458 people and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
1965 - In the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos is elected President over Diosdado Macapagal.
1965 - A large power blackout affects the Northeastern United States and parts of Southeastern Canada.
1967 – NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
1967 - The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.
1985 – Garry Kasparov of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest world chess champion, defeating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
1989 – Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany.
1993 – The Stari most (Old Bridge) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina collapses in the Balkan War, and becomes a symbol of the conflict.
1994 – Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.
1997 - BBC News 24, now called the BBC News Channel, goes on transmission.
2000 - The Indian state of Uttarakhand is created out of parts of Uttar Pradesh.
From 2001
2004 – Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released. This has become one of Microsoft Internet Explorer's biggest competitors.
2005 - The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2005 – A suicide bombing in Amman, Jordan, kills at least 60 people.
2007 - The German Bundestag passes the controversial Data Retention Bill, allowing storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months.
2012 - Justin Welby is announced as the successor to Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury.
2012 - David Petraeus resigns as head of the CIA.
2014 - Catalonia holds a symbolic vote on independence from Spain.
2016 - A tram crashes in Croydon, South London, killing 7 people.
2019 - A religious site disputed by both Muslims and Hindus in Ayodhya, India, is given to Hindus by a court decision.
Births
Up to 1900
955 - Gyeongjong of Korea (d. 981)
1389 – Isabella of Valois, Queen-consort of England (d. 1409)
1414 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
1522 – Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
1606 - Hermann Conring, German philosopher (d. 1681)
1664 - Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
1664 - Johann Speth, German organist and composer (d. 1719)
1697 - Claudio Casciolini, Italian composer (d. 1760)
1719 - Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian law professor, priest, chess player, composer and theoretician (d. 1796)
1721 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (d. 1770)
1723 - Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Prussian royal and composer (d. 1787)
1731 - Benjamin Banneker, African American astronomer (d. 1806)
1787 - Johann Natterer, Austrian explorer and naturalist (d. 1843)
1799 – Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (d. 1877)
1801 - Gail Borden, American publisher and inventor (d. 1874)
1802 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (d. 1837)
1810 - Thomas Bragg, American politician (d. 1872)
1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
1825 - A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
1829 - Peter Lumsden, British general (d. 1918)
1832 - Emile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
1840 - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, 5th Premier of Quebec (d. 1898)
1841 – Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
1850 – Louis Lewin, German pharmacologist (d. 1929)
1853 - Stanford White, American architect (d. 1906)
1855 - Alexandros Zaimis, Greek politician (d. 1936)
1862 - Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter (d. 1936)
1869 - Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress (d. 1934)
1871 - Florence Sabin, American anatomist (d. 1953)
1872 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
1873 - Fritz Thyssen, German businessman (d. 1951)
1874 - Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)
1876 - Ahn Changho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
1877 – Enrico de Nicola, 1st President of Italy (d. 1959)
1877 – Muhammad Iqbal, national poet of Pakistan (d. 1938)
1878 - An Chang-ho, Korean independence activist (d. 1938)
1880 - Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer (d. 1960)
1882 - Roy E. Ayers, 11th Governor of Montana (d. 1955)
1883 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
1883 - Charles Demuth, American painter (d. 1935)
1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian writer (d. 1922)
1886 - Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
1888 - Jean Monnet, French businessman and statesman (d. 1979)
1892 - Mabel Normand, American actress (d. 1930)
1894 - Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
1897 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist (d. 1978)
1901 1950
1902 - Anthony Asquith, British movie director (d. 1968)
1903 - Josefina Pla, Spanish poet, playwright, art critic, painter and journalist (d. 1999)
1904 - Viktor Brack, German Nazi physician and war criminal (d. 1945)
1905 – Erika Mann, German writer (d. 1969)
1907 - Ko Takamoro, Japanese footballer (d. 1995)
1914 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
1915 – Sargent Shriver, American politician (d. 2011)
1918 – Choi Hong Hi, co-founder of Taekwondo (d. 2002)
1918 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States and 55th Governor of Maryland (d. 1996)
1918 - Thomas Ferebee, American Enola Gay bombardier (d. 2000)
1919 - Eva Todor, Hungarian-Brazilian actress (d. 2017)
1920 - Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin and white supremacist (d. 2001)
1921 - Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (d. 1984)
1922 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
1922 - Augusto Vargas Alzamora, Archbishop of Lima (d. 2000)
1923 - Alice Coachman, American athlete (d. 2014)
1923 - James Schuyler, American poet, playwright and novelist (d. 1991)
1924 - Joy Page, American actress (d. 2008)
1925 - Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (d. 2016)
1925 - Alistair Horne, English journalist, biographer and historian (d. 2017)
1925 - Helmut Rohde, German politician (d. 2016)
1926 - Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
1926 - Vicente Aranda, Spanish movie director (d. 2015)
1927 - Shlomo Lahat, Israeli general and politician (d. 2014)
1928 - Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
1929 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer (d. 2016)
1929 - Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Russian composer
1931 - Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
1934 – Ingvar Carlsson, 29th Prime Minister of Sweden
1934 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer (d. 1996)
1934 - Ronald Harwood, British movie producer and actor
1935 - Bob Gibson, American baseball player
1936 – Bob Graham, American politician, 38th Governor of Florida
1936 - Eduard Punset, Spanish politician and science populariser (d. 2019)
1936 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
1936 – Mary Travers, American singer (d. 2009)
1937 – Roger McGough, English poet
1937 - Clyde Wells, 5th Premier of Newfoundland
1939 - Björn Engholm, German politician
1941 - Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
1942 – Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
1944 – Herbert Wimmer, German footballer
1944 - Phil May, English singer
1947 – Robert David Hall, American actor
1948 – Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football manager
1948 - Viktor Matviyenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2018)
1948 - Bille August, Danish director, cinematographer and screenwriter
1948 - Jane Humphries, English economist, historian and academic
1951 1975
1951 – Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder
1952 – Jack W. Szostak, British-American molecular biologist
1952 - Sherrod Brown, American politician and United States Senator from Ohio
1954 – Dennis Stratton, British musician
1955 – Karen Dotrice, British actress
1955 - Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian movie director
1956 - Lei Clijsters, Belgian footballer (d. 2009)
1959 - Tony Slattery, British actor
1959 - Frances O'Grady, British union leader
1959 – Thomas Quasthoff, German operatic baritone
1960 – Andreas Brehme, German footballer
1961 - Jill Dando, English television presenter (d. 1999)
1961 - Jackie Kay, Scottish poet
1962 - Sergio Batista, Argentine footballer
1965 – Bryn Terfel, Welsh operatic baritone
1965 - Daphne Guinness, English-Irish model and actress
1967 - Yoshiro Moriyama, Japanese footballer
1969 - Pepa, American rapper
1970 – Scarface, American rapper
1970 - Bill Guerin, American ice hockey player
1970 - Chris Jericho, American professional wrestler, actor, radio presenter and rock musician
1971 - Sabri Lamouchi, French football coach and manager
1972 – Eric Dane, American actor
1973 – Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
1973 - Nick Lachey, American singer
1973 - Belén Esteban, Spanish journalist and television presenter
1974 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
1974 - Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian actress
1975 - Gareth Malone, English choirmaster and broadcaster
1975 - Maria Ribeiro, Brazilian actress
1975 - Raphaël Enthoven, French philosophy teacher, radio host and television host
From 1976
1977 - Omar Trujillo, Mexican footballer
1978 - Olga Brusnikina, Russian synchronized swimmer
1979 - Adam Dunn, American baseball player
1979 – Martin Taylor, English footballer
1979 - Caroline Flack, English television presenter
1980 - James Harper, English footballer
1980 - Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder
1980 - Vanessa Minnillo, Filipina television host and actress
1981 - Scottie Thompson, American actress
1981 - Termanology, American rapper
1982 - Jana Pittman, Australian athlete
1982 - Boaz Myhill, Welsh footballer
1983 - Gabriel Tamas, Romanian footballer
1984 - French Montana, Moroccan-American singer and rapper
1985 - Ku Hye Sun, South Korean actress
1985 – Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer
1986 - Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1986 - Prince Tagoe, Ghanaian footballer
1988 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress
1988 - Analeigh Tipton, American model, actress and figure skater
1988 - Cheyenne Tozzi, Australian model and singer
1989 - Baptiste Giabiconi, French singer and male model
1990 - Frankie Jones, Welsh rhythmic gymnast
1990 - Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer
1993 - Pete Dunne, English wrestler
1996 - Momo Hirai, Japanese singer
1999 - Karol Sevilla, Mexican actress, singer and YouTuber
Deaths
Up to 1900
959 – Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)
1187 – Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
1208 - Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (b. 1155)
1456 - Ulrich II, Count of Celje (b. 1406)
1516 - Ferdinand of Aragon (b. 1452)
1581 - Bayinnaung, King of Burma (b. 1516)
1641 - Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Spanish Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
1699 - Hortense Mancini, Italian mistress to Charles II (b. 1646)
1766 - Unico Wilhelm von Wassenaer, Dutch composer (b. 1692)
1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
1848 – Robert Blum, German politician and revolutionary (b. 1807)
1856 - John M. Clayton, United States Secretary of State (b. 1796)
1875 – William Hovell, English explorer of Australia (b. 1786)
1888 – Mary Jane Kelly, the fifth murder victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1863)
1901 2000
1911 - Howard Pyle, American illustrator and writer (b. 1853)
1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
1918 - Peter Lumsden, British general (b. 1829)
1919 - Eduard Müller, Swiss politician (b. 1848)
1924 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1850)
1937 – Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
1940 – Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
1942 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
1944 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
1952 – Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (b. 1874)
1952 - Philip Murray, American labor leader (b. 1886)
1953 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and writer (b. 1914)
1953 – Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1880)
1953 - Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1859)
1956 - Aino Kallas, Finnish author (b. 1878)
1962 - Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian Saint (b. 1858)
1970 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
1980 - Toyen, Czech Surrealist painter (b. 1902)
1988 - David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (b. 1924)
1988 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
1991 – Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
1992 - Charles Fraser-Smith, British inventor (b. 1904)
1996 - Joe Ghiz, 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1945)
1997 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher (b. 1905)
1997 – Helenio Herrera, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1910)
1998 - Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
1999 - Mabel King, American actress (b. 1932)
2000 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1916)
From 2001
2001 – Giovanni Leone, Italian politician (b. 1908)
2003 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
2004 – Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (b. 1947)
2004 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (b. 1954)
2005 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1920)
2006 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006 - Markus Wolf, East German intelligence director (b. 1923)
2008 - Executions for the Bali bombings:
Huda bin Abdul Haq, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1960)
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1962)
Imam Samudra, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1970)
2011 - Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1922)
2012 - Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1905)
2012 - Bill Tarmey, British actor (b. 1941)
2012 - Joseph D. Early, American politician (b. 1933)
2013 - Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (b. 1947)
2014 - M. V. Raghavan, Indian politician (b. 1933)
2014 - Myles Munroe, Bahamian pastor (b. 1954)
2014 - Joe Walsh, Irish politician (b. 1943)
2015 - Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (b. 1930)
2015 - Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (b. 1986)
2017 - Grete Berget, Norwegian politician (b. 1954)
2017 - Fred Cole, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
2017 - John Hillerman, American actor (b. 1932)
2017 - Chuck Mosley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1959)
2017 - Priyan, Indian cinematographer (b. 1964)
2017 - Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress (b. 1982)
2017 - Gene Kotlarek, American ski jumper (b. 1940)
2017 - Chuck Nergard, American politician (b. 1929)
2018 - Richard Paul Conaboy, American judge (b. 1925)
2018 - Roger Hoy, English footballer (b. 1946)
2019 - John Gokongwei, Filipino businessman and philanthropist (b. 1926)
2019 - Noel Ignatiev, American author and historian (b. 1940)
2019 - Brian Mawhinney, British politician (b. 1940)
Observances and Significance
Independence Day in Cambodia
Schicksalstag in Germany, remembering several historic events in Germany that occurred on November 9
Inventor's Day (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan)
November 09 |
9939 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%2013 | May 13 |
Events
Up to 1900
1497 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
1515 - Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially marry at Greenwich.
1568 – Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
1572 - Pope Gregory XIII is elected. During his time, some countries in Europe would become the first to use the Gregorian calendar, which is named after him.
1607 – Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as an English colony.
1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
1647 – 12,000 people are killed in an earthquake in Santiago, Chile.
1648 - Building work on the Red Fort in Delhi, India, is completed.
1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from them (the Inn District).
1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with the First Fleet, 11 ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1830 – Ecuador gains its independence.
1846 – Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
1848 – First performance of Finland's national anthem.
1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of Britain issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
1861 - The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
1861 - The first railway line in present-day Pakistan, then-part of British India, is opened between Karachi and Kotri.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
1901 2000
1909 – The first Giro d'Italia took place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna was the winner.
1912 – In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) was established.
1913 – Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
1917 – Three peasant children claim to see the Blessed Virgin Mary above a holmoak tree in Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal.
1940 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. Churchill makes his "blood, tears, toil and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
1948 – First Kashmir War between India and Pakistan
1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
1950 - The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone racecourse in Northamptonshire.
1952 - The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, holds it first sitting.
1958 - Ben Carlin becomes the first, and only, person to circumnavigate (travel round) the world in an amphibious vehicle, a vehicle that can travel both in water and on land.
1958 - May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers, demanding a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle as its head, in order to defend French control in Algeria.
1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
1958 – Pierre Pflimlin becomes Prime Minister of France
1958 – Velcro's trade mark is registered.
1960 – First ascent of Dhaulagiri, world's seventh-highest mountain.
1967 - Zakir Hussain becomes President of India, as the first person of Islamic faith to hold the post of President in India.
1969 – Race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the 13 May Incident.
1972 – A nightclub fire in Osaka kills 119 people.
1972 - The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the Ulster Volunteer Force and the British Army, killing 7 people and injuring 66.
1976 – The New York Nets defeat the Denver Nuggets and win the American Basketball Association championship, 112-106, in the final ABA game ever played.
1980 - A Force-2 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome.
1985 – The mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, orders police to storm the radical group's MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents in the resulting fire.
1989 - Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, and begin a hunger strike.
1994 - Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance.
1995 – In Dublin, Ireland, Secret Garden win the fortieth Eurovision Song Contest for Norway performing "Nocturne".
1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1997 – Storms in Yunnan and Guangdong kill 290 people.
1998 – Following India's second round of nuclear tests the United States and Japan impose economic sanctions.
1998 - Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped. The country's President, Suharto, resigns a week later.
2000 – In Stockholm, Sweden, the Olsen Brothers win the forty-fifth Eurovision Song Contest for Denmark singing "Fly On The Wings of Love".
2000 – In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately f 1,000,000,000 (€450,000,000) damage.
From 2001
2005 - The Binh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
2005 – The final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise airs in the United States, bringing to a close an 18-year uninterrupted television franchise.
2005 – The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
2008 - Bombings in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, kill dozens of people.
2011 - The Charsadda bombing in Pakistan occur, as two bombs explode, killing 98 people, and injuring 140.
2012 – Pastor Maldonado becomes the first Venezuelan to win a Formula One Grand Prix, in Spain.
2014 - A mine explosion in Soma, Western Turkey, kills around 300 people.
2015 - Discord releases, a instant messaging software.
2016 - President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro declares a 60-day state of emergency.
2017 - Salvador Sobral wins the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv for Portugal, with the song "Amar Pelos Dois".
2018 - Manchester City F.C. becomes the first team in the English Premier League to achieve 100 points in a single league season.
Births
Up to 1900
1024 - Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)
1221 - Alexander Nevsky, Russian prince and saint (d. 1263)
1254 – Maria of Brabant, Queen of France (d. 1321)
1588 – Ole Worm, Danish physician and archaeologist (d. 1654)
1655 – Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
1699 - Sebastiao Jose de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquess of Pombal, Portuguese statesman (d. 1782)
1713 - Alexis Clairault, French mathematician, astronomer and geophysicist (d. 1765)
1717 – Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1780)
1730 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1782)
1742 – Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)
1750 - Lorenzo Mascheroni, Italian mathematician (d. 1800)
1753 - Lazare Carnot, French general, mathematician and politician (d. 1823)
1767 – John VI of Portugal (d. 1826)
1778 - Honoré V, Prince of Monaco (d. 1841)
1785 – Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, German historian and statesman (d. 1860)
1792 – Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
1795 - Gerard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
1822 – Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (d. 1902)
1830 – Zebulon Baird Vance, three-time Governor of North Carolina (d. 1894)
1840 - Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (d. 1897)
1842 - Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)
1850 - Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian dramatist, librettist and translator (d. 1916)
1851 - Laza Lazarevic, Serbian writer, psychiatrist and neurologist (d. 1891)
1857 – Ronald Ross, English doctor, won the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1932)
1868 - Sumner Paine, American sports shooter (d. 1904)
1878 - Muriel Robb, British tennis player (d. 1907)
1881 - Lima Barreto, Brazilian writer (d. 1922)
1882 – Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)
1883 – Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor and inventor (d. 1962)
1885 - Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (d. 1984)
1888 - Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (d. 1993)
1894 – Asgeir Asgeirsson, second President of Iceland (d. 1972)
1898 – Justin Tuveri, Italian-French World War I veteran (d. 2007)
1901 1950
1901 - Witold Pilecki, Polish general and Resistance activist (d. 1948)
1901 - William S. Beardsley, 31st Governor of Iowa (d. 1954)
1901 - Murilo Mendes, Brazilian poet (d. 1975)
1903 - Lennox Berkeley, English composer (d. 1989)
1905 - Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, President of India (d. 1977)
1907 – Daphne du Maurier, British writer (d. 1989)
1908 - Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1996)
1909 - Ken Darby, American composer, songwriter and conductor (d. 1992)
1912 - Gil Evans, Canadian pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader (d. 1988)
1913 – William Tolbert, President of Liberia (d. 1980)
1914 – Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
1922 – Bea Arthur, American actress (d. 2009)
1924 – Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer and politician (d. 2010)
1927 - Herbert Ross, American choreographer and movie director (d. 2001)
1928 - Enrique Bolaños, former President of Nicaragua (d. 2021)
1928 - Theo Saat, Dutch sprinter (d. 2015)
1928 - Edouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1929 - John Galvin, American general (d. 2015)
1929 - Fred Martin, Scottish footballer (d. 2013)
1930 - Sammy Baird, Scottish footballer (d. 2010)
1930 – Vernon Shaw, former President of Dominica (d. 2013)
1930 – Mike Gravel, United States Senator (d. 2021)
1930 - José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish writer
1931 – Jim Jones, American religious cult leader (d. 1978)
1934 - Adolf Muschg, Swiss writer
1935 - Jan Saudek, Czech photographer and painter
1935 - Kaja Saudek, Czech author and illustrator (d. 2015)
1937 - Trevor Baylis, English stuntman and inventor (d. 2018)
1939 – Harvey Keitel, American actor
1940 - Bruce Chatwin, British writer (d. 1989)
1941 – Ritchie Valens, American musician (d. 1959)
1941 – Senta Berger, Austrian actress
1942 - Pal Schmitt, Hungarian fencer and politician, former President of Hungary
1944 – Uwe Barschel, German politician (d. 1987)
1944 - Sir Crispin Agnew, 11th Baronet, Scottish judge and explorer
1945 - Sam Anderson, American actor
1945 - Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1945 - Lou Marini, American saxophonist and composer
1946 - Tim Pigott-Smith, British actor (d. 2017)
1949 - Jane Glover, British conductor
1949 – Zoe Wanamaker, American-British actress
1950 – Stevie Wonder, American singer
1950 – Danny Kirwan, British musician (Fleetwood Mac) (d. 2018)
1951 1975
1951 – Paul Thompson, British musician (Roxy Music)
1951 – Selina Scott, British broadcast journalist
1952 – Wang Xiaobo, Chinese writer
1952 - John Kasich, 69th Governor of Ohio
1954 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist and composer
1956 – Richard Madeley, British TV presenter
1956 - Sri Sri Ravishankar, Indian spiritual leader
1957 – Alan Ball, American screenwriter
1957 – Andrea Klump, former Red Army Faction member
1957 - Carrie Lam, 4th Chief Executive of Hong Kong
1957 - Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer
1958 – Frances Barber, British actress
1961 - Danny Leiner, American actor (d. 2018)
1961 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player
1962 - Roxana Baldetti, Guatemalan Vice President
1963 - Wally Masur, Australian tennis player, coach and sportscaster
1963 - Andrea Leadsom, English politician
1964 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian
1964 – Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
1964 - Masha Rasputina, Russian pop singer
1965 - Hikari Ota, Japanese writer
1966 – Alison Goldfrapp, English musician
1966 - Staffan Hellstrand, Swedish singer
1967 - Chuck Schuldinger, American singer-songwriter and musician
1967 - Melanie Thornton, American-German singer (d. 2001)
1968 – Miguel Angel Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1997)
1968 - Scott Morrison, Australian politician, 30th Prime Minister of Australia
1968 - Dmitriy Shevchenko, Russian discus thrower
1968 - Sonja Zietlow, German television host
1969 - Buckethead, American musician
1972 - Darryl Sydor, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - Brian Geraghty, American actor
From 1976
1976 - Ana Popovic, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 - Samantha Morton, English actress
1977 - Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer (The Common Linnets)
1977 - Neil Hopkins, American actor
1977 - Aleksei Terentjev, Estonian ice hockey player
1978 - Mike Bibby, American basketball player
1979 – Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
1979 - Michael Madden, American musician (Maroon 5)
1979 - Lauren Phoenix, Canadian pornographic actress
1981 - Luciana Berger, English politician
1982 - Albert Crusat, Spanish footballer
1982 – Oguchi Onyewu, American soccer player
1982 - Casey Stoney, English footballer
1983 – Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
1983 – Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
1983 - Johnny Hoogerland, Dutch cyclist
1983 - Anita Gorbicz, Hungarian handball player
1985 – Jaroslav Halak, Slovakian ice hockey player
1985 - Iwan Rheon, Welsh actor and singer
1986 – Robert Pattinson, English actor
1986 – Alexander Rybak, Norwegian singer, fiddler and composer
1986 - Lena Dunham, American movie maker and actress
1987 - Candice Accola, American actress and musician
1987 - Hunter Parrish, American actor and singer
1987 - Laura Izibor, Irish singer-songwriter, pianist and producer
1987 - Marianne Vos, Dutch cyclist
1988 – Casey Donovan, Australian singer
1993 – Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer
1993 - Debby Ryan, American actress
Deaths
Up to 1950
1176 – Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
1312 – Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
1573 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
1619 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
1646 - Maria Anna of Spain (b. 1606)
1742 - Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
1759 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
1782 - Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
1832 - Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (b. 1769)
1835 – John Nash, architect (b. 1752)
1884 – Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
1885 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
1901 - Leopoldo Alas, Spanish novelist (b. 1851)
1903 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
1916 – Sholom Aleichem, writer (b. 1859)
1921 - Jean Aicard, French author, poet and playwright (b. 1848)
1926 – Libert H. Boeynaems, ss.cc., Roman Catholic prelate
1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer and diplomat (b. 1861)
1937 – Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
1938 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, Swiss physicist (b. 1861)
1941 – Onishiki Uichiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1891)
1945 – Tubby Hall, American jazz musician (b. 1895)
1947 - Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian-Bengali poet and playwright (b. 1926)
From 1951
1957 - Michael Fikete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician (b. 1886)
1961 – Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
1963 – Alois Hudal, Austrian Roman Catholic bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (b. 1885)
1972 – Dan Blocker, actor (b. 1928)
1975 – Bob Wills, American country musician (b. 1905)
1977 – Mickey Spillane, gangster (b. 1934)
1982 - Billy Steel, Scottish footballer (b. 1923)
1988 – Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
1999 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
2001 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
2002 – Valeriy Lobanovskiy, Ukrainian footballer and coach (b. 1939)
2003 – John Savage, former Premier of Nova Scotia
2005 – George Dantzig, American mathematician
2008 – Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930)
2009 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountain climber (b. 1914)
2009 - Monica Bleibtreu, German actress (b. 1944)
2011 – Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
2011 – Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist (b. 1916)
2012 - Nguyen Van Thien, Vietnamese bishop (b. 1906)
2012 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American musician (b. 1941)
2013 - Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (b. 1924)
2013 - Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and TV personality (b. 1927)
2014 - David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher (b. 1926)
2014 - Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish moviemaker and actor (b. 1977)
2015 - Derek Davis, Irish broadcaster (b. 1948)
2015 - Gainan Saidkhuzhin, Russian cyclist (b. 1937)
2015 - Anna Levinson, German zoologist (b. 1939)
2016 - Sammy Ellis, American baseball player (b. 1941)
2016 - David McNiven Gardner, New Zealand oceanographer (b. 1928)
2016 - Baba Hardev Singh, Indian spiritual guru (b. 1954)
2017 - John Cygan, American actor (b. 1954)
2017 - Yanko Daucik, Czech footballer (b. 1957)
2017 - Alain Delfossé, French novelist and translator (b. 1957)
2017 - Marcel Pelletier, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2018 - Edgardo Angara, Filipino politician (b. 1934)
2018 - Glenn Branca, American composer and guitarist (b. 1948)
2018 - Steve Hogan, American politician (b. 1948)
2018 - Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress (b. 1948)
2018 - Baadur Tsuladze, Georgian actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
2018 - Balkavi Bairagi, Indian poet and politician (b. 1931)
2018 - Epitácio Cafeteira, Brazilian politician (b. 1924)
2019 - Unita Blackwell, American civil rights activist (b. 1933)
2019 - Doris Day, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
2019 - Lajos Faragó, Hungarian footballer (b. 1932)
2019 - Jörg Kastendiek, German politician (b. 1964)
2019 - Hayat Saif, Bangladeshi poet and literary critic (b. 1942)
Observances
Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima (Roman Catholicism)
Days of the year |
9940 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/October%209 | October 9 |
Events
Up to 1800
768 - Carloman and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of the Franks.
1000 – Leif Ericson discovers Vinland, becoming the first known European to set foot in North America.
1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founded the Kingdom of Valencia.
1264 - The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez, under Islamic control since 711.
1446 – The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1514 – Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor
1582 – Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1604 - Supernova 1604 is observed; It is the last supernova to-date to be observed in the Milky Way.
1635 – Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
1708 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1740 - Dutch colonists and others begin massacring Chinese people at Batavia (now Jakarta), eventually killing 10,000 people and leading to war.
1760 - Seven Years' War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
1767 - Surveying of the Mason–Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland is completed, unofficially marking the boundary between Northern and Southern US States.
1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
1788 – The first bridge in Australia is built over the Tank Stream in Sydney.
1799 - Sinking of the ship HMS Lutine, killing 240 people.
1801 1900
1803 - Flooding on the Portuguese island of Madeira kills 600 people.
1804 – Hobart, Tasmania is founded.
1806 - Prussia declares war on France.
1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships; the HMS Detroit and the HMS Caledonia.
1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
1824 - Costa Rica gets rid of slavery.
1829 - A climbing expedition led by Friedrich Parrot reaches the summit of Mount Ararat, the highest mountain in Turkey.
1831 – Capo d'Istria is assassinated.
1834 - Opening of the Dublin to Kingstown railway, the first public railway in Ireland.
1854 - Start of the Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War.
1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rita Island.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
1871 – The Great Chicago Fire is brought under control.
1874 – General Postal Union was created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
1900 - The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
1901 1950
1911 - An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China, leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Dynasty.
1913 - Steamship SS Volturna catches fire in the Mid-Atlantic Ocean, killing 136 people. Over 300 lives are saved.
1914 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
1919 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
1934 - In Marseille, King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and then-foreign minister of France Louis Barthou are assassinated.
1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to transmit electricity from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – During a nighttime air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral is pierced by a bomb.
1941 - A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia to be the country's President.
1942 – Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalizes Australian autonomy.
1944 – World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin begin a nine-day conference in Moscow to discuss the future of Europe.
1951 2000
1957 – Neil H. McElroy was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States.
1959 - The Conservatives under Harold Macmillan win the United Kingdom general election.
1962 – Uganda becomes a republic.
1963 – In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
1967 – A day after being caught, Che Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1969 – In Chicago, Illinois, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection to the trial of the "Chicago Eight" (trial started on September 24).
1969 – Students from the University of the Philippines formed the first Upsilonian Congress and established the Upsiloan Alpha Beta Grand Fraternity in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1980 - Pope John Paul II shakes hands with Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama in a private audience in Vatican City.
1981 - End of capital punishment in France.
1983 - Attempted killing of President of South Korea Chun Doo-hwan. He survives, though 17 people are killed.
1986 – United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.
1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalization of opposition groups and democratic reforms.
1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
From 2001
2002 – After losing a massive amount of ground during the summer of 2002, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 7,286.27, its lowest level in five years. The NASDAQ also hit a six-year low of 1,114.11.
2004 - The new Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh is officially opened.
2004 – Jo Brauner resigns as the anchor of German Tagesschau news show after 30 years.
2004 – Democratic elections held for the first time in Afghanistan.
2004 – The tri-annual federal election is held in Australia and Liberal Party of Australia leader, John Howard, wins a fourth term as Prime Minister in a landslide victory over opponent, Mark Latham of the Australian Labor Party.
2005 – China's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping officially announced the new accurate height of Mount Everest is 8848.43 m.
2005 - 16- and 17-year-olds are allowed to vote in the state election in Burgenland, Austria.
2006 – North Korea carries out its first-reported bomb test.
2007 - Yoko Ono opens the John Lennon Imagine Peace tower on the island of Videy near Reykjavik, Iceland.
2009 – First Lunar impact of the Centaur & LCROSS spacecrafts, as part of NASA's Precursor Robotic Programme.
2009 – Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
2011 - Sebastian Vettel wins his second Formula One World title, as the youngest driver to win two Formula One World Championships in-a-row.
2012 - Members of the Pakistan Taliban attempt to kill education activist Malala Yousafzai, by shooting her in the head. She survives the attack after receiving medical treatment.
2014 - UKIP wins its first parliamentary seat in a UK by-election in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, through defected Conservative MP Douglas Carswell.
2017 - Iceland becomes the least-populated country to qualify for a FIFA World Cup, defeating Kosovo 2-0 in Reykjavik.
Births
Up to 1900
1201 Robert de Sorbonne, French theologian (d. 1274)
1261 King Denis of Portugal (d. 1325)
1328 King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
1581 Claude Gaspard Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician, poet and scholar (d. 1638)
1585 Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)
1586 Archduke Leopold of Austria (d. 1632)
1704 Johann Andreas Segner, German physician, physicist and mathematician (d. 1777)
1757 King Charles X of France (d. 1836)
1782 Lewis Cass, American politician (d. 1866)
1788 Jozsef Kossics, Slovenian writer (d. 1867)
1796 Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
1833 Eugen Langen, German entrepreneur, engineer and inventor (d. 1895)
1835 Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1840 Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
1846 Julius Maggi, Swiss businessman (Maggi condiment) (d. 1912)
1848 Caroline Alice Elgar, English author (d. 1920)
1852 Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist (d. 1919)
1854 Myron T. Herrick, Governor of Ohio (d. 1929)
1858 Mihaijlo Idvorski Pupin, Serbian-American physicist (d. 1935)
1859 Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
1863 Alexander Siloti, Ukrainian pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1945)
1873 Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1946)
1874 Nicholas Roerich, Russian polymath (d. 1947)
1879 Max von Laue, German physicist (d. 1960)
1880 Charlie Faust, American baseball player (d. 1915)
1881 Victor Klemperer, German writer (d. 1960)
1886 Rube Marquard, American baseball player and manager (d. 1980)
1888 Nikolai Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
1888 Irving Cummings, American actor and director (d. 1959)
1892 Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian writer (d. 1975)
1892 Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
1893 Mario de Andrade, Brazilian writer (d. 1945)
1897 M. V. Bhaktavatsalam, Indian politician (d. 1987)
1900 Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)
1900 Joseph Friedman, American inventor (d. 1982)
1901 1950
1903 Walter O'Malley, American sports executive (d. 1979)
1906 Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
1906 Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian journalist and Islamist thinker (d. 1966)
1907 Jacques Tati, French director and producer (d. 1982)
1907 Quintin Hogg, Baron Halisham of St Marylebone, English politician (d. 2001)
1908 Werner Haeften, German officer and Resistance activist (d. 1944)
1909 Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
1909 V. Nalliah, Sri Lankan Tamil politician
1911 Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
1915 Clifford M. Hardin, American politician (d. 2010)
1918 E. Howard Hunt, American spy (d. 2007)
1918 Lila Kedrova, Russian actress (d. 2000)
1920 Jason Wingreen, American actor (d. 2015)
1920 Yusef Lateef, American musician and composer (d. 2013)
1921 Tadeusz Rozewicz, Polish poet and playwright (d. 2014)
1922 Fyvush Finkel, American actor (d. 2016)
1923 Donald Sinden, English actor (d. 2014)
1925 Robert Docking, American politician, 38th Governor of Kansas (d. 1983)
1926 Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (d. 2015)
1928 Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (d. 2016)
1929 William M. Gray, American scientist (d. 2016)
1931 Antony Booth, British actor (d. 2017)
1933 Peter Mansfield, British physicist (d. 2017)
1934 Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and composer
1935 Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
1936 Edmond Keosayan, Armenian-Soviet musician and movie director (d. 1994)
1936 Brian Blessed, British actor
1938 Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician, former President of Austria
1939 Nicholas Grimshaw, English architect
1940 John Lennon, English musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. December 8, 1980)
1940 Gordon J. Humphrey, American politician
1941 Chucho Valdés, Cuban pianist and composer
1941 Giancarlo Bercellino, Italian footballer
1942 Shukri Ghanem, Prime Minister of Libya (d. 2012)
1943 Renato Cappellini, Italian footballer
1944 John Entwistle, British musician (d. 2002)
1944 Nona Hendryx, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress
1944 Francis Girod, French movie director (d. 2006)
1946 Fernando Brant, Brazilian poet and journalist (d. 2015)
1947 France Gall, French singer (d. 2018)
1947 Joe Wark, Scottish footballer (d. 2015)
1947 Bob Moose, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1948 Paul LePage, American politician, Governor of Maine
1948 Jackson Browne, American musician
1949 Bob Leinbach, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans)
1949 Rod Temperton, English songwriter and producer (d. 2016)
1950 Reichi Nakaido, Japanese rock music guitarist
1950 Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, Nobel Peace Prize winner
1951 1975
1952 Sharon Osbourne, wife of Ozzy Osbourne
1952 Dennis Stratton, English guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1953 Tony Shalhoub, American actor
1954 Scott Bakula, American actor
1954 James Fearnley, British musician (The Pogues)
1955 Steve Ovett, British athlete
1958 Alan Nunnelee, American politician (d. 2015)
1959 Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician (d. 2015)
1960 Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist
1961 Ellen Wheeler, American actress, director and producer
1962 Hugh Robertson, English politician
1962 Onokuni Yasushi, Japanese sumo wrestler
1962 Jorge Burruchaga, Argentine footballer
1964 Guillermo del Toro, Mexican movie director
1964 John Ralston, Canadian actor
1966 David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1967 Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1967 Artur Davis, American politician
1968 Troy Davis, American high-profile death row inmate (d. 2011)
1969 PJ Harvey, English musician
1969 Steve McQueen, English artist and director (12 Years a Slave)
1970 Steve Jablonsky, American movie and television composer
1970 Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
1970 Kenny Anderson, American baseball player
1971 Jason Jones, American director, producer and actor
1973 Erin Daniels, American actress
1973 Fabio Lione, Italian singer-songwriter and keyboardist
1973 Carlos Pavon, Honduran footballer
1974 Shmuel Herzfeld, American rabbi and activist
1975 Sean Lennon, American musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
1975 Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
From 1976
1976 Nick Swardson, American actor and comedian
1978 Nicky Byrne, Irish singer (Westlife)
1979 Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
1979 Brandon Routh, American actor
1979 Chris O'Dowd, Irish actor
1979 DJ Rashad, American DJ and musician (d. 2014)
1979 Alex Greenwald, American musician, actor and record producer
1980 Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1981 Darius Miles, American basketball player
1982 Antonio Mendonca, Angolan footballer
1982 Shi Jun, Chinese footballer
1983 Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
1983 Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
1983 Spencer Grammer, American actress
1983 Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter
1983 Zeng Jinyan, Chinese blogger and human rights activist
1984 Djamel Mesbah, French-Algerian footballer
1986 Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
1987 Samantha Murray, English tennis player
1990 Marcus Willis, English tennis player
1992 Tyler James Williams, American actor and singer
1993 Lauren Davis, American tennis player
1993 Scotty McCreery, American singer
1994 Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
1996 Bella Hadid, American model
2008 Bo, dog of Barack Obama
Deaths
Up to 1900
1047 – Pope Clement II (b. 1005)
1253 – Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
1390 - King John I of Castile (b. 1358)
1555 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
1562 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist (b. 1523)
1569 – Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
1581 - Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1526)
1597 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
1691 – William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
1709 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
1729 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
1793 – Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
1806 – Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731)
1808 - John Claiborne, American politician (b. 1777)
1831 – John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
1841 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussian architect and painter (b. 1781)
1857 - Josef Ressel, Austrian inventor (b. 1793)
1873 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1897 - Jan Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1818)
1900 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
1901 2000
1924 – Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1934 – King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b. 1888)
1934 – Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862)
1937 - Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (b. 1868)
1941 – Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
1943 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1950 - George Hainsworth, NHL goaltender (b. 1895)
1953 - Jimmy Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
1955 – Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1875)
1956 – Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
1958 – Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
1961 – Werner Jaeger, German mathematician (b. 1888)
1962 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
1967 – Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)
1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist (b. 1897)
1967 - Andre Maurois, French writer (b. 1885)
1972 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
1974 – Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
1976 - Walter Warlimont, German general (b. 1894)
1976 - Bob Moose, American baseball player (b. 1947)
1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian musician (b. 1929)
1985 - Emilio Garrastazu Medici, President of Brazil (b. 1905)
1987 – Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
1987 – Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
1987 – William P. Murphy, American doctor, won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
1988 - Felix Wankel, German engineer (b. 1902)
1989 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and writer (b. 1940)
1991 - Dagmar Lange (Maria Lang), Swedish writer (b. 1914)
1995 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
1995 - Kukrit Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
1996 – Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)
2000 – David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
From 2001
2001 – Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
2002 – Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (b. 1956)
2005 - Louis Nye, American actor (b. 1913)
2006 – Paul Hunter, British snooker player (b. 1978)
2008 - Gidget Gein, American musician (b. 1969)
2009 – Horst Szymaniak, German footballer (b. 1934)
2010 – Maurice Allais, French economist (b. 1911)
2012 - Paddy Roy Bates, British founder of the Sealand micronation (b. 1921)
2013 - Chopper Read, Australian crime figure and author (b. 1954)
2013 - Wilfried Martens, former Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1936)
2014 - Peter A. Peyser, American politician (b. 1921)
2014 - Jan Hooks, American actress and comedienne (b. 1957)
2015 - Ravindra Jain, Indian composer (b. 1944)
2015 - Tony Rafty, Australian caricaturist (b. 1915)
2015 - Du Runsheng, Chinese politician (b. 1913)
2015 - Jerry Parr, American secret service agent (b. 1930)
2015 - Geoffrey Howe, British politician (b. 1926)
2016 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish movie director (b. 1926)
2017 - Manuel Busto, French cyclist (b. 1932)
2017 - Allan Chumak, Russian faith healer (b. 1935)
2017 - Rafe Mair, Canadian lawyer, political commentator, journalist and politician (b. 1931)
2017 - Jean Rochefort, French actor (b. 1930)
2017 - Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian painter, printmaker and sculptor (b. 1925)
2017 - Michel Diefenbacher, French politician (b. 1947)
2017 - Hessie, Cuban textile artist (b. 1936)
2018 - Warner Saunders, American news anchor (b. 1935)
2018 - Thomas A. Steitz, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (b. 1940)
2018 - Carolyn Warner, American politician (b. 1930)
Observances
Independence Day (Uganda)
Leif Erikson Day
Hangul Day (South Korea)
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Events
Up to 1800
3761 BC – The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
336 – Pope Marcus ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
1428 - Start of the English siege of Orléans in the Hundred Years' War.
1477 - Opening of Uppsala University in Sweden.
1492 – Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course.
1506 – Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna.
1513 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramon de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1520 – First public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain.
1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast.
1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain, Venice, and Papal States) destroys Turkish fleet.
1582 – Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1637 – Prince Frederick Henry of Orange occupies Breda.
1690 – English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade.
1702 – English/Dutch troops under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough occupy Roermond.
1714 – Beer tax riots in Alkmaar, Netherlands.
1737 – 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India).
1756 - Flooding on the Elbe near what is now Germany's North Sea coast kills 600 people.
1763 – George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
1765 – Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY.
1769 – English explorer, Captain Cook, reaches New Zealand. Abel Tasman had been the first European to land there over a century earlier.
1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Americans beat the British in the Battle of Second Saratoga and the Battle of Bemis Heights.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
1801 1900
1806 – Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood.
1816 – The first double-decked steamboat, the "Washington," arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1826 – Granite Railway (first chartered railway in the U.S.) begins operations.
1828 – The city of Patras, Greece is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison.
1840 – Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1864 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Darbytown Road, the Confederate forces' attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond is stopped.
1864 – American Civil War: Capture of the CSS Florida — Union warship captures the USS Wachusett — Confederate raider ship while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
1865 – The Morant Bay Rebellion starts in Jamaica.
1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; student enrollment is 412, the most at any American university to that date.
1870 – Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon.
1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
1882 – Baseball: First World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0.
1886 – Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
1900 – The term "orienteering" is first used for an event.
1901 1950
1904 – Baseball: New York Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12).
1907 – France's Henry Farman flies 30 m in a double decker plane.
1908 – Crete revolts against the Ottoman Empire and aligns with Greece.
1908 – Serbia and Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact.
1910 – Absinthe is banned in Switzerland.
1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided victory in American college football.
1918 - The Governing Council in Warsaw declares Poland to be an independent state.
1919 – KLM of the Netherlands was founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1919 – First London-Amsterdam airline service (Britain Aerial Transport and KLM).
1922 – Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria.
1922 – First radio link, WNJ (Newark, New Jersey) and WGY (Schenectady) link for World Series.
1924 – Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms.
1928 – Ras Tafari Makonnen crowned negus of Abyssinia by Empress Zauditu.
1928 – Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0).
1929 – Ramsay MacDonald is the first British premier to address the U.S. Congress.
1931 – First infra-red photograph, Rochester, New York.
1933 - Air France, the national airline of France, is created after the merger of five smaller airlines.
1938 – Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J.
1940 – Germany invades Romania.
1941 – German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R.
1941 – John Curtin becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Australia
1942 – the McCollum memo conspires to bring the United States to war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1942 – U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations.
1942 – Maxwell Anderson's "Eve of St. Mark," premieres in New York City.
1942 – Salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad.
1943 – Japan executes 100 American civilian prisoners on Wake Island.
1944 – Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp.
1944 – Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums.
1944 – Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel is ordered to return to Berlin.
1944 – Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen.
1949 – German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
1949 – One of the earliest television shows, "Ford Theater" debuts
1950 – United States forces cross the 38th parallel in the Korean War.
1950 - Missionaries of Charity is founded by Mother Teresa.
1951 2000
1951 – Malayan Emergency: Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney.
1951 – David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government.
1957 – Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" debuts.
1958 – President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
1958 – U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury.
1958 – Potter Stewart appointed to U.S. Supreme Court.
1959 – Far side of the Moon seen for first time, compliments of U.S.S.R.'s Luna 3.
1960 – Second Kennedy and Nixon debate Cold War foreign policy in the second of four scheduled debates.
1960 - Nigeria joins the UN.
1962 – U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, U.S.S.R.
1963 – John F. Kennedy signs ratification for the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
1963 – Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and the Dominican Republic, kills 7,190.
1968 – Hollywood adopts the movie ratings system.
1970 – Richard Nixon announces a new five-point peace proposal to end the Vietnam War.
1971 - Oman joins the UN.
1976 - Hua Guofeng becomes Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
1977 – The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
1982 – Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
1984 – NFL running back Walter Payton breaks Jim Brown's rushing record.
1985 – The "Achille Lauro" is hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
1985 – The Mameyes disaster occurs in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
1996 – The Fox News Channel, an American cable news network, is launched.
2000 – Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg abdicates in favour of his son, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
2000 – Germany wins 1-0 against England in the last game at the Old Wembley Stadium.
From 2001
2001 – Start of United States war in Afghanistan with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2002 – Maher Arar is deported by the US government to Syria, where he is tortured and held without charge for a year before being returned home to Canada.
2003 – California recall: California governor Gray Davis is recalled from office and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
2004 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates.
2005 - Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency win the Nobel Peace Prize.
2006 – Sport: The first Lusophone Games, for Portuguese-speaking countries begin in Macao.
2006 – Palau's capital is moved from Koror to Ngerulmud in the state of Melekeok.
2006 – Russian journalist and writer Anna Politkovskaya is murdered.
2011 – The Nobel Peace Prize is shared between Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakel Karman of Yemen.
2012 - Hugo Chávez is re-elected President of Venezuela against Henrique Capriles. Chavez dies less than five months later, on March 5, 2013.
2014 - Lunar Eclipse: A "Blood Moon", or red-appearing Moon, is seen in most of the world except Europe and Africa.
2016 - President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
2019 - Saturn overtakes Jupiter as the planet in the Solar System with the most known Moons (82, compared to Jupiter's 79).
2019 - Eight people are injured in a lorry-ramming attack in Limburg an der Lahn, Germany.
Births
Up to 1850
13 BC Drusus Julius Caesar, adoptive son of Roman Emperor Tiberius (d. 23)
1471 King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
1573 William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)
1576 John Marston, English poet and playwright (d. 1634)
1589 Maria Magdalena of Austria (d. 1631)
1728 Caesar Rodney, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1784)
1744 Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
1746 William Billings, American composer (d. 1800)
1748 King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
1769 Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)
1798 Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French violinmaker, businessman and inventor (d. 1875)
1822 Rudolf Leuckert, German zoologist (d. 1898)
1835 Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)
1836 Henri Elzear Taschereau, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1911)
1841 King Nicholas of Montenegro (d. 1921)
1846 Wladimir Köppen, German scientist (d. 1940)
1849 James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916)
1851 1900
1857 George P. McLean, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1932)
1866 Wlodimir Ledochowski, Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
1870 Uncle Dave Macon, American banjo player, singer, songwriter and comedian (d. 1952)
1873 Alfred Ander, Swedish criminal, last person to be executed in Sweden (d. 1910)
1877 Thomas Archibald Sprague, Scottish botanist (d. 1958)
1881 Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
1884 Harold Geiger, US Army aviation pioneer (d. 1927)
1885 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 1962)
1888 Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
1889 Robert Z. Leonard, American movie director, actor, producer and screenwriter (d. 1968)
1892 Dwain Esper, American director and producer (d. 1982)
1894 Del Lord, American director (d. 1970)
1897 Elijah Muhammad, American Muslim leader (d. 1975)
1897 Charles Chauvel, Australian screenwriter, movie director and producer (d. 1959)
1898 Alfred Wallenstein, American cellist and conductor (d. 1983)
1900 Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (d. 1945)
1901 1925
1901 Souvanna Phouma, Prime Minister of Laos (d. 1984)
1904 Armando Castellazzi, Italian footballer (d. 1968)
1905 Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977)
1909 Anni Blomqvist, Finnish writer (d. 1990)
1909 Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian-American pianist (d. 1995)
1909 Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (d. 1983)
1911 Vaughn Monroe, American singer-songwriter and bandleader (d. 1973)
1912 Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)
1913 Walt Whitman Rostow, American economist (d. 2003)
1914 Alfred Drake, American actor (d. 1992)
1914 Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (d. 1974)
1914 Sarah Churchill, British actress (d. 1982)
1915 Charles Templeton, Canadian cartoonist and television evangelist (d. 2001)
1917 June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006)
1918 Harry V. Jaffa, American historian (d. 2015)
1919 Zelman Cowen, Australian academic and Governor-General of Australia (d. 2011)
1920 Georg Leber, German politician (d. 2012)
1921 Raymond Goethals, Belgian footballer and coach (d. 2004)
1922 William Zinsser, American writer, editor, literary critic and teacher (d. 2015)
1926 1950
1926 Marcello Abbado, Italian composer and pianist
1927 Ronald David Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (d. 1989)
1927 Al Martino, American singer and actor (d. 2009)
1928 Sanne Ledermann, friend of Anne Frank (d. 1943)
1928 Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
1928 Ali Kafi, Algerian politician (d. 2013)
1929 Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist (d. 2014)
1929 Graeme Ferguson, Canadian director and producer
1931 Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 2021)
1932 Joannes Gijsen, Dutch-born former Catholic bishop of Reykjavik (d. 2013)
1934 Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright and academic (d. 2014)
1934 Ulrike Meinhof, German left-wing militant and Red Army Faction member (d. 1976)
1935 Thomas Keneally, Australian writer
1936 Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
1937 Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
1937 Christopher Booker, English journalist and author
1938 Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer, actor and poet (d. 1992)
1938 Ann Jones, English tennis player
1939 Clive James, Australian TV presenter and writer
1939 Harry Kroto, English chemist (d. 2016)
1939 John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
1939 Enrique Pinti, Argentine actor, comedian, theatre director and writer
1942 Joy Behar, American talk show host and actress
1943 José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player
1943 Oliver North, American former military officer and politician
1944 Donald Tsang, former Chief Executive of Hong Kong
1944 Pete van Wieren, American sportscaster (d. 2014)
1945 Kevin Godley, English singer-songwriter
1946 Bernard Lavilliers, French singer-songwriter and actor
1946 Pengiran Anak Saleha, Queen of Brunei
1950 Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician, 4th President of Tanzania
1951 1975
1951 David J. Halberstam, American sportscaster
1951 John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1952 Mary Badham, American actress
1952 Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
1953 Ronald Worm, German footballer
1953 Tico Torres, American musician (Bon Jovi)
1953 Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright (d. 2014)
1954 Christian Bourquin, French politician (d. 2014)
1955 Yo-Yo Ma, French-born cellist
1955 Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist
1956 Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 Jayne Torvill, English figure skater
1959 Simon Cowell, English media personality
1959 Lourdes Flores Nano, Peruvian politician
1960 Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
1964 Sam Brown, American singer
1964 Dan Savage, American LGBT activist, journalist and television producer
1966 Marco Beltrami, American movie score composer
1966 Sherman Alexie, American author, humourist and screenwriter
1967 Toni Braxton, American soul music singer
1968 Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead
1968 Pippa Funnell, British equestrian
1969 Francesco Buzzurro, Italian guitarist
1969 Karen L. Nyberg, American engineer and astronaut
1970 Nicole Ari Parker, American actress
1971 Ismael Urzaiz, Spanish footballer
1971 Michelle Mone, Scottish businesswoman
1972 Loek van Wely, Dutch chess player
1972 Ben Younger, American screenwriter
1973 Dida, Brazilian footballer
1973 Grigol Mgalobishvili, 7th Prime Minister of Georgia
1974 Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer
1975 Tim Minchin, Australian comedian
From 1976
1976 Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
1976 Santiago Solari, Argentine footballer
1976 Taylor Hicks, American singer
1978 Alesha Dixon, English singer
1978 Jake Humphrey, English sports television presenter
1978 Omar Benson Miller, American actor
1979 Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
1979 Simona Amanar, Romanian gymnast
1980 Jean-Marc Gaillard, French cross-country skier
1982 Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
1982 Jermain Defoe, English footballer
1982 Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
1983 Aaron Parks, American jazz musician
1984 Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
1984 Simon Poulsen, Danish footballer
1985 Evan Longoria, American baseball player
1986 Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
1986 Kaitlyn, American wrestler and model
1986 Bree Olson, American pornographic actress
1987 Sam Querrey, American tennis player
1987 Cian Healy, Irish rugby union player
1987 Lauren Mayberry, Scottish singer (Chvrches)
1988 Diego Costa, Brazilian-Spanish footballer
1988 Holland Roden, American actress
1990 Ayla Kell, American actress
1991 Nicole Jung, American-Korean singer
1991 Lay, Chinese-Korean entertainer
1996 Lewis Capaldi, Scottish singer and songwriter
1997 Kira Kosarin, American actress and singer
2001 Princess Senate Seeiso, Princess of Lesotho
Deaths
Up to 1900
336 Pope Mark
929 Charles the Simple, King of France (b. 879)
1368 Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (b. 1338)
1577 George Gascoigne, English soldier, courtier and poet (b. 1535)
1612 Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, dramatist and diplomat (b. 1538)
1637 Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
1653 Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (b. 1581)
1708 Guru Gobind Singh, 10th Sikh Guru (b. 1666)
1787 Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the American Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
1796 Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
1849 Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)
1857 Louis McLane, United States Secretary of State (b. 1786)
1870 Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, Sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1834)
1894 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American writer (b. 1809)
1896 Emma Wedgwood, British naturalist (b. 1808)
1901 2000
1903 Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
1906 Honoré Beaugrand, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
1919 Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
1925 Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1926 Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (b. 1856)
1943 Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
1943 Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)
1943 Archibald Warden, English tennis player (b. 1869)
1951 Anton Philips, Dutch businessman (b. 1874)
1956 Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
1959 Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
1967 Norman Angell, British politician (b. 1872)
1991 Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
1992 Tevfik Esenc, last speaker of the Ubykh language (b. 1904)
1993 Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910)
1994 Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (b. 1911)
From 2001
2002 Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
2004 Kenneth Bigley, English engineer (b. 1942)
2006 Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and writer (b. 1958)
2007 Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
2008 Peter Copley, British actor (b. 1915)
2008 George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist (b. 1912)
2009 Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
2010 Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
2011 Ramiz Alia, last Communist leader of Albania, and President (b. 1925)
2012 Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, Mexican drug lord (b. 1974)
2013 Ovadia Yosef, Israeli Chief Rabbi (b. 1920)
2013 Patrice Chéreau, French director, movie maker, actor and producer (b. 1944)
2014 Siegfried Lenz, German writer (b. 1926)
2014 Iva Withers, Canadian-American theatre actress and singer (b. 1917)
2014 Nika Kiladze, Georgian footballer (b. 1988)
2014 Zilpha Keatley Snyder, American writer (b. 1927)
2014 Cigar, American racehorse (b. 1990)
2015 Dominique Dropsy, French footballer (b. 1951)
2015 Elena Lucena, Argentine actress (b. 1914)
2015 Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)
2015 W. R. Mitchell, British writer (b. 1928)
2015 Jurelang Zedkaia, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1950)
2016 Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austro-Hungarian-born British photographer and cinematographer (b. 1912)
2017 Konstantin Sarsania, Russian footballer (b. 1968)
2017 Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov, Russian philologist (b. 1929)
2017 Jim Landis, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2017 Washington SyCip, Filipino-American World War II veteran (b. 1921)
2017 Kazys Almenas, Lithuanian physicist, engineer and publisher (b. 1935)
2017 Ole Krarup, Danish politician (b. 1935)
2018 Peggy McCay, American actress (b. 1927)
2018 Oleg Pavlov, Russian novelist (b. 1970)
2018 Celeste Yarnall, American actress (b. 1944)
2019 Pepe Oneto, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1942)
2019 Ella Vogelaar, Dutch politician (b. 1949)
Observances
Teacher's Day (Laos)
National Day of East Germany (1949 to 1989)
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Events
Up to 1900
105 BC – Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of Mallius Maximus.
69 BC - Battle of Tigranocerta: Forces of the Roman Republic defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great.
23 - Rebels kill and behead Xin Dynasty Emperor Wang Mang in China.
404 - Byzantine Empress Eudoxia ends her seventh pregnancy in a miscarriage. She bleeds to death shortly after.
891 – Formosus becomes Pope.
1539 - Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital city of Anhaica, present-day Tallahassee, Florida.
1582 – Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1600 – Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence.
1683 - German immigrant families found Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1762 - Seven Years' War: End of the Battle of Manila between British and Spanish forces, resulting in British occupation of the city until the end of the war.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: General Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of the Continental Army defenses on the Hudson River in the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery.
1789 - French Revolution: Louis XVI of France returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by Parisian woman on the previous day.
1849 - Execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian War of Independence.
1854 - The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead begins shortly after midnight, killing 53 people.
1860 - The Introduction of the so-called Section 377 of the British Indian penal code (Law) was enacted in British India respectively.
1876 - The American Library Association is founded.
1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1889 – Thomas Edison shows his first movie.
1889 – Hans Meyer and Ludwig Purtschneller make the first ascent of Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa in what is now Tanzania.
1901 2000
1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1908 – Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1910 - Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time.
1921 – International PEN is founded in London.
1923 - The Great Powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
1928 – Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
1939 - World War II: The German invasion of Poland is completed.
1942 - World War II: The United States Marine Corps begins the October Matanikau Action on Guadalcanal, present-day Solomon Islands, against the Imperial Japanese Army.
1955 – A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people.
1966 – LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
1973 – The Yom Kippur War begins, as Egypt and Syria launch an attack on Israel.
1976 – Cubana Flight 455 crashes due to sabotage, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados.
1976 – New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
1978 – Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad and Benny Andersson, members of the Swedish pop group ABBA, are married. Incidentally, this is also the day that their single "Summer Night City" hits No.1 in Sweden.
1979 - Pope John Paul II visits the White House.
1981 – President of Egypt Anwar Sadat is assassinated, while inspecting a military parade.
1985 - Police Constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1987 – Fiji becomes a Republic.
1991 - The Social Democratic Party under Anibal Cavaco Silva wins the Portuguese parliamentary election.
1993 - Michael Jordan surprisingly announces his retirement from basketball.
1995 – 51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus, 47.9 light-years away from Earth, was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
1998 – Gay-bashing: Near Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard is viciously attacked by two assailants for being gay (he died on October 12).
1999 - Filming of the Lord of the Rings trilogy begins in New Zealand.
2000 – Slobodan Milosevic resigns as President of Yugoslavia.
2000 - Argentine Vice President Carlos Alvarez resigns.
From 2001
2002 – French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
2006 - Fredrik Reinfeldt becomes Prime Minister of Sweden after being elected on September 17.
2007 - Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered round-the-world journey.
2008 - Then-Prime Minister of Iceland Geir Haarde announces that his country is close to becoming bankrupt.
2017 - The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
Births
Up to 1900
210 BC - Ptolemy V Epiphanes, Pharaoh of Egypt (d. 181 BC)
1289 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1459 – Martin Behaim, navigator, geographer (d. c. 1507)
1510 – Rowland Taylor, pastor, martyr (d. 1555)
1552 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610)
1591 - Settimia Caccini, Italian composer and singer (d. 1638)
1738 - Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
1742 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-Danish poet (d. 1786)
1744 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)
1767 – Henri Christophe, King of Haiti (d. 1820)
1768 - Samuel C. Crafts, Governor of Vermont (d. 1853)
1769 – Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, British commander during the War of 1812 (d. 1812)
1773 - John MacCulloch, Scottish geologist (d. 1835)
1773 – King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
1783 - François Magendie, French physician (d. 1855)
1801 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
1803 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
1808 – King Frederick VII of Denmark (d. 1863)
1820 – Jenny Lind, Swedish singer (d. 1887)
1831 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
1838 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
1842 - Felice Cavallotti, Italian politician (d. 1898)
1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)
1849 - Basil Zaharoff, Greek weapons dealer (d. 1936)
1862 - Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and politician (d. 1927)
1866 - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor (d. 1932)
1868 – George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post (d. 1937)
1872 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
1874 - Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
1882 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (d. 1937)
1886 – Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
1886 - Georges Vantongerloo, Belgian painter, sculptor and architect (d. 1965)
1887 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
1887 - Maria Jeritza, Austrian soprano (d. 1982)
1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
1889 - Zalman Shazar, President of Israel (d. 1974)
1890 - Jan Grijseels, Dutch runner (d. 1961)
1891 - David Sholtz, Governor of Florida (d. 1953)
1891 - Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet (d. 1946)
1892 - Jackie Saunders, American silent movie actress (d. 1954)
1893 - Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist (d. 1956)
1898 - Mitchell Leisen, American director, producer and costume designer (d. 1972)
1900 - Willy Merkl, German mountaineer (d. 1934)
1901 1950
1903 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (d. 1995)
1905 – Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
1906 – Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
1907 - Francisco Gabilondo Soler, Mexican composer (d. 1990)
1908 – Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
1908 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)
1910 – Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British Labour politician (d. 2002)
1913 - Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss artist and writer (d. 1985)
1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, leader of the Kon-Tiki expedition (d. 2002)
1916 - Chiang Wei-kuo, Chinese general (d. 1997)
1917 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (d. 1977)
1921 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
1923 - Yasar Kemal, Turkish writer (d. 2015)
1925 - Lyuben Berov, 43rd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 2006)
1927 - Emmanuel III Delly, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2014)
1928 - Barbara Werle, American actress (d. 2013)
1929 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (d. 2010)
1929 - Einar H. Ingman, Jr., American soldier (d. 2015)
1930 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
1930 – Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer (d. 2015)
1931 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
1931 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American physicist (d. 2018)
1934 - Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist (d. 2015)
1935 - Ernesto Laclau, Argentine philosopher and political theorist (d. 2014)
1935 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American professional wrestler
1937 – Mario Capecchi, Italian-American molecular geneticist
1939 - Melvyn Bragg, British broadcaster
1940 - Jan Keizer, Dutch football referee
1940 - Ellen Travolta, American actress
1941 - Winston Ntshona, South African playwright and actor (d. 2018)
1941 - Paul Popham, American soldier and activist (d. 1987)
1942 – Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
1943 - Ottavio Bianchi, Italian footballer
1943 - Cees Veerman, Dutch musician (d. 2014)
1944 - Boris Mikhailov, Soviet ice hockey player
1945 - Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
1946 – Lloyd Doggett, American politician
1946 - Tony Greig, South African-born English cricketer (d. 2012)
1947 - Patxi Andion, Spanish singer-songwriter
1947 - Klaus Dibiasi, diver
1948 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
1948 - Glenn Branca, American composer and guitarist
1949 - Jim Gilmore, American politician, former Governor of West Virginia
1949 - Bobby Farrell, Aruban-born performer (d. 2010)
1949 - Leslie Moonves, American businessman (CBS Corporation)
1950 – David Brin, American science fiction writer
1951 1975
1951 – Kevin Cronin, American musician
1951 – Manfred Winkelhock, German auto racing driver (d. 1985)
1951 - Clive Rees, Welsh rugby player
1953 - Claas Bruinsma, Dutch drugs dealer (d. 1991)
1960 - Richard Jobson, Scottish singer and musician
1960 - Yves Leterme, former Prime Minister of Belgium
1961 - Ben Summerskill, English businessman, Chief Executive of the LGBT rights charity Stonewall
1963 - Sven Andersson, Swedish footballer
1963 – Elisabeth Shue, American actress
1964 - Knut Storberget, Norwegian lawyer and politician
1964 - Mark Field, English politician
1966 - Fito Cabrales, Spanish singer, guitarist and composer
1966 – Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
1967 - Attila Ambrus, Hungarian bank robber and ice hockey player
1967 - Kennet Andersson, Swedish footballer
1967 - Svend Carlsen, Norwegian strongman and bodybuilder
1967 - Steven Woolfe, English politician
1969 - Muhammad V of Kelantan, former Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
1969 – Troy Shaw, English snooker player
1970 - Shauna MacDonald, Canadian actress
1971 – Alan Stubbs, English footballer
1972 – Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
1972 - Dominic Andres, Swiss curler
1973 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
1973 - Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player
1974 – Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
1974 - Jeremy Sisto, American actor, producer and screenwriter
1975 - Peter Pellegrini, Slovakian politician, Prime minister of Slovakia
From 1976
1977 – Melinda Doolittle, American singer
1977 - Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer
1977 – Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer
1978 – Ricky Hatton, British boxer
1979 – David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
1981 – Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
1982 – Levon Aronian, Armenian chess player
1982 - William Butler, American musician (Arcade Fire)
1982 - Michael Frater, Jamaican sprinter
1984 - Valerie Adams, New Zealand shot putter
1984 - Joanna Pacitti, American actress and singer
1985 - Mitchell Cole, English footballer (d. 2012)
1985 - Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player
1986 - Olivia Thirlby, American actress
1986 - Mohammed Shukri, Malaysian cricketer
1988 - Stephen Darby, English footballer
1988 - Maki Horikita, Japanese model and actress
1989 - Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014)
1989 - Sophia Thomalla, German actress, presenter and model
1990 - Scarlett Byrne, English actress
1990 - Han Sun-hwa, South Korean singer, dancer and rapper
1990 - Jynx Maze, American pornographic actress
1990 - Jordan Hamilton, American basketball player
1991 - Roshon Fegan, American actor
1993 - Adam Gemili, English athlete
1996 - Sara Takanashi, Japanese ski jumper
1998 - Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer
2000 - Jazz Jennings, American YouTuber, television personality and LGBT activist
2002 - Cleopatra Stratan, Moldovan singer
Deaths
Up to 1900
23 - Wang Mang, Chinese Xin Dynasty Emperor
404 - Aelia Eudoxia, Roman Empress
877 - Charles the Bald, Roman Emperor (b. 823)
1014 - Samuil of Bulgaria (b. 958)
1101 - Bruno of Cologne, German-Italian monk and saint (b. 1037)
1413 - Dawit I of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
1542 – Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
1641 - Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
1644 - Elisabeth of Bourbon, consort of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
1660 - Paul Scarron, French poet and author (b. 1610)
1661 - Guru Har Rai, 7th Sikh Guru (b. 1630)
1688 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
1762 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian baroque composer (b. 1684)
1777 - Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, French author (b. 1699)
1819 - Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (b. 1751)
1829 - Pierre Debigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
1849 - Ludwig Batthyany, Hungarian Prime Minister (b. 1807)
1863 - Frances Trollope, English writer (b. 1779)
1873 – Sir Paul Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
1883 - Duc Duc, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1852)
1891 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
1891 - Charles I of Württemberg (b. 1823)
1892 – Alfred Tennyson, British poet laureate (b. 1809)
1901 2000
1912 – Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman (b. 1829)
1940 - Henry Horner, Governor of Illinois (b. 1878)
1945 - Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
1946 - Per Albin Hansson, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1885)
1951 – Otto Meyerhof, German doctor, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
1951 - Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (b. 1860)
1953 - Vera Mukhina, Russian sculptor (b. 1889)
1956 - Samuel R. McKelvie, Governor of Nebraska (b. 1881)
1962 – Tod Browning, American movie director (b. 1880)
1973 - François Cevert, French racing driver (b. 1944)
1974 - Luther H. Hodges, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1898)
1976 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
1979 - Elizabeth Bishop, American writer (b. 1911)
1980 - Hattie Jacques, British comedy actress (b. 1922)
1980 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
1981 – Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt (assassinated) (b. 1918)
1983 – Terence Cardinal Cooke, tenth bishop (seventh archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York (b. 1921)
1984 - George Gaylord Simpson, American zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1902)
1985 – Nelson Riddle, bandleader (b. 1921)
1988 – Larry Walters, who used 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet in 1982, suicide (b. 1949)
1989 – Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
1992 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
1993 – Agnes de Mille, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1905)
1995 - Benoit Chamoux, French climber (b. 1961)
1999 – Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer (b. 1920)
2000 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1920)
From 2001
2002 – Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
2004 - Yogi Bhajan, Indian spiritual teacher (b. 1929)
2006 - Eduardo Mignogna, Argentine movie director (b. 1940)
2007 - Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1921)
2011 - Diane Cilento, Australian actress (b. 1933)
2012 - Chadli Bendjedid, 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929)
2014 - Igor Mitoraj, Polish sculptor (b. 1944)
2014 - Bill Campbell, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
2014 - Marian Seldes, American actress (b. 1928)
2014 - Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1976)
2015 - Arpad Goncz, former President of Hungary (b. 1922)
2015 - Kevin Corcoran, American actor (b. 1949)
2015 - Billy Joe Royal, American singer (b. 1942)
2015 - Christine Arnothy, French writer (b. 1930)
2017 - Roberto Anzolin, Italian footballer (b. 1938)
2017 - Terry Downes, British boxer and actor (b. 1936)
2017 - Ralphie May, American comedian and actor (b. 1972)
2017 - Darsi Ferrer Ramírez, Cuban journalist and physician (b. 1969)
2017 - Connie Hawkins, American basketball player (b. 1942)
2017 - Toon Geurts, Dutch sprint canoeist (b. 1932)
2018 - Eef Brouwers, Dutch journalist and spokesman (b. 1939)
2018 - Montserrat Caballé, Spanish opera singer (b. 1933)
2018 - Quentin Kenihan, American disability activist (b. 1975)
2018 - Don Sandburg, American actor (b. 1930)
2018 - Scott Wilson, American actor (b. 1942)
2019 - Ginger Baker, English musician (Cream) (b. 1939)
2019 - Yevgeny Bushmin, Russian politician (b. 1958)
2019 - Vlasta Chramostová, Czech actress (b. 1926)
2019 - Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player (b. 1933)
2019 - Martin Lauer, German sprinter (b. 1937)
2019 - Neale Lavis, Australian equestrian (b. 1930)
2019 - Karen Pendleton, American actress (b. 1946)
2019 - David Petel, Iraqi-Israeli politician (b. 1921)
2019 - Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist leader (b. 1924)
2019 - Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (b. 1935)
2020 - Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist (Van Halen) (b. 1955)
Observances
Armed Forces Day (Egypt)
German-American Day
Teacher's Day (Sri Lanka)
October 06 |
9943 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/October%205 | October 5 |
Events
Up to 1900
610 Coronation of Emperor Heraclius of the Byzantine Empire.
1143 King Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a kingdom.
1450 Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
1502 Christopher Columbus names Costa Rica.
1550 The city of Concepcion, Chile is founded.
1582 This day does not exist in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain, as the Gregorian calendar is introduced. In those countries, October 4 is followed by October 15.
1665 The University of Kiel is founded.
1762 British troops occupy Manila, Philippines.
1789 French Revolution: Women in Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI of France about his intention to hold on to the system of feudalism.
1793 French Revolution: Christianity is removed as the official state religion of France.
1813 The Battle of Thames is fought in Canada, in which American forces defeat British ones.
1857 The city of Anaheim, California is founded.
1864 Calcutta, India, is almost completely destroyed by a cyclone, killing 60,000 people.
1869 In weather, the Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy along the maritime provinces of Eastern Canada.
1877 Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to US General Nelson A. Miles.
1895 The first individual time trial for cyclists takes place in London.
1901 2000
1903 Samuel Griffith becomes the first Chief Justice of Australia.
1905 Wilbur Wright pilots the Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stuck until 1908.
1908 Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1910 Portugal becomes a Republic.
1914 World War I: First aerial combat resulting in a death, in international conflict.
1915 Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1921 Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time.
1933 In Germany, the Nazis take total control of the press.
1938 In Germany, under Nazi rule, Jews' passports are declared illegal.
1943 World War II: 98 American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1944 World War II: Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
1944 Women in France are given the right to vote.
1947 The first televised White House address is given by Harry S. Truman.
1948 A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes present-day Turkmenistan, killing over 100,000 people.
1951 The first Mediterranean Games begin in Alexandria, Egypt.
1955 Disneyland Hotel opens in Anaheim, California.
1962 The first James Bond movie, Dr. No, is released.
1962 Love Me Do, the Beatles' first single, is released in the United Kingdom.
1968 Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland, considered to be the beginning of the Troubles.
1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus is first shown on BBC One.
1970 The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
1970 In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, British trade commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the Front de liberation du Quebec, starting the October Crisis.
1973 Signature of the European Patent Convention.
1974 The Guildford pub bombings are carried out by the Provisional IRA, killing 4 British soldiers and 1 civilian.
1984 Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
1986 Israel's secret nuclear weapons are revealed.
1988 The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by the Constituent Assembly.
1989 Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
1991 An Indonesian military transport plane crashes after take-off from Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 137, including two on the ground. Only one on board survives.
1992 Lennart Meri becomes President of Estonia.
1999 The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in West London kills 31 people.
2000 Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to the resignation of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.
From 2001
2001 In baseball, Barry Bonds overtakes Mark McGwire's single-season home run record, hitting his 71st and 72nd home runs of the season respectively.
2004 At 27.25 degrees Celsius, Germany records its warmest October 5th in 125 years.
2011 Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple Inc., dies aged 56, leading to widespread reaction on social media.
2014 Formula One racing driver Jules Bianchi suffers serious injuries in a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix, leading to his death in July 2015.
2017 Allegations of sexual harassment against the film producer Harvey Weinstein are published, starting the #MeToo movement.
2018 Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Births
Up to 1900
1338 Alexios III, Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1390)
1520 Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589)
1640 Françoise-Athenais, marquise de Montespan, mistress to King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
1658 Mary of Modena, Queen of England (d. 1718)
1703 Jonathan Edwards, American theologian (d. 1758)
1712 Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793)
1713 Denis Diderot, French philosopher (d. 1784)
1717 Marie Anne de Mailly, mistress to Louis XV of France (d. 1744)
1743 Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian opera composer (d. 1818)
1781 Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
1789 William Scoresby, British sailor and explorer (d. 1857)
1829 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886)
1844 Francis William van Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
1848 Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
1850 Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (d. 1910)
1858 Helen Churchill Candee, American author and journalist (d. 1929)
1861 Ismael Montes, President of Bolivia (d. 1933)
1862 Wilhelm Solf, German politician and diplomat (d. 1936)
1864 Louis Lumière, French cinema pioneer (d. 1948)
1878 Louise Dresser, American actress (d. 1965)
1879 Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist (d. 1970)
1881 Robert Stangland, American athlete (d. 1953)
1882 Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
1882 Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1982)
1885 Ida Rubinstein, Russian dancer, actress and choreographer (d. 1960)
1887 Max Ackermann, German painter (d. 1975)
1887 René Cassin, French jurist (d. 1976)
1888 Mary Fuller, American actress and comedienne (d. 1973)
1889 Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan novelist (d. 1936)
1892 Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (d. 1969)
1894 Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
1895 Walter Bedell Smith, American general (d. 1961)
1898 Nachum Gutman, Moldovan-Israeli painter and sculptor (d. 1980)
1899 Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1963)
1901 1950
1901 John Alton, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
1902 Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1984)
1905 John Hoyt, American actor (d. 1991)
1908 Joshua Logan, American director and screenwriter (d. 1988)
1911 Brian O'Nolan, Irish writer (d. 1966)
1914 Zhang Zhen, Chinese general (d. 2015)
1916 Stetson Kennedy, American writer (d. 2011)
1919 Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995)
1920 Meliton Kantaria, Soviet-Georgian soldier, raised Soviet Flag on the Reichstag (d. 1993)
1921 Pham Duy, Vietnamese singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1922 José Froilán González, Argentine racing driver (d. 2013)
1922 Jock Stein, Scottish football manager (d. 1985)
1923 Albert Gudmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (d. 1994)
1923 Glynis Johns, British actress
1923 Kailashpati Mishra, Indian politician, Governor of Gujarat (d. 2012)
1924 Bill Dana, American actor
1924 Frederic Morton, Austrian-American writer (d. 2015)
1924 Javid Iqbal, Pakistani judge (d. 2015)
1925 Walter Dale Miller, American politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (d. 2015)
1927 Bruce Millan, Scottish politician (d. 2013)
1929 Robert F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
1930 Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
1930 Reinhard Selten, German economist (d. 2016)
1931 Derek Grierson, Scottish footballer (d. 2011)
1932 Madhav Apte, Indian cricketer (d. 2019)
1932 Neal Ascherson, Scottish journalist and writer
1933 Diane Cilento, Australian actress (d. 2011)
1936 Václav Havel, Czech playwright and former President of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia (d. 2011)
1937 Barry Switzer, American football coach
1938 Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of US Senator John Kerry and part of the family that owns the Heinz ketchup company
1941 Eduardo Duhalde, former President of Argentina
1943 Michael Morpurgo, English writer
1944 Cesare Nosiglia, Italian archbishop
1944 Nils Malmros, Danish movie director and screenwriter
1946 Thomson Allan, Scottish footballer
1946 Robin Lane Fox, English historian and author
1947 Michèle Pierre-Louis, 14th Prime Minister of Haiti
1947 Brian Johnson, English singer-songwriter (AC/DC)
1948 Drew Jarvie, Scottish footballer
1948 Tawl Ross, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
1949 Peter Ackroyd, English author
1949 Klaus Ludwig, German racing driver
1950 Jeff Conaway, American actor (d. 2011)
1950 Eddie Clarke, English guitarist
1951 1975
1951 Bob Geldof, Irish musician and humanitarian activist
1951 Karen Allen, American actress
1951 Willie Donachie, Scottish footballer
1952 Emomalii Rahmon, President of Tajikistan
1952 Vladimir Nevzorov, Russian judoka
1954 Jimmy Hartwig, German footballer and actor
1955 Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter
1955 Caroline Loeb, French actress and singer
1955 Angela Molina, Spanish actress
1957 Lee Thompson, English singer-songwriter and saxophonist
1957 Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (d. 2008)
1958 Antonio Di Gennaro, Italian footballer
1958 André Kuipers, Dutch astronaut
1958 Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author
1960 David Kirk, New Zealand rugby player
1960 Daniel Baldwin, American actor
1960 Careca, Brazilian footballer
1962 Caron Keating, British television personality (d. 2004)
1962 Michael Andretti, American racing driver
1963 Laura Davies, British golfer
1963 Michael Hadschieff, Austrian speed skater
1963 Charlotte Link, German author
1963 Nick Robinson, English journalist
1964 Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor
1965 Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 Inessa Kravets, Ukrainian athlete
1967 Guy Pearce, Australian actor
1967 Rex Chapman, American basketball player and sportscaster
1970 Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, Scottish politician
1971 Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentine footballer
1972 Grant Hill, American basketball player
1974 Alex Walkinshaw, English actor
1975 Kate Winslet, English actress
1975 Parminder Nagra, English actress
1975 Bobo Baldé, Guinean footballer
1975 Monica Rial, American voice actress
From 1976
1976 Song Seung-heon, South Korean actor and singer
1976 Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechnya
1976 Royston Ten, Singaporean director, producer and screenwriter
1977 Konstantin Zyryanov, Russian footballer
1977 Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic artist
1978 James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5)
1979 Vince Grella, Australian footballer
1979 Joe Lipari, American writer, comedian and moviemaker
1980 Paul Thomas, American musician (Good Charlotte)
1980 James Toseland, British motorcycle racer
1981 Zhang Yining, Chinese table tennis player
1981 Joel Lindpere, Estonian footballer
1982 Brandi Williams, American singer-songwriter and actress
1983 Florian Mayer, German tennis player
1983 Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
1983 Nicky Hilton, American heiress of the Hilton Hotel chain
1984 Zlatko Dedic, Slovenian footballer
1984 Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer
1984 Clint Jones, American ski jumper
1985 Nicola Roberts, British singer (Girls Aloud)
1987 Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer
1987 Park So Yeon, South Korean singer
1987 Hadleigh Parkes, New Zealand-Welsh rugby union player
1988 Bahar Kızıl, German singer-songwriter (Monrose)
1988 Sam Warburton, Welsh rugby player
1989 Asmirandah, Indonesian actress, singer, writer and model
1991 Arthur Pic, French racing driver
1992 Kevin Magnussen, Danish racing driver
1992 Mercedes Lambre, Argentine actress and singer
Deaths
Up to 1900
578 Justin II, Byantine Emperor (b. 520)
877 Charles the Bald
1056 Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
1112 Sigebert of Gembloux, French monk, historian and author (b. 1030)
1214 King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
1285 King Philip III of France (b. 1245)
1606 Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
1763 King Augustus III of Poland (b. 1696)
1777 Johann Andreas Segner, Slovakian-German mathematician, physicist and physician (b. 1704)
1791 Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
1805 Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general (b. 1738)
1813 Tecumseh, Native American leader (b. 1768)
1837 Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1783)
1853 Mahlon Dickerson, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1770)
1855 Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer
1861 Kinsley S. Bingham, Governor of Michigan (b. 1808)
1880 Jacques Offenbach, French composer (b. 1819)
1901 2000
1913 Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
1918 Roland Garros, French pilot (b. 1888)
1927 Sam Warner, American movie producer (b. 1887)
1930 Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British Secretary of State for Air (b. 1876)
1933 Renée Adoree, French actress (b. 1898)
1936 J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist, from complications following neglected tuberculosis (b. 1898)
1938 Mary Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun, mystic and saint (b. 1905)
1940 Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer (b. 1899)
1941 Louis Dembitz Brandeis, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1856)
1943 Leon Roppolo, jazz musician (b. 1902)
1957 José Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
1969 Walter Hagen, champion golfer
1976 Lars Onsager, Norwegian physical chemist (b. 1903)
1976 Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929)
1983 Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware (b. 1907)
1983 Humberto Mauro, Brazilian movie director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
1986 Hal B. Wallis, movie producer
1986 James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (b. 1919)
1992 Eddie Kendricks, singer (b. 1939)
1995 Linda Gary, voice actor (b. 1944)
1996 Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer (b. 1926)
From 2001
2002 Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
2003 Denis Quilley, British actor (b. 1927)
2003 Dan Snyder, Atlanta Thrashers ice hockey player (b. 1978)
2004 Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
2004 Maurice Wilkins, DNA pioneer (b. 1916)
2007 Walter Kempowski, German writer (b. 1929)
2007 Justin Tuveri, Italian World War I veteran (b. 1898)
2009 Giselher Klebe, German composer (b. 1925)
2009 Israel Gelfand, Soviet-born American mathematician (b. 1913)
2010 Bernard Clavel, French writer (b. 1923)
2011 Bert Jansch, Scottish musician (b. 1943)
2011 Steve Jobs, American computer entrepreneur and innovator, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. (b. 1955)
2011 Charles Napier, American actor (b. 1936)
2012 Claude Pinoteau, French movie director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2013 Carlo Lizzani, Italian actor and movie director (b. 1922)
2014 Yuri Lyubimov, Russian stage actor and director (b. 1917)
2014 Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver (b. 1959)
2014 Anna Przybylska, Polish actress (b. 1978)
2014 Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian actor, director, artist and dancer (b. 1930)
2014 Anna Maria Gherardi, Italian actress (b. 1939)
2014 Misty Upham, American actress (b. 1982)
2015 Henning Mankell, Swedish writer (b. 1948)
2015 Jos Vandeloo, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1925)
2015 Grace Lee Boggs, American writer and activist (b. 1915)
2015 Chantal Akerman, Belgian movie director and artist (b. 1950)
2015 Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (b. 1938)
2016 Georges Balandier, French sociologist, ethnologist and anthropologist (b. 1920)
2016 Michal Kovac, 1st President of Slovakia (b. 1930)
2016 Josh Samman, American mixed martial artist (b. 1988)
2017 Toon Geurts, Dutch sprint canoeist (b. 1932)
2017 Eberhard van der Laan, Dutch politician (b. 1955)
2017 Giorgio Pressburger, Hungarian-Italian writer (b. 1937)
2017 Anne Wiazemsky, French actress and novelist (b. 1947)
2017 Sylke Tempel, German journalist and novelist (b. 1963)
2018 Jimmy Duquennoy, Belgian cyclist (b. 1995)
2018 Ray Galton, English screenwriter (b. 1930)
2018 Ivar Odnes, Norwegian politician (b. 1963)
2018 Víctor Pey, Spanish-Chilean engineer and political activist (b. 1915)
2019 Andy Etcheburren, American baseball player (b. 1943)
2019 Marcello Giordani, Italian tenor (b. 1963)
2019 David Greaves, English snooker player (b. 1946)
2019 Henry Keizer, Dutch politician and businessman (b. 1960)
2019 Blaine Lindgren, American sprinter (b. 1939)
2019 Margaret Lyons, Canadian radio executive (b. 1923)
2019 Philippe Vandevelde, Belgian comic writer (b. 1957)
Observances
Republic Day (Portugal)
International Teachers' Day (UNESCO)
Teachers' Day (Pakistan, Russia)
Armed Forces Day (Indonesia)
Constitution Day (Vanuatu)
Stara Zagora (Bulgaria)
October 05 |
9944 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/October%203 | October 3 |
Events
Up to 1900
2333 BC Famous date of the establishment of the Kingdom of Chosun (Korea).
52 BC Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
42 BC First Battle of Philippi: The Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius. Even though Brutus defeats Octavian, Antony defeats Cassius.
382 Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military service.
1283 Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by drawing and quartering.
1574 The Siege of Leiden lifted by the Watergeuzen – foundation of the first Dutch university.
1683 The Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan.
1712 The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
1739 The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.
1762 Catherine II of Russia is crowned.
1778 Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
1789 George Washington names the first Thanksgiving Day.
1835 The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany.
1849 American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious (a terribly confused state of mind) in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances.
1863 Thanksgiving Day declared as the last Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.
1866 American passenger steamer Evening Star sinks in hurricane-force winds, 180 nautical miles off Tybee Island, Georgia, US, killing 148 people.
1884 In Denmark, Christiansborg Castle is destroyed by fire.
1901 2000
1904 The Nama War begins as Namibian independence activist Hendrik Witbooi declares war on the colonial power, Germany.
1918 Boris III of Bulgaria becomes King.
1919 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Hispanic American baseball player in the World Series.
1929 The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
1932 Iraq gets its independence.
1935 Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio).
1942 First successful launch of A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. The rocket flew 147 kilometres wide and got to a height of 84.5 kilometres and was the first man-made object reaching space.
1949 WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta, Georgia.
1950 Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against Communist China, begins.
1951 New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4, winning the National League pennant, with Bobby Thomson's three-run homer called "The Shot Heard 'Round the World".
1952 The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.
1955 The Mickey Mouse Club is first shown on the American Broadcasting Company.
1957 Willy Brandt, future-German Chancellor, is elected as Governing Mayor of West Berlin, after the death of Otto Suhr.
1960 The Andy Griffith Show starts.
1961 The Dick Van Dyke Show is first shown on CBS-TV.
1962 At Cape Canaveral the Mercury 8 takes off with Astronaut Wally Schirra on it for a nine-hour flight.
1963 A violent coup in Honduras starts two decades of military rule.
1964 Underdog debuts on CBS.
1965 Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Immigration and Naturalization Service Act of 1965 into law, making immigration rules easier for people coming to the United States.
1969 Berlin's television tower opens.
1974 Peru is struck by an earthquake, killing 83 people.
1981 The Hunger Strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in Belfast ends after seven months and 10 deaths.
1982 Changtse mountain in Tibet is climbed for the first time, by Dutch climber Johan Taks.
1985 The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its first flight.
1990 German reunification: East Germany ends, after merging with the Federal Republic of Germany and joining the European Economic Community.
1993 Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organization in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Army Rangers and about 2000 Somalis are killed. US forces withdraw from Somalia soon after.
1995 O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
1997 The first cloned rodent, a mouse named Cumulina, is born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
From 2001
2004 The Montreal Expos play their last Major League Baseball game before the franchise is moved to Washington, D.C..
2005 The EU starts entry negotiations with Turkey and Croatia.
2010 In Delhi, India, the 2010 Commonwealth Games begin.
2011 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is given to Bruce Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman. Unknown to the Nobel Committee, Steinman had died three days earlier and becomes only the third-ever posthumous (after death) Nobel laureate in history, as of the announcement date.
2011 Helle Thorning-Schmidt becomes Prime Minister of Denmark.
2013 A boat travelling from North Africa, carrying migrants from the East African countries of Eritrea and Somalia, catches fire and sinks off the Italian Mediterranean Sea island of Lampedusa, killing 134 people, with many more feared dead.
2013 The Gambia withdraws from the Commonwealth, through a decision made by its President, Yahya Jammeh.
2015 At least 42 people are killed in an airstrike on a hospital, operated by Médecins Sans Frontières, in the Kunduz region of Afghanistan.
2017 Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss win the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of gravitational waves.
Births
Up to 1850
85 BC Gaius Cassius Longinus, Roman senator (d. 42 BC)
1458 Saint Casimir, Polish prince (d. 1484)
1610 Gabriel Lalemant, French-Canadian missionary (d. 1649)
1713 Antoine Dauvergne, French composer and violinist (d. 1797)
1716 Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
1720 Johann Peter Uz, German poet (d. 1796)
1722 Johann Heinrich Tischbein, German painter (d. 1789)
1784 Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, German explorer of Kamchatka, Russia (d. 1863)
1789 Henry Pottinger, Irish-British soldier and colonial officer (d. 1856)
1792 Francisco Morazán, Central American political leader and statesman (d. 1842)
1797 Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
1800 George Bancroft, American politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1891)
1804 Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism or Kardecism (d. 1869)
1804 Townsend Harris, American merchant, politician and diplomat (d. 1878)
1806 Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850)
1828 Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (d. 1897)
1837 Nicolás Avellaneda, President of Argentina (d. 1885)
1844 Patrick Manson, Scottish physician (d. 1922)
1848 Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929)
1851 1900
1853 Stephan G. Stephansson, Western Icelandic farmer and poet (d. 1927)
1854 Hermann von Struve, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1920)
1858 Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
1862 Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (d. 1902)
1862 Andrew J. Montague, Governor of Virginia (d. 1937)
1868 Francisco Vidal y Barraquer, Spanish cardinal (d. 1943)
1869 Alfred Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1942)
1873 Emily Post, American etiquette advisor (d. 1960)
1873 Ivan Shmelyov, Russian writer (d. 1950)
1875 Dr. Atl, Mexican painter and writer (d. 1964)
1877 William L. Harding, Governor of Iowa (d. 1934)
1879 Warner Oland, Swedish-American actor (d. 1938)
1885 Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (d. 1970)
1886 Alain-Fournier, French novelist (d. 1914)
1889 Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist, writer and pacifist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
1890 Emilio Portes Gil, 41st President of Mexico (d. 1978)
1893 King Carol III of Romania (d. 1953)
1894 Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)
1894 Walter Warlimont, German general (d. 1976)
1895 Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
1895 Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (d. 1969)
1896 Gerardo Diego, Spanish writer and poet (d. 1987)
1897 Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982)
1898 Leo McCarey, American movie director (d. 1969)
1899 Gertrude Berg, American actress (d. 1966)
1900 Thomas Wolfe, American writer (d. 1938)
1901 1950
1904 Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist (d. 1989)
1905 Fuller Warren, 30th Governor of Florida (d. 1973)
1905 Tekin Ariburun, Turkish politician (d. 1993)
1916 James Herriot, British veterinarian and writer (d. 1995)
1916 Russell W. Peterson, Governor of Delaware (d. 2011)
1919 Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004)
1919 James M. Buchanan, American economist (d. 2013)
1920 Philippa Foot, British philosopher (d. 2010)
1923 Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
1924 Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter
1925 George Wein, American pianist and producer
1925 Gore Vidal, American writer (d. 2012)
1927 Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian artist (d. 2013)
1928 Sonny Ramphal, 2nd Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations
1931 Glenn Hall, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL goaltender
1933 Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player
1934 Jerry Apodaca, former Governor of New Mexico
1934 Miguel-Angel Cardenas, Colombian painter and photographer (d. 2015)
1935 Charles Duke, American general, pilot and astronaut
1936 Viktor Kanevskyi, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2018)
1936 Steve Reich, American composer
1938 Eddie Cochran, American singer (d. 1960)
1938 Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, former President of Peru
1940 Sheila Fearn, British actress
1941 Chubby Checker, American popular musician
1941 Andrea de Adamich, Italian racing driver and sportscaster
1942 Roberto Perfumo, Argentine footballer (d. 2016)
1944 Bob Riley, American politician, former Governor of Alabama
1944 Roy Horn, German-born entertainer (Siegfried & Roy) (d. 2020)
1944 Harry Hood, Scottish footballer (d. 2019)
1944 Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician
1946 P. P. Arnold, American soul singer
1947 John Perry Barlow, American musician (d. 2018)
1947 Hopeton Lewis, Jamaican musician (d. 2014)
1947 Fred DeLuca, American businessman (d. 2015)
1949 J. P. Dutta, Indian director
1949 Lindsey Buckingham, American musician (Fleetwood Mac)
1950 Pamela Hensley, actress
1950 John Curulewski, American guitarist (Styx) (d. 1988)
1951 1975
1951 Keb' Mo', American blues singer
1951 Dave Winfield, American Baseball Hall of Famer
1953 Bever-Leigh Banfield, American actress
1954 Dennis Eckersley, American Baseball Hall of Famer
1954 Al Sharpton, American minister, politician and activist
1954 Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (d. 1990)
1956 Hart Bochner, Canadian actor, screenwriter and producer
1957 Robert Azevedo, Brazilian diplomat, 6th Director of the World Trade Organization
1958 Louise Lecavalier, Canadian dancer
1958 Chen Yanyin, Chinese sculptor
1959 Fred Couples, American golfer
1959 Greg Proops, American actor, stand-up comedian, voice artist and television host
1962 Tommy Lee, American rock musician
1964 Clive Owen, English actor
1965 Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
1969 Gwen Stefani, American singer, No Doubt frontwoman
1971 Kevin Richardson, American musician and singer (Backstreet Boys)
1972 Komla Dumor, Ghanaian journalist (d. 2014)
1973 Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
1973 Lena Headey, British actress
1975 India.Arie, American singer
From 1976
1976 Seann William Scott, American actor
1978 Christian Coulson, English actor
1978 Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
1978 Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
1978 Jake Shears, American singer (Scissor Sisters)
1978 Vienna Teng, American pianist and singer-songwriter
1979 Josh Klinghoffer, American musician (Red Hot Chilli Peppers)
1979 Danny O'Donoghue, Irish singer (The Script)
1980 Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (d. 2013)
1981 Florian Keller, German field hockey player
1981 Seth Gabel, American actor
1981 Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Swedish footballer
1981 Andreas Isaksson, Swedish footballer
1983 Frederico Chaves Guedes, Brazilian footballer
1984 Ashlee Simpson, American actress and singer
1984 Bruno Gervais, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 Courtney Lee, American basketball player
1986 Jackson Martínez, Colombian footballer
1987 Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican model and actress
1987 Robert Grabarz, English high jumper
1987 Danny Willett, English golfer
1988 Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress
1988 ASAP Rocky, American rapper
1990 Daria Shkurikhina, Russian rhythmic gymnast
1991 Aki Takajo, Japanese singer (AKB48)
1994 Charlie Wernham, English comedian and actor
1996 Adair Tishler, American actress and singer
1996 Kalechi Iheanacho, Nigerian footballer
1997 Juri Takahashi, Japanese idol and singer (AKB48)
1999 Aramis Knight, American actor
2004 Noah Schnapp, American actor
Deaths
Up to 1900
42 BC Gaius Cassius Longinus
1078 Iziaslav I of Kiev (b. 1024)
1226 Saint Francis of Assisi (b. c. 1182)
1283 David ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, executed
1369 Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
1568 Elizabeth of Valois, Queen of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
1611 Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain (b. 1584)
1629 Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (b. 1570)
1838 Black Hawk, Sauk-American tribal leader (b. 1767)
1860 Rembrandt Peale, American painter (b. 1778)
1867 Elias Howe, American inventor (b. 1819)
1873 Captain Jack, Modoc tribal leader
1877 James Roosevelt Barley, American archbishop (b. 1814)
1881 Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811)
1890 Joseph Hergenröther German church historian (b. 1824)
1891 Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
1896 William Morris, British artist and designer (b. 1834)
1897 Saint Therese of Liseaux (b. 1873)
1901 2000
1929 Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1878)
1931 Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865)
1932 Max Wolf, German astronomer (b. 1863)
1936 John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
1939 Fay Templeton, American actress & singer in musical comedy (b. 1865)
1953 Arnold Bax, composer (b. 1883)
1959 Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1892)
1965 Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
1967 Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (b. 1912)
1967 Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
1967 Pinto Colvig, American actor and animator (b. 1892)
1969 Skip James, American blues musician (b. 1902)
1979 Nicos Poulantzas, Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1936)
1987 Jean Anouilh, French writer (b. 1910)
1987 Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947)
1988 Franz Josef Strauß, Bavarian politician (b. 1915)
1990 General Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force officer, candidate for Vice President of the United States (b. 1906)
1990 Stefano Casiraghi, Italian businessman, married into Monegasque royalty (b. 1960)
1994 Heinz Rühmann, German actor (b. 1920)
1997 Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian politician (b. 1908)
1998 Roddy McDowall, British actor (b. 1928)
1999 Akio Morita, Japanese co-founder of Sony (b. 1921)
2000 Benjamin Orr, bassist and part-time lead singer for The Cars (b. 1947)
From 2001
2002 Bruce Paltrow, American television and movie producer (b. 1943)
2003 William Steig, American cartoonist and children's writer; creator of Shrek (b. 1907)
2004 Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)
2005 Ronnie Barker, British actor and comedian (b. 1929)
2009 Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (b. 1921)
2009 Fatima El-Sharif, former Queen of Libya (b. 1911)
2010 Philippa Foot, British philosopher (b. 1920)
2013 Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player (b. 1944)
2014 Jean-Jacques Marcel, French footballer (b. 1931)
2014 Peer Augustinski, German actor (b. 1940)
2014 Ewen Gilmour, New Zealand comedian (b. 1963)
2014 Alan Henning, English aid worker (b. 1967)
2014 Ward Ruyslinck, Belgian writer (b. 1929)
2014 Kevin Metheny, American radio executive (b. 1954)
2015 Javid Iqbal, Pakistani judge (b. 1924)
2015 Denis Healey, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1917)
2017 Rodney Bickerstaffe, English trade unionist (b. 1945)
2017 Michel Jouvet, French oneirologist and neurobiologist (b. 1926)
2017 Chittani Ramachandra Hegde, Indian artist and dancer (b. 1933)
2017 Jalal Talabani, Iraqi Kurdish politician, President of Iraq (b. 1933)
2017 Ming Chang, Chinese-American naval officer (b. 1932)
2017 John Herrnstein, American baseball player (b. 1938)
2017 Isabella Karle, American scientist (b. 1921)
2017 Victorino Martín, Spanish cattle rancher (b. 1929)
2018 Elisabeth Andersen, Dutch actress (b. 1920)
2018 Julien Bogaert, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1924)
2018 Roger Gibbs, British financier (b. 1934)
2018 Joseph Kamaru, Kenyan musician and political activist (b. 1938)
2018 Leon M. Lederman, American physicist (b. 1922)
2018 Bent Lorentzen, Danish composer (b. 1935)
2018 Hollie Pihl, American judge (b. 1928)
2019 John Buchanan, Canadian politician, Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1931)
2019 Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Portuguese politician, former Interim Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1941)
2019 Hu Yamei, Chinese physician and medical researcher (b. 1923)
2019 Ignacio Noguer Carmona, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1931)
2019 Alberto Testa, Italian dancer and choreographer (b. 1922)
Observances
Unity Day (Germany), marking the German reunification of 1990.
Foundation Day (South Korea).
National Day (Iraq).
Soldiers' Day (Honduras).
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Events
Up to 1900
331 BC Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
959 Edgar the Peaceable becomes King of all England.
1553 Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
1787 Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1791 First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1795 Belgium is conquered by France.
1800 Spain cedes Louisiana to France.
1811 The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans.
1814 Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to re-draw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte the previous Spring.
1827 Russo-Persian War: The Russian Army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
1829 The South African College is founded in Cape Town. It will later split into the University of Cape Town and the South African Colleges.
1843 British tabloid newspaper, the News of the World, begins publication. It ends publication in 2011 due to a major scandal.
1847 German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds the Siemens AG and Halske.
1869 The world's first postcards are issued in Austria.
1880 John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the US Marine Band.
1880 The first electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1884 Denmark's Politiken newspaper is founded.
1887 Balochistan, in present-day Pakistan, is conquered by the British Empire.
1889 The Japanese city of Nagoya is founded.
1890 The Yosemite National Park is established by the United States Congress.
1891 Stanford University opens in California.
1901 1950
1903 Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1908 Ford puts a Model-T car on the market for the first time.
1910 A bomb destroys The Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21 people.
1928 The Soviet Union introduces its first Five-Year Plan.
1931 The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey to New York opens.
1931 Spain gives women the right to vote.
1936 Francisco Franco becomes head of the Nationalist Government of Spain.
1937 The Japanese city of Handa is founded in Aichi prefecture.
1938 Germany takes control of the Sudetenland in the present-day Czech Republic.
1939 World War II: Nazi forces enter Warsaw, Poland, after a one-month siege.
1943 World War II: Naples, Italy falls to the Allies.
1946 The Nuremberg Trials of leading Nazis conclude.
1946 Mensa International is founded in the UK.
1949 Mao Zedong and 300,000 others come to Tiananmen Square to celebrate the Sept.21 creation of the People's Republic of China; within a few months, this celebration becomes the basis for a new National Day.
1951 2000
1957 First appearance of In God We Trust on US paper currency.
1958 NASA is created to replace NACA.
1960 Nigeria becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1961 British and French Cameroon (independent since 1960) merge.
1962 First transmission of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
1964 Tōkaidō Shinkansen is opened (Tokyo – Shin-Osaka).
1965 General Suharto rises to power in a coup in Indonesia. Seven military officers are executed in the early hours of the morning.
1966 West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with 18 fatalities and no survivors near Wemme, Oregon.
1968 Guyana moves towards independent broadcasting, when its government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service.
1969 After Tupolev Tu-144, Concorde becomes the second aircraft type to break the sound barrier.
1971 Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida.
1975 In the Thrilla in Manila, Muhammad Ali defends his world heavyweight boxing title against Joe Frazier.
1975 The Seychelles gain self government; The islands become independent on June 29, 1976.
1975 The Ellice Islands split from the Gilbert Islands (present-day Kiribati) and change their name to Tuvalu.
1977 Brazilian footballer Pele ends his playing career.
1978 Tuvalu becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1979 Pope John Paul II visits the United States.
1979 The United States hands over control of the Panama Canal to Panama, though the full transfer of control occurs at the end of 1999.
1982 Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany.
1985 Israel's Air Force bombs Palestinian Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia.
1988 Singles' Tennis: Steffi Graf wins the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, having already won all Grand Slam tournaments of the year, becoming the first, and so far only, winner of a 'Golden Slam' in tennis.
1989 Denmark introduces the world's first same-sex civil union, or Registered Partnership.
1991 Balkan War: The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
1992 The children's television channel Cartoon Network begins transmission.
1994 Palau becomes independent from a UN trusteeship administered by the US.
1995 An earthquake strikes Dinar, Turkey, killing 100 people.
2000 The 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, end.
From 2001
2001 Militants attack the state legislature building in Srinagar, Kashmir, killing 38 people.
2005 Bali is devastated by a terrorist attack, in which 26 people are killed after bombs explode.
2009 The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
2012 A ferry collision in Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures over 100.
2013 The United States Government temporarily shuts down after failing to agree on a budget.
2014 Jens Stoltenberg becomes Secretary-General of NATO.
2017 Same-sex marriages take place in Germany for the first time.
2017 A ban on face covering in public places enters into force in Austria.
2017 Catalonia holds a disputed referendum on whether or not to become independent from Spain.
2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting: Stephen Paddock carries out the deadliest shooting by a single gunman in recent US history in Las Vegas when he fires shots from two windows of his 32nd floor room on the Mandalay Bay Hotel onto a crowd in a country music festival, killing 59 people and wounding more than 500.
Births
Up to 1800
86 BC Sallust, Roman historian (d. 35 BC)
208 Alexander Severus, Roman Emperor (d. 235)
1207 King Henry III of England (d. 1272)
1348 Isabella, Countess of Vertus, French princess (d. 1373)
1471 King Frederick I of Denmark (d. 1533)
1507 Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (d. 1573)
1540 Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1617)
1541 El Greco, Greek-Spanish painter, sculptor and architect (d. 1614)
1577 Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar and saint (d. 1622)
1620 Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (d. 1683)
1644 Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d. 1682)
1671 Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (d. 1742)
1685 Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1740)
1691 Arthur Onslow, English politician (d. 1768)
1724 Giovanni Battista Cirri, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1808)
1729 Anton Cajetan Adlgasser, German organist and composer (d. 1777)
1730 Richard Stockton, American attorney, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1781)
1754 Tsar Paul I of Russia (d. 1801)
1760 William Thomas Beckford, English writer and politician (d. 1844)
1771 Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (d. 1842)
1791 Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (d. 1859)
1794 Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt (d. 1871)
1800 Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish botanist and Christian missionary to Lapland (d. 1861)
1801 1900
1808 Mary Anna Custis Lee, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (d. 1873)
1821 Benjamin T. Biggs, American politician and Governor of Delaware (d. 1893)
1832 Caroline Harrison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1892)
1835 Adam Politzer, Austro-Hungarian physician (d. 1920)
1842 Charles Clos, French poet and inventor (d. 1888)
1846 Nectarios de Aegina, Greek saint (d. 1920)
1847 Annie Besant, English-Indian activist and author (d. 1933)
1850 David R. Francis, American politician and diplomat, Governor of Missouri and Ambassador to Russia (d. 1927)
1865 Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
1872 Henry H. Blood, Governor of Utah (d. 1942)
1878 Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)
1881 William Boeing, American engineer (d. 1956)
1885 Louis Untermeyer, American writer (d. 1977)
1890 Stanley Holloway, British actor (d. 1982)
1890 Alice Joyce, American actress (d. 1955)
1893 Yip Man, Chinese martial artist (d. 1972)
1894 Edgar Krahn, Estonian mathematician (d. 1961)
1896 Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1951)
1896 Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
1900 Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
1901 1950
1903 Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-born pianist (d. 1989)
1904 Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)
1904 A. K. Goppalan, Indian politician (d. 1977)
1905 José Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1957)
1905 Alfons Goppel, German politician, Prime Minister of Bavaria (d. 1991)
1906 Sachin Dev Burman, Indian composer and singer (d. 1975)
1907 Maurice Bardèche, French journalist, author and critic (d. 1998)
1909 Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
1910 Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde) (d. 1934)
1911 Heinrich Mark, Estonian politician (d. 2004)
1912 Kathleen Ollerenshaw, British mathematician and politician (d. 2014)
1914 Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
1914 Marvin Gay, Sr., father of Marvin Gaye (d. 1998)
1915 Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (d. 2016)
1917 Cahal Daly, Irish archbishop (d. 2009)
1920 Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
1921 James Whitmore, American actor (d. 2009)
1922 Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-American physicist
1922 Kim Ki-young, South Korean movie director (d. 1998)
1924 Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1924 William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005)
1924 Bob Geigel, American wrestling promoter (d. 2014)
1924 Leonie Kramer, Australian academic (d. 2016)
1925 Bob Boyd, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1925 Benno Pludra, German writer (d. 2014)
1927 Tom Bosley, American actor (d. 2010)
1927 Sandy Gall, Scottish journalist and writer
1927 Márta Kurtág, Hungarian pianist (d. 2019)
1928 Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (d. 1973)
1928 George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
1928 Zhu Rongji, Chinese politician
1930 Sir Richard Harris, Irish actor (d. 2002)
1930 Philippe Noiret, French actor (d. 2006)
1930 Frank Gardner, Australian Formula One driver (d. 2009)
1930 Naimatullah Khan, Pakistani politician
1931 Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer
1932 Albert Collins, American blues guitarist (d. 1993)
1932 Manuel Busto, French cyclist (d. 2017)
1934 Emilio Botín, Spanish businessman (d. 2014)
1935 Julie Andrews, British actress and singer
1935 Walter De Maria, American sculptor (d. 2013)
1935 Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorean singer (d. 1978)
1936 Duncan Edwards, English footballer (d. 1958)
1938 Stella Stevens, American actress
1938 Mary McFadden, American fashion designer and writer
1939 George Archer, American golfer (d. 2005)
1942 Günter Wallraff, German writer and journalist
1942 David Stancliffe, 77th Bishop of Salisbury, England
1943 Jean-Jacques Annaud, French director
1945 Rod Carew, Panamanian baseball player
1945 Ram Nath Kovind, Indian politician, President of India
1946 Dave Holland, British jazz musician and composer
1947 Dave Arneson, American game creator (d. 2009)
1947 Stephen Collins, American actor
1947 Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1948 Cub Koda, American singer (d. 2000)
1949 Isaac Bonewits, American writer (d. 2010)
1949 André Rieu, Dutch violinist, conductor and composer
1949 Sheila Gilmore, Scottish politician
1950 Boris Morukov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2015)
1950 Randy Quaid, American actor
1950 Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, English neuroscientist, academic and politician
1951 1975
1952 Jacques Martin, Canadian ice hockey coach
1953 Klaus Wowereit, German politician, former Governing Mayor of Berlin
1953 Grete Waitz, Norwegian marathon runner (d. 2011)
1954 Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer
1955 Jeff Reardon, American baseball player
1955 Morten Gunnar Larsen, Norwegian pianist
1956 Andrus Ansip, former Prime Minister of Estonia
1956 Theresa May, British politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1959 Youssou N'Dour, Senegalese singer, musician, composer and politician
1961 Walter Mazzarri, Italian footballer
1961 Gary Ablett, Sr., Australian footballer
1962 Attaphol Buspakom, Thai footballer and coach (d. 2015)
1962 Nico Claesen, Belgian footballer
1962 Esai Morales, American actor
1963 Mark McGwire, American baseball player
1964 Harry Hill, British comedian
1964 Max Matsuura, Japanese singer-songwriter
1964 Jonathan Sarfati, Australian-born chess player, scientist, and writer
1964 Christopher Titus, American actor, producer and screenwriter
1965 Andreas Keller, German field hockey player
1966 George Weah, Liberian footballer and politician, President of Liberia
1967 Scott Young, American ice hockey player
1968 Jon Guenther, American writer
1968 Phil de Glanville, English rugby player
1969 Marcus Stephen, Nauruan weightlifter and politician, former President of Nauru
1969 Igor Ulanov, Russian ice hockey player
1969 Zach Galifianakis, American actor, comedian, producer and screenwriter
1969 Simone Stelzer, Austrian singer
1974 Mats Lindgren, Swedish ice hockey player
1974 Keith Duffy, Irish singer (Boyzone) and actor
1975 Chulpan Khamatova, Russian actress
From 1976
1976 Umit Karan, Turkish footballer
1977 Jeffrey van Hooydonk, Belgian racing driver
1979 Rudi Johnson, American football player
1981 Júlio Baptista, Brazilian footballer
1981 Rupert Friend, English actor, producer and screenwriter
1982 Haruna Babangida, Nigerian footballer
1983 Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (d. 2006)
1983 Mirko Vucinic, Montenegrin footballer
1984 Daniel Guillén, Spanish footballer
1984 Mónica Spear, Venezuelan model (d. 2014)
1985 Nazimuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi cricketer
1986 Ricardo Vaz Te, Portuguese footballer
1986 Matthew Gonzalez, American figure skater
1986 Daniela Katzenberger, German model and television personality
1986 Sayaka Kanda, Japanese actress and singer
1987 Hiroki Aiba, Japanese actor and singer
1988 Cariba Heine, South African-Australian actress
1989 Brie Larson, American actress and singer
1990 Charlie McDonnell, English blogger
1998 Danika Yarosh, American actress
Deaths
Up to 1900
686 Emperor Temmu of Japan (b. 631)
959 King Edwy of England (b. 941)
1040 Alan III, Duke of Brittany (b. 997)
1310 Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon (b. 1257)
1404 Pope Boniface IX (b. 1356)
1499 Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (b. 1433)
1567 Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (b. 1508)
1578 John of Austria (b. 1547)
1588 Edward James, English priest and martyr (b. 1557)
1609 Giammatteo Asola, Italian composer (b. 1532)
1684 Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (b. 1606)
1708 John Blow, English composer (b. 1649)
1768 Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (b. 1687)
1837 Robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777)
1864 Juan José Flores, 1st President of Ecuador (b. 1800)
1868 Mongkut, King of Siam, present-day Thailand (b. 1804)
1878 Midon Min, King of Burma (b. 1808)
1895 John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (b. 1799)
1901 2000
1901 Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan amir (b. 1844)
1913 Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1827)
1919 Princess Charlotte of Prussia (b. 1860)
1929 Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter (b. 1861)
1942 Ants Piip, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1884)
1950 Faik Ali Ozansoy, Turkish politician, poet and critic (b. 1876)
1952 John Langenus, Belgian football referee (b. 1891)
1955 Charles Christie, American movie producer (b. 1880)
1957 Abdülhalik Renda, Turkish civil servant and politician (b. 1881)
1959 Enrico de Nicola, first President of Italy (b. 1877)
1960 Giuseppe Fietta, Italian cardinal (b. 1883)
1968 Romano Guardini, Italian priest, theologian and philosopher (b. 1885)
1972 Louis Leakey, British-Kenyan palaeontologist (b. 1903)
1985 E. B. White, American writer (b. 1899)
1992 Petra Kelly, German politician (b. 1947)
1992 Gert Bastian, German politician (b. 1923)
1994 Paul Lorenzen, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1915)
1996 Pat McGeown, Provisional IRA member (b. 1956)
1999 Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer (b. 1963)
2000 Reginald Cray, English gangster (b. 1933)
From 2001
2002 Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (b. 1908)
2004 Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
2007 Ronnie Hazlehurst, English conductor and theme song composer (b. 1928)
2007 Al Oerter, American athlete (b. 1936)
2009 Kazumi Takada, Japanese footballer (b. 1951)
2011 Sven Tumba, Swedish ice hockey player, golfer and footballer (b. 1931)
2011 David Bedford, British composer (b. 1937)
2012 Eric Hobsbawm, British historian and writer (b. 1917)
2012 Dirk Bach, German actor, television presenter and comedian (b. 1961)
2012 Moshe Sanbar, Israeli economist (b. 1926)
2013 Peter Broadbent, English footballer (b. 1933)
2013 Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor (b. 1938)
2013 Tom Clancy, American writer (b. 1947)
2013 Israel Gutman, Israeli historian (b. 1923)
2014 Shlomo Lahat, Israeli general and politician (b. 1927)
2014 Lynsey de Paul, English singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
2015 Hadi Norouzi, Iranian footballer (b. 1985)
2015 Don Edwards, American politician (b. 1915)
2015 Jacob Pressman, American rabbi (b. 1919)
2015 Joe Wark, Scottish footballer (b. 1947)
2015 Max Keeping, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1942)
2017 Hansje Bunschoten, Dutch swimmer and television presenter (b. 1958)
2017 Robert D. Hales, American religious leader (b. 1932)
2017 Arthur Janov, American psychologist and author (b. 1924)
2017 Edmond Maire, French labour union leader and activist (b. 1931)
2017 Larissa Volpert, Russian-Estonian philologist and chess player (b. 1926)
2017 Edward B. Giller, American Major General (b. 1918)
2017 Andy Hopkins, American football player (b. 1941)
2017 Philippe Rahmy, Swiss poet and writer (b. 1965)
2017 Stephen Paddock, American accountant and mass murderer (b. 1953)
2018 Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer, actor and diplomat (b. 1924)
2018 Stelvio Cipriani, Italian composer (b. 1937)
2018 Carlos Ezquerra, Spanish comic artist (b. 1947)
2018 Jerry González, American bandleader and trumpeter (b. 1949)
2018 Do Muoi, Vietnamese politician (b. 1917)
2018 Graciano Rocchigiani, German boxer (b. 1963)
2018 Franco Sar, Italian decathlete (b. 1933)
2018 Antoine Sfeir, Lebanese journalist and professor (b. 1948)
2019 Joseph Bismuth, Tunisian businessman (b. 1926)
2019 Cain Hope Felder, American theologian and writer (b. 1943)
2019 Karel Gott, Czech singer (b. 1939)
2019 Miguel León-Portilla, Mexican anthropologist and historian (b. 1926)
2019 C. K. Menon, Indian businessman and politician (b. 1949)
2019 Eric Pleskow, Austrian-born American film producer (b. 1924)
2019 Peter Sissons, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1942)
2019 Arto Tchakmaktchian, Egyptian-born Armenian-Canadian sculptor and painter (b. 1933)
Observances
National Day (China, Cyprus, Tuvalu, and Palau)
Independence Day (Nigeria)
Unification Day (Cameroon)
Teacher's Day (Uzbekistan)
Armed Forces Day (South Korea)
International Day of Older Persons
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Events
Up to 1900
44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
31 BC – Roman Civil War: Battle of Actium – Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
1192 - The Third Crusade ends, after a peace agreement Sultan Saladin and Richard I of England.
1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral.
1667 - Street lighting is introduced in Paris.
1752 – The United Kingdom adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
1789 – United States Department of the Treasury was founded.
1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughtered three Roman Catholic Church bishops and more than two hundred priests.
1806 - A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457 people.
1807 – British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to stop Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon. 70% of the city was destroyed and 2000 citizens were killed.
1811 - The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, named after King Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.
1859 - A solar super storm affects the electrical telegraph service.
1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run.
1864 – American Civil War: Union forces under General William T. Sherman enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city.
1867 – Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan marries Ichijo Masako. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces defeat the French armies and take emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner at Sedan.
1885 – In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1898 – Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan.
1901 2000
1901 – Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
1935 – Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hit the Florida Keys killing 423.
1939 – Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) ruled by Nazi leader Forster is annexed to Nazi Germany.
1944 – Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz. They arrive three days later.
1945 – World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
1945 – Vietnam declares its independence forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
1946 - A caretaker government is formed in India, with Jawaharlal Nehru taking Prime Ministerial powers.
1957 - South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem makes the first-ever state visit to Australia.
1958 - United States Air Force C-130 A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia, when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a mission, killing all crew members.
1960 - First election to Parliament of Central Tibetan Administration.
1963 – CBS Evening News becomes network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1967 – The microstate Principality of Sealand unilaterally declared its independence.
1969 – The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
1970 - NASA cancels two planned Moon missions, Apollo 15 and Apollo 19.
1973 - France pulls its last troops out of Madagascar.
1984 - Typhoon Ike kills over 1,400 people.
1987 – In Moscow, the trial of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May 1987, begins.
1990 - Transnistria is declared a Soviet republic on its own right. Mikhail Gorbachev declares the move illegal.
1991 – The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1992 - An earthquake in Nicaragua kills 116 people.
1995 – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio. The building was designed by I. M. Pei.
1995 - Frank Bruno becomes Boxing Heavyweight Champion, defeating Oliver McCall in London.
1998 – In Canada, pilots for Air Canada launch the first strike in company's history.
1998 – A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner carrying Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia after taking off from New York City en route to Geneva. All 229 people on board are killed.
1998 – A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.
From 2001
2001 – Cartoon Network begins its adult-orientated block, Adult Swim.
2004 - Resolution 1559: The United Nations Security Council calls for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon.
2013 - The new eastern part of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
2016 - President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov dies aged 78, after several days of speculation over his ill health.
2018 - National Museum of Brazil fire: The National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro is heavily damaged by fire. Many cultural treasures are lost in the blaze.
2019 - Sinking of MV Conception: 34 people are killed when the boat "MV Conception" goes on fire and sinks near Santa Cruz, California.
Births
Up to 1900
1661 - Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (d. 1733)
1675 - William Somerville, English poet (d. 1742)
1753 - Marie Josephine of Savoy, Italian-born Queen Consort of France (d. 1810)
1763 - Caroline Schelling, German writer and translator (d. 1809)
1778 – Louis Bonaparte, King of the Netherlands (d. 1846)
1798 - Thomas Holliday Higgins, Governor of Maryland (d. 1865)
1805 - Esteban Echeverria, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
1810 - Lysander Button, American engineer (d. 1898)
1810 - William Seymour Tyler, American historian and educator (d. 1897)
1811 - J. C. Jacobsen, Danish industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Carlsberg brewery (d. 1887)
1812 - William Fox, 2nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1893)
1814 - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist and philologist (d. 1896)
1820 - Lucretia Hale, American journalist and author (d. 1900)
1830 – William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
1838 – Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
1838 - Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Indian/Bengali writer and religious figure (d. 1914)
1839 - Henry George, American economist (d. 1897)
1840 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (d. 1922)
1850 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (d. 1915)
1850 - Alfred Pringsheim, German mathematician and art collector (d. 1941)
1850 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
1853 – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
1866 - Hiram Johnson, Governor of California (d. 1945)
1877 – Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
1878 - Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (d. 1920)
1879 - An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (d. 1910)
1883 – Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Austrian archduchess (d. 1963)
1883 - Rudolf Weigl, Polish biologist (d. 1957)
1884 – Frank Laubach, American Christian missionary (d. 1970)
1886 - Warren Brittingham, American soccer player (d. 1962)
1894 - Joseph Roth, Austrian novelist (d. 1939)
1898 - Pietro Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (d. 1949)
1898 - Alfons Gorbach, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1972)
1901 1950
1901 – Adolph Rupp, American College basketball coach (d. 1977)
1904 - Set Svanholm, Swedish tenor (d. 1964)
1912 - Ingeborg Rapoport, German paediatrician (d. 2017)
1913 – Israel Gelfand, Russian mathematician (d. 2009)
1913 – Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (d. 1981)
1915 – Meinhardt Raabe, American actor (d. 2010)
1917 – Cleveland Amory, writer (d. 1998)
1918 - Allen Drury, American writer (d. 1998)
1919 - Marge Champion, American actress, dancer and choreographer
1922 - Arthur Ashkin, American physicist
1923 – René Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1924 – Daniel arap Moi, former President of Kenya
1925 - Hugo Montenegro, American composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1925 - Russ Conway, British pianist, composer and singer (d. 2000)
1926 – Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (d. 2018)
1926 – Ibrahim Nasir, President of the Maldives (d. 2008)
1927 - Milo Hamilton, American sportscaster (d. 2015)
1927 - Francis Matthews, English actor (d. 2014)
1928 - Horace Silver, American jazz pianist (d. 2014)
1928 - Mel Stuart, American director and producer (d. 2012)
1929 – Hal Ashby, American movie director (d. 1988)
1929 - Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor and director (d. 2012)
1930 - Andrey Petrov, Russian composer (d. 2006)
1931 - Clifford Jordan, American jazz musician (d. 1993)
1933 - Mathieu Kérékou, former President of Benin (d. 2015)
1934 – Chuck McCann, American actor and comedian (d. 2018)
1936 – Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer (d. 2016)
1937 - Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (d. 2006)
1938 - Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor (d. 2013)
1941 - David Bale, South African activist
1942 - Andrew Kohut, American political scientist (d. 2015)
1943 - Rosalind Ashford, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1944 – Al Matthews, American actor (d. 2002)
1946 – Billy Preston, American musician (d. 2006)
1947 - Louis Michel, Belgian educator and politician
1948 – Terry Bradshaw, American football player
1948 – Christa McAuliffe, American schoolteacher and astronaut (d. 1986)
1949 - Moira Stuart, British broadcast journalist
1950 - Michael Rother, German guitarist and keyboardist
1950 - Yuen Wah, Chinese actor, martial artist and stuntman
1951 1975
1951 – Mark Harmon, American actor
1952 – Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
1953 - Keith Allen, British actor
1953 – John Zorn, American musician
1954 - Andrej Babis, Czech businessman and politician, Prime minister of the Czech Republic
1956 - Doria Ragland, mother of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
1956 - Mario Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Steve Porcaro, American musician (Toto)
1958 - Lynne Kosky, Australian politician (d. 2014)
1958 - Olivier Grouillard, French racing driver
1959 - Guy Laliberté, Canadian poker player and entrepreneur, founder of the Cirque du Soleil
1960 - Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian politician
1961 – Eric Dickerson, American football player
1961 - Claude Puel, French footballer and manager
1961 – Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
1962 - Eugenio Derbez, Mexican actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1962 - Keir Starmer, English lawyer and politician
1963 - Prachya Pinkaew, Thai movie director, producer and screenwriter
1963 - Stanislav Cherchesov, Russian footballer and manager
1964 – Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor
1965 – Lennox Lewis, Canadian-British boxer
1966 – Salma Hayek, Mexican actress
1967 – Andreas Moeller, German footballer
1969 – Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, singer
1969 - Stephane Matteau, Canadian ice hockey player
1971 - Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian alpine skier
1971 – Tommy Maddox, American football player
1972 – Sergei Zholtok, ice hockey player
1973 – Mark Shield, Australian football referee
1974 - Sami Salo, Finnish ice hockey player
From 1976
1976 - Momodu Mutairu, Nigerian footballer
1977 - Frédéric Kanouté, Malian footballer
1979 – Tomer Ben Yosef, Israeli footballer
1980 - Danny Shittu, Nigerian footballer
1981 - Chris Tremlett, English cricketer
1982 – Joey Barton, English footballer
1983 - José Alfredo Castillo, Bolivian footballer
1983 - Aimee Osbourne, American model and actress
1986 - Gelson Fernandes, Swiss footballer
1986 - Rafik Halliche, Algerian footballer
1986 – Kyle Hines, American basketball player
1987 - Spencer Smith, American drummer (Panic! at the Disco)
1987 - Jevan Snead, American football player (d. 2019)
1988 - Javi Martínez, Spanish footballer
1988 - Dimitrij Ovtcharov, German table tennis player
1989 – Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
1989 - Marcus Morris, American basketball player
1989 - Markieff Morris, American basketball player
1990 - Marcus Ericsson, Swedish racing driver
1992 - Alberto Masi, Italian footballer
1993 - Montana Cox, Australian model
1996 - Sungha Jung, South Korean musician
1997 - Brandon Ingram, American basketball player
Deaths
Up to 1900
490 BC - Pheidippides, Greek hero (b. around 530 BC)
421 – Constantius III, Roman Emperor (b. late 300s)
459 - Simeon Stylites, Byzantine saint (b. 390)
595 - Patriarch John IV of Constantinople
1031 - Saint Emeric of Hungary
1274 – Prince Munetaka, 6th Kamakura shogun in Japan (b. 1242)
1397 - Francesco Landini, Italian composer (b. between 1325 and 1335)
1540 – Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
1680 - Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
1690 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
1721 - Kwon Sang-ha, politician and Neo Confucian scholar of Korea (b. 1641)
1764 – Revd Nathaniel Bliss, British astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
1768 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
1813 - Jean-Victor Moreau, French general (b. 1763)
1820 – Jiaqing Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1760)
1832 – Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian scientific editor, astronomer (b. 1754)
1834 – Thomas Telford, British civil engineer (b. 1757)
1845 - Bernardino Rivadavia, Argentine statesman (b. 1780)
1865 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805)
1872 – Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
1877 - Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (b. 1793)
1884 - Henry B. Anthony, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1815)
1895 - Charles Anderson, 27th Governor of Ohio (b. 1814)
1898 – Wilford Woodruff, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
1901 2000
1910 – Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)
1921 – Anthony Francis Lucas, Croatian-American oil exploration pioneer (b. 1855)
1921 – Henry Austin Dobson, poet (b. 1840)
1927 - Umegatani Totaro II, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1878)
1934 – Alcide Nunez, jazz musician (b. 1884)
1934 - James Allan, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1860)
1937 – Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (b. 1863)
1948 - Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
1964 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese President (b. 1894)
1964 – Alvin York, most decorated American soldier of World War I (b. 1887)
1969 – Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese political leader (b. 1890)
1971 - Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)
1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
1973 – Carl Dudley, American movie director (b. 1910)
1976 – Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist (b. 1934)
1981 - Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (b. 1901)
1985 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
1991 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican politician (b. 1911)
1992 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (b. 1902)
1994 - Roy Castle, English actor, singer and dancer (b. 1932)
1997 - Rudolf Bing, Austrian-born British opera singer (b. 1902)
1997 - Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
1998 - Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1933)
1998 – Allen Drury, American writer (b. 1918)
2000 – Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (b. 1905)
2000 – Curt Siodmak, science fiction writer (b. 1907)
From 2001
2001 – Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
2001 – Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
2008 - Bill Melendez, Mexican-American animator, director, producer and voice actor (b. 1916)
2009 - Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1949)
2010 – Shmuel Eisenstadt, Israeli sociologist (b. 1923)
2013 - Frederik Pohl, American science fiction writer (b. 1919)
2013 - Ronald Coase, British economist (b. 1910)
2013 - Valérie Benguigui, French actress (b. 1965)
2013 - David Jacobs, English radio and television host (b. 1926)
2013 - Paul Scoon, 2nd Governor-General of Grenada (b. 1935)
2014 - Steven Sotloff, American journalist (b. 1983)
2014 - Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (b. 1911)
2014 - Helena Rakoczy, Polish gymnast (b. 1921)
2014 - J. LaMoine Jenson, American religious leader (b. 1935)
2014 - Peter Carter, British diplomat (b. 1956)
2014 - Antonis Vardis, Greek composer and singer (b. 1948)
2015 - Charles Gyamfi, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1929)
2015 - Aleksander Mandziara, Polish footballer and coach (b. 1940)
2015 - Simo Salminen, Finnish comic actor (b. 1932)
2015 - Brianna Lea Pruett, American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and moviemaker (b. 1983)
2016 - Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan (b. 1938)
2017 - Viktor Cherepkov, Russian politician (b. 1942)
2017 - Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian composer (b. 1921)
2017 - Xiang Shouzhi, Chinese general (b. 1917)
2018 - Conway Savage, Australian rock singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1960)
2018 - Claire Wineland, American entrepreneur and health activist (b. 1997)
2019 - Ryszard Czerniawski, Polish lawyer and economist (b. 1952)
2019 - Carlo Fonseka, Sri Lankan physician (b. 1933)
2019 - Joan Antoni Solans Huguet, Spanish urban planner (b. 1941)
2019 - Gyoji Matsumoto, Japanese footballer (b. 1934)
Observances
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Events
Up to 1900
476 – Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy.
626 - Li Shimin, known after his death as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the Tang Dynasty in China.
1260 – The forces of King Manfred of Sicily, in league with the Ghibellines, defeat the Guelphs at Monte Aperto.
1618 - A rock fall in the Val Bregaglia in the north of present-day Italy kills 2,430 people.
1666 - The most destructive damage of the Great Fire of London occurs.
1774 - Members of James Cook's expedition become the first Europeans to sight New Caledonia (presently part of France) in the Pacific Ocean, and name it after Scotland, for which Caledonia is another name.
1781 – Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula) by a group of 44 Spanish settlers.
1800 - The French garrison of Valletta surrenders to British troops who had been called at the invitation of the Maltese. The islands of Malta and Gozo become the Malta protectorate.
1812 - War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.
1857 - Ernst Rietschl's Goethe-Schiller Monument in Weimar is unveiled.
1862 - American Civil War: Maryland campaign - General Robert E. Lee takes the army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
1870 – Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
1882 - Thomas Edison flips the switch on the first-ever commercial electrical power plant, which lights up a square mile of Lower Manhattan.
1886 – Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.
1890 - The now-Greek city of Thessaloniki is heavily damaged by fire, making 20,000 people homeless.
1894 – In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
1901 2000
1912 - Albanian rebels are successful in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands.
1923 – In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the USS Shenandoah, takes to the sky for the first time.
1940 – World War II: The USS Greer becomes the first United States ship fired upon by a German submarine in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power. Tension heightens between the two nations as a result.
1941 - World War II: A German submarine carries out the first attack on a United States ship, the USS Greer.
1944 - World War II: Finland ends its state of war with the Soviet Union.
1944 – World War II: The British 11th Armored Division liberate the city of Antwerp in Belgium.
1945 – World War II: Japanese forces surrender on Wake Island after hearing word of their nation's surrender.
1948 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
1950 – Beetle Bailey comic strip started.
1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
1957 – Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock.
1957 – Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
1962 - The 4th Asian Games in Jakarta end.
1963 – Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland killing all on board.
1964 – Forth Road Bridge, near Edinburgh, is officially opened.
1967 – The last new episode of the television sitcom Gilligan's Island airs on CBS-TV.
1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins – The United States Marines launch a search-and-destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.
1970 - Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
1970 - The 6th Asian Games in Bangkok end.
1971 – A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes into the side of a mountain near Juneau, Alaska killing all 111 people on board.
1971 – The Lawrence Welk Show airs its last show.
1972 – Mark Spitz wins his seventh swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, becoming the first Olympian to win seven gold medals.
1972 – The Price Is Right, hosted by Bob Barker, returns to television with a new format on CBS. Over three decades later, it continues to air and give away prizes galore.
1984 - Brian Mulroney is elected Prime Minister of Canada.
1985 - Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
1989 - In Leipzig, then-East Germany, the first of the so-called Monday Demonstrations takes place, calling for opposition groups to be allowed.
1995 – The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
1996 – War on Drugs: Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, Colombia starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare that will claim the lives of at least 130 Colombians.
1997 – In Lorain, Ohio, the last Ford Thunderbird rolls off the assembly line.
1997 – A U.S. Air Force C-141 cargo plane and a German TU-154 collide in mid-air over southwest Africa killing 33.
1998 - Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
From 2001
2006 – Australian naturalist and TV presenter Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) is killed by a stingray off the Queensland coast.
2007 - Three terrorists are arrested in Germany on suspicion of being part of Al-Qaeda and allegedly planning attacks on Frankfurt International Airport and US military installations.
2009 – An airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan kills 142 people.
2010 – 2010 Canterbury earthquake: A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes New Zealand's South Island, causing widespread damage and power outages, particularly in Christchurch. No deaths are reported.
2014 - NATO leaders meet in South Wales to discuss conflicts in Ukraine and Iraq.
2016 - Canonization of Mother Teresa by Pope Francis.
2017 - The Queensferry Crossing, linking Fife and Lothian in Scotland, is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II, exactly 53 years to the day after the opening of the nearby Forth Road Bridge.
2018 - Japan is hit by one of its strongest-ever typhoons.
Births
Up to 1900
1241 – King Alexander III of Scotland (died 1286)
1383 - Antipope Felix V (died 1451)
1454 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (died 1483)
1557 – Sofie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Queen of Denmark and Norway (died 1631)
1563 – Wanli, Emperor of China (died 1620)
1596 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (died 1687)
1681 - Carl Heinrich Biber, Austrian violinist and composer (died 1749)
1755 - Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish general and politician (died 1810)
1756 - Christen Pram, Norwegian-Danish writer (died 1821)
1768 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer and diplomat (died 1848)
1798 - Raynold Kaufgetz, Swiss soldier, economist and politician (died 1869)
1803 – Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (died 1891)
1805 - William E. Dodge, American businessman and politician (died 1883)
1809 – Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (died 1849)
1809 - Federico Luigi Menabrea, Italian scientist, general and politician (died 1896)
1809 - Manuel Montt, 6th President of Chile (died 1880)
1824 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (died 1896)
1825 - Dadabhai Naoroji, Indian academic and politician (died 1917)
1826 - Martin Wiberg, Swedish philosopher and inventor (died 1905)
1832 – Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat (died 1915)
1838 - William Gibson Sloan, Scottish missionary (died 1914)
1840 - William, Prince of Orange (died 1879)
1846 - Daniel Burnham, American architect (died 1912)
1848 - Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (died 1928)
1851 – John Dillon, Irish nationalist (died 1927)
1852 - Eilif Peterssen, Norwegian painter (died 1928)
1877 – Karlis Ulmanis, Latvian politician (died 1942)
1882 - Leonhard Frank, German writer (died 1961)
1885 - Antonio Bacci, Italian cardinal (died 1971)
1886 - Albert Orsborn, 6th General of the Salvation Army (died 1967)
1890 - La Argentina, Argentine-Spanish dancer and choreographer (died 1936)
1890 - Naime Wifstrand, Swedish actress (died 1968)
1891 – Fritz Todt, Nazi official (died 1942)
1892 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (died 1974)
1896 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright, actor, director (died 1948)
1896 – Aspasia Manos, Queen consort of Greece (died 1972)
1901 1950
1901 - William Lyons, English businessman (died 1985)
1901 - Ahmet Kutsi Tecer, Turkish poet and politician (died 1967)
1904 - Sabin Carr, American athlete (died 1983)
1905 - Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor (died 2003)
1905 – Mary Renault, English novelist (died 1983)
1905 - Meade Lux Lewis, American pianist and composer (died 1964)
1906 – Max Delbrück, German biologist (died 1981)
1908 – Richard Wright, American writer (died 1960)
1908 – Edward Dmytryk, movie director (died 1999)
1913 – Stanford Moore, American chemist (died 1982)
1913 - Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (died 2005)
1913 - Shmuel Wosner, Israeli rabbi (died 2015)
1915 - Rudolf Schock, German tenor (died 1986)
1917 - Henry Ford II, American businessman (died 1987)
1918 - Bill Talbert, American tennis player (died 1999)
1918 – Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (died 2009)
1918 - Gerald Wilson, American trumpeter and composer (died 2014)
1919 - Xavier Atencio, American animator, lyricist and engineer (died 2017)
1919 - Emile Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2012)
1920 – Teddy Johnson, British singer
1921 – Ariel Ramírez, Argentine composer (died 2010)
1922 - Per Olof Sundman, Swedish politician (died 1992)
1924 - Joan Aiken, English author (died 2004)
1925 – Forrest Carter, writer (died 1979)
1926 - Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2015)
1927 - John McCarthy, American computer scientist (died 2011)
1928 – Dick York, American actor (died 1992)
1929 - Robert V. Keeley, American diplomat (died 2015)
1931 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress
1932 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (died 2003)
1934 – Clive Granger, Welsh economist (died 2009)
1934 - Eduard Khil, Russian singer and actor (died 2012)
1937 – Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer
1939 - Erwin Teufel, German politician
1941 - Earl Ross, Canadian racing driver (died 2014)
1941 – Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
1942 - Raymond Floyd, American golfer
1942 - Jerry Jarrett, American wrestler and promoter
1942 - Merald "Bubba" Knight, American singer-songwriter and producer
1943 - Hédi Annabi, Tunisian diplomat (died 2010)
1944 - Tony Atkinson, British economist (died 2017)
1944 - Jennifer Salt, American actress, producer and screenwriter
1946 - Dave Liebman, American saxophonist, flautist and composer
1948 – Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer
1949 - Tom Watson, American golfer
1951 1975
1951 - Martin Chambers, English drummer and singer (The Pretenders)
1951 - Marita Ulvskog, Swedish politician
1952 - Stephen Easley, American politician (died 2013)
1952 - Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor, director and producer
1953 – Fatih Terim, Turkish football manager
1955 – Brian Schweitzer, American politician, former Governor of Montana
1955 - David Broza, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957 – Khandi Alexander, American actress
1957 – Patricia Tallman, American actress
1958 - George Hurley, American drummer
1958 - Drew Pinsky, American radio and television host
1958 - Satoshi Tezuka, Japanese footballer
1959 – Kevin Harrington, Australian actor
1959 - Armin Kogler, Austrian ski jumper
1960 – Damon Wayans, American actor and comedian
1962 - Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese physician, 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner
1963 - John Vanbiesbrouck, American ice hockey player, coach and manager
1963 - Sami Yaffa, Finnish singer-songwriter and bass player
1964 - Anthony Weiner, American politician
1964 - Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian composer and singer (died 2015)
1966 - Yanka Dyagileva, Russian singer-songwriter (died 1991)
1966 - Jeff Tremaine, American director, producer and screenwriter
1968 – Mike Piazza, American baseball player
1968 - John DiMaggio, American voice actor
1969 - Sasha, Welsh DJ and music producer
1969 - Ramon Dekkers, Dutch kick-boxer (died 2013)
1969 - Giorgi Margvelashvili, former President of Georgia
1970 – Daisy Dee, American singer and actress
1970 - Igor Cavalera, Brazilian drummer
1970 - Ione Skye, British actress
1970 - Richard Speight Jr., American actor, director, screenwriter and producer
1974 - Carmit Bachar, American singer, dancer and actress (Pussycat Dolls)
1974 - Nona Gaye, American singer, model and actress
1975 - Mark Ronson, English music producer
From 1976
1977 – Lucie Silvas, English singer
1977 - Sun-woo Kim, South Korean baseball player
1978 - Wes Bentley, American actor
1979 - Maxim Afinogenov, Russian ice hockey player
1979 – Kerstin Garefrekes, German footballer
1980 - Zachary Abel, American actor
1980 - Max Greenfield, American actor
1981 – Beyoncé Knowles, American singer
1982 – Mark Lewis-Francis, English athlete
1982 - Sarah Solemani, English actress
1983 - Jennifer Metcalfe, English actress
1984 - Hamish McIntosh, Australian footballer
1984 - Camila Bordonaba, Argentine singer and actress
1985 - Raúl Albiol, Spanish footballer
1986 – Aaron Hunt, German footballer
1988 - JJ Hickson, American basketball player
1990 - Stefanía Fernández, Venezuelan model
1990 - Jonny Lomax, English rugby player
1990 - James Bay, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1991 - Carter Jenkins, American actor
Deaths
Up to 1950
422 - Pope Boniface I
799 – Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (born 745)
1037 - Bermudo III of Leon (born 1010)
1063 - Tughril, Turkish ruler (born 990)
1199 - Joan of England, Queen of Sicily (born 1165)
1588 - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (born 1532)
1767 - Charles Townshend, English politician (born 1725)
1784 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer and cartographer (born 1714)
1804 – Richard Somers, American naval officer (born 1778)
1821 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean politician (born 1785)
1852 – William MacGillivray, naturalist and ornithologist (born 1796)
1864 – John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (born 1825)
1907 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (born 1843)
1914 - William Gibson Sloan, Scottish missionary (born 1838)
1914 - Charles Péguy, French poet and philosopher (born 1873)
1916 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer (born 1832)
1930 - Vladimir Arsenyev, Russian adventurer and writer (born 1872)
1940 - George William de Carteret, French-English journalist and author (born 1869)
1944 - Erich Fellgiebel, German general (born 1886)
1949 - Liberato Pinto, Prime Minister of Portugal (born 1880)
1951 2010
1963 – Robert Schuman, French politician (born 1886)
1965 – Albert Schweitzer, German physician (born 1875)
1974 – Marcel Achard, French playwright (born 1899)
1974 - Lewi Pethrus, Swedish minister (born 1884)
1977 - Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher (born 1894)
1977 – E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (born 1911)
1986 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (born 1911)
1987 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer (born 1908)
1989 – Georges Simenon, Belgian-French writer (born 1903)
1989 – Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (born 1903)
1990 - Irene Dunne, American actress and singer (born 1898)
1991 - Charlie Barnet, American saxophonist, composer and producer (born 1950)
1991 – Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (born 1926)
1991 – Dottie West, American country music singer (born 1932)
1993 – Hervé Villechaize, actor (born 1943)
1995 – William Kunstler, lawyer (born 1919)
1997 - Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (born 1931)
2003 - Lola Bobesco, Romanian-Belgian violinist (born 1921)
2003 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (born 1921)
2004 – Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (born 1971)
2004 – Moe Norman, golfer (born 1929)
2004 – James O. Page, American founder of modern emergency medical response (born 1936)
2006 – Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and TV presenter (born 1962).
2006 – Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (born 1942).
2006 – Astrid Varnay, Swedish soprano (born 1918)
From 2011
2011 - Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco (born 1930)
2014 - Habib Wali Mohammad, Pakistani singer (born 1921)
2014 - Martynas Andriukaitis, Lithuanian basketball player (born 1981)
2014 - Donatas Banionis, Lithuanian actor (born 1924)
2014 - Gustavo Cerati, Argentine singer and musician (born 1959)
2014 - Franca Falcucci, Italian politician (born 1926)
2014 - Wlodzimierz Kotonski, Polish composer (born 1925)
2014 - Gerrit Kouwenaar, Dutch poet (born 1923)
2014 - Roy Leonard, American radio personality (born 1931)
2014 - Hopeton Lewis, Jamaican singer (born 1947)
2014 - Orunamamu, American-Canadian storyteller (born 1921)
2014 - Wolfhart Pannenberg, German theologian (born 1928)
2014 - Joan Rivers, American comedienne, actress and entertainer (born 1933)
2015 - Geoffrey Bolton, Australian historian (born 1931)
2015 - Graham Brazier, New Zealand musician and songwriter (born 1952)
2015 - Wilfred de Souza, Indian politician (born 1927)
2015 - Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Nepalese shortest-man-ever record holder (born 1939)
2015 - Rico Rodriguez, Cuban trombonist (born 1934)
2015 - Sylvie Joly, French actress and comedienne (born 1934)
2015 - Jean Darling, American actress (born 1922)
2017 - Sultan Ahmed, Indian politician (born 1953)
2017 - David Consunji, Filipino engineer and industrialist (born 1921)
2017 - Mountaga Diallo, Senegalese diplomat (born 1942)
2017 - Rogéria, Brazilian actress and drag queen (born 1943)
2017 - Gastone Moschin, Italian actor (born 1929)
2017 - Les McDonald, British-Canadian runner (born 1933)
2018 - Sheldon S. Cohen, American politician (born 1927)
2018 - Bill Daily, American actor (born 1927)
2018 - Christopher Lawford, American actor, writer and political activist (born 1955)
2018 - Ab McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1936)
2018 - Ralph Wolfe Cowan, American portrait artist (born 1931)
2018 - Don Gardner, American singer-songwriter and drummer (born 1931)
2018 - István Bethlen, Hungarian aristocrat and economist (born 1946)
2019 - Dai Tielang, Singaporean-Chinese animator (born 1930)
2019 - Patrick Dehornoy, French mathematician (born 1952)
2019 - Peter Ellis, New Zealand child sex offender (born 1958)
2019 - Roger Etchegaray, French cardinal (born 1922)
Observances
Immigrant's Day (Argentina)
September 04 |
9948 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/September%205 | September 5 |
Events
Up to 1900
917 Liu Yan declares himself Emperor, establishing the southern Han state in China.
1590 Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the Siege of Paris.
1666 Great Fire of London ended: A large fire in London burns out after three days. 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral were destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
1698 In an effort to move his people away from Asiatic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards; All men except priests and peasants, are required to pay a tax of one hundred rubles a year and the commoners had to pay one kopek each.
1725 Louis XV of France and Maria Leszczynska marry in Fontainbleau.
1774 First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1781 Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
1793 In France, the French National Convention votes to implement terror measures to enforce the principles of the French Revolution, initiating (starting) the Reign of Terror.
1798 Conscription (military service) is made mandatory (meaning young men had to do it) in France.
1800 Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders Malta to Great Britain.
1812 War of 1812: Siege of Fort Wayne begins with Chief Winamac's forces attacking two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
1836 Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1839 The United Kingdom declares the First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
1840 First performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La Scala in Milan.
1862 American Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia into Maryland.
1877 Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
1882 Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is founded in London.
1882 The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
1887 Fire at the Theatre Royal in Exeter, England kills 186 people.
1901 2000
1901 The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago.
1905 Russo-Japanese War: Treaty of Portsmouth signed – In New Hampshire a treaty mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, is signed by victor Japan and defeated party Russia.
1906 Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
1914 World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins – Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
1927 The Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
1932 French Upper Volta is broken up between French Sudan, Ivory Coast and Niger.
1936 Federico Borrell García, a Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War, is photographed in the moment of his death by Robert Capa.
1937 Spanish Civil War: The fall of Llanes.
1939 World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war. It later enters on the side of the Allies.
1941 World War II : Siege of Leningrad begins.
1941 World War II: Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1942 World War II: The Battle of Milne Bay in the Pacific Ocean ends in a Japanese defeat against the Allies.
1943 World War II: The 503rd Parachute Regiment under American General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nazdab in Papua New Guinea.
1944 World War II: The USSR declares war on Bulgaria.
1944 Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg form the Benelux.
1945 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
1948 Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France
1949 A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.
1957 Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs a revolt in the city of Cienfuegos.
1958 The English language translation of the novel Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak is published.
1960 Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the 1st President of Senegal.
1960 Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in boxing at the Rome Olympic Games.
1961 The first conference of countries of the Non Aligned Movement is held in Belgrade.
1969 My Lai Massacre: Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
1970 Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province.
1972 Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
1973 Palestinian terrorists attack Saudi Arabia's Embassy in Paris.
1975 In Sacramento, California, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson named Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate US President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
1977 Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
1977 In Cologne, Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped by members of the Red Army Faction
1978 Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
1980 The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
1983 The half-hour Robert MacNeil Report changes its name to the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, becoming the first hour-long network news show.
1983 Peter Jennings becomes lead anchor for ABC World News Tonight.
1983 Tom Brokaw becomes lead anchor for NBC Nightly News.
1984 Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to ban capital punishment.
1984 The Space Shuttle Discovery (mission STS-41-D) lands after its maiden voyage.
1986 Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
1988 With US$2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States's largest bankrupt thrift, American Savings and Loan Association.
1990 Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan army soldiers murder 158 civilians.
1991 The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, the Indigenous and Tribal People's Convention, 1989, comes into force.
1995 France tests an atomic bomb on Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia.
1996 Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina, where 27 people are killed, and three billion dollars worth of damage are caused.
1997 At least 87 people killed in the Beni-Messous massacre in Algeria.
2000 Tuvalu joins the United Nations.
From 2001
2001 Peru's attorney general files homicide charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
2001 Young Left formed in Toronto, Ontario.
2002 A car bomb kills 30 people in Kabul, Afghanistan, in an apparent assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
2002 The Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which burned 499,570 acres (2,020 km²), is finally contained.
2002 The Beltway sniper attacks begin with the murder of Paul LaRuffa.
2004 Future Hurricane Ivan becomes a Hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.
2005 A Mandala Airlines plane crashes in a residential area in Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 on board and 39 on the ground.
2005 In Solden, Tyrol, Austria, an aerial lift accident kills nine German tourists, as a transport helicopter hits a cable car, which then plunges to the ground.
2008 Quentin Bryce becomes Governor-General of Australia.
2012 A magnitude 7.9 earthquake hits Costa Rica.
2012 A firecracker factory explodes near Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India, killing 40 people.
2012 An accidental explosion at a Turkish army ammunition store in Afyon, Western Turkey, kills 25 soldiers.
2012 The bodies of Saad al-Hilli, two members of his family, and a local cyclist are found near Annecy, in the alpine region of France, having all been shot, while al-Hilli's two daughters survived. The case remains unsolved, as no killer or motive has been determined.
2014 Ukraine and Russia agree to a ceasefire during the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
Births
Up to 1800
699 Abu Hanifa, Iraqi scholar (d. 767)
1187 King Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
1201 Alix, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1221)
1319 Peter IV of Aragon (d. 1387)
1533 Jacopo Zaparella, Italian philosopher (d. 1589)
1540 Magnus, Duke of Holstein (d. 1583)
1567 Date Masamuno, Japanese daimyo (d. 1636)
1568 Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
1638 King Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
1651 William Dampier, English explorer (d. 1715)
1666 Gottfried Arnold, German historian and theologian (d. 1714)
1667 Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian Jesuit and mathematician (d. 1733)
1695 Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
1722 Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
1733 Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet, translator and publisher (d. 1813)
1735 Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
1750 Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
1751 John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, British politician (d. 1834)
1764 Henriette Herz, German writer (d. 1847)
1771 Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general (d. 1847)
1772 Fat 'h-Ali Shah Qajar, Persian King (d. 1834)
1774 Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
1775 Juan Martínez Díez, Spanish captain (d. 1825)
1781 Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor and composer (d. 1858)
1786 Sergey Uvarov, Russian politician and literary scholar (d. 1855)
1791 Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
1801 1900
1806 Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general and statesman (d. 1865)
1807 Richard Chenevix Trench, clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
1809 Manuel Montt, 6th President of Chile (d. 1880)
1817 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
1818 Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer (d. 1848)
1826 John Wisden, English cricketer (d. 1884)
1827 Goffredo Mameli, Italian patriot, poet and writer (d. 1849)
1829 Lester Allan Pelton, American inventor (d. 1908)
1836 Justiniano Borgono, President of Peru (d. 1921)
1846 Jack Daniel, American businessman (d. 1911)
1847 Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
1867 Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
1869 Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria (d. 1945)
1871 Friedrich Akel, Estonian politician (d. 1941)
1873 Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American military officer and engineer (d. 1942)
1874 Nap Lajoie, baseball player (d. 1959)
1881 Otto Bauer, Austrian politician (d. 1938)
1883 Mel Sheppard, AMerican athlete (d. 1942)
1888 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
1892 Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973)
1897 Ella Schuler, American supercentenarian (d. 2011)
1901 1950
1901 Florence Eldridge, American actress (d. 1988)
1901 Mario Scelba, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1991)
1902 Darryl F. Zanuck, movie producer and executive (d. 1979)
1905 Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (d. 1983)
1906 Sunnyland Slim, American blues singer and pianist (d. 1995)
1910 Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
1912 John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
1912 Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
1913 Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
1914 Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (d. 2018)
1914 Stuart Freeborn, British make-up artist (d. 2013)
1915 Horst Sindermann, German politician (d. 1990)
1916 Frank Yerby, novelist (d. 1991)
1918 Luis Alcoriza, Mexican actor, screenwriter and director (d. 1992)
1918 Buddy Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1986)
1920 Fons Rademakers, Dutch-Swiss actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1921 Farida of Egypt, Queen Consort of Egypt (d. 1988)
1921 Jack Valenti, American political advisor and movie executive (d. 2007)
1927 Paul Volcker, American economist
1928 Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist (d. 2005)
1929 Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
1929 Andriyan Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2004)
1930 Ken Naganuma, Japanese footballer (d. 2008)
1932 Simon Achidi Achu, former Prime Minister of Cameroon
1934 Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
1934 Kevin McNamara, English politician
1934 Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal
1935 Dieter Hallervorden, German comedian, actor and singer
1935 Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen, English politician
1936 Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player
1936 John Danforth, American politician and diplomat
1937 Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Argentine footballer
1939 George Lazenby, Australian actor
1939 William Devane, actor
1939 Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (d. 2006)
1939 Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist
1940 Raquel Welch, American actress
1942 Werner Herzog, German movie director
1944 Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author and playwright
1944 Gareth Evans, Australian lawyer and politician
1945 Gérard d'Aboville, French politician and navigator
1945 Eva Bergman, Swedish movie, theatre and television director
1945 Al Stewart, British musician
1945 Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician
1946 Freddie Mercury, British singer (Queen) (d. 1991)
1946 Loudon Wainwright III, American singer and composer
1946 Buddy Miles, American musician
1948 Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
1949 Pat McQuaid, Irish cyclist and official
1950 Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
1950 Rosie Cooper, English politician
1951 1975
1951 Paul Breitner, German footballer
1951 Michael Keaton, American actor
1956 Roine Stolt, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1958 Lars Danielsson, Swedish jazz bassist and cellist
1959 Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist (d. 2014)
1960 Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan politician
1960 Candy Maldonado, Puerto Rican baseball player, manager and sportscaster
1962 Brian A. Joyce, American politician (d. 2018)
1962 Peter Wingfield, British actor
1963 Juan Alderete, American bass player and songwriter
1963 Kristian Alfonso, American actress, figure skater and model
1964 Frank Farina, Australian footballer
1964 Ken Norman, American basketball player
1964 Sergei Loznitsa, Belarussian-Ukrainian director and screenwriter
1965 David Brabham, Australian racing driver
1965 Murdo Fraser, Scottish politician
1965 Osamu Maeda, Japanese footballer
1965 Chris Morris, British writer
1965 César Rincon, Colombian bullfighter
1967 Matthias Sammer, German footballer
1967 Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
1969 Dweezil Zappa, American musician and son of Frank Zappa
1969 Leonardo Araújo, Brazilian footballer
1969 Sebastian Edathy, German politician
1969 Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer
1970 Liam Lynch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and director
1971 Adam Hollioake, English cricketer
1973 Paddy Considine, English actor, director and producer
1973 Rose McGowan, American actress
1974 Ivo Ulich, Czech footballer
1975 George Boateng, Dutch footballer
From 1976
1976 Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
1976 Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
1976 Richard Marsland, Australian writer, actor and comedian (d. 2008)
1977 Teresa Marinova, Bulgarian athlete
1978 Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby player
1978 Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
1978 Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player
1979 John Carew, Norwegian footballer
1979 Juan Fuenmayor, Venezuelan footballer
1980 Marianna Madia, Italian politician
1980 Stefán Logi Magnússon, Icelandic footballer
1981 Nina Eichinger, German actress
1981 Bruno Neves, Portuguese cyclist (d. 2008)
1983 Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
1983 Priscilla Meirelles, Brazilian model
1987 Pierre Casiraghi, Monegasque royalty
1988 Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorean footballer
1988 Nuri Sahin, Turkish footballer
1989 Ben Youngs, English rugby player
1989 José Angel Valdés, Spanish footballer
1989 Katerina Graham, American actress
1990 Kim Yu-Na, South Korean figure skater
1990 Giovanni Pernice, Italian professional dancer
1990 Franco Zuculini, Italian footballer
1991 Skandar Keynes, English actor
1991 Stuart Donaldson, Scottish politician
1993 Gage Golightly, American actress
1995 Tehilla Blad, Swedish actress
1995 Caroline Sunshine, American actress
1996 Sigrid, Norwegian singer
Deaths
Up to 1900
590 Authari, King of Lombardy (b. 540)
1165 Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
1201 Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
1235 Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
1548 Catherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512)
1629 Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1585)
1803 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and writer (b. 1741)
1836 Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
1838 Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
1855 Thomas Mitchell, Scottish explorer of Australia (b. 1792)
1857 Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
1876 Manuel Blanco Encalada, first President of Chile (b. 1790)
1877 Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief (b. 1849)
1898 Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
1901 2000
1901 Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovene physicist (b. 1853)
1902 Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician (b. 1821)
1906 Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian phsyicist (b. 1844)
1912 Arthur MacArthur, Jr., American soldier (b. 1845)
1917 Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
1926 Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (b. 1890)
1930 Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1931 John Thomson, Scottish footballer (b. 1909)
1932 Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
1936 Fernando Borrell García, Spanish Republican soldier, photographed in moment of his death (b. 1912)
1946 John I. Cox, American politician, 33rd Governor of Tennessee (b. 1855)
1954 Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
1960 Earl Long, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1895)
1965 Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
1966 Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (b. 1879)
1970 Jochen Rindt, Austrian racing driver, posthumous Formula 1 champion (b. 1942)
1972 Yossef Romano, Israeli weightlifter (b. 1940)
1972 Moshe Weinberg, Israeli wrestling coach (b. 1939)
1973 Jack Fourier, American baseball player (b. 1899)
1979 Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (b. 1884)
1982 Douglas Bader, British fighter pilot (b. 1910)
1984 Adam Malik, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
1988 Gert Fröbe, actor (b. 1913)
1990 Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary and leader of the IMRO (b. 1896)
1993 Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b. 1914)
1997 Georg Solti, conductor (b. 1912)
1997 Mother Teresa, Albanian nun and development worker (b. 1910)
1998 Leo Penn, American director (b. 1921)
1999 Alan Clark, English politician and historian (b. 1928)
From 2001
2001 Vladimir Zerjavic, Croat UN statistician (b. 1912)
2003 Gisele MacKenzie, singer (b. 1927)
2010 Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1990)
2010 Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian-born artist (b. 1922)
2011 Salvatore Licitra, Italian tenor (b. 1968)
2011 Vann Nath, Cambodian painter (b. 1946)
2013 Rochus Misch, German SS officer (b. 1917)
2014 Ron Mulock, Australian politician (b. 1930)
2014 Eoin Young, New Zealand journalist (b. 1939)
2014 Simone Battle, American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1989)
2014 Bruce Morton, American news correspondent (b. 1930)
2014 Karel Cerny, Czech art director and producer (b. 1922)
2015 Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian composer and singer (b. 1966)
2015 Alan Steel, Italian bodybuilder and actor (b. 1935)
2015 Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (b. 1920)
2016 Hugh O'Brian, American actor (b. 1925)
2016 Phyllis Schlafly, American political commentator (b. 1924)
2017 Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist (b. 1920)
2017 Gauri Lankesh, Indian journalist and political activist (b. 1962)
2017 Tom Wright, American baseball player (b. 1923)
2017 Holger Czukay, German musician (b. 1938)
2017 Christie Davies, British sociologist (b. 1941)
2017 Hansford Rowe, American actor (b. 1924)
2018 Rachael Bland, British journalist (b. 1978)
2018 François Flohic, French admiral (b. 1920)
2018 Mike Hogewood, American sportscaster (b. 1954)
2018 Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (b. 1926)
2018 Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian writer and journalist (b. 1934)
2019 Ji Guobiao, Chinese engineer (b. 1932)
2019 Kiran Nagarkar, Indian novelist (b. 1942)
2019 Francisco Toledo, Mexican artist (b. 1940)
Observances
Teachers' Day (India)
Architects' Day (Guatemala)
International Day of Charity
September 05 |
9949 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/September%206 | September 6 |
Events
Up to 1900
3761 BC The first day of the Hebrew Calendar.
394 Battle of Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish general Arbogast.
1492 Christopher Columbus leaves La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his last land-stop on the way of his voyage that takes him to the Caribbean.
1522 The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to San Lucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world, with captain Juan Sebastian de Elcano.
1620 The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
1628 Puritans settle Salem which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1634 Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nordlingen, the Catholic imperial army defeats the Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.
1689 Imperial China and Russia agree on their border, which runs along the Amur River.
1776 A tropical storm strikes the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, killing 6,000 people.
1781 The Battle of Groton Heights takes place with the result of a British minor victory.
1803 British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1839 Polynesian atoll Ahe in the Tuamoto Archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean, is discovered and mapped by US naval officer Charles Wilkes.
1847 Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1861 American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control the mouth of the Tennessee River.
1863 American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Islands in South Carolina.
1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming, votes in the morning, becoming the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1870 The ship HMS Captain sinks in a storm off Cape Finisterre, Galicia, Spain, killing almost 500 people.
1885 Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria.
1888 Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J. T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
1891 The first Paris-Brest-Paris cycling race is held, finishing on September 9.
1898 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands is allowed to reign in her own right, having turned 18 the previous week, after Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont acted as regent for her over the previous eight years.
1901 2000
1901 American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies on September 14 from his injuries.
1915 The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.
1929 Finnish steamship Kuru sinks, killing 150, many of them school children.
1930 Democratically elected President of Argentina Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
1937 Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1939 World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
1940 King Carol II of Romania abdicates the throne. His son, Michael of Romania, succeeds him.
1941 Holocaust: The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word Jew inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.
1943 The Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico is founded.
1943 The Pennsylvania railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1944 World War II: Ypres, Belgium, is liberated by Allied forces.
1944 World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
1946 United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the US will follow a policy of Economic Reconstruction in post-war Germany.
1948 Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands. This comes after the abdication from the throne of Queen Wilhelmina.
1949 Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
1952 Canada's first TV station, CBFT-TV opens in Montreal.
1952 A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Air Show in Hampshire, England, UK, killing 29 people.
1965 War of 1965: India attacks Pakistan and announces that its forces will capture Lahore in an hour.
1966 In Cape Town, the South African architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
1968 Swaziland becomes independent.
1970 Jimi Hendrix performs what turns out to be his last concert, on the German Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn, on the last day of the Love and Peace Festival.
1970 Four passenger jets are simultaneously hijacked. Two are taken to Dawson's Field.
1972 Munich Massacre: Israeli athletes and coaches are killed when police assault Black September members in a failed hostage rescue in Munich, West Germany.
1975 An earthquake in Lice, Turkey kills 2,400 people.
1976 Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and requests political asylum from the United States.
1983 The Soviet Union admits shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
1985 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
1986 In Istanbul, two Arab terrorists from Abu Nidal's terror organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
1991 The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
1995 With the jury absent, Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson.
1995 Cal Ripken Jr. breaks Lou Gehrig's record of playing 2131 consecutive baseball games.
1997 The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales at Westminster Abbey draws large crowds.
1997 Uranus' moons of Caliban and Sycorax are discovered.
2000 In New York City, the United Nations Millennium Summit begins with more than 180 world leaders present.
From 2001
2001 United States v. Microsoft: The United States Justice Department announces that it was no longer seeking to break up software maker Microsoft and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty.
2003 EU foreign ministers categorise Hamas as a terrorist organisation.
2006 The Germany national football team scores its biggest-ever away win, defeating the San Marino national football team 13-0.
2008 The 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing begin, running until September 17.
2009 The ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 people on board. All but 10 are rescued.
2012 61 people die and 48 are injured after a fishing boat capsizes off Izmir Province, Western Turkey, near Greece's Aegean Islands.
2017 Hurricane Irma sweeps across the Lesser Antilles in the Eastern Caribbean; Almost every building on the island of Barbuda is destroyed.
2018 Homosexuality is legalised in India, following a decision by the Supreme Court of India.
2018 Brazilian Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is stabbed while campaigning; he survives the attack and is later elected President.
Births
Up to 1850
1475 Sebastiano Serlio, Italian architect (d. 1554)
1620 Isabella Leonarda, composer (d. 1704)
1656 Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723)
1666 Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1696)
1711 Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the US Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
1729 Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher (d. 1786)
1732 Johan Wicke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)
1757 Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and politician (d. 1834)
1761 Marie-Gabrielle Capet, French painter (d. 1818)
1766 John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
1781 Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher and composer (d. 1858)
1795 Frances Wright, writer, activist, and lecturer (d. 1852)
1800 Catharine Beecher, American educator (d. 1878)
1802 Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)
1808 Abdelkader El Djezairi, Algerian political figure (d. 1883)
1809 Bruno Bauer, German philosopher (d. 1882)
1815 St. John Richardson Liddell, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
1817 Mihai Kogalniceanu, Romanian politician (d. 1891)
1819 William Rosecrans, American general and diplomat (d. 1898)
1825 Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter (d. 1908)
1829 Marie Zakrzewska, physician (d. 1902)
1838 Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (d. 1906)
1851 1900
1852 Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician, military leader and State President (d. 1918)
1855 Ferdinand Hummel, German harpist, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1928)
1857 Zelia Nuttall, archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
1859 Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev, Russian mathematician (d. 1962)
1860 Jane Addams, American social activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 1935)
1861 William Lane, English-Australian journalist (d. 1917)
1868 Margaret Dreier Robins, American labor leader and reformer (d. 1947)
1869 Felix Salten, Austrian writer (d. 1945)
1869 Walford Davies, English organist and composer (d. 1941)
1876 John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physiologist, won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1935)
1877 Buddy Bolden, American jazz musician (d. 1930)
1879 Joseph Wirth, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956)
1879 Johan Nygaardsvold, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1952)
1879 Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1883 Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, British jurist and politician (d. 1962)
1885 Otto Kruger, American actor (d. 1974)
1888 Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician, businessman, diplomat and family patriarch (d. 1969)
1890 Claire Chennault, soldier (d. 1958)
1892 Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1965)
1893 John W. Bricker, 54th Governor of Ohio (d. 1986)
1899 Billy Rose, composer (d. 1966)
1900 W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
1900 Julien Green, French-American writer (d. 1998)
1901 1950
1902 Sylvanus Olympio, 1st President of Togo (d. 1963)
1904 Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, boxer (d. 1976)
1905 Otto Liiv, Estonian historian and archivist (d. 1942)
1905 Walther Müller, German physicist (d. 1979)
1906 Luis Federico Leloir, Argentine biochemist (d. 1987)
1908 Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor (d. 1982)
1911 Harry Danning, American Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
1912 Michele Andreolo, Uruguayan-Italian footballer (d. 1981)
1913 Leonidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (d. 2004)
1915 Franz Josef Strauss, German politician and Minister-President of Bavaria (d. 1988)
1917 Philipp von Boeselager, German military officer and Resistance activist (d. 2008)
1919 Wilson Greatbatch, American inventor (d. 2011)
1921 Carmen Laforet, Spanish writer (d. 2004)
1921 David Petel, Iraqi-Israeli politician (d. 2019)
1921 Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor (d. 2012)
1923 King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
1924 John Melcher, American politician (d. 2018)
1925 Andrea Camilleri, Italian author, screenwriter and director (d. 2019)
1925 Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (d. 1976)
1926 Claus van Amsberg, Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
1927 Fouad el-Mohandes, Egyptian actor and comedian (d. 2006)
1928 Robert M. Pirsig, American writer (d. 2017)
1928 Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (d. 2002)
1928 Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect
1928 Sid Watkins, British neurosurgeon (d. 2012)
1929 Yash Johar, Indian movie producer (d. 2005)
1929 Lyubov Rebane, Estonian physicist and mathematician (d. 1991)
1930 Charles Foley, American co-inventor of the game Twister (d. 2013)
1930 Salvatore de Giorgi, Italian archbishop
1934 Paul Naschy, Spanish actor, screenwriter and movie director (d. 2009)
1935 Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French-American artist and author (d. 2014)
1936 Anne Cuneo, Swiss writer and director (d. 2015)
1937 Janusz Kurczab, Polish mountaineer and fencer (d. 2015)
1937 Jo Anne Worley, actress
1937 Sergio Aragonés, Spanish illustrator
1937 Brigid Berlin, American actor and artist
1938 Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (d. 2011)
1939 Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist
1939 David Allan Coe, American songwriter, singer and guitarist
1942 Dave Bargeron, American trombonist and tuba player
1943 Harris Hines, American judge (d. 2018)
1943 Richard J. Roberts, British biochemist and molecular biologist
1943 Roger Waters, British musician (Pink Floyd)
1944 Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
1944 Donna Haraway, American writer and activist
1947 Jane Curtin, American actress
1947 Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer and coach
1948 Karlos Arguiñano, Spanish chef
1951 1975
1952 Buddy Miller, American singer-songwriter
1952 Simon Burns, English politician
1954 Carly Fiorina, American business executive and Presidential candidate
1955 Carl E. Walz, American astronaut
1956 Bill Ritter, former Governor of Colorado
1957 Michaëlle Jean, former Governor General of Canada
1957 José Sócrates, former Prime Minister of Portugal
1958 Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, and writer
1958 Arsinée Khanjian, Armenian-Canadian actress
1959 Ronnie Cowan, Scottish politician
1961 Scott Travis, American musician (Judas Priest)
1961 Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician (a-ha)
1962 Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey
1962 Marina Kaljurand, Estonian badminton player and diplomat
1963 Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer
1963 Geert Wilders, Dutch politician
1964 Rosie Perez, American actress
1965 Takumi Horiike, Japanese footballer
1966 Emil Boc, Romanian politician
1966 Jill Ellis, English-American soccer coach
1967 William DuVall, American singer (Alice in Chains)
1967 Macy Gray, American singer
1968 Paddy Boom, American drummer and songwriter (Scissor Sisters)
1968 Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish writer
1969 Norio Omura, Japanese footballer
1969 Ce Ce Peniston, American singer
1970 Paul Miller, (DJ Spooky) American composer, artist, writer
1970 Igor Korolev, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1970 Emily Maitlis, English journalist
1971 Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries) (d. 2018)
1971 Leila K, Swedish rapper
1972 China Miéville, writer
1972 Dylan Bruno, American actor
1972 Idris Elba, British actor
1973 Alessandro Troncon, Italian rugby player
1973 Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
1973 Greg Rusedski, Canadian-British tennis player
1974 Tim Henman, British tennis player
1974 Justin Whalin, actor
1974 Nina Persson, Swedish singer (The Cardigans)
1975 Gala, Italian singer
From 1976
1976 Robin Atkin Downes, English actor and voice actor
1976 Tom Pappas, American athlete
1976 Naomie Harris, British actress
1978 Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer
1978 Foxy Brown, American rapper
1978 Mathew Horne, English actor and screenwriter
1979 Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
1980 Kerry Katona, British singer and television personality
1980 Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
1981 Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer
1981 Santiago Salcedo, Paraguayan footballer
1983 Pippa Middleton, sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
1984 Luc Abalo, French handball player
1984 Andarz Kirm, Slovenian footballer
1984 Thomas Dekker, Dutch cyclist
1985 Tadas Kijanskas, Lithuanian footballer
1985 Koki Mizuno, Japanese footballer
1985 Webbie, American rapper
1988 Max George, British singer (The Wanted)
1989 Kim So-eun, South Korean singer
1989 Audrey Deroin, French handball player
1990 John Wall, American basketball player
1994 Theo Trebs, German actor
2006 Prince Hisahito of Akishino of Japan
Deaths
Up to 1900
394 Eugenius, Roman Emperor
926 Emperor Taizu of Liao of China (b. 872)
957 Liudolf, Duke of Swabia (b. 930)
972 Pope John XIII
1276 Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Italian cardinal (b. 1210)
1511 Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1481)
1566 Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1494)
1635 Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
1649 Robert Dudley, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)
1683 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (b. 1619)
1708 Sir John Morden, philanthropist (b. 1623)
1724 Jonathan Singletary Dunham, American settler, ancestor of Barack Obama (b. 1640)
1782 Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
1783 Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
1808 Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
1868 Pierre Adolphe Rost, American lawyer, judge and politician (b. 1797)
1871 Josef Naus, Austrian surveyor and climber (b. 1791)
1885 Narcis Monturiol i Estariol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer (b. 1819)
1901 2000
1902 Frederick Augustus Abel, British chemist (b. 1827)
1907 Sully Prudhomme, French writer (b. 1839)
1938 John Stuart Hindmarsh, English racing driver and aviator (b. 1907)
1939 Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (b. 1867)
1945 John McCain, Sr., American admiral (b. 1884)
1950 Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and author (b. 1886)
1951 Joan Vollmer, wife of William S. Burroughs (b. 1867)
1952 Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
1956 Alex Raymond, American comic artist (b. 1909)
1956 Michael Ventris, English architect (b. 1922)
1962 Seiichi Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
1962 Hanns Eisler, German composer (b. 1898)
1966 Hendrik Verwoerd, South African prime minister (b. 1901)
1966 Margaret Sanger, birth control activist (b. 1879)
1969 Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (b. 1892)
1972 People killed in the Munich Massacre:
Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-born Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
David Mark Berger, American-born Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling judge (b. 1931)
Eliezer Halfin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1948)
Amitzur Shapira, Israeli short-distance runner and coach (b. 1932)
Kehat Shorr, Israeli shooting coach (b. 1919)
Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1954)
Andre Spitzer, Romanian-born Israeli wrestler (b. 1954)
Yakov Springer, Polish-born Israeli wrestler and weightlifting coach (b. 1921)
Lutif Afif, Palestinian terrorist
1974 Olga Baclanova, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1974 Otto Kruger, American actor (b. 1885)
1981 Christy Brown, Irish writer (b. 1932)
1984 Ernest Tubb, country music singer (b. 1914)
1985 Franco Ferrera, Italian conductor (b. 1911)
1985 Johnny Desmond, American singer (b. 1919)
1986 Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1895)
1990 Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941)
1991 Pee Wee Gaskins, American serial killer (executed by electrocution; b. 1933)
1990 Len Hutton, English cricketer (b. 1916)
1992 Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter and producer (b. 1912)
1994 Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. February 24, 1944)
1998 Akira Kurosawa, Japanese movie director (b. 1910)
1999 Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician (b. 1938)
From 2001
2005 Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1919)
2007 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
2007 Madeleine L'Engle, American writer (b. 1918)
2008 Anita Page, American actress (b. 1910)
2012 Art Modell, American businessman and NFL team owner (b. 1925)
2012 Terry Nutkins, English television host and author (b. 1946)
2014 Cirilo Flores, American bishop (b. 1948)
2014 Kira Zvorykina, Belarussian chess player (b. 1919)
2014 Odd Bondevik, Norwegian theologian (b. 1941)
2014 Stefan Gierasch, American actor (b. 1926)
2015 Ralph Milne, Scottish footballer (b. 1961)
2015 Martin Milner, American actor (b. 1931)
2015 Calvin J. Spann, American pilot (b. 1924)
2016 Lilian Uchtenhagen, Swiss economist and politician (b. 1928)
2017 Carlo Caffarra, Italian cardinal (b. 1938)
2017 Nicolae Lupescu, Romanian footballer (b. 1940)
2017 Jim McDaniels, American basketball player (b. 1948)
2017 Kate Millett, American feminist writer and human rights activist (b. 1934)
2017 Mike Neville, British television broadcaster (b. 1936)
2017 Noel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2017 Solomon Efimovich Shulman, Belarussian writer (b. 1936)
2017 Lotfi A. Zadeh, Azerbaijani-American mathematician (b. 1921)
2018 Richard DeVos, American businessman (b. 1926)
2018 Liz Fraser, English actress (b. 1930)
2018 Wilson Moreira, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
2018 Burt Reynolds, American actor (b. 1936)
2018 Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor (b. 1934)
2018 Salawat Gallyamov, Russian linguist (b. 1959)
2018 Gilbert Lazard, French linguist (b. 1920)
2019 Chris Duncan, American baseball player (b. 1981)
2019 Robert Mugabe, 1st Prime Minister and 2nd President of Zimbabwe (b. 1924)
2019 Abdul Qadir, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1955)
2019 Wally Westlake, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2019 Chester Williams, South African rugby union player (b. 1970)
Observances
Independence Day (Swaziland)
Unification Day (Bulgaria)
Defence Day (Pakistan)
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Events
Up to 1900
70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem.
1380 - Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
1504 – Michelangelo's David statue is unveiled in Florence.
1514 - Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
1565 - The Knights of Malta end the Turkish Siege of Malta that began on May 18.
1665 - Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under Charles X Gustav of Sweden.
1727 - A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England, kills 78 people, most of them children.
1761 – King George III of the United Kingdom marries Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
1796 - French Revolutionary Wars: The French defeat Austrian forces in Bassano, Venetia, present-day Italy.
1831 – William IV of the United Kingdom is crowned king.
1860 - The steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, killing around 300 people.
1863 – American Civil War: At the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, the Confederates prevent an attempt from the Union army to enter Texas.
1883 - The Northern Pacific Railway is completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana, United States.
1888 - Jack the Ripper killings: The body of Annie Chapman is found.
1888 - in England, the first six Football League matches are played.
1892 – The American Pledge of Allegiance is recited for the first time.
1900 – In Galveston, Texas, a hurricane kills around 8,000 people.
1901 2000
1914 - World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
1923 - Honda Point disaster: Nine United States Navy destroyers run aground on the California coast. Seven are lost and 23 sailors are killed.
1926 – Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1928 - Uruguay is given the right to host the 1930 FIFA World Cup.
1934 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
1935 - United States Senator Huey Long from Louisiana is fatally shot the state's capitol building.
1941 - World War II: The Siege of Leningrad begins.
1943 – World War II: US General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the allied armistice with Italy.
1944 - London is hot by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
1945 - United States troops arrive to partition South Korea after the Soviet occupation of the northern part.
1962 – Algeria adopts its constitution.
1966 – The First episode of Star Trek airs.
1966 - The Severn Bridge in southwestern England is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
1974 – Gerald Ford pardons former US President Richard Nixon.
1986 - The Oprah Winfrey Show is broadcast for the first time on US television.
1988 - Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in its history due to ongoing fires.
1989 - Partnair Flight 394 crashes in the North Sea, killing 55 people.
1991 – The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
1994 - USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes, killing all 132 on board.
From 2001
2004 - NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands in Utah when its parachute fails to open.
2005 - Two EMERCOM II-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas - the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
2013 - Eleven people die in a train crash in Iasi County, Romania.
2018 - US Open: Naomi Osaka becomes the first Japanese tennis player to win a Grand Slam title, in a match dominated by her opponent Serena Williams' disputes with the umpire.
2019 - US Open: Rafael Nadal defeats Daniil Medvedev in five sets to win his 19th Grand Slam singles title, putting him just one behind Roger Federer's total of 20.
Births
Up to 1900
801 Ansgar, German Christian archbishop (d. 865)
1157 King Richard I of England (d. 1199)
1207 King Sancho II of Portugal (d. 1248)
1380 Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (d. 1444)
1413 Catherine of Bologna, Italian nun, writer, mystic, teacher, artist and saint (d. 1463)
1474 Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (d. 1533)
1588 Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (d. 1648)
1611 Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German philologist (d. 1671)
1621 Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, French general (d. 1686)
1624 Murad Baksh, son of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (d. 1661)
1633 Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
1749 Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (d. 1793)
1749 Marie-Louise, princesse de Lamballe, French aristocrat (d. 1792)
1750 Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1795)
1752 Carl Stenborg, Swedish opera singer (d. 1813)
1767 August von Schlegel, German poet (d. 1845)
1778 Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
1779 Mustafa IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1808)
1783 Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872)
1814 Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French archaeologist, ethnographer and historian (d. 1874)
1815 Giuseppina Strepponi, Italian operatic soprano (d. 1897)
1819 Fontes Pereira de Melo, Portuguese statesman (d. 1887)
1822 Karl von Ditmar, German geologist and explorer (d. 1892)
1828 Joshua Chamberlain, American general, politician and 32nd Governor of Maine (d. 1914)
1830 Frédéric Mistral, French poet (d. 1914)
1831 Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (d. 1910)
1841 Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (d. 1904)
1841 Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of US President James A. Garfield (d. 1882)
1851 John Jenkins, American-born Premier of South Australia (d. 1923)
1852 Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
1857 Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936)
1872 George Dern, Governor of Utah (d. 1936)
1873 David O. McKay, American Mormon leader (d. 1970)
1881 Harry Hillman, American athlete (d. 1945)
1881 Refik Saydam, 5th Prime Minister and Turkey (d. 1942)
1886 Siegfried Sassoon, British poet (d. 1967)
1886 Ninon Vallin, French soprano (d. 1961)
1887 Jacob L. Devers, American general (d. 1979)
1887 George, Crown Prince of Serbia (d. 1972)
1889 Robert Alphonso Taft, American politician (d. 1953)
1897 Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1933)
1900 Claude Pepper, American politician (d. 1989)
1901 1950
1901 Hendrik Verwoerd, South African politician (d. 1966)
1906 Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician (d. 1990)
1910 Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (d. 1994)
1914 Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople (d. 1991)
1918 Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist (d. 1998)
1919 Gianni Brera, Italian journalist and author (d. 1992)
1919 Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter (d. 2014)
1921 Harry Secombe, Welsh tenor and actor (d. 2001)
1922 Sid Caesar, American comedian and actor (d. 2014)
1922 Lyndon LaRouche, American politician (d. 2019)
1923 Joy Laville, British-Mexican artist (d. 2018)
1924 Fred Jarvis, British trade unionist
1924 Wendell H. Ford, American politician, 53rd Governor of Kentucky (d. 2015)
1925 Peter Sellers, British actor (d. 1980)
1929 Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor
1930 Mario Adorf, Swiss-German actor
1930 Nguyen Cao Ky, South Vietnamese air force chief and Prime Minister (d. 2011)
1930 Robert W. Firestone, American psychologist and author
1932 Patsy Cline, American singer (d. 1963)
1933 Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician (d. 2014)
1934 Alan Dundes, American folklorist (d. 2005)
1937 Joe Carolan, Irish footballer (d. 2018)
1938 Wibke Bruhns, German journalist and writer (d. 2019)
1939 Carsten Keller, German field hockey player
1941 Ito Giani, Italian sprinter (d. 2018)
1941 Bernie Sanders, American politician
1944 Margaret Hodge, English politician
1944 Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer and coach
1945 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1973)
1945 Rogie Vachon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1946 Aziz Sancar, Turkish-American biochemist and molecular biologist, Nobel laureate
1947 Halldor Asgrimsson, Icelandic politician, former Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 2015)
1947 Valery Afanassiev, Russian politician
1948 Great Kabuki, Japanese wrestler
1950 Ian Davidson, Scottish politician
1951 1975
1951 John McDonnell, English politician
1952 David R. Ellis, American director, actor and stuntman (d. 2013)
1954 Anne Diamond, English journalist
1955 Julian Richings, English-Canadian actor
1956 David Carr, American journalist and writer (d. 2015)
1957 Walt Easley, American football player (d. 2013)
1957 Ricardo Montaner, Argentine-Venezuelan singer
1958 Mitsuru Miyamoto, Japanese voice actor
1959 Judy Murray, Scottish tennis coach
1960 Aimee Mann, American musician
1960 Stefano Casiraghi, Italian businessman, married into Monegasque royalty (d. 1990)
1963 Danny Frawley, Australian footballer (d. 2019)
1963 Brad Silberling, American television and movie director
1966 Carola, Swedish singer
1967 Eerik-Niiles Kross, Estonian politician and diplomat
1968 Louise Minchin, English journalist
1969 Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and coach (d. 2011)
1970 Latren Sprewell, American basketball player
1970 Nidal Malik Hassan, American soldier and murderer
1971 David Arquette, American actor
1971 Martin Freeman, English actor
1972 Markus Babbel, German footballer
1973 Khamis Al-Owairan, Saudi footballer
1975 Richard Hughes, English musician (Keane)
1975 Chris Latham, Australian rugby player
1975 Lee Eul-Yong, South Korean footballer and manager
1975 Elena Likhovtseva, Russian tennis player
From 1976
1976 Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player
1976 Gerald Drummond, Costa Rican footballer
1976 Jervis Drummond, Costa Rican footballer
1979 Pink, American singer
1980 Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African runner (d. 2014)
1980 Kristian Kjelling, Norwegian handball player
1981 Morten Gamst Pedersen, Norwegian footballer
1983 Diego Benaglio, Swiss footballer
1984 Peter Whittingham, English footballer
1984 Vitaly Petrov, Russian racing driver
1986 Joao Moutinho, Portuguese footballer
1987 Wiz Khalifa, American rapper
1987 Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian freestyle skier
1987 Marcel Nguyen, German gymnast
1987 Dom Parsons, English skeleton racer
1988 Chantal Jones, American model and actress
1989 Avicii, Swedish DJ and producer (d. 2018)
1989 Gylfi Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer
1990 Matt Barkley, American football player
1991 Ignacio González Espinoza, Mexican footballer
1991 Joe Sugg, English YouTuber, author and vlogger
1994 Bruno Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
Deaths
Up to 1900
394 Arbogast, Frankish general
701 Pope Sergius I
780 Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor (b. 750)
1100 Antipope Clement III (b. 1029)
1134 Alfonso I of Aragon and Navarre (b. 1073)
1397 Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English politician (b. 1355)
1425 King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
1613 Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)
1637 Robert Fludd, English physician, mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1574)
1644 John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
1645 Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish poet and politician (b. 1580)
1682 Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
1780 Enoch Poor, American general (b. 1736)
1784 Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
1811 Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (b. 1741)
1882 Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
1888 Annie Chapman, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841)
1894 Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (b. 1821)
1901 2000
1916 Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1836)
1933 King Faisal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
1944 Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
1963 Maurice Wilks, English automotive engineer (b. 1904)
1965 Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
1965 Hermann Staudinger, German chemist (b. 1881)
1969 Bud Collyer, American actor and game show host (b. 1908)
1970 Percy Spencer, inventor (b. 1894)
1978 Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (b. 1901)
1979 Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
1980 Willard Libby, American chemist (b. 1908)
1981 Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
1981 Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist (b. 1907)
1981 Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher and educator (b. 1897)
1983 Antoine Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
1985 John Franklin Enders, American scientist
1989 Sgt. Barry Sadler, American soldier, writer and songwriter (b. 1940)
1999 Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)
From 2001
2003 Leni Riefenstahl, German movie maker (b. 1902)
2003 Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
2004 Delfín Benítez Cáceres, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1910)
2006 Thomas Lee Judge, 18th Governor of Montana (b. 1934)
2009 Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (b. 1922)
2010 Israel Tal, Israeli military (b. 1924)
2011 Vo Chi Cong, former President of Vietnam (b. 1912)
2012 Bill Moggridge, English-American designer, author and educator (b. 1943)
2012 Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1920)
2013 Louise Currie, American actress (b. 1913)
2014 George Zuverink, American baseball player (b. 1924)
2014 Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1918)
2014 Magda Olivero, Italian operatic soprano (b. 1910)
2014 Bobby Fong, American academic (b. 1950)
2014 Sean O'Haire, American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and kickboxer (b. 1971)
2015 Andrew Kohut, American political scientist (b. 1942)
2015 Joost Zwagerman, Dutch author (b. 1963)
2015 Ebby Halliday, American businesswoman (b. 1911)
2016 Prince Buster, Jamaican musician (b. 1938)
2017 Pierre Bergé, French businessman and activist (b. 1930)
2017 Isabelle Daniels, American sprinter (b. 1937)
2017 Catherine Hardy Lavender, American sprinter (b. 1930)
2017 Blake Heron, American actor (b. 1982)
2017 Jerry Pournelle, American science fiction author (b. 1933)
2017 Karl Ravens, German politician (b. 1927)
2017 Don Williams, American country music singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
2018 Jonas Algirdas Antanaitis, Lithuanian politician (b. 1921)
2018 Gennadi Gagulia, Abkhazian politician, Prime Minister of Abkhazia (b. 1948)
2018 Chelsi Smith, American singer and beauty pageant winner (b. 1973)
2019 Chris Dobson, British chemist (b. 1949)
2019 Ram Jethmalani, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
2019 Yisrael Kessar, Yemeni-born Israeli politician (b. 1931)
2019 Lito Legaspi, Filipino actor (b. 1941)
2019 Christopher James, 5th Baron Northbourne, British aristocrat (b. 1926)
2019 Joseph P. Kolter, American politician (b. 1926)
2019 Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2019 Olav Skjevesland, Norwegian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1942)
2019 Carlos Squeo, Argentine footballer (b. 1948)
Observances
National Holiday (Andorra and Republic of Macedonia)
International Literacy Day (UNESCO)
Victory Day (Pakistan)
Nativity of the Virgin (Christianity)
September 08 |
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Events
Up to 1900
1223 - Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile are crowned King and Queen of France.
1284 - The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, therefore losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
1506 - The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk.
1538 - Bogota, the present-day capital city of Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada.
1661 - The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
1787 - Sixty proof sheets of the United States Constitution are delivered to the Constitution Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1813 - Simon Bolivar takes control of Caracas (present-day Venezuela) from the Spanish.
1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Peru.
1845 - The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg.
1861 – British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria.
1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with the USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: The Battles of Spicheren and Woerth both end in Prussian victory.
1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electric chair is performed, with murderer William Kemmler as the subject.
1893 - The Corinth Canal in Greece opens for shipping.
1896 - Madagascar officially becomes a French colony.
1901 2000
1914 - World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany.
1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair begins - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1926 – In New York City, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1940 - The Soviet Union takes control of Estonia.
1942 - Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1945 – World War II: An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima, Japan at 8:16 a.m.. It kills 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year from fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bombing.
1958 - Gasherbrum IV in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas is first climbed, by Walter Bonatti and Carlo Mauri.
1960 – Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1964 - Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
1966 - Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Fall City, Nebraska, killing all 42 people.
1984 – Pop star Prince releases Purple Rain, the album which launched him to superstardom.
1985 – In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.
1988 – "Police riot" in New York City's Tompkins Square Park
1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.
1991 - Takako Doi becomes the first female speaker of the Japanese House of Representatives.
1993 - Heavy rains kill 72 people in the Aira and Kagoshima areas of Kyushu, Japan.
1993 – Louis Freeh is confirmed by the United States Senate to be the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1993 – The Fugitive opens in theaters, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1996 – Australian census conducted.
1997 – Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer.
1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
From 2001
2001 – President George W. Bush receives President's Daily Briefing entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US.
2002 – Marquis de la Fayette is made Honorary Citizen of the United States.
2002 – Manindra Agrawal et al. prove the long-standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled "Primes in P".
2008 – In Mauritania, President Sidi Ould Sheikh Abdallahi is removed from office in a military coup, led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
2010 - In relation to the floods in Pakistan, flash floods also hit the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir, killing 255 people.
2011 - The 2011 England riots begin.
2012 - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity lands on the surface of the planet Mars, with the intention of finding evidence that life once existed there.
2017 - The UEFA Women's Championship is won by the Netherlands, with a 4-2 win in the final over Denmark, who had ended Germany's run of six titles in-a-row in the quarter finals.
Births
Up to 1800
1180 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
1504 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575)
1619 - Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
1638 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (d. 1715)
1644 - Louise de la Valliere, mistress to Louis XIV of France (d. 1710)
1666 - Maria Sofia of Neuburg, German-born consort of Peter II of Portugal (d. 1699)
1667 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and physician (d. 1748)
1682 - Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1712)
1697 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
1765 - Petros Mavromichalis, Greek independence leader (d. 1848)
1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)
1775 – Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847)
1775 - Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, son of King Charles X of France (d. 1844)
1789 - Friedrich List, German economist, businessman and diplomat (d. 1846)
1801 1900
1809 – Alfred Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
1811 - Judah P. Benjamin, American politician (d. 1884)
1826 - Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (d. 1915)
1827 - José Manuel Marroquin, 27th President of Colombia (d. 1908)
1835 - Jewett W. Adams, Governor of Nevada (d. 1920)
1844 – James Henry Greathead, engineer (d. 1896)
1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
1857 - Christian Wilhelm Allers, German painter (d. 1915)
1859 - Arthur Berson, German meteorologist (d. 1942)
1861 – Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (d. 1948)
1866 – Matthew Henson, American Arctic explorer (d. 1955)
1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet (d. 1955)
1874 – Charles Fort, writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena (d. 1932)
1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., United States Senator from Maine (d. 1952)
1880 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
1881 – Leo Carrillo, actor (d. 1961)
1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist and physician (d. 1955)
1881 – Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957)
1891 - William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, 13th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1970)
1892 – Hoot Gibson, American cowboy actor (d. 1962)
1893 – Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
1895 - Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban musician and composer (d. 1963)
1900 – Cecil H. Green, Texas Instruments founder (d. 2003)
1901 - 1950
1902 – Dutch Schultz, American bootlegger, gangster (d. 1935)
1904 – Jean Desses, French couturier (d. 1970)
1904 - Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (d. 1993)
1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (d. 1997)
1908 - Rufino Santos, Filipino cardinal (d. 1973)
1908 - Louis Vaida, Hungarian painter (d. 1941)
1911 - Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (d. 2014)
1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress and comedienne (d. 1989)
1914 - Gordon Freeth, Australian politician (d. 2001)
1916 – Richard Hofstadter, historian (d. 1970)
1916 – Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta (d. 2012)
1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (Night of the Hunter, Cape Fear 1961 version) (d. 1997)
1919 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (d. 2011)
1922 – Sir Freddie Laker, American entrepreneur (d. 2006)
1922 - Daniel Walker, American politician, Governor of Illinois (d. 2015)
1924 - Hélène Martini, French night club owner (d. 2017)
1924 - Philippe Washer, Belgian tennis player (d. 2015)
1925 - Barbara Bates, American actress (d. 1969)
1926 - Elisabeth Beresford, British author (d. 2010)
1926 - Frank Finlay, English actor (d. 2016)
1928 – Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
1929 - Mike Elliott, Jamaican saxophonist
1929 - Kateb Yacine, Algerian writer (d. 1989)
1930 - Abbey Lincoln, American jazz singer (d. 2010)
1932 – Howard Hodgkin, English painter and print-maker (d. 2017)
1933 - Suchinda Kraprayoon, former Prime Minister of Thailand
1933 – Ulrich Biesinger, German footballer (d. 2011)
1934 – Chris Bonington, English mountaineer
1934 - Piers Anthony, English author
1934 - Diane di Prima, American poet
1935 - Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (d. 2012)
1935 - Mario Coluna, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer (d. 2014)
1937 – Charlie Haden, American musician (d. 2014)
1937 - Barbara Windsor, British actress
1937 - Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian musician (d. 2000)
1938 - Peter Bonerz, American actor and director
1940 - Louise Sorel, American actress
1940 - Mukhu Aliyev, Russian politician, 2nd President of Dagestan
1940 - Egil Kapstad, Norwegian pianist
1942 - Evelyn Hamann, German actress (d. 2007)
1943 – Jon Postel, American creator of the Domain Name System (DNS) (d. 1998)
1946 – Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea (d. 2009), possibly born on September 1
1946 – Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian
1946 - Ron Davies, Welsh politician
1948 - Alan Howarth, American composer
1949 – Clarence Richard Silva, Roman Catholic bishop of Honolulu
1951 1975
1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
1951 - Catherine Hicks, American actress
1951 - Christophe de Margerie, French businessman (d. 2014)
1952 - David McLetchie, Scottish politician (d. 2013)
1955 - Rusty Magee, American actor and composer (d. 2003)
1955 - Tom Sandberg, Norwegian skier
1957 - Renato Soru, Italian politician and businessman, founder of Tiscali
1957 – Jim McGreevey, American politician, former Governor of New Jersey
1959 – Joyce Sims, American singer-songwriter
1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Chinese-Malaysian actress
1962 - Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor
1963 - Charles Ingram, British game show contestant
1963 - Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author
1964 - Gary Valenciano, Filipino singer-songwriter, producer and actor
1965 - Juliane Köhler, German actress
1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player
1965 – Mark Speight, English television presenter (d. 2008)
1968 - Lisa Boyle, American actress and model
1969 - Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American movie director, writer, producer, actor
1971 – Merrin Dungey, actress
1971 - Federico Giunti, Italian footballer
1972 – Geri Halliwell, English singer (Spice Girls)
1973 - Donna Lewis, Welsh singer and composer
1975 - Jason Crump, Australian speedway rider
1975 - Renate Götschl, Austrian skier
From 1976
1976 - Soleil Moon Frye, American actress
1976 – Melissa George, actress
1977 - Jennifer Lyons, American actress
1977 - Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Marisa Miller, American actress
1978 – Billy Klippert, singer
1979 - Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist
1979 - Jaime Correa, Mexican footballer
1979 - Megumi Okina, Japanese actress and singer
1980 - Roman Weidenfeller, German footballer
1981 - Travie McCoy, American rapper and songwriter
1981 - Abdul Kader Keïta, footballer from Ivory Coast
1982 - Romola Garai, British actress
1983 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
1984 – Vedad Ibisevic, footballer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
1984 - Sofia Essaidi, French-Moroccan singer, dancer and actress
1985 - Jesse Ryder, New Zealand cricketer
1985 - Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
1987 - Aditya Narayan, Indian actor and singer
1987 - Charley Chase, American pornographic actress
1987 - Joran van der Sloot, Dutch murderer
1988 - Chelsee Healey, English actress
1988 - Aleska Diamond, Hungarian pornographic actress
1990 – JonBenét Ramsey, young beauty queen and victim of crime (d. 1996)
1991 - Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
1993 - Kaori Ishihara, Japanese voice actress
1998 - Jack Scanlon, British actor
2001 - Ty Simpkins, American actor
Deaths
Up to 1900
258 - Pope Sixtus II
523 - Pope Hormisdas (b. 450)
1162 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. 1113)
1195 - Henry the Lion, son of Henry X, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1129)
1221 - Saint Dominic, Spanish monk and founder of the Dominican Order (b. 1170)
1272 - King Stephen V of Hungary (b. 1239)
1328 - Galeazzo I Visconti, ruler of Milan (b. 1277)
1414 - Ladislaus of Naples (b. 1377)
1458 - Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
1623 - Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare (b. 1555)
1660 – Diego Velazquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
1694 - Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
1746 - King Christian VI of Denmark (b. 1699)
1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (b. 1711)
1794 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
1828 - Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1785)
1875 - Gabriel Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador (b. 1821)
1881 - James Springer White, American preacher and author (b. 1821)
1890 - William Kemmler, American murderer, executed on the electric chair (b. 1860)
1891 - Henry Litolff, English pianist and composer (b. 1818)
1893 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (b. 1811)
1901 2000
1904 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music writer and critic (b. 1825)
1914 – Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of US President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860)
1920 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (b. 1890)
1925 - Surendranath Banerjee, Indian politician (b. 1848)
1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz cornetist and pianist (b. 1903)
1945 - Richard Bong, American pilot (b. 1920)
1945 - Hiram Johnson, Governor of California (b. 1866)
1954 – Emilie Dionne, one of the Dionne Quintuplets (b. 1934)
1959 - Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter and director (b. 1898)
1964 - Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893)
1969 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher (b. 1903)
1973 – Fulgencio Batista, President of Cuba (b. 1901)
1974 - Gene Ammons, American saxophonist (b. 1925)
1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist (b. 1903)
1978 – Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
1978 – Edward Durrell Stone, American architect (b. 1902)
1979 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist (b. 1911)
1983 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
1985 – Forbes Burnham, leader of Guyana (b. 1923)
1986 - Emilio Fernandez, Mexican actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1904)
1991 - Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer, politician and diplomat (b. 1900)
1991 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian politician (b. 1915)
1991 - Harry Reasoner, American journalist (b. 1923)
1993 - Bob Kiesel, American athlete (b. 1911)
1994 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter, actor and politician (b. 1928)
1994 - Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (b. 1925)
1998 - André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
From 2001
2001 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
2002 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
2005 – Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer (b. 1927)
2007 - Heinz Barth, German SS officer (b. 1920)
2009 - Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (b. 1909)
2009 - Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
2009 – John Hughes, American movie director (b. 1950)
2010 - Fredrik Ericsson, Swedish mountaineer (b. 1975)
2010 - Catfish Collins, American musician (b. 1944)
2010 – Tony Judt, British historian (b. 1948)
2012 - Bernard Lovell, British physicist and radio astronomer (b. 1913)
2012 - Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist (b. 1918)
2012 - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer (b. 1944)
2013 - Selcuk Yula, Turkish footballer (b. 1959)
2014 - Pran Kumar Sharma, Indian cartoonist (b. 1938)
2014 - Smita Talwalkar, Indian actress (b. 1954)
2014 - John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist (b. 1927)
2014 - Julien Fourgeaud, French businessman and inventor (b. 1980)
2015 - Orna Porat, German-Israeli actress (b. 1924)
2015 - Louise Suggs, American tennis player (b. 1923)
2016 - Ivo Pitanguy, Brazilian plastic surgeon (b. 1926)
2017 - Nicole Bricq, French politician (b. 1947)
2017 - Betty Cuthbert, Australian athlete (b. 1938)
2017 - Darren Daulton, American baseball player (b. 1962)
2017 - Hinrich Lehmann-Grube, German politician (b. 1932)
2017 - Martin Roth, German museum director (b. 1955)
2017 - Dick Locher, American cartoonist (b. 1929)
2017 - Wolfgang H. Berger, German-American oceanographer and geologist (b. 1937)
2018 - Margaret Heckler, American politician (b. 1931)
2018 - Paul Laxalt, American politician, 22nd Governor of Nevada (b. 1922)
2018 - Joël Robuchon, French chef and cookbook writer (b. 1945)
Observances
Independence Day in Bolivia and Jamaica
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony
Start of Tanabata Festival (Sendai, Japan)
Bogota Day
August 06 |
9952 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%204 | August 4 |
Events
Up to 1940
70 - Destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem by the Romans.
1265 - Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham - an army led by Prince Edward, the future King Edward I of England, defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
1327 - First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas, Lord of Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost killed Edward III of England.
1532 - The Duchy of Brittany is annexed to the Kingdom of France.
1578 - Battle of Al-Kasr al Kebir: The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese.
1627 - The Siege of La Rochelle under King Louis XIII of France begins.
1704 - War of Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke, and allied with Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
1783 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people, and resulting in a famine that kills a further 20,000. There was a similarly destructive eruption in Iceland just two months earlier.
1789 - In France, members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and end their privileges.
1791 - The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars.
1796 - French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
1824 - The Battle of Kos is fought between Turkish and Greek forces.
1845 - The British emigrant ship Catargui runs aground off King Island, near Tasmania, killing 399 people. 9 survive.
1851 - David Livingstone reaches the upper course of the Zambezi River in Africa.
1854 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown on Japanese ships.
1863 - Matika slovenska, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution, focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is founded.
1873 - American Indian Wars: US 7th Cavalry, under George Armstrong Custer, clashes with the Sioux for the first time, near the Tongue River, Montana. One on each side is killed.
1892 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found dead in their home in Massachusetts, leading to one of the most well-known murder cases. It is still unknown whether Borden committed the murders.
1902 - The Greenwich Foot Tunnel under the River Thames opens.
1903 - Giuseppe Melchiore Sarto is elected Pope. He becomes Pope Pius X.
1906 - Central Railway Station in Sydney, Australia opens.
1906 - Italian passenger steamboat Siriohits a reef at Cabo de Palos, southern Spain. 442 people drown.
1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium, and the UK declares war on Germany.
1915 - The German 12th Army occupies in Warsaw.
1917 - The Tigra Reservoir in India breaks, causing a flood, killing around 1,000 people.
1924 - Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
1936 - Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas suspends Parliament and the Constitution, establishing the 4th August regime.
From 1941
1944 – Anne Frank and her family are arrested by the Gestapo, after a secret informant had given information about the secret annex.
1946 - A magnitude 8 earthquake hits the Dominican Republic, killing 100 people and leaving 20,000 people homeless.
1947 - The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
1958 - The Billboard Hot 100 is first published.
1961 – US President Barack Obama is born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
1964 - American Civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, Andrew Gooding and James Chaney are found dead after disappearing on June 21.
1964 - Gulf of Tonkin incident: US destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1965 - The Cook Islands achieve self-determination in 'Free Association' with New Zealand.
1974 - A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people.
1975 - The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several Embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1977 - Jimmy Carter signs the legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
1979 - The Cook Islands introduce a new flag.
1983 – Thomas Sankara takes control in Upper Volta, through a military coup.
1984 – Exactly a year after coming to power, Thomas Sankara changes Upper Volta's name to Burkina Faso.
1991 - Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanus sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
1995 - Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
1996 - The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, US, come to an end.
1997 – The oldest human on record, Jeanne Calment of France, dies aged 122 years, 164 days.
2005 - Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin announces that Michaelle Jean would become the 27th Governor-General of Canada.
2006 - A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger charity.
2007 - Slovenia bans smoking in public places.
2007 - NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is launched.
2009 – Former US President Bill Clinton travels to North Korea to secure the release of two journalists.
2013 - The United States closes several embassies in North Africa and the Middle East for up to a week. The UK, France and Germany also do so with their Embassy in Yemen.
2014 - Commemorations take place around the world to mark 100 years since the start of World War I.
2019 - 2019 Dayton shooting: A gunman kills 9 people, including his sister, in Dayton, Ohio, before killing himself. It occurs less than 24 hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.
2019 - 20 people are killed in an explosion in Cairo.
Births
Up to 1900
1222 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (d. 1262)
1290 – Duke Leopold I of Austria (d. 1326)
1502 - Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter (d. 1550)
1521 – Pope Urban VII, (d. 1590)
1647 - Giovanni II Cornaro, ruler of Venice (d. 1722)
1701 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)
1704 - Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (d. 1752)
1719 - Johanna Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1767)
1721 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)
1755 - Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French chemist, painter and inventor (d. 1805)
1792 - Edward Irving, Scottish clergyman (d. 1834)
1792 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
1800 - Ramon Maria Narvaez, 1st Duke of Valencia, Spanish military and politician (d. 1868)
1804 - Karl Friedrich Hermann, German historian and classical scholar (d. 1855)
1805 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
1813 - Alexander von Mensdorff-Pouilly, Prince Dietrich von Nicolsburg, Austrian statesman (d. 1871)
1816 - Richard Leach Maddox, English physician (d. 1902)
1817 - Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, United States Secretary of State (d. 1885)
1821 - Louis Vuitton, French designer (d. 1892)
1821 - James Springer White, American religious leader, founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (d. 1881)
1823 - Oliver P. Morton, 44th Governor of Indiana (d. 1877)
1824 - Domingo Santa María, President of Chile (d. 1889)
1834 – John Venn, British mathematician (d. 1923)
1848 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1853 - John Henry Twachtman, American painter (d. 1902)
1859 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1920 (d. 1952)
1861 - Daniel Edward Howard, President of Liberia (d. 1935)
1870 - Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer (d. 1950)
1876 - Giovanni Giuriati, Italian politician (d. 1970)
1883 - René Schickele, German-French writer (d. 1940)
1884 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)
1887 - Albert M. Greenfield, American businessman (d. 1967)
1888 - Taher Saifuddin, Indian religious leader (d. 1965)
1890 - Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player (d. 1957)
1899 – Ezra Taft Benson, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
1900 - Nabi Tajima, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2018)
1900 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
1900 - Arturo Umberto Illia, President of Argentina (d. 1983)
1901 1950
1901 – Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician (d. 1971)
1904 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
1906 – Marie-José of Belgium, last Queen of Italy (d. 2001)
1906 – Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist (d. 1973)
1908 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
1909 – Glenn Cunningham, American athlete (d. 1988)
1909 - Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (d. 2005)
1909 - Roberto Burle Marx, Brazilian landscape architect, plant collector and painter (d. 1994)
1910 – Anita Page, American actress (d. 2008)
1910 – William Schuman, composer (d. 1992)
1912 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, mathematician, physicist, philosopher and a mountaineer (d. 1999)
1912 – Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (d. 1947 presumed)
1913 – Robert Hayden, American poet, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (d. 1980)
1915 - Warren Avis, American businessman (d. 2007)
1915 - Loni Nest, German actress (d. 1990)
1917 - John Fitch, American racing driver (d. 2012)
1918 - Iceberg Slim, American writer (d. 1992)
1919 - Michel Déon, French writer (d. 2016)
1920 – Helen Thomas, American journalist (d. 2013)
1921 - Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist (d. 2010)
1921 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2000)
1921 - Geoffrey Wellum, British fighter pilot (d. 2018)
1923 - Reg Grundy, Australian entrepreneur (d. 2016)
1926 - George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist and mountaineer (d. 2000)
1926 - Perry Moss, American football coach (d. 2014)
1926 - Martha Vaughan, American biochemist and physiologist (d. 2018)
1927 – Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
1927 - John Wilcock, British journalist (d. 2018)
1928 - Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (d. 2003)
1928 - Flóra Kádár, Hungarian actress (d. 2003)
1929 - Victor Krasin, Ukrainian-born Russian human rights activist and economist (d. 2017)
1929 – Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (possibly born on August 24) (d. 2004)
1929 – Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
1930 – Götz Friedrich, opera director (d. 2000)
1932 – Hans Jürgen Fröhlich, writer
1932 – Guillermo Mordillo, graphic artist and cartoonist
1932 - Francis E. Allen, American computer scientist
1934 - Dallas Green, American baseball player and manager
1936 – Assia Djebar, member of the Académie française (d. 2015)
1937 – David Bedford, English musician and composer (d. 2011)
1939 - Frankie Ford, American singer (d. 2015)
1940 - Robin Harper, Scottish academic and politician
1941 – Ted Strickland, American politician, 68th Governor of Ohio
1942 – David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2005)
1942 - Don S. Davis, American actor (d. 2008)
1943 – Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
1943 - Vicente Alvarez Areces, Spanish politician
1944 – Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
1944 - Orhan Gencebay, Turkish musician, composer, singer, producer, director and actor
1946 - Maureen Starkey Tigrett, wife of Ringo Starr (d. 1994)
1947 – Hubert Ingraham, former Prime Minister of the Bahamas
1947 – Klaus Schulze, German composer and performer
1950 - Caldwell Jones, American basketball player (d. 2014)
1950 - N. Rangasamy, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Puducherry
1951 1975
1952 - Gábor Demszky, Hungarian politician
1952 - Daniel Bautista, Mexican race walker
1953 - Antonio Tajani, Italian politician
1953 - Hiroyuki Usui, Japanese footballer
1954 - Anatoliy Kinakh, 11th Prime Minister of Ukraine
1955 - Dariusz Lipinski, Polish politician
1955 - Andrew M. Allen, American astronaut
1955 – Alberto Gonzales, former United States Attorney General
1955 – Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
1955 - Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, Icelandic politician
1956 - Meg Whitman, American businesswoman
1957 - Valdis Valters, Latvian basketball player
1957 - John Wark, Scottish footballer
1958 - Liao Yiwu, Chinese writer, poet and musician
1958 – Mary Decker Slaney, American middle-distance runner
1958 - Pita, Brazilian footballer
1958 - Phillip Scott, American politician, 82nd Governor of Vermont
1958 - Siwan Shalom, Israeli politician
1959 - Kim Reynolds, American politician, 43rd Governor of Iowa
1960 – Dean Malenko, American professional wrestler
1960 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, former Prime Minister of Spain
1961 – Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
1961 – Lauren Tom, American actress
1962 – Roger Clemens, American baseball player
1962 - Lori Lightfoot, American lawyer and politician, 56th Mayor of Chicago
1964 - Andrew Bartlett, Australian politician and activist
1964 - Sebastian Roché, French actor
1965 - Adam Afriyie, British politician
1965 - Terri Lyne Carrington, American musician and singer-songwriter
1965 – Fredrik Reinfeldt, former Prime Minister of Sweden
1965 - Michael Skibbe, German footballer and coach
1966 - Dennis Lehane, American author
1967 – Mike Marsh, American athlete
1968 – Daniel Dae Kim, American actor
1968 – Marcus Schenkenberg, model
1968 - Lee Mack, English comedian
1969 - Max Cavalera, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969 - Jojo Moyes, English author
1970 – Michael DeLuise, American actor
1970 - Kate Silverton, English journalist
1971 – Jeff Gordon, race car driver
1973 - Xavier Marchand, French swimmer
1975 - Nikos Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
1975 - Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish politician
1975 - Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah, Saudi militant (d. 2015)
From 1976
1977 - Luís Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer
1977 - Marek Heinz, Czech footballer
1978 – Kurt Busch, race car driver
1981 - Benjamin Boukpeti, Togolese slalom canoeist
1981 - Simone Del Nero, Italian footballer
1981 - Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
1981 - Abigail Spencer, American actress
1983 - Greta Gerwig, American actress, writer and director
1984 - Mardy Collins, American basketball player
1985 - Ha Seung-Jin, South Korean basketball player
1985 - Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
1985 – Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
1987 - Jang Keun-suk, South Korean actor and singer
1987 - Phil Younghusband, English-Filipino footballer
1987 - Marreese Speights, American basketball player
1988 - Tom Parker, British singer (The Wanted)
1989 - Wang Hao, Chinese chess player
1989 - Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
1991 - Graeme Shinnie, Scottish footballer
1992 – Tiffany Evans, American singer
1992 – Dylan & Cole Sprouse, American actors
1992 - Yvonne Neuwirth, Austrian tennis player
1993 - Saido Berahino, Burundian-English footballer
1994 - Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress
1995 - Jessica Sanchez, American singer
1997 - Ekaterina Ryabova, Russian singer
2016 - Charlie Gard, British infant in life support and parental rights case (d. 2017)
Deaths
Up to 1800
966 - Berengar II of Italy (b. 900)
1060 – Henry I of France (b. 1008)
1113 – Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)
1265 – Killed in the Battle of Evesham:
Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (b. 1223)
Henry de Montfort (b. 1238)
Peter de Montfort (b. 1215)
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (b. 1208)
1306 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
1338 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)
1430 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
1526 – Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)
1578 – Sebastian of Portugal (b. 1554)
1578 – Thomas Stucley, English adventurer (b. 1520)
1598 – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520)
1612 – Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)
1639 – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist (b. 1581)
1699 - Maria Sofia of Neuburg, Queen of Portugal (b. 1666)
1718 – René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (b. 1656)
1727 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
1741 – Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer (b. 1676)
1778 - Pierre de Rigaud, French colonial governor in North America (b. 1698)
1784 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (b. 1706)
1792 – John Burgoyne, British general (b. 1723)
1795 – Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711)
1801 1900
1821 - William Floyd, American politician (b. 1734)
1822 - Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (b. 1801)
1834 - Dimitrios Panourgias, Greek military commander (b. 1754)
1844 – Jacob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)
1849 - Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi (b. 1821)
1859 - Jean Vianney, French priest (b. 1786)
1873 – Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)
1875 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
1877 - Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Prince of Sweden (b. 1799)
1886 – Samuel J. Tilden, United States Presidential candidate and Governor of New York (b. 1814)
1900 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
1900 - Jacob Dolson Cox, American politician, Governor of Ohio (b. 1828)
1901 - 2000
1914 - Jules Lemaitre, French critic and dramatist (b. 1863)
1922 - Enver Pasha, Turkish politician (b. 1891)
1938 – Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
1942 - Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer (b. 1860)
1957 – Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (b. 1869)
1958 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883)
1967 – Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1973 - Eddie Condon, American jazz guitarist (b. 1905)
1976 – Roy Herbert Thomson, Canadian publisher (b. 1894)
1977 - Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (b. 1885)
1977 - Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist (b. 1889)
1981 – Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
1982 – Bruce Goff, American architect (b. 1904)
1993 - Chinmayananda, Indian spiritual leader and teacher (b. 1916)
1994 - Giovanni Spadolini, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1925)
1996 – Geoff Hamilton, British gardener and broadcaster (b. 1936)
1997 – Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian; world's oldest ever-human (b. 1875)
1998 – Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (b. 1930)
1999 – Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1915)
2000 – Leslie Glass, American adult movie actress (b. 1963)
From 2001
2001 – Lorenzo Music, American actor (b. 1937)
2002 – Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman, Soham murder victims (b. 1991, 1991)
2003 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
2005 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)
2007 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer (b. 1929)
2008 - Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (b. 1985)
2011 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (b. 1977)
2013 - Yitzhak Berman, Ukrainian-born Israeli politician (b. 1913)
2013 - Renato Ruggiero, Italian politician, former foreign minister (b. 1930)
2013 - Art Donovan, American football player (b. 1924)
2013 - Sandy Woodward, British admiral (b. 1932)
2014 - James Brady, American Press Secretary (b. 1940)
2014 - Walter Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
2014 - George Hilton, American historian (b. 1925)
2015 - Les Munro, New Zealand pilot (b. 1919)
2015 - Theo van Els, Dutch linguist (b. 1936)
2015 - Achim Hill, German rower (b. 1935)
2016 - Patrice Munsel, American coloratura soprano (b. 1925)
2017 - Luiz Melodia, Brazilian actor and singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
2017 - Heinz F. Dressel, German theologian and writer (b. 1929)
2017 - Waldemar Schreckenberger, German lawyer, jurist and politician (b. 1929)
2017 - Laurie Brokenshire, English Royal Navy officer and magician (b. 1952)
2018 - Lorrie Collins, American singer and guitarist (b. 1942)
2018 - Masahiko Tsugawa, Japanese actor (b. 1940)
2018 - Arsène Tchakarian, Armenian-French resistance fighter (b. 1916)
2019 - Ernie Bowman, American baseball player (b. 1935)
2019 - Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician (b. 1926)
2019 - André Goosse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1926)
2019 - Willi Tokarev, Russian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
2019 - Bob Wilber, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
Observances
Revolution Day (Burkina Faso)
Constitution Day (Cook Islands)
August 04 |
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Events
Up to 1900
8 - Roman general Tiberius defeats Dalmatae on the River Balthinus.
435 - Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Nestorius, considered the founder of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
881 - Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: King Louis III of France defeats the Vikings.
1031 - Olaf II of Norway is made a saint, by Grimtekel, the English bishop of Selsey.
1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail for the voyage that took him to the Caribbean.
1492 – All Jews in Spain are expelled by the country's Catholic Monarchs.
1527 - The first known letter from North America is sent from St. John's, Newfoundland.
1601 - Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Gorozso.
1645 - Thirty Years' War: Second Battle of Nordlingen.
1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
1778 - The La Scala theater in Milan is opened.
1783 – In Japan, Mount Asama erupts, killing around 1,000 people.
1787 - Mesaurements by Geneva's Horace-Benedict de Saussure conclude that Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in the Alps.
1811 - First ascent of the Jungfrau, in the Swiss Alps by Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
1818 - The Russian Rurik expedition ends after 3 years, led by Adelbert von Chamisso.
1852 - The first boat race between Harvard University and Yale University is held. Harvard wins.
1858 - John Hanning Speke becomes the first known European to reach Lake Victoria in Africa's Great Rift Valley.
1860 - The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
1900 - The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
1901 2000
1914 – World War I: Germany declares war on France.
1916 - Irish Easter Rising leader Roger Casement is executed.
1921 - Major League Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox players, the day after they were acquitted (found innocent) by a Chicago court.
1923 - Calvin Coolidge is officially sworn in as President of the United States, after the death of Warren G. Harding the previous day.
1929 - Jiddu Krishnamurti shocks the Theosophy Movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organization built to support him.
1936 – Jesse Owens wins his first gold medal of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
1936 - Fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 people, with only 20 survivors.
1940 – World War II: Italy invades Somaliland.
1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a Communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1949 - The NBA, the US governing body of basketball, is founded.
1958 - Nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap, crossing the North Pole underwater.
1959 - Portuguese state police force PIDE fires on striking workers in Bissau in present-day Guinea Bissau (then a Portuguese colony), killing over 50 people.
1960 – Niger becomes independent from France.
1961 - The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded. 50 years later, in 2011, it becomes the official opposition party in Canada for the first time, though its then-leader Jack Layton dies a short time later.
1972 - The United States Senate confirms Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into a mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188 people.
1975 - Less than a month after the Comoros became independent, President Ahmed Abdallah is deposed in a coup, supported by Bob Denard. A revolutionary committee under Ali Soilih takes over.
1979 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo deposes his uncle Francisco Macias Nguema in a coup in Equatorial Guinea.
1980 - The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow come to an end.
1997 - The Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria kills 116 people.
From 2001
2001 - The Real IRA detonates a bomb in Ealing, a suburb of London, injuring 7 people.
2004 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty is re-opened, after it closed following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
2004 - The NASA MESSENGER space probe, in the Discovery Program programme, is sent to the planet Mercury.
2005 – President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is deposed from power, while abroad, attending the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
2005 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.
2013 - Hassan Rouhani becomes President of Iran.
2013 - Because of a perceived terror threat, the United States decides to close many of its embassies in North Africa and Western Asia for the day on August 4. The UK, France and Germany decide to shut their embassies in Yemen on the same date.
2014 - An earthquake strikes Yunnan province, China, killing over 300 people.
2014 - The 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland come to an end. Neighboring England tops the medal table ahead of Australia, while host nation Scotland finished with its own record totals of gold and overall medals.
2018 - Emmerson Mnangagwa is declared the winner of Zimbabwe's July 30 Presidential election.
2019 - 2019 El Paso shooting: 20 people are killed in a shooting at a supermarket in El Paso, Texas. A second, unrelated, mass shooting occurs in Dayton, Ohio less than 24 hours later.
Births
Up to 1900
1509 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (d. 1546)
1654 - Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1730)
1692 – John Henley, clergyman (d. 1759)
1734 - Naungdawgyi, King of Burma (d. 1763)
1753 – Charles Stanhope, inventor of the calculator
1766 - Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, German botanist and physician (d. 1833)
1770 – King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840)
1803 – Joseph Paxton, British landscape gardener (d. 1865)
1808 – Hamilton Fish, American politician (d. 1893)
1811 – Elisha Graves Otis, American inventor (safe elevator) (d. 1861)
1817 – Archduke Albert, Austrian general (d. 1895)
1823 - Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Spanish composer (d. 1894)
1832 - Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer and conductor (d. 1914)
1832 - Edward Wilmots Blyden, Liberian statesman (d. 1912)
1833 – Auguste Schmidt, feminist and teacher (d. 1902)
1847 - John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Scottish politician, 7th Governor General of Canada (d. 1934)
1851 - George Francis FitzGerald, Irish physicist (d. 1901)
1852 - Domenico Serafini, Italian cardinal (d. 1918)
1856 – Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
1860 – W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)
1863 - Geza Gardonyi, Hungarian writer and journalist (d. 1922)
1867 – Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister (d. 1947)
1872 – King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
1878 - Dick Grant, Canadian runner (d. 1958)
1887 – Rupert Brooke, English poet (d. 1915)
1890 - Konstantin Melnikov, Russian architect (d. 1974)
1890 - Charles Edison, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1969)
1894 – Harry Heilmann, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1951)
1895 – Neva Morris, American supercentenarian (d. 2010)
1895 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (d. 1941)
1900 – Ernie Pyle, American war correspondent (d. 1945)
1900 – John T. Scopes, American teacher and Evolutionist, defendant in the Monkey Trial (d. 1970)
1901 1950
1901 – Stefan Wyszynski, primate of Poland (d. 1981)
1901 - John C. Stennis, United States Senator (d. 1995)
1902 - Regina Jonas, German rabbi (d. 1944)
1903 – Habib Bourguiba, 1st President of Tunisia (d. 2000)
1904 – Clifford D. Simak, science fiction writer (d. 1988)
1905 – Franz König, Roman Catholic archbishop of Vienna and last surviving cardinal of John XXIII (d. 2004).
1905 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress (d. 1983)
1908 – Ernesto Geisel, President of Brazil (d. 1996)
1912 - Fritz Hellwig, German politician (d. 2017)
1914 - Mark Kac, Polish-American mathematician (d. 1984)
1916 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (d. 1978)
1918 - James MacGregor Burns, American historian and political scientist (d. 2014)
1918 - Larry Haines, American actor (d. 2008)
1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, Director of the CIA's Technical Services Staff (d. 1999)
1918 – Les Elgart, American musician, bandleader (d. 1995)
1920 – P. D. James, British novelist (d. 2014)
1923 – Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church (d. 2012)
1923 - Jean Hagen, American actress (d. 1977)
1924 – Leon Uris, American novelist (d. 2003)
1925 - Alain Touraine, French sociologist
1926 – Tony Bennett, American singer
1926 - Rona Anderson, Scottish actress (d. 2013)
1926 - Gordon Scott, American actor (d. 2007)
1928 - Cécile Aubry, French actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1928 - James B. Harris, American film director, screenwriter and producer
1932 - Fosforito, Spanish flamenco singer
1934 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan politician and rebel leader (d. 2002)
1935 – Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1997)
1935 - Omero Antonutti, Italian actor
1935 - Richard Lamm, American politician, 38th Governor of Colorado
1936 – Edward Petherbridge, actor
1937 – Diane Wakoski, poet
1937 - Andres Gimeno, Spanish tennis player
1937 – Steven Berkoff, British actor
1937 - Roland Burris, American politician
1938 – Terry Wogan, Irish radio and television presenter (d. 2016)
1939 - Jimmie Nicol, English musician
1940 – Martin Sheen, American actor
1940 – Lance Alworth, American football player
1941 - Hage Geingob, 3rd President of Namibia
1941 – Beverly Lee, American singer (Shirelles)
1941 – Martha Stewart, American home economist
1942 - Cecilia Cenci, Argentine actress (d. 2014)
1943 - Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, Swedish royalty
1943 - Béla Bollobas, Hungarian mathematician
1944 - Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (d. 1977)
1946 – Jack Straw, British politician
1946 - Syreeta Wright, American singer and songwriter (d. 2004)
1947 - Francisco José Lombardi, Peruvian director, producer and screenwriter
1947 - John Wesley, American actor (d. 2019)
1947 - Tadahiko Ueda, Japanese footballer (d. 2015)
1948 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former Prime Minister of France
1949 - Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2012)
1950 - Waldemar Cierpynski, German marathon runner
1950 – John Landis, American movie director
1950 - Ernesto Samper, former President of Colombia
1951 1975
1951 – Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 – Jay North, actor
1951 – Hans Schlegel, German astronaut
1952 – Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine footballer
1952 - Thomas Munkett, German athlete
1955 – Corey Burton, American actor
1958 - Peter Eriksson, Swedish politician
1958 - Lambert Wilson, French actor and baritone
1959 - Mike Gminski, American basketball player
1959 – Martin Atkins, English drummer
1959 – Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1959 - John C. McGinley, American actor
1960 - Tim Mayotte, American tennis player
1960 – Kim Milton Nielsen, Danish football referee
1960 - Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean, Bulgarian harpist, composer and musicologist
1960 - Gopal Sharma, Indian cricketer
1961 - Nick Harvey, English politician
1962 - Doris Bures, Austrian politician
1962 - Maurice Malpas, Scottish footballer
1963 - Graham Arnold, Australian footballer
1963 – James Hetfield, American musician (Metallica)
1963 - Isaiah Washington, American actor
1963 - Giovanni Francini, Italian footballer
1963 - Lisa Ann Walter, American actress
1964 - Lucky Dube, South African singer (d. 2007)
1964 – Abhisit Vejjajiva, former Prime Minister of Thailand
1964 - Nate McMillan, American basketball player
1965 - Jordi Sans Juan, Spanish water polo player
1966 – Brent Butt, Canadian actor and comedian
1967 - Mathieu Kassovitz, French actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1968 - Eyjolfur Sverrisson, Icelandic footballer
1968 - Isao Yukisoda, Japanese film director
1969 - Doug Overton, American basketball player
1970 - Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game designer
1970 - Masaharu Suzuki, Japanese footballer
1970 – Gina G, Australian singer
1970 - Stephen Carpenter, American guitarist and songwriter
1971 - Kazuaki Tasaka, Japanese footballer
1972 - Erika Marozsan, Hungarian actress
1972 - Sandis Ozolins, Latvian ice hockey player
1975 - Felix Brych, German football referee
From 1976
1977 – Tom Brady, American football player
1977 – Angela Beesley, British Internet entrepreneur
1977 - Oscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist
1977 - Tómas Lemarquis, Icelandic actor
1978 - Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer
1978 - Collin Benjamin, Namibian footballer
1979 - Maria Haukans Mittet, Norwegian singer and actress
1979 – Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress and model
1980 - Hannah Simone, Canadian actress, model and television presenter
1982 - Kaspar Kokk, Estonian skier
1983 - Mamie Gummer, American actress
1984 - Mile Jedinak, Australian footballer
1984 – Ryan Lochte, American swimmer
1984 – Sunil Chhetri, Indian footballer
1984 - Chris Maurer, American singer and musician (Suburban Legends)
1985 - Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby player
1985 - Brent Kuzle, American bass player and producer
1986 – Prince Louis Xavier Marie Guillaume, Prince of Luxembourg and of Nassau
1986 - Charlotte Casiraghi, Monegasque royalty
1987 - Gary Medel, Chilean footballer
1988 - Sven Ulreich, German footballer
1989 - Jules Bianchi, French racing driver (d. 2015)
1992 - Lum Rexhepi, Finnish footballer
1992 - Karlie Kloss, American model
1993 - Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
1993 - Ola Abidogun, English sprinter
1994 - Corentin Tolisso, French footballer
2000 - Landry Bender, American actress
Deaths
Up to 1900
1181 – Pope Alexander III
1460 – King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
1527 - Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
1546 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)
1546 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)
1604 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander (b. circa 1540)
1667 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect (b. 1599)
1712 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
1720 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
1721 – Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)
1761 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
1780 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, philosopher (b. 1715)
1784 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian composer (b. 1706)
1792 – Richard Arkwright, industrialist, and inventor of the Water Frame (b. 1732)
1797 – Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
1800 - Friedrich Gilly, German writer (b. 1772)
1839 - Dorothea Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)
1857 – Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
1867 – Philipp August Böckh, scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1877 – William B. Ogden, first Mayor of Chicago (b.1805)
1879 – Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
1881 - William Fargo, American expressman (b. 1818)
1901 2000
1916 – Sir Roger Casement, Irish activist (hanged) (b. 1864)
1917 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1924 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857)
1929 – Emil Berliner, telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
1947 - José Pardo y Barreda, President of Peru (b. 1864)
1954 – Colette, French writer (b. 1873)
1964 – Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925)
1966 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
1973 – Richard Marshall, general (b. 1895)
1977 – Alfred Lunt, actor (b. 1892)
1977 – Archbishop Makarios III of Cyprus (b. 1913)
1979 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist (b. 1899)
1979 - Alfredo Ottaviani, Italian cardinal (b. 1890)
1983 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1929)
1995 – Ida Lupino, actress, director (b. 1914)
1995 – Edward Whittemore, writer (b. 1933)
1998 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)
From 2001
2002 - Carmen Silvera, Canadian-English actress (b. 1922)
2003 - Joseph Saidu Momoh, President of Sierra Leone (b. 1937)
2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1954)
2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
2005 – Steven Vincent, journalist (b. unknown)
2006 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German singer (b. 1915)
2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (b. 1918)
2011 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (b. 1945)
2011 – Nikolay Petrov, Russian pianist (b. 1943)
2014 - Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (b. 1923)
2014 - Lydia Yu-Jose, Filipino political scientist (b. 1944)
2014 - Miangul Aurangzeb, Pakistani politician (b. 1928)
2014 - Christian Frémont, French politician (b. 1942)
2015 - Margot Loyola, Chilean musician and folk singer (b. 1918)
2015 - Coleen Gray, American actress (b. 1922)
2015 - Mel Farr, American football player (b. 1944)
2015 - Robert Conquest, English-American historian (b. 1917)
2015 - Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman (b. 1926)
2016 - Chris Amon, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1943)
2017 - Angel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1947)
2017 - Bonaventura Duda, Croatian friar and theologian (b. 1924)
2017 - Richard Dudman, American reporter and journalist (b. 1918)
2017 - Ty Hardin, American actor (b. 1930)
2017 - Robert Hardy, English actor (b. 1925)
2017 - Dickie Hemric, American basketball player (b. 1933)
2017 - Eberhard von Koerber, German manager (b. 1938)
2018 - Matija Barl, Slovenian actor (b. 1940)
2018 - Carlos Buttice, Argentine footballer (b. 1942)
2018 - Ingrid Espelid Hovig, Norwegian television chef and cookbook author (b. 1924)
2018 - Moshé Mizrahi, Israeli film director (b. 1931)
2018 - Tommy Peoples, Irish fiddler (b. 1948)
2018 - John Schella, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1947)
2019 - Miklós Ambrus, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1933)
2019 - Jean-Claude Bouttier, French boxer and actor (b. 1944)
2019 - Cliff Branch, American football player (b. 1948)
2019 - Brian Lochore, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1940)
2019 - Thomas Remengesau Sr., 2nd President of Palau (b. 1929)
2019 - John Philip Saklil, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1960)
2019 - Mike Troy, American swimmer (b. 1940)
Observances
Independence Day (Niger)
Emancipation Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
Day of the National Flag (Venezuela)
August 03 |
9954 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%202 | August 2 |
Events
Up to 1940
338 BC Rise of Macedon: Philip II of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea.
216 BC Punic Wars: In the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal destroys the Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art.
AD 461 Majorian resigns as Western Roman Emperor; shortly afterwards Libius Severus is declared western Roman emperor by Ricimer.
1274 Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King 17 days later.
1377 Russian troops are defeated at the Battle of Pyana River because of drunkenness.
1610 Henry Hudson sails into what is now Hudson Bay, thinking he had reached the Pacific Ocean through the Northwest Passage.
1776 Delegates to the Continental Congress begin to sign the United States Declaration of Independence.
1790 First US Census; records are missing for five states: Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey and Virginia. Destroyed somewhere between that date and 1830.
1798 Second Coalition: End of the Battle of the Nile between French and British navies; France defeated.
1830 Charles X of France leaves the throne to his grandson Henri, Count of Chambord, who is, disputedly, King of France until August 9.
1832 Battle of Bad Axe: US troops defeat Native American Chief Black Hawk.
1858 British Columbia becomes a British colony.
1869 Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
1870 Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
1873 The Clay Street Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
1874 Iceland celebrates 1,000 years of settlement.
1876 In Deadwood, South Dakota, Jack McCall shoots and kills American Western figure Wild Bill Hickok, who was playing a game of cards at the time. The combination of cards he held at the time is now referred to as Dead Man's Hand.
1897 Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends.
1903 Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden uprising.
1909 The 'Tragic Week' uprising in Barcelona against Spain's colonial politics in Morocco is violently crushed by police. Over 100 people are killed.
1916 World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
1918 Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1918 The first General Strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
1922 A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing over 50,000 people.
1923 After the death of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge becomes President of the United States.
1934 Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1937 Marijuana is made illegal in the United States.
1939 Leó Szilárd and Albert Einstein sign a letter to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning of the dangers posed by Nazi Germany and calling for the development of a nuclear weapon.
From 1941
1943 PT-109, with future president of the United States Lieutenant John F. Kennedy aboard, sinks. He manages to save most of the crew.
1944 The Socialist Republic of Macedonia is created.
1944 Beginning of the Treblinka uprising.
1945 World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
1947 A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain on a flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago de Chile. The wreckage disappears under a glacier and only reappears over 50 years later. The meaning of its last message, "STENDEC", remains a mystery.
1950 The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was published on Yankee Stadium, New York.
1955 Velcro is patented.
1964 North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
1967 The second Blackwall Tunnel opened in Greenwich, London.
1967 Turkish sports club Trabzonspor is founded in Trabzon.
1968 An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines, killing over 270 people.
1970 Powder Ridge Rock Festival
1973 A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.
1975 In New Orleans, Louisiana, the Superdome officially opens with an American football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.
1976 An intruder breaks into Priscilla Davis's Mockingbird Lane mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. Priscilla Davis and a friend are injured while Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr are killed. T. Cullen Davis is tried and found innocent of the crime.
1980 A terrorist bombing at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
1980 Hard rock band AC/DC release Back in Black, their first album with lead singer Brian Johnson and their best-selling
1985 A Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas, killing 137.
1989 Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations.
1989 A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peacekeeping Force in Sri Lanka, killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1990 On the orders of Saddam Hussein, Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
1994 Popular Japanese television and movie actor Beat Takeshi is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.
1997 Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver is rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, Australia, in which 18 lives were lost.
1998 The Second Congo War begins.
2003 A 65th anniversary edition of The Beano is released.
2005 Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames. All on board survive, with 12 injured.
2007 Crews from the Russian submarines Mir 1 and Mir 2 plant the Flag of Russia in the seabed beneath the North Pole.
2014 A factory explosion near Shanghai kills 146 people.
2018 Apple Inc. becomes the first company to reach a worth of a trillion United States dollars.
2018 The first multi-sport European Championships, co-hosted by Glasgow (Scotland) and Berlin (Germany), begin.
Births
Up to 1900
1455 John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1499)
1533 Theodor Zwinger, medical scholar (d. 1588)
1612 Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1642)
1627 Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter and writer (d. 1678)
1672 Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
1674 Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (d. 1723)
1696 Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
1702 Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1769)
1703 Lorenzo Ricci, General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1775)
1754 Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect, city planner (d. 1825)
1780 Marie-Anne Gaboury, French-Canadian settler in Manitoba (d. 1875)
1788 Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
1802 Nicholas Wiseman, English theologian, cardinal and archbishop (d. 1865)
1808 Augustus French, 9th Governor of Illinois (d. 1864)
1815 Adolf Friedrich von Schack, writer (d. 1894)
1820 John Tyndall, British physicist (d. 1893)
1824 Princess Francisca of Brazil (d. 1898)
1825 J. Neely Johnson, 4th Governor of California (d. 1872)
1827 Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Albuquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895)
1834 Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
1835 Elisha Gray, American inventor and founder of Western Electric (d. 1901)
1849 Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (d. 1882)
1854 Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
1858 Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1934)
1862 Duncan Campbell Scott, Canadian writer (d. 1947)
1865 Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
1865 John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)
1866 Adrien de Gerlache, Belgian explorer (d. 1934)
1866 Charles Francis Adams III, American politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1954)
1867 Ernest Dowson, English poet (d. 1900)
1868 King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
1870 Marianne Weber, German sociologist (d. 1954)
1871 John French Sloan, artist (d. 1951)
1875 Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian general (d. 1957)
1876 Pingali Venkayya, designer of the Flag of India (d. 1963)
1877 Ravishankar Shukla, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (d. 1956)
1878 Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian writer (d. 1956)
1880 Arthur Dove, American artist (d. 1946)
1882 Albert Bloch, American painter, writer and translator (d. 1961)
1882 Red Ames, American baseball player (d. 1936)
1883 Jonathan Wainwright, American general (d. 1953)
1884 Romulo Gallegos, 46th President of Venezuela (d. 1969)
1886 John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Canadian aviator (d. 1961)
1891 Arthur Bliss, English composer and conductor (d. 1975)
1891 Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian and linguist (d. 1971)
1892 Jack Warner, Canadian movie producer (d. 1978)
1894 Carlo Galimberti, Italian weightlifter (d. 1939)
1897 Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1974)
1897 Karl Otto Koch, German SS officer (d. 1945)
1899 Charles Bennett, English director and screenwriter (d. 1995)
1900 Helen Morgan, American actress (d. 1941)
1901 1950
1902 Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Egyptian Coptic Church Patriarch (d. 1971)
1905 Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)
1905 Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
1905 Rudolf Prack, Austrian actor (d. 1981)
1912 Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
1912 Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979)
1914 Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)
1915 Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)
1919 Carlo Savina, Italian movie score composer (d. 2002)
1919 Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor
1920 François Flohic, French admiral (d. 2018)
1921 Ruth Barcan Marcus, American philosopher and logician (d. 2012)
1921 Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 2013)
1922 Paul Laxalt, American politician, 22nd Governor of Nevada (d. 2018)
1923 Shimon Peres, 9th President of Israel (d. 2016)
1924 James Baldwin, American writer (d. 1987)
1924 Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
1925 John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
1925 Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator (d. 2013)
1928 Luigi Colani, German industrial designer (d. 2019)
1929 Irwin Fridovich, American biochemist (d. 2019)
1929 Ursula Karusseit, German actress (d. 2019)
1929 K.M. Peyton, English writer
1929 David Waddington, Baron Waddington, British Governor of Bermuda (d. 2017)
1929 Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician (d. 2013)
1931 Karl Miller, British literary editor, critic and writer (d. 2014)
1932 Peter O'Toole, Irish-British actor (d. 2013)
1932 Lamar Hunt, American sportsman (d. 2006)
1933 Lorenzo Milam, writer and broadcaster
1934 Valery Bykovsky, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (d. 2019)
1935 Alex Parker, Scottish footballer
1937 Garth Hudson, Canadian musician, organist/keyboardist with The Band
1937 Gundula Janowitz, Austrian soprano
1937 Jim McLean, Scottish footballer
1938 Timo Konietzka, German-Swiss footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1938 Paul Jenkins, American actor (d. 2013)
1939 Wes Craven, American movie director (d. 2015)
1939 Benjamin Barber, American theorist, author and academic (d. 2017)
1939 John W. Snow, American politician
1941 Jules Hoffmann, Luxembourg-French biologist and Nobel Prize winner
1941 François Weyergans, Belgian writer and director (d. 2019)
1941 Doris Coley, singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)
1941 Fabio Testi, Italian actor
1942 Isabel Allende, Chilean-American writer
1942 Leo Beenhakker, Dutch football coach
1942 Juan Formell, Cuban musician and composer (d. 2014)
1943 Jon R. Cavaiani, American soldier (d. 2014)
1943 Max Wright, American actor
1943 Rose Tremain, British writer
1944 Jim Capaldi, British drummer, singer, and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
1944 Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer and musician (d. 2016)
1945 Joanna Cassidy, American actress
1947 Massiel, Spanish singer, actress and television presenter
1948 Dennis Prager, radio talk show host and writer
1949 Mario Illien, Swiss engineer
1950 Jussi Adler-Olsen, Danish writer
1950 Lance Ito, American judge
1950 Mathieu Carrière, German actor
1950 Ken Kutaragi, Japanese businessman, founder of PlayStation
1951 1975
1951 Per Westerberg, Swedish politician
1951 Joe Lynn Turner, American singer
1951 Marcel Iures, Romanian actor
1952 Alain Giresse, French footballer and manager
1953 Donnie Munro, Scottish musician and singer, formerly of the band Runrig
1953 Butch Patrick, American actor
1954 Ken MacLeod, Scottish writer
1954 Sammy McIlroy, Irish footballer
1954 Enrique Saura, Spanish footballer
1956 Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist, astrophysicist and writer
1956 Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer
1957 Mojo Nixon, musician and actor
1958 Elaine C. Smith, Scottish actress and comedienne
1959 Johnny Kemp, Bahamian singer (d. 2015)
1960 Olivier Gruner, French actor
1961 Linda Fratianne, American figure skater
1961 Mike Ross, American politician
1963 Laura Bennett, American fashion designer
1964 Mary-Louise Parker, American actress
1965 Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach
1965 Joe Hockey, Australian politician
1967 Marco Giampaolo, Italian footballer and manager
1967 Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player
1968 Chrystia Freeland, Canadian politician
1968 Stefan Effenberg, German footballer
1968 Russell Latapy, Trinidadian footballer
1969 Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
1969 Angélica Rivera, Mexican actress and First Lady
1970 Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player
1970 Kevin Smith, American actor, director, comedian and writer
1972 Muriel Bowser, American politician, 8th Mayor of the District of Columbia
1972 Corinne Rey-Bellet, Swiss ski racer (d. 2006)
1972 Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer
1972 Carol Monaghan, Scottish politician
1972 Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer
1973 Miguel Mendonça, Anglo-Azorean writer
1973 Susie O'Neill, Australian swimmer
1974 Jeremy Castle, singer and songwriter
1975 Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-born German badminton player
1975 Mineiro, Brazilian footballer
From 1976
1976 Sam Worthington, Australian actor
1976 Kati Wilhelm, German biathlete
1977 Edward Furlong, American actor
1978 Deividas Semberas, Lithuanian footballer
1982 Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
1983 Laura Bassett, English footballer
1983 Michel Bastos, Brazilian footballer
1984 Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer
1985 Stephen Ferris, Irish rugby player
1985 Britt Nicole, American singer
1985 David Hart Smith, Canadian professional wrestler
1986 Alisha Annas, musician
1986 Mathieu Razanakolona, Malagasy skier
1987 Yura Movsisyan, Armenian footballer
1989 Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer
1990 Skylar Diggins, American basketball player
1991 Skyler Day, American actress
1991 Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir, Icelandic swmmer
1992 Charli XCX, English singer and songwriter
1992 Hallie Kate Eisenberg, American actress
1997 Christina Robinson, American actress
Deaths
Up to 1900
640 Pope Severinus
686 Pope John V
924 King Ælfweard of Wessex (b. 904)
1100 King William II of England (b. 1056)
1222 Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (b. 1156)
1316 Louis of Burgundy (b. 1297)
1332 King Christopher II of Denmark (b. 1276)
1512 Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher (b. 1463)
1546 Peter Faber, Jesuit priest (b. 1506)
1589 King Henry III of France (b. 1551)
1611 Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
1644 Bernardo Strozzi, Italian Baroque painter (b. 1581)
1667 Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect (b. 1599)
1788 Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
1799 Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
1823 Lazare Carnot, French general, politician and mathematician (b. 1753)
1849 Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Egyptian military officer and statesman (b. 1769)
1859 Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
1876 Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
1901 2000
1913 Ferenc Pfaff, Hungarian architect (b. 1861)
1921 Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
1922 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American inventor (b. 1847)
1923 Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
1929 Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
1932 Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1876)
1934 Paul von Hindenburg, German military figure and President (b. 1847)
1936 Louis Blériot, French aviator (b. 1872)
1938 Yakov Yurovsky, Russian Bolshevik, led the execution of the family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1878)
1945 Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863)
1955 Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1901)
1973 Jean-Pierre Melville, French movie director (b. 1917)
1976 Fritz Lang, Austrian movie director (b. 1890)
1978 Antony Noghès, French businessman (b. 1890)
1979 Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
1988 Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)
1992 Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter and songwriter (b. 1947)
1996 Mohamed Farah Aidid, Somali warlord (b. 1934)
1996 Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
1997 Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician (b. 1938)
1997 William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)
1998 Shari Lewis, American television host and puppeteer (b. 1933)
From 2001
2004 François Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (b. 1926)
2004 José Pastoriza, Argentine footballer (b. 1942)
2005 Jay Hammond, former Governor of Alaska (b. 1922)
2007 Holden Roberto, Angolan rebel and activist (b. 1923)
2007 Kay Dotrice, British actress (b. 1929)
2011 Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1920)
2012 Mihaela Ursuleasa, Romanian pianist (b. 1978)
2014 Barbara Prammer, Austrian politician (b. 1954)
2014 James Thompson, American-Finnish author (b. 1964)
2014 Pete van Wieren, American sports broadcaster (b. 1944)
2015 Piet Fransen, Dutch footballer (b. 1936)
2015 Forrest Bird, American aviator and inventor (b. 1921)
2015 Giovanni Conso, Italian jurist and politician (b. 1922)
2015 Natalia Molchanova, Russian freediver (b. 1962)
2016 Jonathan Borwein, Scottish mathematician (b. 1951)
2016 Forbes Carlile, Australian swimming coach and modern pentathlete (b. 1921)
2016 Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (b. 1927)
2016 Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian chemist (b. 1946)
2017 Wanda Chotomska, Polish writer (b. 1929)
2017 John Graham, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1935)
2017 Judith Jones, American cookbook author (b. 1924)
2017 Daniel Licht, American composer and musician (b. 1957)
2017 Jim Marrs, American newspaper journalist and author (b. 1943)
2017 Ara Parseghian, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
2017 Shen Daren, Chinese politician (b. 1928)
2017 Santosh Mohan Dev, Indian politician (b. 1934)
2018 Neil Argo, American composer (b. 1947)
2018 Armand de Las Cuevas, French cyclist (b. 1968)
2018 Herbert King, Colombian actor (b. 1963)
2018 Winston Ntshona, South African actor and playwright (b. 1941)
2018 Daan Schrijvers, Dutch footballer (b. 1941)
2019 Vahakn Dadrian, Armenian-American sociologist and historian (b. 1926)
2019 Deepak Obhrai, Canadian politician (b. 1950)
2019 Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau, Canadian politician (b. 1955)
2019 Alexandra Strelchenko, Russian folk singer (b. 1937)
Observances
Republic Day (North Macedonia)
Emancipation Day (Bahamas)
August 02 |
9955 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%201 | August 1 |
Events
Up to 1900
30 BC - Octavian, later known as Augustus Caesar, enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing the city under the control of the Roman Republic. Mark Antony commits suicide on the same day.
69 - Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (present-day Netherlands), revolt under leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
527 – Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor.
607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
1192 - King Richard I of England enters Jaffa and defeats the army of Saladin.
1291 – The Swiss Confederation is formed.
1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England.
1492 – Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.
1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
1619 – The first African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
1664 – The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
1714 – Queen Anne of Great Britain dies, without any surviving children. George of Hanover succeeds her.
1747 - In reaction to the Second Jacobite uprising, kilts and tartan are banned in Scotland.
1759 – Seven Years' War: In the Battle of Minden, Great Britain, Hanover and Prussia defeat a force from France and Saxony.
1774 – The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley.
1776 – Formal signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.
1790 – The first US census is completed, establishing the population of the United States at the time as 4 million.
1798 – Battle of the Nile starts between French and British fleets.
1800 – The Act of Union of 1800 is signed, by which the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland are to merge.
1820 – London's Regent's Canal opens.
1831 – London Bridge opens.
1832 – The Black Hawk War ends.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
1838 – Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated.
1844 - Berlin Zoo opens for the first time.
1855 – First successful climb of the Dufourspitze in Switzerland.
1864 – The Elgin Watch Company is founded in Elgin, Illinois
1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1891 – Switzerland celebrates its national holiday on this date for the first time.
1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
1901 1950
1902 – The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.
1907 – First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.
1914 – Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.
1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
1936 – The Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics open.
1937 – Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
1941 – The first Jeep is produced.
1944 – Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
1944 – Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
1945 – Mel Ott becomes the third member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Polo Grounds in New York, New York.
1946 – The Japanese Federation of Trade Unions is formed.
1948 – The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
1951 2000
1952 – Asgeir Asgeirsson becomes President of Iceland.
1956 - Belgium becomes the last European country to introduce the driving test.
1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France
1960 – Communist PAI is banned in Senegal.
1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1961 – Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park, opens.
1965 – Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.
1966 – Charles Whitman kills 15 people shooting from a tower at the University of Texas in Austin, in the United States, before being killed by the police.
1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
1968 – Coronation of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei.
1968 – Kristjan Eldjarn becomes President of Iceland.
1970 – Powder Ridge Rock Festival
1971 – George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York City features, among others, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Leon Russell.
1971 – Apollo 15 astronauts discover rocks which could date back to the origin of the Moon.
1974 – Cyprus dispute: The UN Security Council authorises the UN Peacekeeping Force to create the Green Line splitting the island in two.
1976 – Racing driver Niki Lauda is left in a critical condition after a crash in the German Grand Prix. He survives the crash.
1980 – Vigdis Finnbogadottir becomes President of Iceland.
1980 - A train crash in County Cork, Republic of Ireland, kills 18 people.
1981 – First broadcasts by MTV. The first video played was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.
1993 - The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 is at its worst.
1994 – Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
1996 – Olafur Ragnar Grimsson becomes President of Iceland.
1996 – Olympic Games: Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.
2000 – Moshe Katsav becomes President of Israel.
From 2001
2001 – An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.
2001 – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a 2-1/2 ton Ten Commandments monument installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2004 – A supermarket fire kills 215 people and injures 300 in Asunción, Paraguay.
2005 – German spelling reform of 1996 is formally implemented.
2005 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies. His half-brother, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, succeeds him.
2005 – Disneyland Resort Line of the Hong Kong MTR opens to public.
2007 – The I-35 Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during evening rush hour.
2008 - A solar eclipse is visible over most of Europe and Asia, with totality passing over the Arctic, Russia and China.
2008 - 11 mountaineers die in an accident on K2, in the deadliest incident on the world's second-highest mountain.
2009 – Corazon Aquino, former President of the Philippines, dies at the age of 76.
2009 – A shooting attack at a Gay and Lesbian association in Tel-Aviv, Israel, kills 2 people.
2013 - An Italian court confirms the prison sentence for former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of tax fraud.
2013 - Edward Snowden is given temporary asylum in Russia, leaving the transit area of a Moscow airport, five-and-a-half weeks after landing there.
2013 - 2013 Cleveland, Ohio, missing trio: Ariel Castro is sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping Amanda Berry, Gina de Jesus and Michelle Knight, and holding them captive in his house for around a decade. He commits suicide on September 3.
2016 - Guðni Th. Jóhannesson becomes President of Iceland.
2017 - Jacinda Ardern becomes leader of the New Zealand Labour Party; she becomes Prime Minister of New Zealand less than three months later.
2017 - Shahid Khaqan Abbasi becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan.
2017 - A bomb attack in Herat, Afghanistan, kills 20 people.
2018 - Violent clashes occur in Harare over a delay in the announcement of Zimbabwe's Presidential election result.
2019 - A Houthi missile attack on a military parade in Aden, Yemen, kills 32 people.
2019 - The residents of Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, England, are told to leave their homes because a local dam is in danger of collapse.
Births
Up to 1900
10 BC – Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. AD 54)
126 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
1313 – Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
1520 – Sigismund II Augustus of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
1545 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
1579 – Lupe Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, rabbi and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean Movement (d. 1676)
1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
1659 - Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter (d. 1734)
1713 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1780)
1714 - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
1744 – Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
1770 – William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838)
1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
1779 – Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
1799 – Sophie de Ségur, French writer (d. 1874)
1807 - Robert McClelland, American politician (d. 1880)
1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and writer (d. 1882)
1817 - Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, German aristocrat (d. 1893)
1817 – Richard Dadd, English painter (d. 1886)
1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
1819 – Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
1819 – Augustus Gregory, Australian explorer (d. 1905)
1837 – Mary Harris Jones, American labor organiser (d. 1930)
1838 - Prince Louis, Count of Trani, Italian aristocrat (d. 1886)
1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American politician (d. 1926)
1847 - Anton Reichenow, German ornithologist (d. 1941)
1856 - George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
1858 – Hans Rott, composer (d. 1884)
1863 – Gaston Doumergue, President of France (d. 1937)
1865 - Prince Eugen, Duke of Narke, Swedish royal (d. 1947)
1867 - William Speirs Bruce, Scottish polar explorer (d. 1921)
1871 - John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
1873 - Gabriel Terra, President of Uruguay (d. 1942)
1879 – Augusto Samuel Boyd, 19th President of Panama (d. 1957)
1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
1888 - Charles Winslow, South African tennis player (d. 1963)
1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
1893 – Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
1894 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
1899 - Jimmie Angel, American pilot (d. 1965)
1901 1950
1905 - Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1993)
1906 - W. K. C. Guthrie, Scottish philologist (d. 1981)
1907 – Eric Shipton, British mountaineer (d. 1977)
1910 – Gerda Taro, German photographer (d. 1937)
1911 - Pericle Felici, Italian cardinal (d. 1982)
1912 - David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1979)
1912 - Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
1914 - J. Lee Thompson, English film director (d. 2002)
1916 - Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
1918 - Artur Brauner, German film producer (d. 2019)
1920 - Sammy Lee, American diver (d. 2016)
1920 - Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (d. 1953)
1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (d. 2009)
1922 – Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (d. 2006)
1922 – Pat McDonald, actress (d. 1990)
1924 – Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
1924 - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (d. 2015)
1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
1927 – Raymond Leppard, English conductor
1929 - Leila Abashidze, Georgian actress (d. 2018)
1929 – Hafizullah Amin, President of Afghanistan (d. 1979)
1930 – Lionel Bart, English songwriter (d. 1999)
1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
1930 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat and 62nd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
1930 - Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, choreographer, artist and director (d. 2014)
1931 - Hal Connolly, American hammer thrower (d. 2010)
1931 – Tom Wilson, cartoonist
1931 – Ramblin' Jack Elliott, American folk singer
1931 - Dino da Costa, Brazilian-Italian footballer
1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
1932 – Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
1933 - Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player (d. 2019)
1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, comedian (d. 2009)
1933 – Antonio Negri, Italian political philosopher
1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
1936 - W. D. Hamilton, British biologist (d. 2000)
1936 - Claudio Baggini, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2015)
1936 - Chadlia Caid Essebsi, First Lady of Tunisia (d. 2019)
1937 – Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York
1938 - Jacques Diouf, Senegalese diplomat (d. 2019)
1939 - Stephen Sykes, English bishop (d. 2014)
1939 - Bob Frankford, Canadian politician (d. 2015)
1940 - Franklin Cleckley, American state judge (d. 2017)
1940 - Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer
1941 – Jordi Savall, Catalan musicologist
1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
1942 – André Gagnon, French-Canadian pianist and composer
1942 – Jerry Garcia, American guitarist, lyricist and singer (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
1942 - Michael Martchenko, Canadian illustrator
1945 – Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
1946 – Dick Covey, American astronaut
1946 - Karen Pendleton, American actress (d. 2019)
1948 - Cliff Branch, American football player (d. 2019)
1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, former President of Kyrgyzstan
1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet, actor
1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball coach
1951 1975
1951 - Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)
1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
1953 – Robert Cray, American blues singer
1955 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer
1956 – Tom Leykis, American radio personality
1957 - Yoshio Kato, Japanese footballer
1957 - Taylor Negron, American actor, comedian, painter and playwright (d. 2015)
1958 - Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player
1959 - Satoshi Yamaguchi, Japanese footballer
1959 – Joe Elliott, musician (Def Leppard)
1960 – Chuck D, American rapper (Public Enemy)
1960 – Richard Roeper, American newspaper columnist and movie critic
1963 – Coolio, American rapper
1963 - Amber Rudd, English politician, former UK Home Secretary
1963 - Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut and engineer
1963 - Mark Wright, English footballer
1964 - Fiona Hyslop, Scottish politician
1964 - Kaspar Capparoni, Italian actor
1965 – Sam Mendes, English stage and movie director
1967 - Clare Adamson, Scottish politician
1967 - José Padilha, Brazilian director, producer and screenwriter
1968 - Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Japanese baseball player
1969 - Graham Thorpe, English cricketer
1970 – David James, English footballer
1970 - Sibel Can, Turkish singer
1970 - Elon Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician
1971 - Charles Malik Whitfield, American actor
1973 - Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer
1973 - Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
1973 – Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
From 1976
1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
1976 - Ivan Duque, Colombian politician, President of Colombia
1976 – Hasan Sas, Turkish footballer
1978 - Chris Iwelumo, Scottish footballer
1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player
1979 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer (d. 2019)
1979 – Honeysuckle Weeks, British actress
1979 - Jason Momoa, American actor
1980 – Mancini, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Hans Lindberg, Danish handball player
1981 - Pia Haraldsen, Norwegian journalist and author
1981 – Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
1981 – Taylor Fry, actress
1982 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
1982 - Montserrat Lombard, English actress
1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1985 – Stuart Holden, Scottish-American footballer
1986 – Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
1986 - Mike Wallace, American football player
1987 - Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer
1987 - Karen Carney, English footballer
1988 - Mustafa Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
1988 - Max Carver, American actor
1988 - Nemanja Matic, Serbian footballer
1989 – Tiffany, South Korean singer
1990 - Jack O'Connell, English actor
1992 - Austin Rivers, American basketball player
1993 - Alejandro Abrines Redondo, Spanish basketball player
1993 - Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
1994 - Domenico Berardi, Italian footballer
1994 - Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer
1995 - Jason Cummings, Scottish footballer
1996 - Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer
1998 - Khamani Griffin, American actor
Deaths
Up to 1900
30 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (b. 83 BC)
371 – St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop
527 – Justin I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 450)
1137 – King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian Franciscan monk and explorer (b. 1185)
1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist
1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
1546 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
1580 – Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
1598 – Abraham Ortelius, Belgian cartographer (b. 1527)
1714 – Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
1787 – Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist and entomologist (b. 1735)
1798 – François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1853)
1812 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (b. 1763)
1851 – William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
1865 - Byron Diman, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1795)
1866 – John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
1869 – Alexandrine Tinné, Dutch adventurer, explorer and photographer (b. 1835)
1901 1950
1903 – Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (b. 1852)
1907 - Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro, three-time Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1849)
1911 – Konrad Duden, German teacher and philologist (b. 1829)
1911 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (b. 1852)
1913 – Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian poet (b. 1871)
1917 – Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
1917 – Enric Prat de la Riba, Catalan politician (b. 1870)
1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
1929 - Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Soviet flying ace (b. 1921)
1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
1945 – Gyula Csortos, Hungarian movie actor (b. 1883)
1951 2000
1959 - Jean Behra, French racing driver (b. 1921)
1964 – Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)
1966 – Charles Whitman, American gunman (b. 1941)
1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German chemist, won the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1883)
1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
1973 – Walter Ulbricht, leader of East Germany (b. 1893)
1977 – Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
1986 - Carlo Confalonieri, Italian cardinal (b. 1893)
1987 - Pola Negri, Polish actress (b. 1897)
1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
1990 – Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
1990 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
1996 – Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
1996 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician, surgeon and aid worker (b. 1929)
1996 - Mohamed Farrah Aidid, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)
1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Anglo-Indian writer (b. 1897)
From 2001
2001 – Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
2001 - Mario Perazzolo, Italian footballer (b. 1911)
2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
2004 – Philip Hauge Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
2005 – Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
2005 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
2005 – Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
2006 - Ferenc Szusza, Hungarian footballer (b. 1923)
2009 – Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
2012 – Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer (b. 1953)
2013 - John Amis, British broadcaster and writer (b. 1922)
2013 - Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (b. 1931)
2014 - Mike Smith, English radio and television presenter (b. 1955)
2014 - Rod de'Ath, Welsh drummer (b. 1950)
2014 - Charles T. Payne, American soldier (b. 1925)
2014 - Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarussian footballer (b. 1973)
2014 - Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian writer (b. 1974)
2014 - Saeed Saleh, Egyptian actor (b. 1938)
2014 - Michael Johns, Australian singer (b. 1978)
2015 - Stephan Beckenbauer, German footballer (b. 1968)
2015 - Chiara Pierobon, Italian cyclist (b. 1993)
2015 - Bob Frankford, Canadian politician (b. 1939)
2015 - Cilla Black, English singer, actress and television presenter (b. 1943)
2016 - Queen Anne of Romania (b. 1923)
2016 - Frank Blas, Guamian politician (b. 1941)
2016 - Dai Dower, Welsh boxer (b. 1933)
2017 - Ana-Maria Avram, Romanian composer (b. 1961)
2017 - Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, Indian writer and administrator (b. 1928)
2017 - Jeffrey Brotman, American businessman (b. 1942)
2017 - Mariann Mayberry, American actress (b. 1965)
2018 - Mary Carlisle, American actress (b. 1914)
2018 - Rick Genest, Canadian fashion model and actor (b. 1985)
2018 - Fakir Musafar, American performance artist (b. 1930)
2018 - Celeste Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (b. 1923)
2018 - Umbayee, Indian ghazal singer (b. 1950)
2018 - Hannie van Leeuwen, Dutch politician (b. 1926)
2018 - Jakob Schönenberger, Swiss businessman and politician (b. 1931)
2018 - Nancy Tuckerman, American secretary (b. 1928)
2019 - Gordon Brand Jnr, Scottish golfer (b. 1958)
2019 - Ian Gibbons, English keyboardist (b. 1952)
2019 - Sadou Hayatou, 4th Prime minister of Cameroon (b. 1942)
2019 - Annemarie Huber-Hotz, Swiss politician, Chancellor of Switzerland (b. 1948)
2019 - D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (b. 1925)
2019 - Harley Race, American professional wrestler (b. 1943)
2019 - Anders P. Ravn, Danish computer scientist (b. 1947)
Observances
National Day of Switzerland
Independence Day in Benin
Emancipation Day (Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago)
Army Day (China)
Armed Forces Day (Lebanon)
Lammas, cross-quarter day in the Celtic calendar
Statehood Day (Colorado)
Yorkshire Day
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Events
Up to 1900
322 BC - Battle of Crammon between Athens and Macedon.
461 - Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in northwestern Italy.
626 - The Avar and Slav armies leave the Siege of Constantinople.
768 - Pope Stephen III is elected.
936 - Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
1316 - Pope John XXII is elected.
1420 - Building of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy begins.
1461 - Ming Dynasty Chinese general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
1588 - The English Navy defeats the Spanish Armada.
1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, which was commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
1714 - Battle of Gangut: First important victory in the Russian Navy.
1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1789 - The United States Department of War is established.
1794 – Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monoghaela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphed over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
1858 - The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.
1879 - Opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester, England.
1884 - Germany takes control of Southwest Africa, present-day Namibia.
1888 - In the US, Theophilus Van Kannel is given a patent for the Revolving door.
1901 2000
1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to make a transcontinental car journey, reaching San Francisco, California after setting off from New York City on June 9.
1927 – Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
1930 - The last confirmed lynchings of African Americans in the Northern United States take place in Marion, Indiana.
1933 - Simele Massacre: Iraqi government forces slaughter over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal begins - US Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with a landing on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day 7,000 km (4,300 mile) journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
1953 – Ohio admitted to the union, retroactive to 1803 (this is disputed by some).
1959 – Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1960 – Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.
1964 – Vietnam War: The United States Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1964 - Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the oldest tree in the world, is cut down.
1965 – Singapore is expelled and separated from the Federation of Malaysia.
1967 – Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam and undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
1971 - Apollo 15 returns to Earth after a mission to the Moon.
1972 - Idi Amin gives all Asian people in Uganda 90 days to leave.
1974 – French tight-rope walker Philippe Petit crosses from one tower to the other at New York City's World Trade Center.
1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
1978 – United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal.
1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
1983 - The first World Athletics Championships begin in Helsinki, Finland.
1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mori, and Chiaki Mukai are chosen as Japan's first astronauts.
1987 – American swimmer Lynne Cox crosses the so-called 'Ice Curtain' between Alaska (US), and the Soviet Union's far east.
1989 – US Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX), and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
1990 – At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by British reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90.
1990 - César Gaviria becomes President of Colombia.
1994 - Ernesto Samper becomes President of Colombia.
1997 – Fine Air Flight 101, a cargo flight from Miami to Santo Domingo crashes onto NW 72nd Ave near Miami International Airport, killing five people.
1998 - Andrés Pastrana Arango becomes President of Colombia.
1998 – 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya kills 224 people and injures over 4,500.
1999 - Southern Russia: Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades nearby Dagestan.
2000 - US Presidential candidate Al Gore chooses Joe Lieberman as his running mate.
2000 - Saturn's moon Ymir is discovered.
From 2001
2002 - Alvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia.
2005 - The biggest bank robbery in Brazilian history takes place when 150 million Real (equivalent of 52 million Euros) are stolen from a bank in Fortaleza in the northeast of the country.
2007 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.
2008 – The Republic of Georgia carries out a military offensive in South Ossetia.
2009 – Typhoon Morakot hits Taiwan.
2010 - Juan Manuel Santos becomes President of Colombia.
2012 - 3 gunmen kill 19 people in a church in Okene, Nigeria.
2018 - US President Donald Trump imposes new sanctions (restrictions) on Iran.
2018 - Ivan Duque becomes President of Colombia.
Births
Up to 1800
317 – Constantius II, Roman Emperor (d. 361)
594 - Empress Kogyoku of Japan (d. 661)
1282 - Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of Edward I of England (d. 1316)
1400 – Guillaume Dufay, French composer (d. 1474) (some sources give August 5, 1397 birthdate)
1533 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595)
1560 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (d. 1614)
1574 - Robert Dudley, English writer (d. 1649)
1598 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (d. 1672)
1649 - Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria (d. 1664)
1726 - James Bowdoin, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1790)
1734 - Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria (d. 1776)
1742 - Nathanael Greene, American revolutionary general (d. 1786)
1751 – Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (d. 1820)
1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (d. 1842)
1779 – Carl Ritter, German geographer (d. 1859)
1783 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810)
1783 - John Heathcoat, English inventor (d. 1861)
1801 1900
1804 - Johan Nicolai Madvig, Danish classical philologist and politician (d. 1886)
1811 - Elias Loomis, American mathematician, astronomer and meteorologist (d. 1889)
1819 - Ion Emanuel Florescu, Romanian general and politician (d. 1893)
1832 - Max Lange, German chess player (d. 1899)
1862 – Victoria of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1931)
1863 - Scipione Riva-Ricci, Italian physician (d. 1937)
1867 – Emil Nolde, German painter (d. 1956)
1868 - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
1870 - Gustav Krupp, German industrialist and war criminal (d. 1950)
1872 - Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff, Dutch politician (d. 1957)
1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (d. 1917)
1876 - John August Anderson, American astronomer (d. 1959)
1877 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)
1878 - Maria Caspar-Filser, German artist (d. 1968)
1883 - Joachim Ringelnatz, German writer and painter (d. 1934)
1884 - Billie Burke, American actress (d. 1970)
1890 - Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American activist (d. 1964)
1896 - Alberto Demicheli, Uruguayan politician (d. 1980)
1900 - Alan Helffrich, American athlete (d. 1994)
1901 1950
1901 - Ann Harding, American actress (d. 1981)
1903 – Louis Leakey, British-Kenyan archaeologist (d. 1972)
1904 – Ralph Bunche, American diplomat (d. 1971)
1906 – Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (d. 1998)
1907 - Albert Kotin, American abstract painter (d. 1980)
1910 - Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1965)
1911 - Nicholas Ray, American movie director and writer (d. 1979)
1912 – Vo Chi Cong, President of Vietnam (d. 2011)
1913 - Alicia Penalba, Argentine sculptor, tapestry designer and weaver (d. 1982)
1916 – Kermit Love, American puppeteer (d. 2008)
1918 - Poni Adams, American actress (d. 2014)
1921 - Manitas de Plata, French flamenco guitarist (d. 2014)
1924 - Kenneth Kendall, English journalist (d. 2012)
1925 - M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist
1925 – Armand Razafindratandra, Malagasy cardinal (d. 2010)
1926 - Stan Freberg, American actor, comedian and author (d. 2015)
1927 - Edwin Edwards, 50th Governor of Louisiana (d. 2021)
1927 - George Busbee, American politician, Governor of the State of Georgia (d. 2004)
1927 - Rocky Bridges, American baseball player (d. 2015)
1928 - Betsy Byars, American author
1928 - James Randi, Canadian-American stage magician and scientific sceptic
1929 - Jo Baer, American painter
1929 - Don Larsen, American baseball player
1930 - Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer (d. 2017)
1932 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (d. 1973)
1932 – Edward Hardwicke, British actor (d. 2011)
1932 - Rien Poortvliet, Dutch painter (d. 1995)
1933 - Eddie Firmani, South African footballer and coach
1933 - Elinor Ostrom, American economist (d. 2012)
1933 - Jerry Pournelle, American science fiction author (d. 2017)
1937 - Magic Slim, American blues musician (d. 2013)
1940 – Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian politician, former Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)
1941 - Franco Columbu, Italian actor and bodybuilder
1942 – Sigfried Held, German footballer
1942 – B.J. Thomas, American singer
1942 - Caetano Veloso, Brazilian musician
1943 – Alain Corneau, French movie director (d. 2010)
1944 - Robert Mueller, American FBI director
1945 - Kenny Ireland, Scottish actor (d. 2014)
1945 - Alan Page, American football player and judge
1946 - John C. Mather, American physicist
1947 - Sofia Rotaru, Soviet-Ukrainian singer
1948 - Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach
1948 - Antonis Vardis, Greek composer and singer (d. 2014)
1949 - Tim Renwick, British musician
1949 - Walid Junblatt, Lebanese political leader
1950 - Alan Keyes, American conservative political activist, pundit, author and diplomat
1950 - Kessai Note, former President of the Marshall Islands
1950 - Dave Wottle, American athlete
1951 1975
1952 - Gary Schwartz, American actor, voice actor, author and teacher
1952 - Caroline Aaron, American actress
1955 - Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer
1955 - Greg Nickels, American politician, 51st Mayor of Seattle
1955 - Diana Downs, American murderess
1956 - Kent Rominger, American astronaut
1957 - Alexander Dityatin, Soviet gymnast
1958 – Bruce Dickinson, British singer (Iron Maiden)
1958 – Alberto Salazar, American runner
1960 – Jacquie O'Sullivan, British singer (Bananarama)
1960 – David Duchovny, American actor
1961 - Yelena Davydova, Soviet-Russian gymnast
1961 - Brian Conley, English actor and singer
1962 - Alain Robert, French daredevil
1962 - Alison Brown, American musician, songwriter and producer
1962 - Bruno Pelletier, Canadian singer
1962 - Doon Mackichan, British comedienne and actress
1963 - Harold Perrineau, American actor
1966 – Jimmy Wales, American founder of Wikipedia
1966 - Shobna Gulati, English actress
1966 - Kristin Hersh, American singer-songwriter, musician and author
1966 - David Cairns, Scottish politician (d. 2011)
1967 - Evgeny Platov, Russian ice dancer
1968 - Martin Max, German footballer
1969 - Domino Harvey, English bounty hunter (d. 2005)
1969 – Paul Lambert, Scottish footballer and coach
1971 – Rachel York, American actress and singer
1972 - Karen Disher, American film director
1973 - Kevin Muscat, Australian footballer
1973 – Zane Lowe, New Zealand disc jockey and television presenter
1974 - Michael Shannon, American actor
1975 – Charlize Theron, South African actress
1975 - Edgar Renteria, Colombian baseball player
1975 - Gaahl, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1975 - Koray Candemir, Turkish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and actor
1975 - David Hicks, Australian alleged terrorist
From 1976
1976 - Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer
1977 - Charlotte Ronson, English fashion designer
1977 - Samantha Ronson, English DJ and songwriter
1978 - Mark McCammon, Barbadian footballer
1979 - Eric Johnson, American actor
1979 - Nenad Djordjevic, Serbian footballer
1980 - Seiichiro Maki, Japanese footballer
1980 - Shane Orio, Belizean footballer
1982 - Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer
1982 – Marco Melandri, Italian cyclist
1982 - Abbie Cornish, American actress
1983 - Brit Marling, American writer, producer, director and actress
1984 - Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean activist (d. 2003)
1985 - Rick Genest, Canadian fashion model and artist (d. 2018)
1986 – Paul Biedermann, German swimmer
1986 – Valter Birsa, Slovenian footballer
1986 – Nancy Sumari, Tanzanian beauty queen
1987 – Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Melody Oliveria, American blogger
1990 - Helen Flanagan, English actress
1991 - Mitchell te Vrede, Dutch footballer
1993 - Francesca Eastwood, American actress, model, television presenter and socialite
1996 - Liam James, Canadian actor
Deaths
Up to 1900
461 – Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)
479 - Emperor Yuryaku of Japan
1106 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
1385 - Joan of Kent (b. 1328)
1485 - Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. 1454)
1616 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (b. 1548)
1635 – Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
1661 - Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608)
1809 - Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., Governor of Connecticut (b. 1740)
1817 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739)
1821 - Caroline of Brunswick, Queen of the United Kingdom (b. 1768)
1834 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)
1848 – Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)
1855 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802)
1864 - Li Xiucheng, Chinese general (b. 1823)
1893 - Alfredo Catalani, Italian musician (b. 1854)
1900 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German political activist (b. 1826)
1901 2000
1908 - Antonio Starabba, Italian politician (b. 1839)
1912 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (born 1841)
1917 - Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English pilot and commander (b. 1891)
1937 - Takeo Wakabayashi, Japanese footballer (b. 1907)
1938 - Constantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner (b. 1863)
1941 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian writer and poet (b. 1861)
1945 - Yi Wu, Korean prince (b. 1912)
1948 - Charles Bryant, American actor and movie director (b. 1879)
1957 – Oliver Hardy, American radio and movie comedian, and actor (born 1892)
1969 - Joseph Kosma, French composer (b. 1905)
1972 – Asposia Manos, wife of King Alexander of Greece (b. 1896)
1972 - Joi Lansing, American model, actress and singer (b. 1929)
1974 - Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (b. 1925)
1981 - Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (b. 1931)
1987 – Camille Chamoun, Lebanese President (b. 1900)
1989 - Mickey Leland, American politician (b. 1944)
1994 - Larry Martin, English actor (b. 1934)
1995 – Brigid Brophy, British writer (b. 1929)
1999 – Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
From 2001
2004 – Red Adair, American oil well firefighter (b. 1915)
2005 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American news anchor (b. 1938)
2007 - Angus Tait, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman (b. 1929)
2008 - Andrea Pininfarina, Italian engineer (b. 1957)
2010 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (b. 1929)
2011 – Hugh Carey, former Governor of New York (b. 1919)
2011 - Mark Hatfield, former Governor of Oregon (b. 1922)
2011 – Harri Holkeri, 57th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1937)
2011 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born spy (b. 1912)
2014 - Denys Williams, British-Barbadian judge, acting Governor-General of Barbados (b. 1929)
2014 - Cristina Deutekom, Dutch opera singer (b. 1931)
2014 - Perry Moss, American football coach (b. 1926)
2014 - Claude Bertrand, Canadian neurosurgeon (b. 1917)
2015 - Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian physician (b. 1914)
2015 - Manuel Contreras, Chilean general, convicted of crimes against humanity (b. 1929)
2015 - Terrence Evans, American actor (b. 1934)
2016 - Gustavo Bueno, Spanish philosopher (b. 1924)
2016 - Bryan Clauson, American racing driver (b. 1989)
2017 - Don Baylor, American baseball player (b. 1949)
2017 - Haruo Nakajima, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
2017 - Sigmund Sobolewski, Polish activist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1923)
2017 - Patsy Ticer, American politician (b. 1935)
2018 - John Ciaccia, Italian-born Canadian politician (b. 1933)
2018 - Arvonne Fraser, American women's rights activist (b. 1925)
2018 - Gustavo Giagnoni, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1932)
2018 - M. Karunanidhi, Indian politician and writer (b. 1924)
2018 - Anton Lehmden, Austrian painter (b. 1929)
2018 - Stan Mikita, Slovakian-born Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1940)
2018 - Carlos Almenar Otero, Venezuelan tenor (b. 1926)
Observances
Republic Day (Ivory Coast)
Youth Day (Kiribati)
Battle of Boyacá Day (Colombia)
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Events
Up to 1900
48 BC Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus. Pompey flees to Egypt.
378 Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople - A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths. Valens is killed, along with over half of his army.
681 Bulgaria is founded on the south bank of the Danube after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.
1173 Construction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa begins.
1329 Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is created by Pope John XXII. French-born Jordanus becomes its first bishop.
1483 The Sistine Chapel opens.
1810 Napoleon Bonaparte annexes the departments of the kingdom of Westphalia into the French Empire.
1842 The Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed. It confirms where the US-Canada border runs to the east of the Rocky Mountains.
1854 Henry David Thoreau publishes his work Walden.
1862 American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain - Confederate general Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union general John Pope.
1890 The United Kingdom gives the North Sea island of Heligoland over to German control.
1892 Thomas Edison receives a patent for the two-way telegraph.
1896 German aviator Otto Lilienthal crashes during a flying attempt, dying the next day.
From 1901
1902 Edward VII of the United Kingdom is crowned king, while his consort, Alexandra of Denmark is crowned queen of the United Kingdom.
1907 The first Boy Scout camp ends on Brownsea Island, Dorset, England, UK, having been led by Robert Baden-Powell.
1910 Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition leaves Kristiania, present-day Oslo. The public does not know that it is destined for the South Pole.
1912 An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 in Persia kills around 5,500 people.
1914 World War I: Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of an eventually unsuccessful French attempt to retake Alsace from Germany.
1925 A train robbery occurs in Lucknow, India.
1936 Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal of the 1936 Summer Olympics.
1942 Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by British colonial police in Bombay, starting the Quit India Movement for Indian independence.
1942 World War II: Battle of Savo Island - Allied forces are surprised and defeated by the Japanese Imperial Navy cruise force in initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1944 The US Forest Service and Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey the Bear for the first time.
1945 World War II: The United States drops an atomic bomb, "Fat Man" on the city of Nagasaki.
1965 Singapore gains independence from Malaysia.
1965 A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
1968 British Eagle Flight 802 crashes near Langenbruck, north of Munich, Bavaria, Germany, killing all 48 people on board.
1969 Members of Charles Manson's gang murder Sharon Tate, her unborn son, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring, and Steven Parent.
1970 A Lockheed L-188 Electra plane crashes near Cuzco, Peru, killing 99 of the 100 people on board, as well as 2 people on the ground.
1971 The Troubles: British security forces in Northern Ireland begin Operation Demetrius. In the violence that followed, hundreds are arrested or interred, thousands are made homeless, and 20 people are killed.
1974 Gerald Ford becomes President of the United States after the resignation of Richard Nixon over the Watergate scandal.
1974 The oil tanker Metula runs aground off Tierra del Fuego.
1988 Wayne Gretzky, star of ice hockey, is transferred from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial transactions in ice hockey history.
1990 The United Nations Security Council declares Iraq's occupation of Kuwait null and void.
1992 The 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona end.
1993 Albert II of Belgium is proclaimed King.
1993 The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
1999 Boris Yeltsin names Vladimir Putin as Prime Minister of Russia.
1999 Charles Kennedy is elected leader of the British Liberal Democrats.
2001 15 people are killed and 132 are injured in a suicide bombing in Downtown Jerusalem.
2005 Space Shuttle Discovery lands safely back on Earth, after a two-week space mission, following spacewalks to carry out repairs on the Shuttle.
2012 2012 Summer Olympics: Nicola Adams becomes the first Olympic gold medalist in women's boxing. On the same day, Kenya's David Rudisha sets a new record in the men's 800 meters.
2018 A Saudi airstrike in Dahyan, Yemen, kills at least 51 people, including 29 children.
Births
Up to 1800
1201 Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)
1537 Francesco Barozzi, Italian mathematician, astronomer and humanist (d. 1604)
1544 Bogislaw III, Duke of Pomerania (d. 1606)
1594 Izaak Walton, English writer (d. 1683)
1603 Johannes Cocceius, German Protestant theologian (d. 1669)
1648 Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)
1653 John Oldham, English poet and translator (d. 1683)
1663 Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1713)
1669 Eudoxia Lopukhina, Tsarina of Russia (d. 1731)
1696 Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1772)
1722 Prince Augustus William of Prussia (d. 1758)
1726 Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778)
1736 Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, French statesman (d. 1818)
1754 Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect (d. 1825)
1757 Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1834)
1757 Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, American political figure (d. 1854)
1759 Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, German scholar (d. 1839)
1776 Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (d. 1856)
1783 Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1801)
1794 Achille Valenciennes, French zoologist (d. 1865)
1797 Charles Robert Malden, British naval officer who discovered Malden Island (d. 1855)
1801 1900
1805 Joseph Locke, British railway and civil engineer (d. 1860)
1817 Justo Arosemena, Panamanian statesman (d. 1896)
1819 William T. G. Morton, American dentist and anesthesia pioneer (d. 1868)
1834 Manuel Pardo, 20th President of Peru (d. 1878)
1845 André Bessette, Canadian saint (d. 1937)
1847 Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Queen of Spain (d. 1876)
1863 Alvaro Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1950)
1867 Evelina Haverfield, Scottish nurse and activist (d. 1920)
1871 Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (d. 1919)
1872 Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962)
1874 Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan-born composer (d. 1947)
1875 Albert Ketèlbey, English composer (d. 1959)
1884 John S. McCain, Sr., American admiral (d. 1945)
1887 Hans Oster, German general and Resistance activist (d. 1945)
1892 S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (d. 1972)
1894 Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (d. 1958)
1896 Jean Piaget, Swiss child psychologist (d. 1980)
1899 P. L. Travers, Australian writer, writer of Mary Poppins (d. 1996)
1901 1950
1901 Charles Farrell, American actor (d. 1990)
1902 Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)
1903 Tom Tyler, American actor (d. 1954)
1904 Hasso von Boehmer, German military and Resistance activist (d. 1945)
1908 Tommaso Landolfi, Italian writer (d. 1979)
1909 Adam von Trott zu Solz, German jurist, diplomat and Resistance activist (d. 1944)
1910 Robert van Gulik, Dutch sinologist, diplomat, writer and musician (d. 1967)
1911 William Alfred Fowler, American physicist (d. 1996)
1912 Anne Brown, American soprano (d. 2009)
1914 Tove Jansson, Finnish writer of the Moomin books (d. 2001)
1914 Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
1914 Joe Mercer, English footballer (d. 1990)
1914 Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, British aristocrat (d. 1943)
1916 Manea Manescu, Romanian politician (d. 2009)
1918 Robert Aldrich, American director (d. 1983)
1919 Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1987)
1920 Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and writer (d. 2007)
1921 J. James Exon, American politician, 33rd Governor of Nebraska (d. 2005)
1922 Philip Larkin, English poet (d. 1985)
1923 Gerrit Kouwenaar, Dutch poet (d. 2014)
1924 Marta Becket, American actress, dancer, choreographer and painter (d. 2017)
1927 Marvin Minsky, American scientist (d. 2016)
1927 Daniel Keyes, American writer (d. 2014)
1927 Robert Shaw, English actor (d. 1978)
1928 Bob Cousy, American professional basketball player (NBA)
1930 Jacques Parizeau, Quebec politician and economist (d. 2015)
1931 Mário Zagallo, Brazilian footballer
1931 James Freeman Gilbert, American geophysicist (d. 2014)
1932 Anand Panyarachun, former Prime Minister of Thailand
1932 Tam Dalyell, Scottish politician (d. 2017)
1933 Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese television personality, children's writer
1934 Graeme Gibson, Canadian novelist and union leader (d. 2019)
1936 Patrick Tse, Hong Kong-Chinese actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1937 Hans Nowak, German footballer (d. 2012)
1938 Leonid Kuchma, former President of Ukraine
1938 Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
1938 Otto Rehhagel, German football manager
1939 Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy
1939 The Mighty Hannibal, American singer-songwriter and record producer (d. 2014)
1939 Hércules Brito Ruas, Brazilian footballer
1939 Bulle Ogier, French actress
1942 Tommie Agee, American baseball player (d. 2001)
1943 Ken Norton, American boxer (d. 2013)
1943 Lorenzo Sanz, Spanish businessman
1943 Lubomir Kavalek, Czech-American chess player
1944 John Simpson, English journalist and correspondent
1944 Sam Elliott, American actor
1944 Patrick Depailler, French racing driver (d. 1980)
1945 Posy Simmonds, cartoonist
1947 Roy Hodgson, English football manager
1947 Barbara Mason, American soul singer
1948 William M. Daley, 24th White House Chief of Staff
1949 Jonathan Kellerman, American mystery writer
1951 1975
1951 James Naughtie, Scottish broadcaster
1951 Michaele Schreyer, German politician
1952 Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, Thai politician and activist
1953 Michael Russell, Scottish politician
1953 Kay Stenshjemmet, Norwegian speed skater
1953 Jean Tirole, French economist
1955 Maud Olofsson, Swedish politician
1955 Charlie Morgan, English drummer
1957 Melanie Griffith, American actress (Working Girl, The Bonfire of the Vanities)
1958 Amanda Bearse, American actress
1959 Stuart Hughes, Canadian actor
1959 Kurtis Blow, American rapper
1959 Michael Kors, American fashion designer
1959 Idrissa Seck, former Prime Minister of Senegal
1961 John Key, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1961 Brad Gilbert, American tennis player
1961 Amy Stiller, American actress
1962 Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, German politician, former Prime Minister of Saarland
1962 Kevin Mack, American football player
1962 John "Hot Rod" Williams, American basketball player
1963 Maria Manuela Machado, Portuguese long-distance runner
1963 Petra Pau, German politician
1963 Whitney Houston, American singer and actress (d. 2012)
1963 Jay Leggett, American actor (d. 2013)
1964 Brett Hull, Canadian-American professional hockey player (NHL)
1966 Vinny Del Negro, American basketball player and coach
1967 Dana Vávrová, Czech actress (d. 2009)
1967 Ralph Hasenhüttl, Austrian footballer and manager
1967 Deion Sanders, American football player
1968 Gillian Anderson, American actress
1968 Eric Bana, Australian actor
1968 McG, American director and producer
1969 Troy Percival, Major League Baseball All-Star
1970 Chris Cuomo, American journalist
1970 Thomas Lennon, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1972 Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez, Colombian singer and songwriter
1972 Liz Vassey, American actress
1973 Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor
1973 Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer
1974 Derek Fisher, American basketball player
From 1976
1976 Jessica Capshaw, American actress (The Practice)
1976 Rhona Mitra, American actress (The Practice)
1976 Audrey Tautou, French actress
1976 Nawaf al-Hazmi, Saudi Arabian terrorist (d. 2001)
1977 Chamique Holdsclaw, professional basketball player (WNBA)
1977 Adewale Ogunleye, American football player
1977 Mikael Silvestre, French footballer
1978 Daniela Denby-Ashe, British actress
1978 Wesley Sonck, Belgian footballer
1979 Lisa Nandy, English politician
1979 Tony Stewart, American football player
1980 Ryoo Seung-bum, South Korean actor
1981 Jarvis Hayes, American basketball player
1981 Li Jiawei, Singaporean table tennis player
1981 Roland Linz, Austrian footballer
1982 Tyson Gay, American runner
1982 Joel Anthony, American basketball player
1982 Yekaterina Samutsevich, Russian singer and activist (Pussy Riot)
1983 Ashley Johnson, American actress
1985 Luca Filippi, Italian racing driver
1985 Anna Kendrick, American actress
1985 Dennis Marshall, Costa Rican footballer (d. 2011)
1985 Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
1986 Rafaela Zanella, Brazilian model
1987 Marco Carmona, Mexican artist
1988 Vasilios Koutsianikoulis, Greek footballer
1989 Stefano Okaka, Italian footballer
1989 Jason Heyward, American baseball player
1990 Adelaide Kane, Australian actress
1991 Alexa Bliss, American professional wrestler
1991 Candela Vetrano, Argentine actress and singer
1993 Rydel Lynch, American actress, singer, dancer and musician
1994 Jonathan Espericueta, Mexican footballer
1994 Forrest Landis, American actor
1996 Deborah Burke, Canadian ice hockey player
Deaths
Up to 1900
117 Trajan, Roman emperor (b. 53)
378 Valens, Roman emperor (killed in battle) (b. 328)
378 Traianus, Roman general
803 Byzantine Empress Irene (b. 752)
1048 Pope Damasus II
1107 Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
1250 King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
1472 Janos Vitez, Croatian humanist (b. 1408)
1534 Thomas Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470)
1580 Metrophanes III, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1520)
1601 Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
1816 Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771)
1837 Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
1854 Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (b. 1797)
1864 John Brown Francis, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1791)
1880 William Bigler, 12th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1814)
1901 2000
1909 Jemima Blackburn, Scottish painter (b. 1823)
1910 Hua Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist (b. 1868)
1914 Roque Sáenz Peña, President of Argentina (b. 1851)
1919 Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (b. 1834)
1919 Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
1927 Stephan G. Stephansson, Western Icelander poet and farmer (b. 1853)
1932 John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician (b. 1863)
1942 Edith Stein, (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) at Auschwitz (b. 1891)
1945 Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881)
1948 Hugo Boss, German fashion designer (b. 1885)
1949 Harry Davenport, American actor (b. 1866)
1956 Tobias Danzig, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1884)
1962 Hermann Hesse, German writer (b. 1877)
1967 Joe Orton, English writer (d. 1933)
1969 Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist (b. 1903)
1969 Murdered by Charles Manson's gang:
Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (b. 1943)
Jay Sebring, Hollywood hair stylist (b. 1933)
Abigail Folger, Coffee heiress (b. 1943)
Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (b. 1936)
Steven Parent, American student (b. 1951)
1974 Bill Chase, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1934)
1975 Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
1976 José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer (b. 1910)
1979 Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (b. 1903)
1980 Jacqueline Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)
1988 Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
1988 Ramon Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
1990 Wladislaw Orlicz, Polish mathematician (b. 1903)
1990 Joe Mercer, English footballer (b. 1914)
1992 Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer and actor (b. 1938)
1995 Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
1996 Frank Whittle, British engineer and inventor (b. 1907)
1998 Frankie Ruiz, American singer (b. 1958)
1999 Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (b. 1910)
2000 John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist (b. 1920)
From 2001
2003 Ray Harford, English football manager (b. 1945)
2003 Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946)
2004 Robert Lecourt, French politician (b. 1908)
2005 Colette Besson, French athlete (b. 1946)
2006 Rafael Ruiz, Spanish hockey player (b. 1916)
2006 James Van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
2008 Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet (b. 1941)
2008 Bernie Mac, American comedian and actor (b. 1957)
2010 Ted Stevens, American politician (b. 1923)
2012 Mel Stuart, American director and producer (b. 1928)
2012 Al Freeman, Jr., American actor (b. 1934)
2013 Regina Resnik, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1923)
2014 Andriy Bal, Ukrainian footballer and coach (b. 1958)
2014 Charles Keating, British actor (b. 1941)
2014 Michael Brown, American shooting victim (b. 1996)
2014 Ed Nelson, American actor (b. 1928)
2014 Jerome Ehlers, Australian actor (b. 1958)
2015 Frank Gifford, American football player (b. 1930)
2015 John Henry Holland, American computer scientist (b. 1929)
2015 Fikret Otyam, Turkish painter and journalist (b. 1926)
2015 Susan Sheridan, British voice actress (b. 1947)
2015 David Nobbs, British comedy writer (b. 1935)
2015 George E. R. Kinnear II, American admiral (b. 1928)
2016 Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, British aristocrat and landowner (b. 1951)
2016 Kalikho Pul, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (b. 1969)
2016 Wang Tuoh, Taiwanese writer (b. 1944)
2016 Ernst Neizvestny, Russian-American sculptor, painter, graphic artist and philosopher (b. 1925)
2017 Patricio Echegaray, Argentine politician (b. 1946)
2017 Al McCandless, American politician (b. 1927)
2017 Peter Weibel, German racing cyclist (b. 1950)
2017 Thomas A. Bird, British World War II army officer and architect (b. 1918)
2018 Manfred Melzer, German Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1944)
2018 Mehrdad Pahlbod, Iranian politician (b. 1917)
2019 Paul Findley, American politician (b. 1921)
2019 Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Brazilian footballer (b. 1938)
2019 Fahrudin Jusufi, Yugoslavian footballer (b. 1939)
Observances
National Day of Singapore
Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
National Women's Day (South Africa and Namibia)
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9958 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender | Transgender | Transgender people are people who identify, or feel, different from their assigned sex at birth. It's been considered a gender modality in which gender identity differs from the assigned at birth.
Definitions
The word "transgender" may describe many different people. People with different ideas about their genders may think of themselves as transgender. These people use different words to describe their gender. The term "trans people" is often used as a short version of "transgender people".
Some common definitions of the words used in this article are listed here:
Anatomical (biological) sex means whether someone was born with a male or female body.
Cisgender is an antonym of transgender and means a person who identifies as the gender they were assigned at birth
Gender is the way masculinity and femininity are seen or used by all people, separate from anatomical sex.
Gender expression is how a person behaves or acts in ways that affect how others might view them as being male or female.
Gender identity is a person's sense in their mind of whether they are a man, woman, something else or neither (agender).
The gender binary is the idea that a person must be either male or female and that there is no other gender other than those two.
Gender role is society's view of how people should act because of their gender: men and women are expected to act in a certain way. Gender roles are often enforced by society through disapproval of cross-gender behavior: for example, if a male child wants a doll, he might be told that he is "acting like a girl". If a female child climbs a tree, she might be called a "tomboy".
Sexuality is usually grouped in with transgender topics, but it is still doesn't dictate whether someone is cisgender or transgender or vice versa. For example, a person can be heterosexual and trans at the same time.
These definitions are important to help understand that what people look like outside (sex) is not always the same as how they feel inside (gender). Some people do not fit into the gender binary.
Who is transgender?
There are many subgroups of people who are included in the in the term transgender. It is important that not all transgender people fit into these groups. Some of the bigger groups are:
Transsexual – unlike the term 'transgender', this is a more specific term. It is an older word which existed in medical communities and is preferred to be used by people who seek to change their bodies (such as through surgery or hormones). Many people prefer the term "transgender" to "transsexual" and see "transsexual" as an offensive term as it used to refer to the identity as a disease, and clinicians are advised to only use the term "transsexual" if their client is okay with it.
AFAB – means 'assigned female at birth.' It is someone who was assigned a female sex at birth but identifies as male. Another term used is FTM, meaning 'female-to-male.'An AFAB person is also sometimes called a transgender man, or a trans man.
AMAB – means 'assigned male at birth.' It is someone who was assigned male at birth but identifies as female. Another term used is MTF, meaning 'male-to-female.' An AMAB person is also sometimes called a transgender woman, or a trans woman.
Genderqueer – is someone who rejects the whole idea of a gender binary and may identify as a number of varied gender terms. This can sometimes be seen as a controversial word, since ‘’queer’’ has been used as a slur in the past, even if it has mostly been reclaimed in recent times. Genderqueer people may prefer to use the term "Non-Binary" to describe themselves, which is often shortened to "enby" (from spelling out the acronym "NB" phonetically).
– a term for any person, binary or non-binary, who was assigned male at birth and has a predominantly feminine gender identity or presentation; transmasculine is the equivalent term for someone who was assigned female at birth and has a predominantly masculine gender identity or presentation.
The following groups of people are not necessarily transgender:
Intersex - is a word for people who are born with both some male and some female biological traits.
Cross-dresser – is commonly associated with transgender people but is unrelated. It’s when female identified people dress to appear as a man, or male identified people dress to appear as a woman.
Transvestite - This is considered to be offensive to most transgender people as “transvestites” will dress very masculine or feminine for sexual satisfaction.
History
People like those who, in modern Western societies, are now identified as transgender or transsexual, have been documented in many cultures and for thousands of years. However, only in the last century have science and medicine developed ways to change the bodies of trans people who want this.
People who have traits that are different from the sex they are born with, have been accepted in some societies, both historically and now. For example, some Native American tribes accepted two-spirit people. Similarly a Tongan person born with a male body who acts and dresses in a female way is known in the local dialect as a "fakaleiti".
The "hijra" in India are born physically male, but live as women, including dressing and socializing as female. In the past they used to castrate themselves and even remove the penis in order to urinate through a small hole. Now, with the arrival of western medicine, many hijari choose to take hormone therapies and sometimes have sex reassignment surgery. Many of these people still call themselves "hijra", but some now call themselves "transsexuals" or "transgender women". The role of hijari in society is complex and varied throughout all of India.
In Western Society, there have often been people who have chosen to act and dress in a way that was not gender specific, or was not that of the sex they were assigned at birth. This is not the same as being transgender. Cross dressing actors were very popular in the theatre of the late 19th century.
An example of a transgender person is the 19th century military surgeon who was known as James Barry. It is now believed that Barry was born female but disguised his sex all his adult life. Barry's work, which saved, and helped thousands of lives by improving treatment of wounds to stop amputations, would not have been possible, as a woman, because as a female he could never have attended medical school or entered the army.
A 20th century example of a transgender person is Jan Morris, a geographer, explorer and journalist, who began life as James Morris. As "James", Morris married and had children, but felt female and eventually became Jan Morris.
Issues
Trans - the "T" in LGBT
Transgender people are not accepted in every society. They suffer discrimination, violence, and even murder. Transgender people have fought for and have gained many rights and protections in some societies. In many places the fight for transgender rights is associated with the fight for gay and bisexual rights. Together these groups are sometimes described by the acronym LGBT for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.
However, some transgender people do not want to be a part of the LGB (lesbian, gay and bisexual) community, as they may see themselves as heterosexual and not feel like they belong with gay or queer people, and some LGB people do not want to be a part of the transgender community, as they may be transphobic, which means that they may have a fear or dislike of transgender people, or they may not want heterosexuals to see sexuality and gender identity as the same thing. However, gay and transgender people often have some of the same problems in society, so many gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people try to work together to solve all of their problems.
Mental health
Many transgender people have mental health problems. A 2012 study of British transgender people found that 84% had considered suicide. 55% had been diagnosed with depression. 33% had not been diagnosed with depression, but thought that they had it in the past or at the time of the survey. 53% had self-harmed. 38% of had been diagnosed with anxiety. 31% were using antidepressants and 44% had used them at some time.
A study of 164 Irish transgender people found that 80% had considered suicide. 40% of those had attempted suicide at least once. 44% had self-harmed. The reason for these high numbers is often seen as a result of discrimination and social problems. Others believe that it is because transgender people are mentally ill.
Some studies show that Transgender people have better mental health and commit suicide less often when they live as their preferred gender.
Medical care
Transgender people who want to take medicine and have surgery to change their bodies face several problems. In order to change their bodies, they must have doctors who will help them make the changes. Sometimes, they can not do this because doctors will not help them. They may also not be able to do this because even if a doctor would treat them, they may not be able to afford the medicine or surgery. But the Declaration of Montreal says that such medical care should be given to them by public health insurance.
Disease versus difference
Some people believe that being transgender is a disease, sometimes called gender identity disorder. Many transgender people do not like being labelled as having a disease, which they feel causes them to be seen and treated badly. Others believe that they should be labelled this way, because some governments and insurance companies will not pay for transgender people's medical treatment unless it is considered a disease. Also, In places that do not have laws that protect transgender people from discrimination, they may only be protected under laws that protect people with diseases or disabilities.
Doctors do not agree on one way of viewing being transgender. Some doctors view it as a birth defect that can easily be fixed, others may not even think that being transgender is a medical condition. Since May 25th, 2019, the World Health Organization does not see being transgender as a disease or mental health problem, asking many countries to comply as well. One of the international human rights laws of the Yogyakarta Principles (Principal 18), disagrees with any use of a medical disease label.
Violence
About 50% of transgender people have been sexually assaulted.
Legal problems
Transgender people have problems with laws and regulations about sex. To be seen and treated as the sex they wish, transgender people usually have to change their first name. (Though some names are unisex, which means that they can be used by both men and women, transgender people with a unisex name may still want to change their name, though this is not always the case.) They also may want to change their identity documents to say the correct sex. For example, a transgender woman may wish to change her birth certificate or driving license to say her new female name and to say that she is a female.
These changes can protect transgender people from discrimination. For example, transgender people often have a hard time traveling because they may look like one sex but have another on their papers. These changes can also be needed for transgender people to be allowed to marry their spouses in places where it is illegal for people of the same sex to marry. These changes can even protect transgender people from a wide variety of violence. Some transgender people are only recognized when their documents reveal them. Being revealed as transgender can put people in danger because of transphobia (fear and/or hatred of transgender people).
In many places, it is hard or not possible for transgender people to change their legal sex, with or without having genital surgery, which is required in many places. This is against the Yogyakarta Principles. This is changing, however. The United Kingdom passed the Gender Recognition Act of 2004. This act allows people to have their change of sex officially recognized without surgery. Once changed, they legally become their new sex.
References
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Events
Up to 1900
489 - Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into present-day Italy.
663 - Silla-Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.
1189 - Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre, present-day Lebanon, under Guy of Lusignan.
1521 – Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1524 - The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
1565 - Pedro Menendez de Aviles sights land near St. Augustine, Florida, which becomes the oldest-continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
1609 - Henry Hudson reaches Delaware Bay.
1619 – Ferdinand II is elected Holy Roman Emperor.
1640 - Second Bishop's War: Charles I of England's army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
1709 - Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1789 – William Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.
1845 – The first edition of the Scientific American magazine is published.
1850 - Richard Wagner's Lohengrin Romantic opera is first performed in Weimar, under direction of Franz Liszt.
1861 - American Civil War: The Union Army successfully extends its blockage strategy by capturing the Confederate forts on North Carolina's Center Banks.
1862 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run.
1867 – The United States annexes the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
1879 – Cetshwayo, the last king of the Zulus is captured by the British.
1898 - Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will become known as Pepsi Cola.
1901 2000
1909 - A military coup d'état against the government of Dimitrios Rallis in Greece begins.
1913 – The Peace Palace in The Hague is inaugurated.
1914 - World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet at the First Battle of Heligoland Bight.
1916 - World War I: Germany declares war on Romania. On the same day, Italy declares war on Germany.
1917 - Ten suffragettes (campaigners for women's right to vote) are arrested after a protest outside the White House in Washington, DC.
1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1931 - France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1943 - World War II: A general strike in Denmark against the occupiers begins.
1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1953 – Nippon TV broadcasts Japan's first television programme.
1955 – African American teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi.
1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his famous I Have a Dream speech, calling for Civil Rights and equal opportunities.
1963 - The Evergreen Point Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina in Washington state, United States.
1964 - The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1968 - Riots occur in Chicago, Illinois during the Democratic Party's National Convention.
1971 - A fire on the Greek ferry Heleanna kills 26 people.
1972 - Mark Spitz wins the first two of his total of seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
1973 - Puebla, Veracruz and Oaxaca in Mexico are struck by an earthquake, killing 1,200 people.
1979 - An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt, Brussels, Belgium.
1984 - In Amstetten, Austria, Josef Fritzl locks up his daughter Elisabeth in a cellar behind his house. She would remain imprisoned there for over 23 years until April 26, 2008.
1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolore demonstration team collide, with the wreckage falling into the crowd, killing 75 people and injuring 346.
1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait its newest province.
1990 - A Force 5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
1991 – Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales officially divorce.
From 2001
2003 – A power blackout in southeastern England affects 500,000 people.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina begins to make landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi.
2007 - Abdullah Gül becomes President of Turkey.
2008 - Barack Obama accepts the Democrats' nomination for President of the United States, becoming the first African American to do so.
2014 - Recep Tayyip Erdogan becomes President of Turkey.
Births
Up to 1900
933 - Richard I of Normandy (d. 996)
1025 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)
1582 – Taichang Emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China (d. 1620)
1592 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English diplomat (d. 1627)
1676 - Louise of Mecklenburg, Queen Consort of Denmark (d. 1721)
1714 - Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick (d. 1774)
1728 - John Stark, American general (d. 1822)
1739 - Agostino Accorintoni, Italian composer (d. 1818)
1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, first American-born saint (d. 1821)
1801 - Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1877)
1814 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
1827 - Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1874)
1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1910) (September 9 in Gregorian calendar)
1831 – Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
1833 - Edward Burne-Jones, English painter (d. 1898)
1837 - Francis, Duke of Teck, German-British nobleman (d. 1900)
1840 - Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish pharmacist and businessman (d. 1900)
1853 – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer (d. 1939)
1853 – Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1938)
1859 - Matilda Howell, American archer (d. 1938)
1859 - Vittorio Sella, Italian mountaineer and photographer (d. 1943)
1867 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
1878 – George Whipple, American doctor (d. 1976)
1884 – Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1950)
1885 - Vance Palmer, Australian author, playwright and critic (d. 1959)
1887 - August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler (d. 1973)
1888 - Edward H. Griffith, American director (d. 1975)
1896 - Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian author, poet and critic (d. 1982)
1898 - Charlie Grimm, American baseball player, manager and sportscaster (d. 1983)
1899 – Chang Myon, 4th Vice President of South Korea, 2nd, 7th Prime Minister (d. 1966)
1899 – Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
1899 - Andrei Platonov, Russian author (d. 1951)
1899 - James Wong Howe, Chinese-American cinematographer (d. 1976)
1901 1950
1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
1904 - Anton Yugov, 35th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1991)
1906 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist (d. 1985)
1911 – Joseph Luns, Dutch Secretary-General of NATO (d. 2002)
1913 – Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (d. 1995)
1916 – Jack Vance, American writer (d. 2013)
1917 - Jack Kirby, American comic artist (d. 1994)
1919 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer (d. 2004)
1921 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, President of Bolivia (d. 2011)
1921 - Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991)
1921 - Mariano Rajoy Sobredo, Spanish judge (d. 2018)
1921 - Fernando Fernan Gomez, Peruvian-Spanish writer, actor and director (d. 2007)
1923 – Guenter Wendt, German-born NASA engineer (d. 2010)
1924 – Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (d. 2004)
1924 - Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
1924 - Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Polish-American rabbi (d. 2014)
1928 - Vilayat Khan, Indian sitarist and composer (d. 2004)
1930 - Windsor Davies, English actor
1930 - Ben Gazzara, American actor, singer and director (d. 2012)
1931 - Cristina Deutekom, Dutch operatic soprano (d. 2014)
1931 - Ola L. Mize, American general (d. 2014)
1931 - John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone (d. 2014)
1931 - Shunichiro Okano, Japanese footballer (d. 2017)
1932 - Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager (d. 2016)
1933 - Philip French, English film critic (d. 2015)
1936 - Don Denkinger, American baseball player and umpire
1938 – Paul Martin Jr., former Prime Minister of Canada
1939 - John Kingman, English mathematician
1940 - William Cohen, American lawyer and politician
1940 - Ken Jenkins, American actor
1942 - Sterling Morrison, American singer and guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995)
1942 – José Eduardo dos Santos, former President of Angola
1943 – David Soul, American actor
1943 – Surayud Chulanont, former Prime Minister of Thailand
1943 - Shuja Khanzada, Pakistani politician (d. 2015)
1943 – Lou Piniella, American baseball manager
1947 – Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (d. 2004)
1949 – Hugh Cornwell, English musician (The Stranglers)
1951 1975
1951 - Dave Hlubek, American musician and songwriter (d. 2017)
1951 – Wayne Osmond, American singer
1952 – Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
1952 – Rita Dove, American poet
1953 – Ditmar Jakobs, German footballer
1954 - George M. Church, American geneticist, chemist and engineer
1957 - Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and political activist
1957 – Ivo Josipovic, former President of Croatia
1957 - Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Spanish footballer and coach (d. 2012)
1957 – Daniel Stern, American actor
1958 – Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
1959 - Brian Thompson, American actor
1960 – Emma Samms, English actress
1961 - Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
1961 - Rona Fairhead, former Chair of the BBC Trust
1961 - Kim Appleby, British singer
1963 - Lucjan Avgustini, Albanian bishop (d. 2016)
1964 - Kaj Leo Johannesen, 12th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1965 – Satoshi Tajiri, Japanese, creator of Pokémon
1965 – Shania Twain, Canadian-American singer
1965 - Amanda Tapping, English-Canadian actress, director and producer
1966 - Julen Lopetegui, Spanish football manager
1967 - Greg Clark, English politician
1968 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
1969 – Jack Black, American actor and musician
1969 – Jason Priestley, Canadian-American actor
1969 - Mary McCartney, English photographer and actress
1971 - Janet Evans, American swimmer
1971 - Alex Polizzi, English hotelier and television presenter
1972 - Omayra Sanchez, Colombian volcanic eruption victim (d. 1985)
1973 - J. August Richards, American actor
1974 – Carsten Jancker, German footballer
From 1976
1976 – Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
1978 - Jess Margera, American drummer
1980 - Carly Pope, Canadian actress
1980 - Rachel Khoo, English chef, writer and broadcaster
1981 - Kezia Dugdale, Scottish politician
1981 – Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
1982 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer
1982 – Thiago Motta, Italian footballer
1983 - Luke McAlister, New Zealand rugby player
1983 – Christian Pander, German footballer
1983 - Lilli Schwarzkopf, German athlete
1984 - Sarah Roemer, American actress
1984 - Paula Fernandes, Brazilian singer
1985 - Masahiko Inoha, Japanese footballer
1986 – Florence Welch, English singer (Florence and the Machine)
1986 – Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier
1986 - Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (d. 2015)
1987 - Katie Green, English model
1987 - Daigo Nishi, Japanese footballer
1987 - Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer (d. 2013)
1989 - César Azpilicueta, Spanish footballer
1989 - Valtteri Bottas, Finnish Formula One racing driver
1989 - Jo Kwon, South Korean singer
1989 - Cassadee Pope, American singer and songwriter
1989 - Jamie Murphy, Scottish footballer
1990 – Bojan Krkic, Serbian-Spanish footballer
1991 - Kyle Massey, American actor and rapper
1991 - Andreja Pejic, Bosnian-Australian model
1992 - Sora Amamija, Japanese voice actress and singer
1994 - Felix Jaehn, German DJ and producer
1994 - Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
1999 - Prince Nikolai of Denmark
2003 - Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress
Deaths
Up to 1900
388 - Magnus Maximus, Roman Emperor (b. 335)
430 – Augustine of Hippo, saint and theologian (b. 354)
476 - Orestes, Roman politician
632 - Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad (b. 605)
876 - Louis the German, Frankish King (b. 804)
1027 - Richard II, Duke of Normandy (b. 963)
1481 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1432)
1645 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher (b. 1583)
1654 – Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
1757 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
1784 - Junipero Serra, Spanish-American missionary (b. 1713)
1805 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader and author (b. 1722)
1818 - Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, American founder of Chicago (b. 1750)
1888 - Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1835)
1900 - Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (b. 1838)
1901 2000
1903 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
1933 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
1934 - Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (b. 1858)
1942 - Belisario Porras Barahona, President of Panama (b. 1856)
1943 – King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
1943 - George Underwood, American runner (b. 1884)
1955 – Emmett Till, American Civil Rights Movement icon (b. 1941) (murdered)
1959 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
1965 - Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909)
1972 - Prince William of Gloucester (b. 1941)
1976 - Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
1978 - Robert Shaw, English actor, screenwriter and producer (b. 1927)
1981 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
1984 - Muhammad Naguib, 1st President of Egypt (b. 1901)
1985 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)
1987 – John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)
1988 - Jean Marchand, Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
1990 - Willy Vandersteen, Belgian comic writer (b. 1913)
1995 – Michael Ende, German writer (b. 1929)
From 2001
2005 - Hans Clarin, German actor (b. 1929)
2006 – Melvin Schwartz, American physicist (b. 1932)
2006 – William F. Quinn, 1st State Governor of Hawaii (b. 1919)
2006 - Ed Benedict, American animator (b. 1912)
2007 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
2007 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress and singer (b. 1929)
2008 – Phil Hill, American racing driver (b. 1927)
2009 - Adam Goldstein, American drummer, DJ and producer (b. 1973)
2010 – Sinan Hasani, President of Yugoslavian (b. 1922)
2012 - Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, Russian spiritual leader (b. 1937)
2013 - Murray Gershenz, American actor (b. 1922)
2014 - Bill Kerr, South African-Australian actor and comedian (b. 1922)
2014 - Glenn Cornick, English guitarist (b. 1947)
2014 - Fernando Zunzunegui, Spanish footballer (b. 1943)
2014 - Jack Kraft, American basketball coach (b. 1921)
2014 - John Anthony Walker, American naval officer (b. 1937)
2014 - Roberto Cairo, Spanish actor (b. 1963)
2015 - Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
2015 - Teresa Gorman, English politician (b. 1931)
2015 - Nelson Shanks, American painter (b. 1937)
2016 - Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
2016 - Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
2016 - Mohammad Shafi Qureshi, Indian politician, Governor of West Bengal (b. 1929)
2016 - Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Israeli politician (b. 1936)
2017 - Senarath Attanayake, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1966)
2017 - Mireille Darc, French actress and model (b. 1938)
2017 - Tsutomu Hata, former Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1935)
2017 - David Torrence, Peruvian-American runner (b. 1985)
2018 - Silvano Campeggi, Italian film poster designer (b. 1923)
2018 - Josep Fontana, Spanish historian and academic (b. 1931)
2018 - Gary Friedrich, American comic book writer (b. 1943)
Observances
Christian Feast Day of Assumption (Orthodox Church)
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Events
Up to 1900
1140 China: Song Dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin Dynasty general Wanyan Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin-Song Wars.
1192 Minamoto Yoritomo becomes de facto ruler of Japan.
1526 Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar reaches the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
1680 Pueblo Native Americans capture Santa Fe from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
1689 The Battle of Dunkeld takes place in Scotland.
1728 Vitus Bering discovers Saint Lawrence Island in the now-named Bering Sea.
1770 James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1772 Half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden is ended when King Gustav III adopts a new constitution.
1778 American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost of Pondicherry in India.
1810 The Swedish parliament elects Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte as crown prince.
1821 Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship Eliza Frances.
1831 Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
1842 The city of Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1852 Tlingits destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon.
1858 In the United States, the first in a series of debates takes place between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas.
1863 Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate troops.
1883 A Force 5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota.
1888 The first successful adding machine in the US is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
1891 Chilean Civil War: The Battle of Concon takes place.
1897 Oldsmobile, a brand of American automobiles, is founded.
1901 2000
1911 In the night to August 22, Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, the Mona Lisa, is stolen from the Louvre in Paris. It is recovered two years later.
1914 World War I: Battle of Charleroi - a successful German attack across the River Sambre.
1918 World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
1940 Former Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky dies in Mexico City, one day after being wounded with an ice-ax.
1942 World War II Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack from Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of Tenaru.
1942 World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is put on top of Mount Elbrus, the highest point in the Caucasus mountains.
1944 World War II: The Dumbarton Oaks Conference begins, on the way to creating the UN.
1944 World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategic town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
1957 The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th State of the United States.
1961 Motown releases what would become its first Number One hit, Please, Mr. Postman by the Marvelettes.
1963 The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
1968 The Prague Spring uprising in Czechoslovakia is brutally crushed by Warsaw Pact forces.
1969 An Australian, Denis Michael Rohan, sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire.
1971 A bomb explodes at a Liberal Party campaign rally in Manila, Philippines, injuring several anti-Ferdinand Marcos candidates.
1979 Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
1982 Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestinian Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.
1983 Filipino opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is murdered at Manila International Airport, on his return from exile.
1986 Carbon dioxide gas erupts from the volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people, within a 20 km range, as they slept.
1987 Dirty Dancing has its first showing in the United States.
1991 Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 The August Coup, a coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, fails.
1993 NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
From 2001
2001 NATO decides to send a peacekeeping force to the Republic of Macedonia.
2001 The International Red Cross announces that Tajikistan is being struck by a famine, and calls for aid to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
2007 Hurricane Dean makes landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico, as a category 5 hurricane.
2010 Australia's 2010 General Election is the closest in years with little to separate Julia Gillard of the Australian Labor Party and Tony Abbott of the Conservative Liberal Party of Australia. Through the support of independent MPs, Julia Gillard is allowed to stay on as Prime Minister of Australia.
2013 Chemical attacks are carried out in Ghouta, Syria, during the Syrian Civil War, killing hundreds of people.
2016 The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, end.
2017 American naval ship "USS John S. McCain" collides with a merchant vessel near Singapore, killing 11 sailors.
2017 A total solar eclipse is seen across several states of the United States, from Oregon to South Carolina, with partial eclipses seen over several other countries and the North Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
2019 Brazil's Institute for Space Research reports a record number of fires burning in the Amazon rainforest, with 36,000 in the year up to this date, and smoke reaching as far south as Sao Paulo.
Births
Up to 1900
1165 King Philip II of France (d. 1223)
1535 Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
1567 Francis de Sales, French mystic and church teacher (d. 1622)
1597 Roger Twysden, English historian and politician (d. 1672)
1643 King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1660 Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer (d. 1737)
1665 Giacomo F. Maraldi, Italian-French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1729)
1725 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (d. 1805)
1754 William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
1765 King William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
1773 Jens Christian Djurhuus, Faroese farmer and poet (d. 1853)
1789 Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)
1798 Jules Michelet, French historian (d. 1874)
1800 Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
1805 August Bournonville, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1879)
1813 Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)
1821 Andrew Kim Taegon, South Korean priest (d. 1846)
1823 Nathaniel Everett Green, English painter, educator and astronomer (d. 1899)
1826 Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)
1845 William Healey Dall, American naturalist, palaeontologist and explorer (d. 1927)
1858 Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria (d. 1889)
1862 Emilio Salgari, Italian writer (d. 1911)
1869 William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian poet (d. 1963)
1872 Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator (d. 1898)
1878 Richard Girulaitis, German football manager (d. 1963)
1884 Chandler Egan, American golfer (d. 1936)
1887 James Paul Moody, Sixth officer of the RMS Titanic (d. 1912)
1891 Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican supercentenarian (d. 2007)
1892 Charles Vanel, French actor and director (d. 1989)
1893 Lili Boulanger, French composer (d. 1918)
1901 1950
1902 Angel Karaliychev, Bulgarian writer (d. 1972)
1904 Count Basie, American musician, bandleader and composer (d. 1984)
1906 Friz Freleng, American animator (d. 1995)
1908 M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)
1909 Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian physicist (d. 1992)
1909 C. Douglas Dillon, American politician (d. 2003)
1917 Leonid Hurwicz, Polish-born American economist (d. 2008)
1918 Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1920 Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for Winnie the Pooh stories (d. 1996)
1921 Reuven Feuerstein, Israeli psychologist (d. 2014)
1923 Keith Allen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
1924 Arthur Janov, American psychologist, psychotherapist and writer (d. 2017)
1926 Marian Jaworski, Polish-Ukrainian cardinal
1927 Wilhelm Killmayer, German composer and conductor (d. 2017)
1927 Thomas S. Monson, American Mormon Church leader (d. 2018)
1928 Chris Brasher, British athlete (d. 2003)
1928 Marie Severin, American comic book artist (d. 2018)
1929 Herman Badillo, American politician (d. 2014)
1929 Ahmed Kathrada, South African political activist (d. 2017)
1930 Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, member of the British royal family (d. 2002)
1930 Frank Perry, American movie director (d. 1995)
1932 Menashe Kadishman, Israeli sculptor and painter (d. 2015)
1932 Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and screenwriter
1933 Michael Dacher, German mountaineer (d. 1994)
1933 Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
1933 Barry Norman, English movie critic (d. 2017)
1934 John L. Hall, American physicist
1934 Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, 13th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2001)
1935 Bernhard Eckstein, German track cyclist (d. 2017)
1935 Anatoly Gladilin, Russian writer (d. 2018)
1936 Radish Tordia, Georgian painter
1936 Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (d. 1999)
1936 Booth Gardner, former Governor of Washington (d. 2013)
1937 Donald Dewar, Scottish politician, 1st First Minister of Scotland (d. 2000)
1937 Gustavo Noboa, former President of Ecuador
1937 Robert Stone, American novelist (d. 2015)
1938 Nicolás Ardito Barletta Vallarino, former President of Panama
1938 Steve Cowper, former Governor of Alaska
1938 Kenny Rogers, American singer (d. 2020)
1939 Festus Mogae, former President of Botswana
1939 James Burton, American guitarist
1943 Gary Friedrich, American comic book writer (d. 2018)
1943 Clarence Williams III, American actor
1943 Jonathan Schell, American author (d. 2014)
1943 Lucius Shepard, American writer (d. 2014)
1943 Hugh Wilson, American film and television director (d. 2018)
1944 Peter Weir, Australian movie director
1944 Perry Christie, former Prime Minister of the Bahamas
1945 Patty McCormack, American actress
1945 Basil Poledouris, American movie score composer (d. 2006)
1946 Margaret Chan, former Director-General of the World Health Organization
1949 Loretta Devine, American actress
1950 Arthur Bremer, American criminal
1950 Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer
1951 1975
1951 Karekin II, head of the Armenian Apostolic Church
1951 Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
1952 Jiri Paroubek, 6th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
1952 Glenn Hughes, British musician
1952 Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (d. 2002)
1954 Archie Griffin, American football player
1954 Chip Coffey, American psychic, medium and television personality
1956 Kim Cattrall, British-born actress
1956 Laura Morante, Italian actress
1956 Jon Tester, United States Senator
1957 Budgie, English musician
1957 Tignous, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
1961 V. B. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer (d. 2019)
1961 Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist, animator, writer and director, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants (d. 2018)
1962 Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (d. 2008)
1963 King Mohammed VI of Morocco
1965 Nigel Pearson, English football manager
1967 Charb, French cartoonist and journalist, Editor of Charlie Hebdo (d. 2015)
1967 Serj Tankian, Armenian-American singer (System of a Down)
1967 Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
1967 Noel Francisco, 47th Solicitor General of the United States
1967 Darren Bewick, Australian footballer
1968 Antonio Benarrivo, Italian footballer
1968 Laura Trevelyan, British broadcaster
1969 Julie Etchingham, British journalist and news presenter
1971 Mamadou Diallo, Senegalese footballer
1971 Liam Howlett, English musician
1973 Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 Sergey Brin, Russian-born co-founder of Google
1973 Nikolai Valuev, Russian boxer
1975 Alicia Witt, American actress
From 1976
1976 Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican-American soccer player
1978 Jason Marquis, American baseball player
1979 Joel Griffiths, Australian footballer
1979 Kelis, American singer
1980 Joanne Froggatt, English actress
1981 Cameron Winklevoss, American rower and businessman
1981 Tyler Winklevoss, American rower and businessman
1983 Scott McDonald, Australian footballer
1983 Josh Harrington, American BMX rider
1983 Chantelle Houghton, British television personality
1983 Brody Jenner, American actor
1984 Alizée, French singer
1984 Eve Torres, American dancer, model and wrestler
1985 Aleksandra Kiryashova, Russian pole vaulter
1985 Nicolás Almagro, Spanish tennis player
1986 Wout Brama, Dutch footballer
1986 Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
1987 Kim Kibum, South Korean singer and actor
1988 Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer
1988 Kacey Musgraves, American country music singer
1989 Judd Trump, British snooker player
1989 Rob Knox, British actor (d. 2008)
1989 Hayden Panettiere, American actress, model and singer
1990 Jared Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 Bo Burnham, American comedian, singer-songwriter, musician and actor
1990 Omar El Kaddouri, Belgian footballer
1992 Brad Kavanagh, English songwriter and actor
1992 RJ Mitte, American actor
1996 Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress
Deaths
Up to 1900
1131 Baldwin of Jerusalem (b. 1060)
1157 Alfonso VII of Leon and Castile (b. 1104)
1271 Alphonse, Count of Poitiers, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
1581 Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
1614 Elizabeth Bathory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (b. 1560)
1627 Jacques Mauduit, French composer (b. 1557)
1762 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
1763 Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
1775 Daher el-Omar, Arab ruler of Galilee (b. 1690)
1796 John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
1814 Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
1836 Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)
1838 Adelbert von Chamisso, German poet and botanist (b. 1781)
1854 Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
1870 Ma Xinyi, Chinese Viceroy of Liangjing and statesman (b. 1821)
1901 2000
1910 Gustave Moynier, Swiss jurist (b. 1826)
1919 Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1875)
1926 Ugyen Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1862)
1935 John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849)
1935 Pavlos Kountouriotis, Greek politician (b. 1855)
1940 Leon Trotsky, Ukrainian revolutionary and Marxist (b. 1879)
1940 Hermann Obrecht, Swiss politician (b. 1882)
1940 Ernest Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
1943 Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer (b. 1857)
1947 Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)
1947 Theodore C. Bilbo, Governor of Mississippi (b. 1877)
1951 Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (b. 1905)
1957 Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian oceanographer and professor (b. 1888)
1964 Palmiro Togliatti, Italian politician (b. 1893)
1971 George Jackson, American activist and author (b. 1941)
1978 Charles Eames, American designer and architect (b. 1907)
1979 Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
1981 Michael Devine, Irish hunger striker (b. 1954)
1982 Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
1983 Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1932)
1988 Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)
1989 Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1991 Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German writer (b. 1916)
1995 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian astrophysicist (b. 1910)
1997 Misael Pastrana, President of Colombia (b. 1923)
2000 Daniel Lusilo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2000 Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer (b. 1928)
2000 Bubi Scholz, German boxer (b. 1930)
From 2001
2005 Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2005 Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
2005 Martin Dillon, American opera singer (b. 1957)
2007 Haley Paige, American pornographic actress (b. 1981)
2010 Christoph Schlingensief, German director (b. 1960)
2012 William Thurston, American mathematician (b. 1946)
2013 C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut (b. 1936)
2013 Sid Bernstein, American record producer (b. 1918)
2014 Albert Reynolds, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1932)
2014 Jean Redpath, Scottish folk singer (b. 1937)
2014 Robert Hansen, American serial killer (b. 1939)
2014 Gerry Anderson, Northern Irish broadcaster (b. 1944)
2014 Raed al Atar, Palestinian military commander (b. 1974)
2014 Steven R. Nagel, American astronaut (b. 1946)
2015 Wang Dongxing, Chinese politician (b. 1916)
2015 Anna Kashfi, British actress (b. 1934)
2015 Gerry Steinberg, British politician (b. 1945)
2017 James Joseph Dresnok, American Korean War military personnel and actor (b. 1942)
2017 Greg Evers, American politician (b. 1955)
2017 Roberto Gottardi, Italian architect (b. 1927)
2017 Thomas Meehan, American playwright (b. 1929)
2017 Abdur Razzak, Bangladeshi actor (b. 1942)
2017 Bajram Rexhepi, Kosovar politician (b. 1954)
2017 Boris Spremo, Yugoslavian-born Canadian photojournalist (b. 1935)
2017 Perch Zeytuntsyan, Egyptian-Armenian playwright and screenwriter (b. 1938)
2018 Barbara Harris, American actress (b. 1935)
2018 Spencer P. Jones, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958)
2018 Villano III, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1952)
2018 Stefan Karl Stefansson, Icelandic actor (b. 1975)
2018 Otávio Frias Filho, Brazilian journalist (b. 1957)
2018 Charles Gain, American police officer (b. 1923)
2019 Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Jordanian princess, former Queen Consort of Jordan (b. 1929)
2019 Norma Croker, Australian athlete (b. 1934)
2019 Babulal Gaur, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (b. 1930)
2019 Celso Piña, Mexican singer and musician (b. 1953)
Observances
Admission Day (Hawaii)
Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)
Youth Day (Morocco)
Regaining of Independence (Latvia)
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Events
Up to 1900
30 BC - After a successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian has Marcus Antonius Antyllus and Caesarion executed.
79 - Mount Vesuvius starts to show activity, a day before it erupted, destroying Pompeii and Herculaneum.
406 - Gothic king Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by Roman general Stilicho.
476 - Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes, is proclaimed King of Italy by his troops.
1244 - Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to the Kharezmian Empire.
1305 – William Wallace is executed.
1328 – Battle of Kassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers
1328 – King Philip VI of France is crowned.
1382 - Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by khan Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
1521 - Christian II of Denmark is deposed as King of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.
1540 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1566 – Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
1592 - Japanese invasions of Korea: Yeongwon Castle is besieged by the Japanese Fourth Division, led by Ito Suketaka.
1614 – The University of Groningen is established.
1617 – In London, the first one-way street is established.
1628 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham is assassinated by John Felton.
1651 – Charles II enters Worcester and starts a battle.
1655 - Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1784 – Eastern Tennessee declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; the step is rejected by Congress one year later.
1793 – French Revolution: a levée en masse was decreed by the National Convention.
1799 – Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bulow repulse the French army.
1821 – Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
1833 – Slavery abolished in the British colonies.
1839 – The UK captures Hong Kong.
1858 - The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England.
1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
1866 – Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1873 - The Albert Bridge is opened across the Thames in Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom.
1889 – First wireless message from a ship to the shore received.
1896 - Start of the Philippines Revolution.
1901 1950
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
1913 – A statue of the Little Mermaid is put up in Copenhagen.
1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
1921 - British airship R-38 experiences a structural failure over Kingston-Upon-Hull and crashes into the Humber estuary.
1924 – The distance between Earth and Mars is the smallest since the 10th century.
1927 – Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1929 – Arabs attack Jews in Israel.
1938 - English cricketer Len Hutton sets the world record for the highest individual test innings of 364, against Australia.
1939 – World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, Baltic states, Finland and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1940 – World War II: The Germans start bombing London.
1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad
1943 – World War II: Kharkov liberated.
1944 – World War II: Marseille liberated.
1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 – A US Army Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
1944 – World War II: Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania, is arrested and a new government is established. Romania exits the war against Russia joining the Allies.
1946 - Three states are created in the British occupation zone of post-World War II Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, and the short-lived state of Hanover.
1947 – The Maynard Midgets beat Lock Haven 16-7 to win the first-ever Little League World Series championship.
1948 – World Council of Churches is formed.
1950 - The Subansiri Dam break in India kills 532 people.
1951 2000
1952 – The Arab League goes into effect.
1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1960 – In Equatorial Guinea, the world's largest frog (3.3 kg) is caught.
1962 – First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite.
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1968 – Ringo Starr temporarily quits The Beatles
1973 – The Intelsat communication satellite is launched.
1973 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile, named Augusto Pinochet as Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army. Just 19 days later, Pinochet takes power in a coup, overthrowing Allende, who is killed.
1975 – Successful Communist coup in Laos
1976 – A major earthquake in China kills thousands of people.
1979 – Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
1982 - Bachir Gemayel is elected President of Lebanon during his country's civil war. He will not become President, as he is killed on September 14, before he can take office.
1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1987 – Heavy rains and floods in Bangladesh kill hundreds of victims.
1989 – Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic way).
1989 – All of Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to sack them and sue them over a dispute.
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages to try to prevent the Gulf War).
1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
1991 - Tim Berners-Lee opens the World Wide Web to new users.
1992 – Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida.
1993 - The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon orbiting around an asteroid; Dactyl orbits around the asteroid 243 Ida.
1999 – The Federal Republic of Germany is governed from Berlin from this day.
2000 – A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143 people.
2000 – Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. This basically replaced the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the BA Convention were also signatories to Berne.
From 2001
2005 – Hurricane Katrina forms as a tropical depression.
2006 – In Austria, Natascha Kampusch manages to escape from 8 years of captivity. Her captor Wolfgang Priklopil commits suicide soon after.
2010 – Nine people, including the hostage taker, are killed in a hostage crisis on board a bus in Manila, Philippines.
2011 - 2011 Virginia earthquake: A magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes near Mineral, Virginia, and is felt all the way along the eastern seaboard of the United States. No one is killed, but damage is reported on buildings, including monuments in Washington, DC.
2018 - Sexual harassment allegations against former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond are made public.
Births
Up to 1900
686 Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne (d. 741)
963 Richard II, Duke of Normandy (d. 1027)
1486 Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566)
1517 Francis I of Lorraine (d. 1545)
1524 François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (d. 1590)
1623 Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (d. 1675)
1724 Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
1740 Tsar Ivan VI of Russia (d. 1764)
1741 Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)
1754 King Louis XVI of France (d. 1792)
1756 Francois Chabot, French priest and politician (d. 1794)
1757 Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1775)
1769 Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832)
1783 William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
1785 Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819)
1797 Adhemar Jean Claude Barre de Saint-Venant, French scientist (d. 1886)
1805 Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician and jurist (d. 1893)
1811 Auguste Bravais, French physicist (d. 1863)
1814 James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop (d. 1877)
1829 Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1920)
1836 Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of Belgium (d. 1902)
1839 James Geikie, Scottish geologist (d. 1915)
1846 Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)
1847 Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
1849 William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)
1850 John Cockburn, Scottish-Australian politician, 18th Premier of South Australia (d. 1929)
1852 Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d. 1883)
1852 Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (d. 1913)
1854 Moritz Moszkowski, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1925)
1864 Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1936)
1868 Edgar Lee Masters, American writer (d. 1950)
1872 Tanguturi Prakasam, Indian politician (d. 1957)
1875 William Eccles, English radio pioneer (d. 1966)
1880 Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932)
1883 Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, American general (d. 1953)
1884 Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
1887 Albert Gutterson, American athlete (d. 1965)
1887 Friedrich Zander, Baltic German rocket engineer (d. 1933)
1890 Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher (d. 1971)
1896 Jacques Rueff, French politician (d. 1978)
1900 Ernst Krenek, Austrian-born composer (d. 1991)
1901 1950
1901 John Sherman Cooper, U.S. Senator from Kentucky (d. 1991)
1902 Ida Siekmann, German victim of the Berlin Wall (d. 1961)
1903 William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)
1905 Constant Lambert, British composer (d. 1951)
1909 Leila Danette, American actress (d. 2012)
1910 Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
1911 Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (d. 1998)
1911 Betty Robinson, American athlete (d. 1999)
1912 Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (d. 1996)
1912 Alexey Sudayev, Russian inventor (d. 1946)
1912 Ed Benedict, American animator (d. 2006)
1913 Bob Crosby, American singer, actor and bandleader (d. 1993)
1917 Tex Williams, American singer (d. 1985)
1917 Antonio Innocenti, Italian cardinal (d. 2008)
1918 Bernard Fisher, American surgeon (d. 2019)
1919 Vladimir Rokhlin, Soviet mathematician (d. 1984)
1921 Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
1921 Franco Ossola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
1922 Jean Darling, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
1922 George Kell, American baseball player (d. 2009)
1923 Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)
1924 Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer (d. 2005)
1924 Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1925 Robert Mulligan, American movie director (d. 2008)
1926 Leo Leandros, Greek singer, composer and music producer
1927 Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator (d. 2017)
1928 Marian Seldes, American actress (d. 2014)
1929 Vera Miles, American actress
1929 Peter Thomson, Australian golfer (d. 2018)
1930 Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France (d. 2016)
1931 Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist
1932 Houari Boumédiène, President of Algeria (d. 1978)
1932 Mark Russell, American comedian, musician, and political commentator
1933 Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 Pete Wilson, former Governor of California
1934 Barbara Eden, American actress
1934 Sonny Jurgensen, American football player
1934 Carlos Amigo Vallejo, Archbishop of Seville and cardinal
1936 Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001)
1940 Thomas A. Steitz, American molecular biologist and biochemist (d. 2018)
1943 Donald Kalpokas, former Prime Minister of Vanuatu (d. 2019)
1943 Raúl Cubas Grau, former President of Paraguay
1943 Nelson DeMille, American novelist
1943 Pino Presti, Italian bass player, arranger, composer, conductor, record producer
1944 Antonia Novello, 14th Surgeon General of the United States
1945 Bob Peck, British actor (d. 1999)
1945 Rita Pavone, Italian singer
1945 Rayfield Wright, American football player
1946 Keith Moon, English singer and drummer (The Who) (d. 1978)
1947 David Robb, British actor
1947 Willy Russell, British playwright
1948 Andrei Plesu, Romanian philosopher, journalist and politician
1949 Shelley Long, American actress
1949 Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor
1950 Luigi Delneri, Italian football manager
1950 Roza Otunbayeva, former President of Kyrgyzstan
1951 1975
1951 Queen Noor of Jordan
1951 Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
1951 Jimi Jamison, American rock music singer and songwriter (d. 2014)
1952 Vicky Leandros, Greek singer
1952 Santillana, Spanish footballer
1953 Bobby G, English singer (Bucks Fizz)
1953 Arturas Paulauskas, Lithuanian politician
1954 Marc Vann, American actor
1954 Halimah Yacob, 8th President of Singapore
1956 Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991)
1956 Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician
1959 Edwyn Collins, Scottish singer
1959 Jorginho Putinatti, Brazilian footballer
1961 Alexandre Desplat, French composer
1961 Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, 54th Mayor of Tehran
1961 Gary Mabbutt, English footballer
1962 Martin Cauchon, Canadian lawyer and politician
1962 Shaun Ryder, British musician
1963 Park Chan-wook, South Korean film director, screenwriter and producer
1963 Richard Illingworth, English cricketer
1963 Kenny Wallace, American race car driver
1964 Johan Bruyneel, Belgian cyclist
1965 Richard Avary, Canadian movie and television producer, screenwriter and director
1966 Alberto Acosta, Argentine footballer
1966 Rik Smits, Dutch basketball player
1966 Charley Boorman, English actor and adventurer
1967 Jim Murphy, Scottish politician
1967 Ant, American comedian and actor
1968 Chris DiMarco, American golfer
1968 Laura Claycomb, American operatic soprano
1968 Hajime Moriyasu, Japanese footballer
1969 Tinus Linee, South African rugby player (d. 2014)
1970 Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
1970 River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
1971 Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer
1971 Gretchen Whitmer, American politician, Governor of Michigan
1972 Souad Massi, Algerian singer and guitarist
1972 Mark Butcher, English cricketer
1973 Casey Blake, American baseball player
1973 Chelsi Smith, American singer and beauty pageant winner (d. 2018)
1974 Toni Brunner, Swiss politician
1974 Konstantin Novoselov, Russian-British physicist
1974 Ray Park, British actor
1974 Benjamin Limo, Kenyan athlete
1975 Eliza Carthy, English singer and fiddler
From 1976
1978 Kobe Bryant, American basketball player (d. 2020)
1978 Julian Casablancas, American musician
1979 Jessica Bibby, Australian basketball player
1980 Diamondog, Angolan rapper and journalist
1980 Nenad Vuckovic, Serbian handball player
1981 Carlos Cuellar, Spanish footballer
1982 Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
1982 Trevor Wright, American actor
1983 Sun Ming Ming, Chinese basketball player
1983 James Collins, Welsh footballer
1983 J. C. Bailey, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)
1984 Glen Johnson, English footballer
1984 Ashley Williams, English-Welsh footballer
1986 SkyBlu, American rapper (LMFAO)
1986 Vic Wild, American-Russian snowboarder
1986 Neil Cicierega, American comedian, actor, singer and director
1988 Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player
1988 Vaani Kapoor, Indian actress
1988 Niki Leinso, Croatian singer and songwriter
1988 Jeremy Lin, American basketball player
1988 Kim Matula, American actress
1990 Reimond Manco, Peruvian footballer
1991 Jennifer Abel, Canadian diver
1994 Roberto Bellarosa, Belgian singer
1996 David Gore, American actor
Deaths
Up to 1900
30 BC Marcus Antonius Antyllus, Roman soldier, eldest son of Mark Antony (b. 47 BC)
30 BC Caesarion, last king of Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty, son of Cleopatra
93 Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)
406 Radagaisus, Gothic king
634 Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph
1106 Magnus, Duke of Saxony (b. 1045)
1176 Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)
1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot (executed) (b. 1272)
1329 Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
1387 King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)
1498 Isabella, Princess of Asturias (b. 1470)
1507 Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
1519 Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot
1540 Guillaume Budé, French scholar
1591 Luis Ponce de León, Spanish poet and mystic (b. 1527)
1618 Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
1628 George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
1652 John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
1723 Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639)
1802 Corona Schröter, German singer and actress (b. 1751)
1806 Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736)
1813 Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
1819 Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)
1838 Ferenc Kolcsey, Hungarian poet and politician (b. 1790)
1865 Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter (b. 1793)
1866 Auguste Barthélémy, French poet (b. 1796)
1883 Sarah Yorke Jackson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1805)
1892 Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
1900 Kuroda Kiyotaka, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1844)
1901 2000
1926 Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
1927 Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (executed) (b. 1891)
1927 Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (executed) (b. 1888)
1933 Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (b. 1870)
1937 Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)
1944 Abdülmecid II, Ottoman Caliph (b. 1868)
1958 Roger Martin du Gard, French writer (b. 1881)
1960 Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (b. 1895)
1962 Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885)
1962 Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892)
1966 Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)
1977 Naum Gabo, Russian artist (b. 1890)
1982 Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
1987 Didier Pironi, French racing driver (b. 1952)
1989 R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1927)
1997 John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
1997 Eric Gairy, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1922)
From 2001
2001 Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
2002 Hoyt Wilhelm, baseball player (b. 1922)
2003 Imperio Argentina, Argentine singer and actress (b. 1906)
2003 Bobby Bonds, baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
2003 Jack Dyer, Australian footballer (b. 1913)
2005 Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)
2006 Wolfgang Priklopil, Austrian kidnapper (b. 1961)
2008 Thomas Huckle Weller, American bacteriologist and parasitologist (b. 1915)
2010 Satoshi Kon, Japanese movie director (b. 1963)
2012 Steve Van Buren, Honduran-born American football player (b. 1920)
2012 Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer (b. 1934)
2013 Gilbert Taylor, British cinematographer (b. 1914)
2014 Birgitta Stenberg, Swedish author (b. 1932)
2014 Annefleur Kalvenhaar, Dutch cyclist (b. 1994)
2014 Hajo Meyer, German-Dutch physicist (b. 1924)
2014 Jaume Vallcorba Plana, Spanish philologist (b. 1949)
2014 Dan Magill, American tennis coach (b. 1921)
2014 Ahti Pekkala, Finnish politician (b. 1924)
2014 Marcel Rigout, French politician (b. 1928)
2014 Philippine de Rothschild, French winemaker and baroness (b. 1933)
2014 Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1989)
2015 Guy Ligier, French rugby player and racing driver (b. 1930)
2015 Yosi Piamenta, Israeli musician (b. 1951)
2016 Steven Hill, American actor (b. 1922)
2016 Reinhard Selten, German economist (b. 1930)
2017 Joe Klein, American baseball executive (b. 1942)
2017 Eduardo Angeloz, Argentine politician (b. 1931)
2017 Viola Harris, American actress (b. 1926)
2017 Jack Rosenthal, Israeli-American journalist (b. 1935)
2017 Engelbert Jarek, Polish footballer (b. 1935)
2017 George A. Keyworth II, American physicist (b. 1939)
2017 Izak Parviz Nazarian, Iranian-American businessman (b. 1929)
2017 Jeannie Rousseau, French Allied intelligence agent (b. 1919)
2018 Russ Heath, American comic book artist (b. 1926)
2018 Dieter Thomas Heck, German actor and television presenter (b. 1937)
2018 Kuldip Nayar, Indian journalist (b. 1923)
2018 George Sheldon, American politician (b. 1947)
2018 George Walker, American composer (b. 1922)
2018 Franck Venaille, French poet and writer (b. 1936)
2018 Dominik Kalata, Slovakian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1925)
2019 Amath Dansokho, Senegalese politician (b. 1937)
2019 Carlo Delle Piane, Italian actor (b. 1936)
2019 David Koch, American businessman (b. 1940)
2019 Roaring Lion, British-bred racehorse (b. 2015)
2019 Rick Loomis, American game designer (b. 1946)
2019 Massimo Mattioli, Italian cartoonist (b. 1943)
2019 Egon Zimmermann, Austrian ski racer and businessman (b. 1939)
Observances
International Day for Abolition of Slave Trade (UNESCO)
European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Nazism and Stalinism (European Union)
Liberation from Fascist Occupation Day (Romania)
Flag Day (Ukraine)
Father's Day (Nepal)
Days of the year |
9962 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%2030 | August 30 |
Events
Up to 1900
526 Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great dies of dysentery in Ravenna.
711 K'inich K'an Joy Chitam, king of Palenque, disappears from history. He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state.
1464 Pope Paul II is elected.
1574 Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1791 The ship HMS Pandora sinks after running aground on a reef.
1800 Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested he can make it happen.
1813 In an uprising, Creek Native Americans launch an attack on Fort Mims, Alabama (present-day Mobile, Alabama), and commit the Fort Mims massacre.
1813 Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1832 Agreement is reached on the border between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
1835 The city of Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 The city of Houston, Texas is founded.
1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city.
1862 American Civil War: Battle of Richmond, Kentucky - Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright.
1862 American Civil War: Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run.
1873 Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago (island group) of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Ocean. The islands now belong to Russia.
1881 British passenger steamer RMS Teuton hits a reef off South Africa and sinks, killing 236 of the 272 people on board.
1896 Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared to be under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramon Blanco y Erenas.
1901 2000
1914 World War I: Battle of Tannenberg.
1917 During a night-time sailing, with all light switched off because of the war, French passenger steamer Natal collides with an oncoming cargo ship, sinking in 10 minutes. Of the 503 on board, 105 are killed.
1918 Assassins seriously injure Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin and kill Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky, prompting the decree for Red Terror.
1922 Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence").
1940 The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of North Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1941 World War II: The Siege of Leningrad begins.
1945 World War II: Hong Kong is liberated from Japan.
1945 World War II: Allied Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1945 The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, until 1949, goes into effect.
1946 In post-World War II Germany, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate is created in the French occupation zone.
1948 The Romanian intelligence agency, the Securitate, is founded.
1956 The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana opens.
1959 The title National Hero of Indonesia is awarded for the first time, to writer and politician Abdul Muis.
1963 Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement from baseball.
1965 Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influential album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."
1967 Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1974 A train crash, of a Dortmund to Belgrade Express train, in Zagreb kills 153 people.
1974 A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Jeavy Industries Headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan killing 8 people.
1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show.
1981 Iranian President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar are assassinated in a bombing by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
1984 Space Shuttle Discovery launches on its first mission.
1990 Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.
1991 Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR.
1992 Michael Schumacher wins his first Formula One race at the Belgian Grand Prix.
1993 The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco, is inaugurated.
1993 The Late Show with David Letterman debuts on CBS.
1994 Oasis release their first album, Definitely Maybe.
1995 NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian-Serb forces.
1999 The East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
From 2001
2001 Former President of Yugoslavia and Serbia Slobodan Milosevic is charged with Genocide.
2002 The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas ceases to operate.
2003 While being towed across the Barents Sea, de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, killing all 9 crew members.
2009 Yukio Hatoyama is elected Prime Minister of Japan, taking office on September 16, when he succeeds Taro Aso. He resigns on June 2, 2010.
2014 Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk is chosen as the new EU President, while Federica Mogherini of Italy is chosen as the next EU Foreign Policy Chief.
2016 Doris McLemore, the last-surviving fluent speaker of the Wichita language, dies aged 89.
Births
Up to 1900
1334 King Peter I of Castile (d. 1369)
1377 Shah Rukh, ruler Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1401 Georgios Sphantzes, Byzantine historian (d. 1479)
1569 Jahangir, Mughal Emperor (d. 1627)
1705 David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
1720 Samuel Whitbread, English politician and brewer (d. 1796)
1727 Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1804)
1731 Jacob Sievers, Russian statesman (d. 1828)
1739 George Mathews, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1812)
1745 Johann Hieronymus Schroeter, German jurist and astronomer (d. 1816)
1748 Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
1758 Cristobal Bencomo y Rodriguez, Spanish priest (d. 1835)
1785 Lin Zexu, Chinese scholar and official (d. 1850)
1797 Mary Shelley, British writer of Frankenstein (d. 1851)
1798 Virginie Dejazet, French actress (d. 1875)
1800 Auguste von Harrach, wife of Frederick William III of Prussia (d. 1873)
1808 Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892)
1812 Agoston Narasidhy, Hungarian traveler, writer and winemaker (d. 1869)
1813 Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (d. 1892)
1818 Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1820 Gustave Le Gray, French photography pioneer (d. 1884)
1820 Hardin Richard Runnels, 6th Governor of Texas (d. 1873)
1821 Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian-born Italian revolutionary (d. 1849)
1844 Friedrich Ratzel, German zoologist and geographer (d. 1904)
1850 Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, lawyer and journalist (d. 1896)
1852 Jacobus Henricus van t' Hoff, Dutch chemist (d. 1911)
1855 Evelyn De Morgan, British painter (d. 1919)
1856 Carl David Tolme Runge, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1927)
1860 Isaac Lewitan, Russian painter (d. 1900)
1870 Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
1871 Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand chemist and physicist (d. 1937)
1884 Theodor Svedberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1971)
1890 Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English captain and pilot (d. 1918)
1893 Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
1896 Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (d. 1983)
1898 Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992)
1901 1950
1901 Roy Wilkins, American Civil rights activist (d. 1981)
1902 Jozef Maria Bochenski, Polish philosopher (d. 1995)
1907 John Mauchly, American physicist and computer engineer (d. 1980)
1908 Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
1910 Roger Bushell, English soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
1912 Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born Australian spy in World War II, known as the "White Mouse" (d. 2011)
1912 Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist (d. 1997)
1913 Richard Stone, British economist (d. 1991)
1915 Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, Welsh-born Swedish princess (d. 2013)
1917 Denis Healey, British politician (d. 2015)
1917 Vladimir Kirillovich, pretender to the Russian throne (d. 1992)
1918 Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1919 Wolfgang Wagner, German festival organiser (d. 2010)
1919 Kitty Wells, American singer (d. 2012)
1921 Angelo Dundee, American boxing trainer (d. 2012)
1922 Lionel Murphy, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (d. 1986)
1922 Regina Resnik, American mezzo soprano (d. 2013)
1923 Vic Seixas, American tennis player
1925 Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator
1927 Bill Daily, American actor (d. 2018)
1930 Warren Buffett, American businessman
1930 Mauro Ramos, Brazilian footballer (d. 2002)
1931 Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
1933 Don Getty, 11th Premier of Alberta (d. 2016)
1935 John Phillips, American singer-songwriter (Mamas and Papas) (d. 2001)
1937 Bruce McLaren, New Zealand racing driver (d. 1970)
1938 Murray Gleeson, Australian judge, 11th Chief Justice of Australia
1938 Abel Laudonio, Argentine boxer and actor (d. 2014)
1939 John Peel, British DJ (d. 2004)
1939 Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
1940 Ricardo Bauleo, Argentine actor (d. 2014)
1942 Jonathan Aitken, Irish-British politician
1943 Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
1943 Robert Crumb, American cartoonist.
1943 Bobby Lennox, Scottish footballer
1944 Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1944 Frances Cairncross, English economist, journalist and academic
1946 Anne-Marie, Danish princess and former Queen of Greece
1946 Peggy Lipton, American actress
1948 Lewis Black, American comedian, author and actor
1948 Fred Hampton, American political activist (d. 1969)
1948 Victor Skumin, Russian professor, philosopher, writer.
1949 Peter Maffay, German singer
1949 Christopher Collins, American actor, voice artist and comedian (d. 1994)
1950 Antony Gormley, British sculptor
1950 Micky Moody, English guitarist (Whitesnake)
1951 1975
1951 Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuanian politician.
1951 Dana, Irish singer and politician
1953 Robert Parish, American basketball player
1953 Lech Majewski, Polish director, producer and screenwriter
1954 Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
1955 Helge Schneider, German comedian, jazz musician, director and actor
1958 Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist, Human Rights activist and writer (d. 2006)
1958 Muriel Gray, Scottish broadcaster and writer
1960 Ben Bradshaw, English politician
1962 Alexander Litvinenko, Russian-born British citizen and ex-KGB agent (d. 2006)
1963 Dave Brockie, Canadian-American musician (d. 2014)
1966 Michael Michele, American actress
1967 Eddie May, Scottish footballer and coach
1968 Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
1970 Paulo Sousa, Portuguese footballer
1971 Mizuki Kawashita, Japanese mangaka
1972 Cameron Diaz, American actress
1972 Pavel Nedved, Czech footballer
1973 Lisa Ling, American journalist
1974 Javier Otxoa, Basque cyclist (d. 2018)
1974 Camilla Lackberg, Swedish writer
1975 Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
From 1976
1976 Sarah-Jane Potts, British actress
1977 Elden Henson, American actor
1977 Felix Sanchez, American-Dominican runner
1977 Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
1978 Sinead Kerr, Scottish figure skater
1978 Cliff Lee, American baseball player
1979 Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player
1982 Andy Roddick, American tennis player
1983 Kris Commons, English-Scottish footballer
1983 Simone Pepe, Italian footballer
1985 Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
1985 Anna Ushenina, Russian chess player
1986 Ryan Ross, American guitarist (Panic! at the Disco)
1986 Aldo Simoncini, Sammmarinese footballer
1988 Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
1989 Bebe Rexha, Albanian-American singer-songwriter
1991 Farid Mammadov, Azerbaijani singer
1996 Trevor Jackson, American singer and actor
2001 Emily Bear, American pianist and composer
Deaths
Up to 1900
526 Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy (b. 454)
1158 King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
1329 Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, of the Yuan Dynasty and Mongol Empire
1428 Emperor Shoko of Japan (b. 1401)
1483 King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
1505 Elizabeth of Austria (b. 1536)
1580 Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
1619 Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
1751 Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
1856 Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, writer (b. 1811)
1879 John Bell Hood, Confederate general (b. 1831)
1896 Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
1901 2000
1906 Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)
1907 Richard Mansfield, actor-manager, (b. 1857)
1928 Wilhelm Wien, German physicist (b. 1864)
1935 Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
1937 Gaetano Bisletti, Italian cardinal (b. 1896)
1938 Max Factor, Sr., Polish-American make-up artist and businessman (b. 1877)
1940 J.J. Thomson, English physicist (b. 1856)
1941 Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
1943 Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, ss.cc., Dutch Roman Catholic priest (b. 1890)
1945 Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer, coach and manager (b. 1893)
1946 Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (b. 1907)
1949 Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1887)
1954 Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (b. 1880)
1957 Otto Suhr, Mayor of Berlin (b. 1894)
1961 Charles Coburn, actor (b. 1877)
1971 Ali Hadi Bara, Turkish sculptor (b. 1906)
1979 Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
1981 Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian statesman (b. 1933)
1981 Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Iranian statesman
1981 Vera-Ellen, actress (b. 1921)
1985 Taylor Caldwell, American writer (b. 1900)
1991 Jean Tinguely, Swiss kinetic artist (b. 1925)
1994 Lindsay Anderson, movie director (b. 1923)
1995 Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
1996 Christine Pascal, French actress (b. 1953)
1997 Ernst Willimowski, Polish footballer (b. 1916)
1999 Jan Brasser, Dutch athlete (b. 1912)
From 2001
2001 Govan Mbeki, South African political activist (b. 1910)
2003 Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
2003 Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
2004 Fred Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
2005 Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (b. 1890)
2006 Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor (b. 1916)
2006 Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer (b. 1911)
2008 Killer Kowalski, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1926)
2010 J. C. Bailey, American professional wrestler (b. 1983)
2010 Alain Corneau, French moviemaker (b. 1943)
2010 Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (b. 1910)
2012 Chris Lighty, American music industry executive (b. 1968)
2013 Seamus Heaney, Irish writer and poet (b. 1939)
2013 Soledad Mexia, Mexican-American supercentenarian (b. 1899)
2014 Bipan Chandra, Indian historian (b. 1928)
2014 Igor Decraene, Belgian cyclist (b. 1996)
2014 Victoria Mallory, American actress and singer (b. 1949)
2014 Bud Andrews, American radio personality and DJ (b. 1940)
2014 David Mitchell, English politician (b. 1928)
2015 Bart Cummings, Australian racehorse trainer (b. 1927)
2015 Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist and author (b. 1933)
2015 Wes Craven, American director, writer, producer and actor (b. 1939)
2015 Marvin Mandel, American politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (b. 1920)
2015 Hugo Rasmussen, Danish jazz musician (b. 1944)
2015 Edward Fadeley, American attorney and politician (b. 1929)
2016 Doris McLemore, last-surviving fluent speaker of the Wichita language (b. 1927)
2017 Marjorie Boulton, English author (b. 1924)
2017 Louise Hay, American author (b. 1926)
2017 Abdul Jabbar, Bangladeshi singer (b. 1938)
2017 Rollie Massimino, American basketball coach (b. 1934)
2017 Sumiteru Taniguchi, Japanese anti-nuclear weapons activist (b. 1929)
2017 Richard Sui On Chang, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Hawaii (b. 1941)
2017 Sam Pivnik, Polish Holocaust survivor and author (b. 1926)
2018 Joseph Kobzon, Russian singer (b. 1937)
2018 Ray, Hong Kong professional wrestler (b. 1982)
Observances
International Day of the Disappeared
Saint Rose of Lima (Peru)
Victory Day (Turkey)
Republic Day (Tatarstan)
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9963 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%2031 | August 31 | It is the last day of the second third of the year. The end of this day the second third of a leap year. The end of the second third the year for southern hemisphere DST countries occurs at 11:00 p.m.
Events
Up to 1900
1056 Byzantine Empress Theodora dies suddenly without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1314 Norway's capital is moved from Bergen to Oslo.
1422 King Henry V of England dies in France from dysentery. Henry VI of England becomes king of England at the age of just under nine months.
1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connacht.
1803 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark start their expedition west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning.
1812 Troop transporter Salvador runs aground on the Rio de la Plata, between Argentina and Uruguay, killing 470 people, of the 600 on board.
1813 At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British and Portuguese forces capture Donostia, now known as San Sebastian, in the Basque Country, resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town.
1848 Costa Rica becomes independent from the Federal Republic of Central America.
1864 American Civil War: Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1876 Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
1886 An Earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
1888 Mary Ann Nicholls is murdered. She is perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims
1895 John Brallier is paid US$10 plus expenses to play football for the Latrobe, Pennsylvania YMCA, making him the first professional football player.
1897 Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1897 Initiated by Theodor Herzl, the Zionist World Congress in Basel, Switzerland, calls for the creation of a Jewish state.
1901 2000
1907 England, Russia and France form the Triple Entente alliance.
1914 Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
1915 Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
1920 Polish-Bolshevik War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
1920 First news radio program broadcast in Detroit, Michigan.
1931 Production of Ford Motor Company's Model A ends, with 4.3 million produced.
1936 Radio Praha, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
1939 Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station, giving them an excuse to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II.
1940 Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia.
1941 World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat German forces in the Battle of Loznica.
1943 The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named for a black person, is commissioned.
1945 The Liberal Party of Australia is formed by Robert Menzies.
1949 The Greek Civil War ends.
1950 East Germany bans Jehovah's Witnesses from practising their faith.
1951 The Dominican Republic records its highest-ever temperature, at 43 degrees Celsius.
1953 The city of Santander in Northern Spain opens its new airport.
1957 The Federation of Malaya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1958 An assassination attempt on King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia fails, when a parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother and advisor to Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to detonate.
1962 Trinidad and Tobago become independent.
1963 Sarawak, North Borneo and Singapore achieve technical independence, pending accession to the Federation of Malaya.
1968 An earthquake in Iran kills at least 12,000 people.
1978 William and Emily Harris, founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army, plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst.
1980 The Solidarity trade union is formed in Poland.
1980 Heavy rain causes flooding in Ibadan, Nigeria, killing over 300 people.
1985 Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker" serial killer, is arrested in Los Angeles, California.
1986 An Aeroméxico Douglas DC-9 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
1986 The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 398.
1987 Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 people on board.
1989 Buckingham Palace officials confirm that Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips are to be separated.
1990 The plan for German unity is signed in Berlin.
1991 Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo after a multiparty presidential election, ending a long history of one-party oppressive rule under the Congolese Workers Party.
1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
1996 Saddam Hussein's troops seize Irbil, Iraq, after Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani had asked for help to defeat the Kurdish PKK.
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in Paris.
1998 North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite.
1999 A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during take-off from Jorge Newbury Airport, Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 65 people, including 2 on the ground.
1999 The first of a series of Russian Apartment Bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.
From 2001
2001 PBS airs the final episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood with host Fred Rogers retiring.
2004 Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ is released on DVD and VHS in stores across the United States, selling approximately 4.1 million copies by the end of the day.
2005 A stampede at the Al-Aimmah Bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2005 Football: An early-round FA Cup match in England sets the record for the most penalty kicks taken. It took 40 such kicks to separate Tunbridge Wells and Littlehampton Town.
2006 Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered in a police raid, more than two years after it was stolen.
2010 Iraq War officially ends.
2016 Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office; Michel Temer succeeds her as President.
2018 A six-hour-long funeral takes place for American soul singer Aretha Franklin in Detroit, Michigan.
Births
Up to 1900
12 Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor (d. 41)
161 Commodus, Roman Emperor (d. 192)
1018 Jeongjong II of Goryeo, Korean ruler (d. 1046)
1168 Emperor Zhangzong of Jin (d. 1208)
1542 Isabella de' Medici, Italian princess (d. 1576)
1569 Jahangir, Indian Mughal Emperor (d. 1627)
1602 Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, wife of Frederick, Prince of Orange (d. 1675)
1663 Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (d. 1705)
1721 George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)
1741 Jean Paul Egide Martini, French composer (d. 1816)
1741 John Houstoun, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 1796)
1748 Jean Etienne Despreaux, French dancer, choreographer, composer, singer and playwright (d. 1820)
1749 Alexander Radishchev, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1802)
1760 Peter Joseph Triest, Belgian canon of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1836)
1767 Henry Joy McCracken, Irish activist (d. 1798)
1786 Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (d. 1889)
1797 James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer and engineer (d. 1867)
1811 Theophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (d. 1872)
1821 Hermann von Helmholtz, German scientist (d. 1894)
1822 Galusha M. Grow, 28th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1907)
1834 Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886)
1837 Frederick Walter Pikin, Governor of Colorado (d. 1886)
1842 Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, American publisher, journalist and activist (d. 1924)
1843 Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919)
1853 Alexei Alekseyevich Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1866 Elizabeth von Arnim, Australian-English writer (d. 1941)
1870 Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator (d. 1952)
1871 James E. Ferguson, 26th Governor of Texas (d. 1944)
1871 Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1955)
1874 Edward Thorndike, American psychologist (d. 1949)
1878 Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)
1879 Alma Mahler, wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel (d. 1964)
1879 Emperor Taisho, Emperor of Japan (d. 1926)
1880 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
1882 Harry Porter, American high jumper (d. 1965)
1885 DuBose Heyward, American playwright (d. 1940)
1891 Martin Sennet Conner, 44th Governor of Mississippi (d. 1950)
1893 Raymond E. Baldwin, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1986)
1897 Fredric March, American actor (d. 1975)
1900 Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist, attempted assassin of Benito Mussolini (d. 1943)
1901 1950
1903 Vladimir Jankelevitch, French philosopher and musicologist (d. 1985)
1903 Arthur Godfrey, American television host (d. 1983)
1907 William Shawn, American editor (d. 1992)
1907 Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines (d. 1957)
1907 Altiero Spinelli, Italian politician (d. 1986)
1908 William Saroyan, American novelist and playwright (d. 1981)
1909 Ferenc Fejto, Hungarian-French journalist and political scientist (d. 2008)
1913 Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer and physicist (d. 2012)
1913 Helen Levitt, American photographer (d. 2009)
1914 Richard Basehart, American actor (d. 1984)
1916 Robert Hanbury Brown, English astronomer and physicist (d. 2002)
1916 Daniel Schorr, American journalist (d. 2010)
1918 Alan Jay Lerner, American composer (d. 1986)
1924 Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (d. 2003)
1925 Katyna Ranieri, Italian actress and singer (d. 2018)
1928 James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002)
1928 Jaime Sin, Filipino cardinal (d. 2005)
1931 Jean Beliveau, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1931 Brita Koivunen, Finnish singer (d. 2014)
1931 Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004)
1932 Roy Castle, English actor, singer and dancer (d. 1994)
1935 Frank Robinson, American baseball player and manager
1935 Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist (d. 1998)
1936 Vladimir Orlov, Russian author (d. 2014)
1937 Gilles Latulippe, Canadian comedian, author and theatre manager (d. 2014)
1937 Warren Berlinger, American actor
1937 Bobby Parker, American guitarist
1938 Martin Bell, British journalist and politician
1940 Wilton Felder, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2015)
1940 Alain Calmat, French figure skater
1942 Isao Aoki, Japanese golfer
1944 Roger Denn, English artist, designer, architect and publisher
1945 Bob Welch, American musician (d. 2012)
1945 Van Morrison, Northern Irish musician
1945 Itzhak Perlman, Israeli violinist
1945 Leonid Popov, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut
1946 Ann Coffey, Scottish politician
1947 Somchai Wongsawat, former Prime Minister of Thailand
1947 Mona Marshall, American voice actress
1948 Holger Osieck, German football coach
1948 Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (d. 1982)
1948 Lowell Ganz, screenwriter
1948 Rudolf Schenker, German musician (Scorpions)
1949 Richard Gere, American actor
1949 Hugh David Politzer, American physicist
1951 1975
1952 Kim Kashkashian, Armenian-American violist
1953 Pavel Vingradov, Russian cosmonaut
1954 Robert Kocharian, former President of Armenia
1955 Edwin Moses, American athlete
1956 Tsai Ing-wen, President of the Republic of China
1956 Mark Mangini, American sound editor
1956 Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
1959 Ralph Krueger, Canadian ice hockey coach
1960 Chris Whitley, American musician
1960 Vali Ionescu, Romanian long jumper
1960 Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese leader of Hezbollah
1962 Dee Bradley Baker, American actor
1963 Todd Carty, Irish actor
1965 Zsolt Borkai, Hungarian gymnast
1966 Jan Einar Thorsen, Norwegian alpine skier
1967 Anna Moen, Norwegian skier
1968 Valdon Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician
1968 Derek Whyte, Scottish footballer
1969 Jonathan LaPaglia, Australian actor
1969 Andrew Cunanan, American serial killer (d. 1997)
1970 Debbie Gibson, American singer
1970 Queen Rania of Jordan, Jordanian Queen
1970 Nikola Gruevski, Macedonian politician
1970 Arie van Lent, Dutch-German footballer
1971 Padraig Harrington, Irish golfer
1971 Junior Jack, Italian music producer and DJ
1972 Chris Tucker, American actor
From 1976
1976 Roque Junior, Brazilian footballer
1976 Radek Martinek, Czech ice hockey player
1977 Craig Nicholls, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (The Vines)
1977 Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler
1979 Simon Neil, Scottish singer and guitarist (Biffy Clyro)
1980 Joe Budden, American rapper
1981 Dwayne Peel, Welsh rugby player
1982 Christopher Katongo, Zambian footballer
1982 José Manuel Reina, Spanish footballer
1982 Alexei Mikhnov, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
1982 Chris Duhon, American basketball player
1984 Ted Ligety, American skier
1984 Ryan Kesler, American ice hockey player
1985 Rolando, Portuguese footballer
1985 Ashley Hartman, American actress and model
1985 Mohammad bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
1986 Ryan Kelley, American actor
1987 Ondrej Pavelec, Czech ice hockey player
1988 David Ospina, Colombian footballer
1990 Gary Mackay-Steven, Scottish footballer
1991 Shi Tingmao, Chinese diver
1998 Saya Kawamoto, Japanese idol and singer
2017 Prince Gabriel, Duke of Dalarna, Swedish royal
Deaths
Up to 1900
577 John Scholasticus, Patriarch of Constantinople
651 Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary
683 Pacal II, Mayan ruler (b. 603)
1056 Byzantine Empress Theodora (b. 981)
1158 Sancho I of Castile (b. 1134)
1234 Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (b. 1212)
1422 King Henry V of England (b. 1387)
1654 Ole Worm, Danish physician (b. 1588)
1688 John Bunyan, English writer (b. 1628)
1724 Louis I of Spain (b. 1707)
1741 Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
1762 Emperor Momozono of Japan (b. 1741)
1772 William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
1799 Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720)
1811 Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729)
1814 Arthur Phillip, British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738)
1864 Ferdinand Lassalle, German writer and politician (b. 1825)
1867 Charles Baudelaire, French poet (b. 1821)
1888 Mary Ann Nichols, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845)
1901 2000
1920 Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (b. 1832)
1920 Jens Oliver Lisberg, Faroese law student (b. 1896)
1924 Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1881)
1927 William Frank Carver, American target shooter and showman (b. 1851)
1941 Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)
1948 Billy Laughlin, American actor (b. 1932)
1948 Andrei Zhdanov, Soviet politician (b. 1896)
1963 Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
1967 Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet writer, journalist and translator (b. 1891)
1969 Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
1973 John Ford, American movie director (b. 1894)
1974 Norman Kirk, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1923)
1978 John Wrathall, Rhodesian politician (b. 1913)
1979 Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (b. 1904)
1985 Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist (b. 1899)
1986 Henry Moore, English sculptor (b. 1898)
1986 Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900)
1986 Jorge Alessandri, President of Chile (b. 1896)
1990 Nathaniel Clifton, American basketball player (b. 1922)
1991 Cliff Lumsden, Canadian marathon swimmer (b. 1931)
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales (car accident) (b. 1961)
1997 Dodi Fayed, Egyptian-born movie producer (car accident) (b. 1955)
1997 Henri Paul, French security guard (car accident) (b. 1956)
From 2001
2002 Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player (b. 1908)
2002 George Porter, English chemist (b. 1920)
2004 Carl Wayne, English singer (b. 1943)
2005 Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist (b. 1908)
2006 Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
2010 Laurent Fignon, French cyclist (b. 1960)
2011 Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1976)
2011 Valery Rozhdestvensky, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1939)
2012 Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, Soviet-Russian military commander (b. 1911)
2012 Carlo Maria Martini, Italian cardinal (b. 1927)
2012 Max Bygraves, British entertainer (b. 1922)
2013 David Frost, British broadcaster (b. 1939)
2014 Stefan Andrei, Romanian Communist politician (b. 1931)
2014 Stan Goldberg, American comic author (b. 1932)
2014 Jimi Jamison, American rock music singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
2014 Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
2014 Bapu, Indian movie director (b. 1933)
2014 Yves Carcelle, French businessman (b. 1948)
2015 Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, English politician (b. 1926)
2017 Richard Anderson, American actor (b. 1926)
2017 Janne Carlsson, Swedish actor and musician (b. 1937)
2017 Mike Cockerill, Australian soccer journalist (b. 1960)
2017 Egon Günther, German film director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2017 Tamara Tchinarova, Romanian ballet dancer and writer (b. 1919)
2018 Susan Brown, American actress (b. 1932)
2018 Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Italian geneticist (b. 1922)
2018 Alexander Zakharenko, Ukrainian separatist leader (b. 1976)
Observances
Independence Day (Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago, Kyrgyzstan)
Day of Solidarity and Freedom (Poland)
National Language Day (Moldova)
Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne
Days of the year |
9964 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%2024 | August 24 |
Events
Up to 1900
79 – Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. The modern city of Naples now stands on the edge of the disaster area.
410 - The Visigoths under King Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
455 - The Vandals, led by King Genseric, begin to plunder Rome.
1200 - King John of England marries Isabella of Angoulême in Bordeaux Cathedral.
1215 – Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid.
1349 - 6000 Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the Bubonic Plague.
1391 - Massacre on the Jewish population of Palma de Mallorca.
1456 – Printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
1482 - The town and castle of Berwick-upon-Tweed are captured from Scotland by English troops.
1516 - The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Maq Dabiq.
1561 - William of Orange marries Anne of Saxony.
1572 – St. Batholomew's Day massacre: Start of a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants) under the orders of King Charles IX of France.
1608 - The first English representative to India lands in Surat.
1662 - The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
1682 - William Penn adds present-day Delaware to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1812 - Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British and Portuguese forces succeeds in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cadiz.
1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C., burning many buildings, including the White House.
1815 – The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
1821 - The Treaty of Cordoba is signed in present-day Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
1848 - The ship Ocean Monarch bursts into flames near Llandudno, north Wales. 208 people are saved by nearby ships, while 178 are killed.
1857 - The Panic of 1857 economic crisis begins in the United States.
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first man to swim across the English Channel.
1891 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for the motion-picture-camera.
1901 2000
1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the construction of the Panama Canal.
1912 – Alaska becomes a United States territory.
1914 - World War I: German troops occupy Namur, Belgium.
1929 - 67 are killed in a massacre in Hebron, leading to the expulsion of Jews from the city.
1931 - France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly non-stop across the United States.
1936 – The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
1949 - The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
1954 - President of Brazil Getulio Vargas resigns and commits suicide shortly after.
1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Communist Control Act, which bans the American Communist Party.
1960 - At -88.3 degrees Celsius, the lowest-ever temperature up until that point, is measured at the Soviet Vostok Research Station in Antarctica. This record stands until 1983, when, also at the Vostok Station, the even colder temperature of -89.2 degrees Celsius is measured.
1963 - The German football league, the Bundesliga, starts.
1968 – France explodes its first hydrogen bomb.
1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for the murder of John Lennon.
1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki becomes Prime Minister of Poland, becoming the first non-Communist leader of Poland in the post-World War II period.
1989 - Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on Colombia's Government.
1989 - Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling, by commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Soviet Union's Communist party.
1991 – Ukraine declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in southern Florida as a Category 5 hurricane. It causes a lot of damage and becomes one of the US's costliest natural disasters.
1994 - Initial accord between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization about partial self-rule in the Palestinians in the West Bank
1995 – MSN is launched.
From 2001
2001 - Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the mid-Atlantic Ocean, making a safe emergency landing on the island of Terceira, Azores.
2004 – 89 people die in explosions on two jets at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport.
2006 – The definition of the word planet is changed, therefore stripping Pluto of its planet status, making it a dwarf planet.
2008 - The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing end. The host nation, the People's Republic of China, wins the most gold medals, ahead of the United States.
2011 - Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple Inc.. He dies six weeks later.
2012 - American cyclist Lance Armstrong announces that he is no-longer fighting doping allegations, and is stripped of the seven Tour de France titles he won by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
2012 - Anders Behring Breivik is declared sane by a court in Oslo, and sentenced to 21 years in prison for the 2011 Norway attacks, in which he had killed 77 people.
2016 - A major earthquake hits Central Italy, killing 276 people.
2016 - The discovery of "Proxima Centauri b", a planet orbiting around the star Proxima Centauri, is announced.
2018 - Scott Morrison becomes the 30th Prime Minister of Australia, after defeating Peter Dutton in a contest to replace Malcolm Turnbull.
Births
Up to 1900
1113 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)
1198 – King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
1358 – King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
1393 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)
1552 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
1591 - Robert Herrick, English poet (d. 1674)
1635 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
1669 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1747)
1750 – Letizia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1836)
1758 – Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1790)
1759 – William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (d. 1833)
1772 – King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)
1787 – James Weddell, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1834)
1792 - Joaquim Antonio de Aguiar, Portuguese politician (d. 1884)
1815 - Bartolomé Calvo, Colombian statesman (d. 1889)
1816 - Daniel Gooch, English railway pioneer and mechanical engineer (d. 1889)
1824 - Antonio Stoppani, Italian geologist and scholar (d. 1891)
1831 - Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Swedish royal (d. 1873)
1837 - Theodore Dubois, French composer, organist and music teacher (d. 1924)
1855 - Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal (d. 1944)
1865 – King Ferdinand II of Romania (d. 1927)
1872 - Max Beerbohm, British caricaturist (d. 1956)
1886 - William Gibbs, American naval architect (d. 1967)
1887 - Harry Hooper, American baseball player (d. 1974)
1890 – Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian-American athlete (swimming and surfing) (d. 1968)
1890 - Jean Rhys, Dominican-English writer (d. 1979)
1893 - Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-born Israeli biochemist (d. 1978)
1895 - Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysian king (d. 1960)
1895 - Richard Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1970)
1897 - Gertrude Bambrick, American actress (d. 1974)
1899 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
1899 – Albert Claude, French biologist (d. 1983)
1900 - Leonardo Conti, German physician and Nazi war criminal (d. 1945)
1901 1950
1902 - Fernand Braudel, French historian (d. 1985)
1903 - Karl Hanke, German SS leader (d. 1945)
1904 - Alice White, American actress (d. 1983)
1905 – Arthur Crudup, American blues musician (d. 1976)
1905 – Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
1907 – Bruno Giacometti, Italian sculptor (d. 2012)
1908 - Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (d. 1931)
1915 - James Tiptree, Jr., American writer and psychologist (d. 1987)
1916 - Léo Ferré, French singer, composer and poet (d. 1993)
1916 - Hal Smith, American actor (d. 1994)
1918 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (d. 2004)
1918 - Abdallah Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Morocco (d. 2005)
1918 - Avery Dulles, American cardinal (d. 2008)
1919 - Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, President of Ecuador (d. 2004)
1919 - Drs. P, Swiss-Dutch singer-songwriter, poet and writer (d. 2015)
1921 - Ercole Rabitti, Italian footballer (d. 2009)
1922 – René Lévesque, Canadian politician (d. 1987)
1922 – Howard Zinn, American historian (d. 2010)
1924 - Ahmadou Ahidjo, President of Cameroon (d. 1989)
1927 – Harry Markowitz, American economist
1927 - Anjali Devi, Indian actress and producer (d. 2014)
1927 - Guido Ceronetti, Italian journalist and poet (d. 2018)
1929 – Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority (d. 2004)
1932 – Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster and cardinal (d. 2017)
1934 - Kenny Baker, English actor (d. 2016)
1935 - Tsutomu Hata, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2017)
1936 - Kenny Guinn, 27th Governor of Nevada (d. 2010)
1936 - A. S. Byatt, English writer
1939 - Michael E. Phelps, American biophysicist
1940 - Francine Lalonde, Canadian politician (d. 2014)
1941 - Jürgen Eschert, German canoeist
1942 - Max Cleland, American politician (d. 2021)
1943 - John Cipollina, American guitarist (d. 1995)
1943 - Dafydd Iwan, Welsh singer and politician
1944 - Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
1944 – Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1945 – Vince McMahon, American Professional Wrestling promoter
1945 - Ken Hensley, English musician (Uriah Heep)
1945 - Ronee Blakley, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress
1946 - Vic Akers, English football coach
1946 - Rick Loomis, American game designer (d. 2019)
1946 - Manfred Zapf, German footballer
1947 – Paulo Coelho, Brazilian writer
1947 – Joe Manchin, American politician, former Governor of West Virginia
1947 - Steve Pearce, American politician
1947 - Anne Archer, American actress
1947 – Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
1948 – Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
1948 – Alexander McCall Smith, Scottish writer and professor
1948 - Sauli Niinistö, 12th President of Finland
1949 - Stephen Paulus, American composer (d. 2014)
1951 1975
1951 - Oscar Hijuelos, American writer (d. 2013)
1951 - Orson Scott Card, American writer
1952 - Bob Corker, American politician, United States Senator for Tennessee
1952 - Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaican poet
1953 – Sam Torrance, Scottish golfer
1955 – Mike Huckabee, American politician, former Governor of Arkansas and Presidential candidate
1956 - John Culberson, American politician
1956 - Gerry Cooney, American boxer
1957 – Stephen Fry, English actor, comedian, presenter and writer
1957 - Marcel Vanthilt, Belgian singer and television host
1958 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor
1959 - Meg Munn, English politician
1960 - Takashi Miike, Japanese director, producer, writer and actor
1960 – Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player
1960 - Steven Lindsey, American astronaut
1961 – Jared Harris, English actor
1963 - Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game creator
1963 - Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Icelandic writer
1964 - Dana Gould, American comedian and writer
1964 - Salizhan Sharipov, Kyrgyz cosmonaut
1965 – Marlee Matlin, American actress
1965 - Reggie Miller, American basketball player
1968 - Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 - James Toney, American boxer
1969 - Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor
1972 - Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian freestyle skier
1973 - Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Dave Chappelle, American comedian and actor
1973 - Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
1973 - Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor and musician
1974 - Takuya Yamada, Japanese footballer
1975 - Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
From 1976
1976 - Yang Yang (A), Chinese short-track speed skater
1976 - Alex O'Loughlin, Australian actor
1977 – Robert Enke, German football goalkeeper (d. 2009)
1977 – Jürgen Macho, Austrian football goalkeeper
1977 – Denilson, Brazilian footballer
1979 – Orlando Engelaar, Dutch footballer
1979 - Kaki King, American guitarist and composer
1979 - Yelena Chernykh, Russian theatre actress (d. 2011)
1981 - Jiro Wang, Taiwanese singer and actor
1981 - Chad Michael Murray, American actor
1982 - José Bosingwa, Portuguese footballer
1982 – Kim Kallstrom, Swedish footballer
1984 - Charlie Villanueva, Dominican-American basketball player
1986 - Fabiano Santacroce, Brazilian-Italian footballer
1986 - Joseph Akpala, Nigerian footballer
1986 - Stewart McDonald, Scottish politician
1987 - Daichi Miura, Japanese singer-songwriter, dancer and choreographer
1987 - Jon Scheyer, American basketball player
1988 – Rupert Grint, British actor
1988 - Maya Yoshida, Japanese footballer
1989 - Richie Gray, Scottish rugby union player
1997 - Alan Walker, English-Norwegian music producer
1998 - Robin, Finnish singer
2003 – Alexandre Coste, son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Deaths
Up to 1900
79 – Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)
1042 – Michael V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1015)
1103 – King Magnus III of Norway (b. 1073)
1217 – Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate
1313 - Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1278)
1540 – Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)
1542 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)
1572 – Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:
Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (b. 1519)
Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515)
Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier
1595 – Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)
1617 - Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
1647 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
1664 – Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer
1679 – Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614)
1680 – Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618)
1683 – John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
1759 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b. 1715)
1779 – Kosmas Aitolos, Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714)
1831 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
1841 – Theodore Edward Hook, English writer (b. 1788)
1856 - William Buckland, English geologist (b. 1784)
1883 - Henri, Count of Chambord, claimant to the French throne (b. 1820)
1888 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822)
1897 - Mutsu Munemitsu, Japanese politician (b. 1844)
1901 2000
1921 – Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
1940 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German television pioneer (b. 1860)
1943 – Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist (b. 1909)
1946 – James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
1950 - Arturo Alessandri, President of Chile (b. 1868)
1954 – Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (b. 1882)
1956 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese movie director (b. 1898)
1957 - Ronald Knox, British theologian and crime fiction writer (b. 1888)
1961 – Günter Litfin, first shooting victim at the Berlin Wall (b. 1937)
1967 – Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
1974 - Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American aviator, author and inventor (b. 1894)
1975 – Éamon de Valera, President of Ireland (b. 1882)
1978 – Louis Prima, American band leader (b. 1910)
1979 – Hanna Reitsch, German pilot (b. 1912)
1985 – Paul Creston, American composer (b. 1906)
1990 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (b. 1941)
1991 – Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (b. 1904)
1995 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photographer (b. 1898)
1998 – E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
1999 - Mary Jane Croft, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 - Andy Hug, Swiss martial artist and kickboxer (b. 1964)
From 2001
2001 - Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
2002 – Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2003 – Sir Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer (b. 1910)
2004 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
2005 – Ambrogio Fogar, Italian sailor, writer, rally driver and all-round adventurer and television presenter (d. 1941)
2007 - Andrée Boucher, 39th Mayor of Quebec City (b. 1937)
2009 – Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (b. 1935)
2012 - Pauli Ellefsen, 6th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1936)
2012 - Steve Franken, American actor (b. 1923)
2012 - Félix Miéli Venerando, Brazilian footballer (b. 1937)
2013 - Julie Harris, American actress (b. 1925)
2013 - Newton de Sordi, Brazilian footballer (b. 1931)
2014 - Richard Attenborough, English actor and movie director (b. 1923)
2014 - Leonid Stadnyk, Ukrainian claimant to world's tallest man title (b. 1970)
2015 - Justin Wilson, English racing driver (b. 1978)
2015 - Cees van Kooten, Dutch footballer (b. 1948)
2015 - Chico Maki, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)
2016 - Henning Voscherau, German politician (b. 1941)
2016 - Walter Scheel, German politician, President of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1919)
2016 - Roger Y. Tsien, Chinese-American biologist (b. 1952)
2017 - Cecil D. Andrus, American politician, Governor of Idaho (b. 1931)
2017 - Alan Boswell, English footballer (b. 1943)
2017 - Charlie Robertson, American politician (b. 1934)
2017 - Jay Thomas, American actor (b. 1948)
2017 - Amelyn Veloso, Filipino journalist and broadcaster (b. 1974)
2018 - Lawrence J. DeNardis, American politician (b. 1938)
2018 - Tom Frost, American rock climber (b. 1938)
2018 - Robin Leach, British writer and television host (b. 1941)
2018 - Princeton Lyman, American diplomat (b. 1935)
2018 - Javier Ochoa Palacios, Spanish cyclist (b. 1974)
2018 - Aleksei Paramonov, Soviet-Russian footballer (b. 1925)
2018 - Valentina Rastvorova, Soviet-Russian fencer (b. 1933)
2018 - Ciril Zlobec, Slovenian poet, writer and politician (b. 1925)
2019 - Arun Jaitley, Indian politician (b. 1952)
2019 - Sidney Rittenberg, American journalist and linguist (b. 1921)
Observances
National Day of Ukraine
Christian Feast Day of Saint Bartholomew
Night of Nostalgia, Eve of Independence Day (Uruguay)
References
Days of the year |
9965 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%2025 | August 25 |
Events
Up to 1900
450 Pulcheria becomes Empress of the Byzantine Empire after her brother Theodosius II is killed during a hunting accident.
1248 The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, Archbishop of Utrecht.
1537 The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and second most senior, is founded.
1580 Battle of Alcantara: Spain defeats Portugal.
1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1718 New Orleans is founded by French settlers.
1758 Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
1768 James Cook begins his first voyage.
1778 Triglav in the Julian Alps, which is Slovenia's highest peak, is successfully climbed for the first time, by Lovrenc Willomitzer.
1810 Briton Paul Durand receives a patent for the tin can.
1825 Uruguay declares independence from Brazil.
1830 The Belgian Revolution begins.
1835 The New York Sun carries out the Great Moon Hoax.
1844 Australia's first synagogue is started in Melbourne.
1856 The Teatro Solis theatre opens in Montevideo, Uruguay.
1861 The Clayton Tunnel train crash in the UK kills 23 people and injures 176.
1875 Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to successfully swim across the English Channel, from Dover, England, UK to Calais, France.
1894 Kitasato Shibasaburo discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague.
1898 700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mon in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
1901 2000
1912 The Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) is founded.
1914 World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army.
1916 The United States National Park Service is created.
1920 Polish-Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends as the Red Army is defeated.
1927 Japanese destroyer Warabi sinks after a collision with the light cruiser Jintsu, killing 102 people.
1933 The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China, killing 9,000 people.
1938 Inauguration of the Obelisk of Montevideo on Uruguayan Independence Day.
1939 The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the United Kingdom promises to defend Poland in the case of invasion by a foreign power. Nazi Germany invades Poland just a week later, after which the United Kingdom and France both declare war on Germany on September 3.
1941 World War II: British and Soviet troops enter Iran.
1942 World War II: Battle of Milne Bay.
1944 World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
1945 Ten days after the Japanese surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill American Baptist missionary John Birch. Some people on the American political right regard this as the start of the Cold War.
1945 Emperor Bao Dai of Vietnam resigns, leaving Ho Chi Minh in power.
1950 US President Harry Truman gets the army to take over the railways to stop a strike.
1956 Off Stockholm, Sweden, the wreck of the ship Vasa is found. It had sunk at the start of its first voyage in 1628.
1960 The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, begin.
1961 President of Brazil Janio Quadros resigns after just seven months in power.
1975 Australian band, the Little River Band puts out its first recording, Curiosity Killed the Cat.
1980 Zimbabwe joins the UN.
1981 Voyager 2 approaches Saturn.
1988 Most of the old town of Lisbon, Portugal, is destroyed by fire.
1989 Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
1989 Voyager 2 approaches Neptune.
1991 Belarus declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 Croatian War of Independence: The Battle of Vukovar begins, as an 87-day siege in the city of Vukovar begins, by the Yugoslav People's Army, supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces.
1991 Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what would become Linux.
1991 First flight of an Airbus A340.
1992 Siege of Sarajevo: The National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina is deliberately set on fire, with thousands of irreplaceable works being destroyed.
1995 First flight of an Airbus A319.
1997 Former leader of East Germany Egon Krenz is convicted of ordering a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
From 2001
2001 Marriage of Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway and Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway.
2002 For the first time, in election for Chancellor of Germany, the main candidates face each other in a television debate. The election is mainly between then-incumbent Gerhard Schröder and his challenger Edmund Stoiber.
2003 The Delta II rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, sending the Spitzer space telescope into space.
2006 Because of difficult situation in East Timor, the UN sends an integrated mission there.
2012 The Voyager 1 spacecraft becomes the first man-made object to enter interstellar space. This occurs on the same day as the death of astronaut Neil Armstrong.
2013 At least 42 people are killed in bomb attacks in Iraq. On the same day, neighboring Syria announces it will allow UN weapons inspectors into the country, during its civil war.
2017 Riots in Northern India result in at least 36 deaths, after the rape conviction of religious leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
2017 Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas, causing several days of heavy rain and flooding. The city of Houston is among the places heavily flooded.
2018 Pope Francis visits the Republic of Ireland.
Births
Up to 1800
1530 Ivan IV of Russia ("Ivan the Terrible") (d. 1584)
1561 Philippe van Landsberge, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (d. 1632)
1635 Sir Henry Morgan, privateer (d. 1688)
1662 John Leverett the Younger, American lawyer, politician and academic (d. 1724)
1691 Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (d. 1737)
1707 King Louis I of Spain (d. 1724)
1724 George Stubbs, English painter (d. 1806)
1744 Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (d. 1803)
1767 Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
1785 Adam Wilhelm Moltke, 1st Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1864)
1786 King Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
1789 John Miers, English botanist and engineer (d. 1879)
1796 James Lick, California land baron (d. 1876)
1801 1900
1802 Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (d. 1850)
1803 Luis Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, Brazilian army officer, politician and monarchist (d. 1880)
1817 Marie-Eugenie de Jesus, French nun and saint (d. 1898)
1819 Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (d. 1884)
1822 Gardiner Greene Hubbard, American lawyer, philanthropist and 1st President of the National Geographic Society (d. 1897)
1829 Carlo Acton, Italian composer and concert pianist (d. 1909)
1836 Bret Harte, American writer (d. 1902)
1841 Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss doctor, won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1917)
1845 King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
1850 Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist (d. 1935)
1850 Pavel Axelrod, Russian revolutionary (d. 1928)
1862 Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (d. 1934)
1865 Arthur Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminster (d. 1943)
1869 Tom Kiely, Irish athlete (d. 1951)
1871 Nils Edén, 15th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1945)
1879 John Randolph Bray, American animator (d. 1978)
1882 Seán T. O'Kelly, President of Ireland (d. 1966)
1889 Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 16th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1969)
1891 David Shimoni, Russian-Israeli poet and writer (d. 1956)
1894 Nick Winter, Australian triple jumper (d. 1955)
1895 Robert A. Hurley, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1968)
1898 Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
1899 Guy Butler, British athlete (d. 1981)
1900 Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, German scientist (d. 1981)
1901 1950
1902 Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972)
1903 Arpad Elo, Hungarian-American chess player (d. 1992)
1905 Mary Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun, mystic and saint (d. 1938)
1909 Eileen Hiscock, British athlete (d. 1958)
1909 Ruby Keeler, Canadian singer and actress (d. 1993)
1909 Michael Rennie, British actor (d. 1971)
1910 Dorothea Tanning, American painter (d. 2012)
1911 Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese general and statesman (d. 2013)
1911 Vivi-Anne Hultén, Swedish figure skater (d. 2003)
1912 Erich Honecker, head of state of East Germany (d. 1994)
1913 Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
1916 Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist (d. 2003)
1916 Van Johnson, American actor (d. 2008)
1917 Mel Ferrer, American actor (d. 2008)
1918 Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
1919 Ernst Barkmann, German tank commander (d. 2009)
1919 George Wallace, Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)
1921 Monty Hall, Canadian game show host (d. 2017)
1921 Brian Moore, Irish-born Canadian writer (d. 1999)
1923 Alvaro Mutis, Colombian writer (d. 2013)
1924 Allan Edwall, Swedish actor, director, composer and singer (d. 1997)
1924 Yasuzo Masumura, Japanese film director (d. 1986)
1925 Hilmar Hoffmann, German stage and film director, politician and academic (d. 2018)
1927 Althea Gibson, American tennis player (d. 2003)
1928 Herbert Kroemer, German physicist
1929 Gordon Sherwood, American composer
1930 Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor
1931 Regis Philbin, American television host (d. 2020)
1931 Peter Gilmore, British actor (d. 2013)
1931 Cecil D. Andrus, 26th and 28th Governor of Idaho (d. 2017)
1932 Tomohiko Ikoma, Japanese footballer (d. 2009)
1933 Wayne Shorter, American jazz musician
1933 Tom Skerritt, American actor
1934 Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker (d. 2010)
1934 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President of Iran (d. 2017)
1935 Charles Wright, American poet
1936 Hugh Hudson, British movie director
1938 David Canary, American actor
1938 Frederick Forsyth, English writer
1939 John Bardon, English actor (d. 2014)
1939 John Badham, English-American movie director
1940 José Van Dam, Belgian baritone
1941 Marshall Brickman, screenwriter
1941 Mario Corso, Italian footballer
1941 Angelo Dominghini, Italian footballer
1942 Nathan Deal, 82nd Governor of Georgia, US
1942 Ivan Koloff, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2017)
1942 Howard Jacobson, English journalist, writer and broadcaster
1944 Anthony Heald, actor
1944 Pat Martino, American musician
1944 Conrad Black, Canadian newspaper magnate
1946 Rollie Fingers, American baseball player
1946 Charlie Sanders, American football player (d. 2015)
1949 Salif Keita, Malian singer-songwriter
1949 Martin Amis, British novelist
1949 John Savage, actor
1949 Gene Simmons, Israeli-born American bassist (Kiss)
1951 1975
1951 Rob Halford, English singer
1951 Robert Joseph Glass, artist
1952 Geoff Downes, English keyboardist, songwriter and producer
1952 Peter Wolf, singer and composer
1952 Vijayakanth, Indian actor and politician
1953 Maurizio Malvestiti, Italian bishop
1954 Jim Wallace, Scottish politician
1954 Elvis Costello, English musician
1956 Takeshi Okada, Japanese football manager
1956 Stig Strand, Swedish skier
1956 Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally driver (d. 1986)
1957 Sikander Bakht, Pakistani cricketer
1958 Tim Burton, American movie director, producer, and screenwriter
1959 Sönke Wortmann, German movie director
1960 Jonas Gahr Store, Norwegian politician
1961 Yutaka Ikeuchi, Japanese footballer
1961 Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer
1961 Joanne Whalley, British actress
1962 Viv Campbell, American guitarist (Def Leppard)
1962 Maris Bruziks, Latvian triple jumper
1963 Roberto Mussi, Italian footballer
1963 Miro Cerar, Slovenian politician, former Prime Minister of Slovenia
1964 Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
1964 Blair Underwood, actor
1964 Clive Myrie, British television news journalist
1965 Mia Zapata, American singer (d. 1993)
1965 Sanjeev Sharma, Indian cricketer
1966 Tracy-Ann Oberman, British actress
1966 Derek Sherinian, American keyboardist, composer and producer
1967 Tom Hollander, British actor
1968 Rafet El Roman, singer, composer
1968 Rachael Ray, American cook and television host
1968 Stuart Murdoch, Scottish singer and songwriter
1969 Catriona Matthew, Scottish golfer
1969 Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor
1970 Claudia Schiffer, German model
1971 Felix da Housecat, American DJ
1972 Marvin Harrison, American football player
1973 Ryuji Michiki, Japanese footballer
1973 Kang We-suck, South Korean activist
1973 Fatih Akin, German movie director
1974 Mario Jeckle, German computer scientist (d. 2004)
From 1976
1976 Alexander Skarsgaard, Swedish actor
1977 Jonathan Togo, American actor
1977 Andy McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 Ramil Safarov, Azrebaijani convicted murderer
1979 Marlon Harewood, English footballer
1979 Philipp Missfelder, German politician (d. 2015)
1980 Ryan Horn, writer and commentator
1981 Rachel Bilson, American actress
1985 Hendra Setiawan, Indonesian badminton player
1987 Velimir Jovanovic, Serbian footballer
1987 Liu Yifei, Chinese actress and singer
1987 Rona Nishliu, Kosovo-Albanian singer
1987 Blake Lively, American actress and model
1987 Amy MacDonald, Scottish singer
1988 Alexandra Burke, English singer
1989 Keegan Joyce, Australian actor
1989 Amber Le Bon, English model
1992 Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese actress and singer
1998 China Anne McClain, American actress and singer
1998 Abraham Mateo, Spanish actor and pop music singer
Deaths
Up to 1900
79 Pliny the Elder, Roman writer, naturalist, philosopher and military commander (b. 23)
383 Gratian, Roman Emperor (b. 359)
471 Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople
1192 Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
1270 King Louis IX of France (b. 1214)
1482 Margaret of Anjou, Queen of Henry VI of England (b. 1429)
1632 Thomas Dekker, English playwright (b. 1572)
1688 Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer (b. 1635)
1699 King Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)
1740 Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (b. 1874)
1742 Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (b. 1704)
1776 David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
1779 Thomas Chittenden, 1st Governor of Vermont (b. 1730)
1792 Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
1819 James Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor (b. 1736)
1822 William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)
1846 Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveler and naturalist (b. 1773)
1867 Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
1886 Zinovios Valvis, Greek politician and Prime Minister (b. 1791)
1900 Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
1900 Kiroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
1901 2000
1904 Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
1908 Henri Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1852)
1938 Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian writer (b. 1870)
1939 Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
1942 George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
1945 John Birch, American Baptist missionary and intelligence officer (b. 1918)
1956 Alfred Kinsey, American research biologist (b. 1894)
1957 Leo Perutz, Austrian writer (b. 1882)
1967 Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
1967 George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party (b. 1918)
1970 Tachii Naito, Japanese architect and engineer (b. 1886)
1971 Ted Lewis, American singer and bandleader (b. 1890)
1976 Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer (b. 1900)
1979 Stan Kenton, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)
1980 Gower Champion, American actor, director and choreographer (b. 1919)
1984 Truman Capote, American writer (b. 1924)
1984 Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (b. 1899)
1984 Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (b. 1921)
1985 Samantha Smith, American activist (b. 1972)
1988 Price Daniel, American politician, Governor of Texas (b. 1910)
1988 Art Rooney, American businessman (b. 1901)
1996 Reinhard Libuda, German footballer (b. 1943)
2000 Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
From 2001
2001 Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (b. 1940)
2001 Aaliyah, American singer (b. 1979)
2006 Noor Hassanali, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1918)
2007 Raymond Barre, French politician (b. 1924)
2009 Mandé Sidibé, Malian politician (b. 1940)
2009 Edward Kennedy, American politician (b. 1932)
2012 Neil Armstrong, American astronaut and first person to walk on the Moon (b. 1930)
2013 Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
2013 William Froug, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1922)
2014 Alfredo Martini, Italian cyclist (b. 1921)
2014 Jason Curley, Australian musician (b. 1972)
2014 Marcel Masse, Canadian politician (b. 1936)
2015 Francis Sejersted, Norwegian history professor (b. 1936)
2016 Margaret Anstee, British diplomat (b. 1926)
2016 James Cronin, American physicist (b. 1931)
2016 Maria Eugénia, Portuguese actress (b. 1927)
2016 Justin du Fresne, New Zealand radio broadcaster (b. 1942)
2016 Warren Hinckle, American political journalist (b. 1938)
2016 Rodolfo Illanes, Bolivian politician (b. 1958)
2016 Marvin Kaplan, American actor (b. 1927)
2016 Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (b. 1930)
2016 Eddy Silitonga, Indonesian singer (b. 1949)
2017 Margaret Moser, American journalist (b. 1954)
2017 Rich Piana, American bodybuilder and internet personality (b. 1971)
2018 Lindsay Kemp, English choreographer and actor (b. 1938)
2018 John McCain, American politician, United States Senator for Arizona and former Presidential candidate (b. 1936)
2018 Noam Sheriff, Israeli composer and conductor (b. 1935)
2019 Timothy Bell, Baron Bell, British advertising and public relations executive (b. 1941)
2019 Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian businessman and engineer (b. 1937)
2019 Mona Lisa, Filipina actress (b. 1922)
2019 Vince Naimoli, American businessman (b. 1937)
2019 Anne Grete Preus, Norwegian rock singer and musician (b. 1957)
2019 Jerry Rook, American basketball player (b. 1943)
2019 Jafar Umar Thalib, Indonesian Islamic militant (b. 1961)
Observances
Independence Day (Uruguay)
Liberation Day (Paris)
Soldier's Day (Brazil)
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Events
Up to 1900
55 BC Julius Caesar attempts to conquer Britannia.
1071 Battle of Manzikert: Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert.
1278 Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar I of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Durnkrut in then-Moravia.
1346 Cannons are used for the first time in a European battle, the Battle of Crecy.
1444 Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered forces of Swiss Confederates is defeated by Dauphin Louis (future King Louis IX of France) and his army near Basel.
1498 Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pieta.
1542 Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and his expedition reach the Amazon Delta.
1768 James Cook sets sail from England on the HMS Endeavour.
1789 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Assembly at the Palace of Versailles.
1791 John Fitch is granted a US patent for the steam boat.
1810 Former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
1813 War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place when French and Russian-Prussian forces accidentally run into each other near what is now Legnica, Poland.
1814 Chilean War of Independence: Infighting between rebel forces of José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias.
1821 The University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is founded.
1865 A monument to Albert, Prince Consort is unveiled in Coburg, Germany.
1878 Uyedineniya Island (also known as Lonely Island), one of Russia's remotest islands, located in the Arctic Ocean, is discovered by Norwegian seafarer Edvard Holm Johannesen.
1883 Krakatoa's 1883 eruption reaches its final stage, ending in a major explosion and tsunamis the following day.
1883 The Ashes, a cricket prize, is given to English captain, Ivo Bligh.
1901 2000
1914 World War I: French and British forces invade the then-German colony of Togoland, (covering present-day Togo and western Ghana) in West Africa, taking it after five days.
1920 An amendment to the United States Constitution allows women in the United States the right to vote.
1922 The Japanese cruiser Niitaka sinks in a storm off the west coast of Kamchatka, eastern Russia, killing all 400 people on board.
1940 World War II: Under Governor Felix Eboue, Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies.
1942 Holocaust: In Chortkiav, Eastern Ukraine, German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120 people and deports them to Belzec Death Camp.
1944 World War II: Bulgaria declares that it is neutral.
1944 World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
1961 Changing its Constitution, Burma adopts Buddhism as its official state religion.
1966 The Namibian War of Independence begins.
1970 The then-New Feminist Movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a women's national strike, for equality.
1972 The 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich begin, officially opened by German President Gustav Heinemann.
1977 Benin gets a Marxist-Leninist Constitution.
1977 The Charter of the French language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec.
1978 East German cosmonaut Sigmund Jaehn becomes the first German in space.
1978 Albino Luciani (Pope John Paul I) is elected Pope. He dies just 33 days later, on September 28.
1980 John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
1988 Aung San Suu Kyi holds a pro-democracy speech at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Burma as part of the 8888 Revolution.
1997 Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria: Between 60 and 100 people are killed.
1999 Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the invasion of Dagestan, by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
From 2001
2002 The 2002 Earth Summit meeting in Johannesburg begins.
2005 The highest court in Fiji declares the ban on Homosexuality unconstitutional.
2008 Russia unilaterally recognises the Republic of Georgia's break-away territories Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
2011 Naoto Kan announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Japan.
2014 A ceasefire enters into force between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
2018 Jacksonville Landing shooting: A participant at a gaming competition in Jacksonville, Florida shoots two people dead before turning the gun on himself.
Births
Up to 1900
1469 Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496).
1540 King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583).
1596 Frederick V, Elector of the Palatinate, German aristocrat (d. 1632).
1676 Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1745).
1694 Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale college (d. 1755).
1695 Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, French singer and composer (d. 1791).
1728 Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss scientist (d. 1777).
1740 Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810).
1743 Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794).
1787 Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Russian general, admiral and statesman (d. 1869).
1789 Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (d. 1833).
1792 Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857).
1797 Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest (d. 1879).
1802 Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, German sculptor (d. 1848).
1819 Albert, Prince Consort (d. 1861).
1826 Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875).
1828 Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (d. 1875).
1845 Mary Ann Nichols, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888).
1850 Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1935).
1854 Arnold Fothergill, English cricketer (d. 1932).
1864 Anna Ulyanova, older sister of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1935).
1873 Lee De Forest, American inventor (d. 1961).
1874 Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938).
1875 John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist and Governor-General of Canada (d. 1940).
1880 Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918).
1882 James Franck, German-born physicist (d. 1964).
1885 Jules Romains, French novelist, dramatist and poet (d. 1972).
1886 Jerome Hunsaker, American aeronautical engineer (d. 1984).
1892 Ruth Roland, American actress and movie producer (d. 1937).
1895 Earl Long, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1960).
1896 Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990).
1896 Besse Cooper, American supercentenarian (d. 2012).
1897 Yun Poson, President of South Korea (d. 1990).
1898 Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979).
1900 Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980).
1900 Mark Sandrich, American movie director (d. 1945).
1901 1950
1901 Chen Yi, Chinese Communist military commander and politician (d. 1972).
1901 Maxwell D. Taylor, American army officer (d. 1987).
1901 Eleanor Dark, Australian writer (d. 1985).
1903 Jimmy Rushing, American singer and pianist (d. 1972).
1904 Christopher Isherwood, English writer (d. 1986).
1906 Albert Sabin, Polish-American polio researcher (d. 1993).
1906 Bunny Austin, British tennis player (d. 2000).
1908 Jacques-Paul Martin, French cardinal (d. 1992).
1909 Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981).
1910 Mother Theresa, Catholic nun and missionary, Nobel Prize winner (d. 1997).
1913 Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer.
1914 Julio Cortazar, Argentine author (d. 1984).
1918 Katherine Johnson, American physicist, mathematician and space scientist
1920 Prem Tinsulanonda, 16th Prime Minister of Thailand.
1921 Benjamin C. Bradlee, American journalist (d. 2014).
1923 Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist (d. 2013).
1924 Jacques Villiers, French aerospace engineer (d. 2012).
1925 Alain Peyrefitte, French politician (d. 1999).
1925 Pyotr Todorovsky, Ukrainian-Russian director and screenwriter (d. 2013).
1926 Anahit Tsitsikian, Armenian violinist (d. 2007).
1928 Santiago Vernazza, Argentine footballer (d. 2017).
1929 Reuben Kamanga, 1st Vice president of Zambia (d. 1996).
1929 Yoga Bhajan, Indian yoga teacher (d. 2004).
1932 Lygia Bojunga Nunes, Brazilian writer.
1933 Robert Chartoff, American movie producer (d. 2015).
1935 Karen Sparck Jones, British computer scientist (d. 2007).
1935 Geraldine Ferraro, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011).
1936 Benedict Anderson, American political scientist (d. 2015).
1936 Francine York, American actress (d. 2017).
1937 Nina Companeez, French screenwriter and movie director (d. 2015).
1937 Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician (d. 2010).
1938 Jet Black, English musician (The Stranglers).
1939 Todor Kolev, Bulgarian actor and singer (d. 2013).
1940 Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (d. 2008).
1941 Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress.
1941 Barbet Schroeder, French director, actor and producer.
1941 Chris Curtis, British musician.
1942 Vic Dana, American singer and dancer.
1944 Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, member of the extended British royal family.
1944 Maurice Tucker, American singer-songwriter and drummer.
1945 Tom Ridge, American politician.
1946 Alison Steadman, English actress.
1946 Valerie Simpson, American singer.
1946 Zhou Ji, Chinese politician.
1946 Chantal Renaud, Canadian actress, singer and scriptwriter.
1947 Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (d. 2007).
1949 Leon Redbone, Canadian singer and guitarist.
1951 1975
1951 Edward Witten, American physicist.
1952 Michael Jeter, American actor (d. 2003).
1954 Steve Wright, British DJ.
1956 Brett Cullen, American actor.
1957 Rick Hansen, Canadian athlete.
1957 Dr. Alban, Nigerian-born Swedish singer and musician.
1958 Nichi Vendola, Italian politician.
1959 Oliver Colvile, English politician.
1960 Branford Marsalis, American musician.
1962 Roger Kingdom, American athlete.
1962 Tariq Ramadan, Swiss academic, philosopher and writer.
1963 Ludger Beerbaum, German equestrian showjumper.
1963 Stephen J. Dubner, American journalist.
1964 Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese blogger and journalist (d. 2017).
1964 Allegra Huston, English-American writer and editor.
1965 Chris Burke, American actor.
1965 Marcus du Sautoy, British mathematics professor.
1966 Shirley Manson, British singer.
1966 Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player.
1967 Michael Gove, British politician.
1968 Chris Boardman, British racing cyclist.
1969 Adrian Young, American rock musician.
1970 Melissa McCarthy, American actress.
1970 Brett Schultz, South African cricketer.
1971 Thalia, Mexican singer.
1974 Kelvin Cato, American basketball player.
From 1976
1976 Amaia Montero, Spanish singer-songwriter.
1977 Morris Peterson, American basketball player.
1979 Cristian Mora, Ecuadorean footballer.
1980 Macaulay Culkin, American actor.
1980 Chris Pine, American actor.
1981 Vangelis Moras, Greek footballer.
1982 Noah Welch, American ice hockey player.
1983 Mattia Cassani, Italian footballer.
1983 Nicol David, Malaysian squash player.
1985 Brandon McDonald, American football player.
1986 Cassie, American singer.
1986 Colin Kazim-Richards, Turkish footballer.
1987 Greg Halman, Dutch baseball player (d. 2011).
1987 Riley Steele, American pornographic actress.
1988 Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este.
1988 Lars Stindl, German footballer.
1988 Wayne Simmonds, Canadian ice hockey player.
1989 James Harden, American basketball player.
1989 Héloïse Guérin, French model.
1990 Lil' Chris, English singer (d. 2015).
1991 Tommy Bastow, English actor and singer.
1991 Jessica Diggins, American cross-country skier.
1992 Yang Yilin, Chinese gymnast.
1992 Hayley Hasselhoff, American actress.
1993 Keke Palmer, American actress.
1994 Taylor Bright, American singer and actress.
Deaths
Up to 1900
303 Alexander of Bergamo, Italian Catholic saint.
526 Theodoric the Great, Ostrogoth King.
887 Emperor Koko of Japan (b. 830).
1214 Patriarch Michael IV of Constantinople
1278 King Ottokar II of Bohemia
1346 Killed in the Battle of Crécy:
Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297)
Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304)
John I, Count of Luxemburg (b. 1296)
Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)
1349 Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
1551 Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
1572 Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (b. 1515)
1595 Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)
1607 Giorgio Basta, Habsburg general (b. 1550).
1666 Frans Hals, Dutch painter
1714 Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632)
1723 Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)
1785 George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
1795 Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian alchemist and adventurer (b. 1743)
1810 Santiago Liniers, Viceroy of Rio de la Plata (b. 1753)
1850 Louis-Philippe I of France (b. 1773)
1865 Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (b. 1791)
1901 2000
1902 George Hoadly, 36th Governor of Ohio (b. 1826).
1910 William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842).
1915 John Bunny American comedian (b. 1863)
1921 Matthias Erzberger, German politician (b. 1875).
1921 Ludwig Thoma, German writer (b. 1867).
1921 Sandor Wekerle, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1848).
1930 Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (b. 1883)
1944 Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat opposing the Nazi regime (executed) (b. 1909)
1945 Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (b. 1890)
1946 Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
1956 Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (b. 1881).
1958 Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
1962 Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Icelandic-Canadian explorer (b. 1879)
1968 Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1899)
1972 Francis Chichester, British sailor and adventurer (b. 1901).
1974 Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902)
1976 Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
1977 H. A. Rey, German-American author and illustrator (b. 1898).
1978 Charles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899)
1978 José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916)
1979 Mika Waltari, Finnish writer (b. 1908)
1980 Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
1980 Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
1981 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
1986 Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
1987 Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1987 John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer (b. 1919)
1988 Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (b. 1957)
1989 Irving Stone, American writer (b. 1903)
1990 Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913)
1992 Bob de Moor, Belgian comic artist (b. 1925)
1998 Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2000 Bunny Austin, British tennis player (b. 1906).
From 2001
2001 Marita Petersen, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1940).
2003 Jim Wacker, American football coach (b. 1937)
2004 Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957)
2005 Robert Denning, Interior designer (b. 1927)
2006 Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
2007 Gaston Thorn, Luxembourg politician (b. 1928)
2010 Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (b. 1918)
2010 William B. Lenoir, American astronaut (b. 1939)
2011 George Band, British mountaineer (b. 1929)
2011 Aloysius Ambrozic, Slovenian-born Canadian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto (b. 1930)
2013 John J. Gilligan, 62nd Governor of Ohio (b. 1921)
2014 Christian Bourquin, French politician (b. 1954)
2014 Simon Featherstone, British diplomat (b. 1958)
2014 Peter Bacon Hales, American historian and photographer (b. 1950)
2014 Samuel Sadela, Nigerian pastor, claimant to world's oldest man title (b. either in or after 1900)
2014 Lars Mortimer, Swedish comic artist (b. 1946)
2015 Peter Kern, Austrian actor and filmmaker (b. 1949)
2015 Amelia Boynton Robinson, American civil rights activist (b. 1911)
2015 Alison Parker, American journalist (b. 1991)
2015 Adam Ward, American cameraman (b. 1988)
2015 Vester Flanagan, American gunman (b. 1973)
2017 Tobe Hooper, American film director and novelist (b. 1943)
2017 Grzegorz Miecugow, Polish television news presenter and columnist (b. 1955)
2017 Josef Musil, Czech volleyball player (b. 1932)
2017 Wilson das Neves, Brazilian percussionist and singer (b. 1936)
2017 Horacio White, Argentine swimmer (b. 1927)
2018 Rosa Bouglione, French circus performer (b. 1910)
2018 Kerry Hill, Australian architect (b. 1943)
2018 Tony Hiller, British songwriter (b. 1927)
2018 Neil Simon, American playwright (b. 1927)
Observances
Saint Alexander of Bergamo, martyr
Heroes Day (Namibia)
Women's Equality Day (United States)
Repentance Day (Papua New Guinea)
Days of the year |
9967 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%2027 | August 27 |
Events
Up to 1900
479 BC Battle of Plataea ends the Persian invasion of Greece, Mardonius routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army.
55 BC Julius Caesar Lands in Britain for the first time.
AD 410 Vandal sack of Rome ends after three days.
1172 Henry the Young King and Margaret of France crowned as junior king and queen of England.
1593 Pierre Barriere fails in his attempt to kill King Henry IV of France.
1597 Japan defeats Korea in the Naval Battle of Chilchonryang during the Imjin War, following several mistakes by the Korean admiral Won Gyun.
1664 After officially taking control of the former Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, British colonists rename it New York.
1664 The French East India Company is officially founded by Louis XIV of France.
1728 On this date in the Gregorian calendar, Vitus Bering lands on the Diomede Islands in the now-named Bering Strait between Alaska, now in the US, and the Russian far east.
1776 Battle of Long Island, in present-day Brooklyn, New York British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
1793 French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic.
1810 The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbor of Grand Port and Ile de France.
1813 Napoleon defeats the Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1820 Along with two other people, Josef Naus becomes the first person to climb Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany.
1828 The Russians defeat the Turks at Akhaltzikke.
1832 Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to US forces.
1859 Petroleum discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania - the world's first successful oil well.
1861 American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
1883 The after effects caused by the Krakatoa explosion in Indonesia kill over 36,000 people, as the eruption ends in a loud explosion, which causes deadly tsunamis.
1896 The shortest war in the world - 9:02 - 9:40 between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar
1900 British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal.
1901 2000
1912 The novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs goes on sale.
1914 World War I: French and British troops occupy the then-German colony of Togoland.
1916 World War I: Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1921 The British Faisal I as King of Iraq.
1927 Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada asking whether the word 'persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act of 1867, includes female persons.
1928 The Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, is signed by sixty nations.
1939 First jet aircraft flight.
1943 World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the war.
1952 Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmarks.
1955 The Guinness Book of Records goes on sale for the first time.
1957 The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
1962 The Mariner 2 space probe is launched.
1971 A failed military coup occurs in Chad.
1975 The Governor of Portuguese Timor (now East Timor) abandons his capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
1979 An IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten and 3 others on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Another near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland kills 18 British soldiers.
1982 Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altikat is shot dead in Ottawa, Canada. The group Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claims responsibility.
1985 The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by army chief Ibrahim Babangida.
1990 The British Broadcasting Corporation launches BBC Radio Five Live at 9am GMT with a mixture of sports, news, and children's programming. The station broadcasts for eighteen hours per day.
1991 The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1991 Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
1993 The Gouhou Dam in Gonghe, Qinghai province, breaks, resulting in 240 deaths.
1993 The Florida DOT decides to cease producing its distinctive colored U.S. Highway shields so that it can make use of Federal funds for those signs.
2000 Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, and three people are killed.
From 2001
2003 Mars makes closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
2005 The Turning Torso in Malmo, Sweden, which is the tallest residential building in Europe, is opened.
2005 Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama declare a State of Emergency in preparation for Hurricane Katrina.
2006 Comair Flight 5191 crashes on take-off at Lexington, Kentucky, with 49 people out of the 50 on board being confirmed dead within hours of the crash.
2010 Kenya promulgates a new constitution under Mwai Kibaki
2011 Hurricane Irene strikes the east coast of the United States.
Births
Up to 1850
551 BC Confucius, Chinese philosopher (died 479 BC)
865 Rhazes, Persian polymath (died 925)
1407 Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Ashikaga shogun (died 1425)
1471 George, Duke of Saxony (died 1539)
1487 Anne of Brandenburg (died 1514)
1545 Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (died 1592)
1619 Anne Genevieve de Bourbon (died 1679)
1624 Koxinga, Chinese Ming dynasty loyalist (died 1662)
1630 Maria van Oosterwijk, Dutch painter (died 1693)
1669 Anne Marie d'Orléans, Duchess of Saxony (died 1728)
1724 Joan Joachim Zubly, Swiss pastor, planter and statesman (died 1781)
1730 Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher and writer (died 1788)
1770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (died 1831)
1781 Finnur Magnusson, Icelandic philologist (died 1847)
1785 Agustin Gamarra, Peruvian general and President (died 1841)
1803 Edward Beecher, American theologian (died 1895)
1809 Hannibal Hamlin, 15th Vice President of the United States and 26th Governor of Maine (died 1891)
1812 Bertalan Szemere, 3rd Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1869)
1827 Charles Lilley, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Queensland (died 1897)
1845 Friedrich Martens, Russian diplomat (died 1909)
1851 1900
1858 Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (died 1932)
1862 Abram Arkhipov, Russian artist (died 1930)
1864 Helena Patursson, Faroese actress and writer (died 1916)
1865 James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (died 1935)
1865 Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States (died 1951)
1868 Hong Beom-do, Korean activist (died 1943)
1869 Karl Haushofer, German geographer (died 1946)
1870 Amado Nervo, Mexican journalist, poet and diplomat (died 1919)
1871 Theodore Dreiser, American writer (died 1945)
1872 Giovanni Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Archbishop of Bologna (died 1952)
1873 Maud Allan, Canadian-American dancer (died 1956)
1874 Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
1875 Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (died 1967)
1877 Charles Rolls, British co-founder of Rolls-Royce (died 1910)
1877 Ernst Wetter, Swiss Federal Councillor (died 1963)
1878 Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian military figure (died 1928)
1881 Sigurd Islandsmoen, Norwegian composer (died 1964)
1884 Vincent Auriol, President of France (died 1966)
1884 Alfredo Baldomir, President of Uruguay (died 1948)
1886 Eric Coates, English composer (died 1957)
1886 Rebecca Clark, English composer (died 1979)
1887 Jimmy Finlayson, Scottish-born American actor (died 1953)
1890 Man Ray, American photographer and artist (died 1976)
1896 Faina Rainevskaya, Russian actress (died 1984)
1896 Zygmunt Berling, Polish general and politician (died 1980)
1896 Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and inventor (died 1993)
1899 C. S. Forester, British writer (died 1966)
1899 Byron Foulger, American actor (died 1970)
1901 1950
1904 Norah Lofts, writer (died 1983)
1905 Aris Velouchiotis, Greek military leader (died 1945)
1906 Ed Gein, American serial killer (died 1984)
1908 Don Bradman, Australian cricketer (died 2001)
1908 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (died 1973)
1908 Frank Leahy, American football coach (died 1945)
1909 Lester Young, American jazz musician (died 1959)
1911 Kay Walsh, British actress (died 2005)
1913 Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, wife of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (died 2006)
1914 Heidi Kabel, German actress (died 2010)
1915 Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist (died 2011)
1916 Martha Raye, American actress (died 1994)
1917 Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player, coach and manager (died 1986)
1918 Jelle Zijlstra, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2001)
1920 James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, Northern Irish politician (died 2015)
1921 Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg (died 1996)
1921 Leo Penn, American actor and director (died 1998)
1925 Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (died 2011)
1925 Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian cardinal (died 2017)
1926 Pat Coombs, English actress (died 2002)
1926 Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (died 2002)
1928 Osamu Shimomura, Japanese biochemist
1928 Péter Boross, Hungarian politician and Prime Minister
1928 Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician
1928 Othmar Schneider, Austrian skier (died 2012)
1929 Ira Levin, American writer (died 2007)
1931 Sri Chinmoy, Indian spiritual leader (died 2007)
1931 Sven Tumba, Swedish footballer, ice hockey player and golfer (died 2011)
1932 Saye Zerbo, Burkina Faso politician (died 2013)
1932 Karekin I, former Armenian Apostolic Church leader
1932 Antonia Fraser, British writer
1933 Kerstin Ekman, Swedish writer
1935 Frank Yablans, American movie producer
1937 Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer (died 2007)
1937 Tommy Sands, American actor and singer
1939 Edward Patten, American singer, songwriter and producer (died 2005)
1941 Bohdan Stupka, Ukrainian actor and Minister of Culture (died 2012)
1941 Cesaria Evora, Cape Verdean singer
1941 Janos Konrad, Hungarian water polo player and swimmer
1942 Brian Peckford, Canadian politician
1942 Robert Marion Berry, American politician
1942 Daryl Dragon, American songwriter (Captain & Tennille) (d. 2019)
1943 Tuesday Weld, American actress
1943 Bob Kerrey, 36th Governor of Nebraska
1943 Wolfgang Nordwig, German high jumper
1945 Jan Sloot, Dutch inventor (died 1999)
1946 Peter Tobin, Scottish serial killer
1947 Barbara Bach, American actress
1948 Philippe Vallois, French screenwriter and director
1950 Neil Murray, Scottish bass player and songwriter
1951 1975
1952 Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman), American actor
1953 Alex Lifeson, Canadian rock guitarist (Rush)
1953 Peter Stormare, Swedish actor, director, playwright and musician
1954 John Lloyd, British tennis player and coach
1957 Bernhard Langer, German golfer
1957 Jeff Grubb, American game designer and author
1958 Sergei Krikalev, Russian cosmonaut
1958 Marcos Paqueta, Brazilian football manager
1958 Hugh Orde, English senior police officer
1959 Yves Rossy, Swiss pilot, aviation enthusiast and inventor
1959 Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian painter and sculptor
1959 Jeanette Winterson, English novelist
1959 Jürgen Becker, German comedian and performer
1961 Yolanda Adams, American singer, producer and actress
1961 Tom Ford, American fashion designer and director
1962 Sjon, Icelandic writer and artist
1965 Cheryl Fergison, English actress
1965 Paulo Silas, Brazilian footballer
1966 Juhan Parts, former Prime Minister of Estonia
1968 Daphne Koller, Israeli-American computer scientist
1969 Cesar Millan, Mexican-American dog trainer
1969 Christine O'Donnell, American politician
1969 Chandra Wilson, American actress
1970 Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
1970 Jim Thome, American baseball player
1970 Tony Kanal, English-American musician, songwriter and producer
1970 Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (died 2008)
1972 Denise Lewis, British athlete
1972 Jimmy Pop, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1973 Dietmar Hamann, German footballer
1974 José Vidro, Major League Baseball player
1974 Mohammad Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
1975 Jonny Moseley, American skier
From 1976
1976 Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
1976 Carlos Moya, Spanish tennis player
1976 Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
1977 Deco, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
1979 Karel Rachunek, Czech ice hockey player (died 2011)
1981 Alessandro Gamberini, Italian footballer
1981 Collin Samuel, Trinidadian footballer
1983 Jamala, Ukrainian singer
1984 David Bentley, English footballer
1984 Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
1985 Nikica Jelavic, Croatian footballer
1985 Daniel Küblböck, German singer and actor
1985 Alexandra Nechita, Romanian-American artist
1986 Mario, American R&B singer
1986 Sebastian Kurz, Austrian politician, Chancellor of Austria
1988 Alexa Vega, American actress
1990 Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter (died 2009)
1990 Luuk de Jong, Dutch footballer
1993 Sarah Hecken, German figure skater
Deaths
Up to 1900
542 Caesarius of Arles, Archbishop of Arles and Roman Catholic Saint (b. 470)
827 Pope Eugene II
1312 Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)
1394 Emperor Chokei of Japan (b. 1343)
1521 Josquin des Prez, French-Flemish composer (b. 1450)
1577 Titian, Italian painter
1590 Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
1635 Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)
1773 Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
1828 Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer (b. 1744)
1865 Thomas Chandler of Haliburton, Canadian writer (b. 1796)
1871 William Whiting Boarding, American politician (b. 1794)
1874 Stefan Golescu, Romanian statesman (b. 1809)
1875 William Chapman Ralston, founder of the Bank of California (b. 1826)
1879 Rowland Hill, English postal reformer (b. 1795)
1901 2000
1909 Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist (b. 1842)
1919 Louis Botha, South African politician (b. 1862)
1937 Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, British banker and zoologist (b. 1868)
1937 Andrew W. Mellon, United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1855)
1944 Georg von Boeselager, German aristocrat (b. 1915)
1948 Charles Evans Hughes, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1862)
1950 Cesare Pavese, Italian poet, novelist, critic and translator (b. 1908)
1958 Ernest Lawrence, American physicist (b. 1901)
1963 W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)
1964 Gracie Allen, American actress (b. 1895)
1965 Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
1967 Brian Epstein, British music manager (b. 1934)
1968 Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b. 1906)
1968 Robert Z. Leonard, American movie director, actor, producer and screenwriter (b. 1889)
1969 Erika Mann, German actress and singer (b. 1905)
1975 Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
1976 Mukesh, Indian singer (b. 1923)
1979 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British statesman (b. 1900)
1980 Douglas Kenney, American actor and writer (b. 1947)
1981 Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)
1982 Atilla Altikat, Turkish military diplomat
1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan, American musician (b. 1954)
1999 Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1909)
From 2001
2001 Abu Ali Mustafa, Palestinian leader (b. 1938)
2006 Maria Esther de Capovilla, Ecuadorean supercentenarian, World's oldest woman (b. 1889)
2006 Jesse Pintado, British musician (b. 1969)
2009 Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer (b. 1913)
2010 Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (b. 1934)
2011 Stetson Kennedy, American writer and Civil Rights activist (b. 1916)
2012 Russell Scott, American TV personality (b. 1920)
2012 Malcolm Browne, American journalist and photographer (b. 1931)
2013 Anatoly Onoprienko, Ukrainian serial killer (b. 1959)
2014 Valeri Petrov, Bulgarian writer (b. 1920)
2014 Sandy Wilson, English composer (b. 1924)
2014 Peret, Spanish musician (b. 1935)
2014 Yehezkel Braun, German-born Israeli composer (b. 1922)
2014 Benno Pludra, German writer (b. 1925)
2014 Jan Groth, Norwegian rock music singer (b. 1946)
2014 Jacques Friedel, French physicist (b. 1921)
2015 Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player (b. 1957)
2015 Joan Garriga, Spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1963)
2017 Yitzhak Pundak, Polish-born Israeli military officer and diplomat (b. 1913)
2017 Ebrahim Yazdi, Iranian politician and diplomat (b. 1931)
2018 Dale M. Cochran, American politician (b. 1928)
2018 Mirka Mora, French-born Australian artist (b. 1928)
2018 Fredd Wayne, American actor and columnist (b. 1924)
2018 Murray Westgate, Canadian actor (b. 1918)
Observances
Independence Day (Moldova)
Lyndon Baines Johnson Day (Texas)
Days of the year |
9968 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%2020 | August 20 |
Events
Up to 1900
14 Agrippa Postumus, adopted son of the deceased emperor Augustus, is executed by his guards while in exile under mysterious circumstances.
636 Battle of Yarmuk: Arab forces led by Khalid bin Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
917 Battle of Anchialus: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invades Thrace and drives the Byzantines out.
1000 Date of the official founding of Hungary by Saint Stephen.
1083 Canonization of Saint Stephen of Hungary and his son, Saint Emeric.
1391 Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister of Teutonic Order.
1467 The Second Battle of Olmedo takes place as part of the succession conflict between Henry IV of Castile and his half-brother, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias.
1519 Philosopher and General Wang Yangming defeats Zhu Chenhao, ending the Prince of Ning rebellion against the Ming Dynasty's Zhengde Emperor.
1619 First Africans arrive in the US, transported by the Dutch, and are sold as servants in Jamestown, Virginia.
1630 Lemonade is invented in Paris, France.
1672 Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother, Cornelis de Witt, are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.
1707 The first Siege of Pensacola ends with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida, from the Spanish.
1710 War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational (of different nationalities) army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maitre, Marquis de Bray in the Battle of Zaragoza.
1728 Vitus Bering lands on St. Lawrence Island in the now-named Bering Sea. The island is now part of the US state of Alaska.
1775 Spanish colonists establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson, in the town that would become Tucson, Arizona.
1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers - American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition: The "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.
1833 Nat Turner leads his revolt against the Southern plantation owners of Southampton County, Virginia
1857 The ship Dunbar sinks off Sydney Heads, 121 people drown.
1857 First book published by an Australian female writer: Gertrude the Emigrant by Caroline Atkinson.
1858 Charles Darwin first publishes his Theory of Evolution through natural selection alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
1860 In Melbourne, Robert O'Hara Burke and William Wills begin their South-North expedition of Australia. They successfully go from the South to North but both die on they way back south in late June 1861.
1866 US President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War to be over.
1868 The Abergele train disaster in North Wales kills 33 people.
1882 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
1892 The Celtic Park football stadium opens in Glasgow, Scotland. It is home to Celtic FC.
1901 2000
1910 Fire rips through parts of eastern Washington State, northern Idaho and western Montana.
1914 World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
1915 World War I: Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1920 The National Football League (NFL) is founded.
1920 The first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
1926 Japan's broadcasting company Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) is founded.
1938 Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career Grand Slam, a record in baseball that still stands.
1940 Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded in Mexico City by an assassin's ice-ax. He will die the next day.
1940 Winston Churchill makes a famous speech containing the following quote: Never was so much owed by so many to so few.
1944 World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a Soviet offensive.
1950 Korean War: The United Nations repel an offensive by North Korean divisions attempting to cross the Naktong River and assault the city of Taegu.
1955 In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria, raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
1960 Senegal breaks from the Mali federation, declaring independence.
1962 The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, starts her first voyage.
1968 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization.
1975 Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
1977 Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
1980 Reinhold Messner reaches the top of Mount Everest, both without oxygen, and on his own.
1982 Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon.
1986 In Edmond, Oklahoma, US Postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
1988 Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1988 An earthquake in India and Nepal kills 1,450 people.
1988 Iran-Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed to end eight years of war.
1989 The O-Bahn busway opens in Adelaide, South Australia, as the world's longest guided busway.
1989 The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the Thames in London, killing 51 people.
1989 In Beverly Hills, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot and kill their wealthy parents.
1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev.
1991 Estonia separates from the Soviet Union.
1993 After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords were signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington D.C. the next month.
1995 The Hindu temple in Neasden, London, UK, is opened. At the time of its opening, it is the largest Hindu temple outside India.
1996 Russian soldiers surround Grozny, Chechnya.
1997 Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people killed, 15 kidnapped.
1998 The Supreme Court of Canada states Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1998 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack.
From 2001
2002 A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
2004 Talk show host Regis Philbin breaks the record for Most Hours on Camera, with 15,188.
2008 A Spanair plane, due to travel from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Madrid Barajas Airport, killing 146 people, with 8 dying later. 18 survive.
2009 Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person to have been convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, who is suffering from prostate cancer, is released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds, returning to his native Libya. He dies on May 20, 2012.
2014 A series of landslides in Hiroshima Prefecture kills 72 people, after a month's worth of rain fell in one day.
2018 Then-15-year-old Greta Thunberg protests outside the Swedish parliament over politicians' lack of action on climate change, starting what would become a worldwide movement of school strikes.
2019 Giuseppe Conte announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy over his coalition partner and League party leader Matteo Salvini's calls for an early election.
Births
Up to 1900
1085 Boleslaw III Wrymouth, Duke of Poland (d. 1138)
1517 Antoine Perrenot de Granville, French cardinal (d. 1586)
1561 Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633)
1613 Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, German poet and composer (d. 1676)
1625 Thomas Corneille, French playwright (d. 1709)
1710 Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (d. 1761)
1719 Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)
1720 Bernard de Bury, French musician and court composer (d. 1785)
1761 José, Prince of Brazil, Portuguese royal (d. 1788)
1777 Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)
1778 Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean revolutionary (d. 1842)
1779 Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
1786 José Joaquín Prieto Vial, President of Chile (d. 1854)
1792 Jacques Le Roy de Saint Arnauld, French statesman (d. 1854)
1799 Heinrich von Gagern, German politician (d. 1880)
1827 Josef Strauss, Austrian architect, inventor and composer (d. 1870)
1831 Eduard Suess, Austrian geologist and politician (d. 1914)
1833 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
1843 Edward Lee Greene, American botanist (d. 1915)
1844 Mutsu Munemitsu, Japanese politician (d. 1897)
1845 Albert Chmielowski, Polish saint (d. 1916)
1847 Boleslaw Prus, Polish writer and publicist (d. 1912)
1860 Raymond Poincaré, President of France and four-times Prime Minister of France (d. 1934)
1862 Jesse Carleton, American golfer (d. 1921)
1864 Ion I. C. Bratianu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1927)
1868 Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (d. 1954)
1873 Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1950)
1881 Edgar Guest, English poet (d. 1959)
1881 Aleksander Hellat, Estonian politician (d. 1943)
1882 Ricardo Joaquin Alfaro Jovane, President of Panama (d. 1971)
1883 Robert Lehr, German politician (d. 1956)
1884 Forrest C. Donnell, 40th Governor of Missouri (d. 1980)
1885 Dino Campana, Italian poet (d. 1932)
1886 Paul Tillich, German-American theologian (d. 1965)
1888 Ton Duc Thang, President of North Vietnam (d. 1980)
1890 H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937)
1898 Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish writer (d. 1973)
1900 Rita Montaner, Cuban singer and actress (d. 1958)
1901 1950
1901 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer (d. 1968)
1905 Jack Teagarden, jazz musician (d. 1964)
1905 Jean Gebser, writer, linguist, and poet (d. 1973)
1906 Vidrik Bootare, Estonian chess player (d. 1981)
1908 Al Lopez, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1910 Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)
1913 Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist (d. 1994)
1918 Jacqueline Susann, novelist (d. 1974)
1919 Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter and film producer
1919 Thomas G. Morris, American politician (d. 2016)
1920 George Zuverink, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1921 Ursula B. Marvin, American planetary geologist (d. 2018)
1923 Jim Reeves, American country singer (d. 1964)
1927 Peter Oakley, English blogger (d. 2014)
1928 Luciano De Crescenzo, Italian writer, actor and director (d. 2019)
1930 Jan Olszewski, Polish politician (d. 2019)
1931 Don King, American boxing promoter
1932 Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004)
1932 Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (d. 2009)
1933 George J. Mitchell, American politician and businessman
1934 Armi Kuusela, Finnish model
1935 Ron Paul, American politician
1936 Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize, laureate
1937 Stelvio Cipriani, Italian composer (d. 2018)
1937 Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian movie director
1937 Jim Bowen, English comedian and television personality (d. 2018)
1937 Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2009)
1939 Javier Usabiaga Arroyo, Mexican businessman and politician (d. 2018)
1939 Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino movie actor and politician (d. 2004)
1940 Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
1940 Ronnie McKinnon, Scottish footballer
1941 Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and Yugoslavia (d. 2006)
1942 Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor (d. 2008)
1943 Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
1944 Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
1944 José Wilker, Brazilian television director and actor (d. 2014)
1946 Ralf Hütter, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1946 Ryszard Czerniawski, Polish lawyer and economist (d. 2019)
1946 Laurent Fabius, French politician
1946 Connie Chung, American journalist
1946 N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
1948 Robert Plant, British singer (Led Zeppelin)
1948 Kees van Kooten, Dutch footballer (d. 2015)
1949 Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986)
1951 1975
1951 Greg Bear, American science fiction writer
1952 John Hiatt, musician
1954 Al Roker, American television broadcaster
1954 Don Stark, American actor
1955 Danny Murphy, American actor (d. 2014)
1955 Agnes Chan, singer, professor of education, essayist
1955 Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, English politician
1956 Joan Allen, actress
1956 Roberto Regazzi, Italian violin maker
1958 Nigel Dodds, Northern Irish politician of the Democratic Unionist Party
1960 Annabelle Ewing, Scottish politician
1961 Joe Pasquale, English comedian
1961 Steve McMahon, English footballer
1962 James Marsters, American actor
1962 Sophie Aldred, English voice actress
1963 Riccardo Ferri, Italian footballer
1964 Giuseppe Giannini, Italian footballer and coach
1965 KRS-One (Lawrence Krisna Parker), American rapper
1966 Dimebag Darrell Abbott, American lead guitar player in Pantera, heavy metal band
1966 Enrico Letta, former Prime Minister of Italy
1966 Markus Gandler, Austrian skier
1968 Yuri Shiratori, Japanese seiyū
1968 Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer (d. 2014)
1970 John Carmack, computer game programmer
1970 Fred Durst, American singer
1971 Jonathan Ke Quan, American actor
1971 David Walliams, British actor and comedian (Little Britain)
1973 Todd Helton, American baseball player
1974 Amy Adams, American actress
1974 Misha Collins, American actor
1974 Big Moe, American rapper (d. 2007)
From 1976
1976 Chris Drury, American ice hockey player
1977 Ivar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer
1977 Stéphane Gillet, Luxembourgish footballer
1977 Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
1977 Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
1978 Neco Martínez, Colombian footballer
1979 Jamie Cullum, British musician
1979 Cory Sullivan, American baseball player
1981 Bernard Mendy, French footballer
1982 Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer
1983 Yuri Zhirkov, Russian footballer
1983 Andrew Garfield, British-American actor
1985 Alvaro Negredo, Spanish footballer
1985 Stephen Ward, Irish footballer
1988 Jerryd Bayless, American basketball player
1990 Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer
1990 Leigh Griffiths, Scottish footballer
1991 Cory Joseph, American basketball player
1992 Demi Lovato, American singer and actress
1995 Liana Liberato, American actress
Deaths
Up to 1900
2 Lucius Caesar, heir of Augustus Caesar (b. 17 BC)
14 Agrippa Postumus, Roman son of Marcus Vespasianus Agrippa and Julia the Elder (b. 12 BC)
480 Leonidas I of Sparta
768 Eadberht of Northumbria
984 Pope John XIV
1153 Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090)
1384 Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)
1572 Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b.1502)
1580 Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
1611 Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. in the 1500s)
1639 Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (b. 1597)
1643 Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)
1648 Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (b. 1583)
1672 Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)
1672 Cornelius de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)
1680 William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
1701 Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. in the 1600s)
1707 Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627)
1773 Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)
1823 Pope Pius VII (b. 1740)
1823 Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (b. 1772)
1854 Shiranui Dakuemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1801)
1854 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (b. 1775)
1887 Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
1901 2000
1912 William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829)
1914 Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
1915 Paul Ehrlich, German doctor, won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1854)
1917 Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
1919 Greg MacGregor, Scottish cricketer and rugby player (b. 1869)
1930 Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)
1942 Istvan Horthy, Hungarian admiral (b. 1904)
1947 Albert Henderson, Canadian soccer player (b. 1881)
1961 Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
1965 Jonathan Daniels, American activist (b. 1939)
1979 Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer (b. 1922)
1980 Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
1982 Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)
1986 Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)
1993 Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1912)
1995 Hugo Pratt, Italian author and illustrator (b. 1927)
1996 Rio Reiser, German rock musician (b. 1950)
From 2001
2001 Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915)
2005 Thomas Herrion, American football player (b. 1981)
2005 Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970)
2006 Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (b. 1932)
2006 Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1912)
2008 Hua Guofeng, Chairman of the Chinese Communist party (b. 1921)
2008 Gene Upshaw, American football player and union leader (b. 1945)
2012 Phyllis Diller, American actress and comedienne (b. 1917)
2012 Virginia Dwyer, American actress (b. 1919)
2012 Dom Mintoff, former Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1916)
2012 Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia and ex-President of Ethiopia (b. 1955)
2013 Elmore Leonard, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2013 Ted Post, American director (b. 1919)
2013 Marian McPartland, British-American jazz pianist (b. 1918)
2014 B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga teacher and author (b. 1918)
2014 Boris Dubin, Russian sociologist and translator (b. 1946)
2014 Anton Buslov, Russian scientist and blogger (b. 1983)
2014 Sava Stojkov, Serbian painter (b. 1925)
2014 Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (b. 1927)
2015 Lev Durov, Russian actor (b. 1931)
2015 Lina Morgan, Spanish actress and playwright (b. 1937)
2015 Harry Volkman, American meteorologist (b. 1926)
2017 Margot Hielscher, German singer and actress (b. 1919)
2017 Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
2017 Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1936)
2017 Nati Mistral, Spanish actress (b. 1928)
2017 Wilhelm Killmayer, German composer and conductor (b. 1927)
2017 Gordon M. Williams, Scottish writer (b. 1934)
2018 John N. Abrams, American general (b. 1946)
2018 Uri Avnery, Israeli peace activist (b. 1923)
2018 Jimmy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1931)
2018 Eddie Willis, American guitarist (b. 1936)
2019 Rudolf Hundstorfer, Austrian politician (b. 1951)
2019 John H. McArthur, Canadian-American theorist (b. 1934)
2019 Larry Siegel, American comedy writer (b. 1925)
Observances
Saint Stephen's Day (Hungary), commemorating the founding of the Kingdom of Hungary in the year 1000
Regaining of Independence (Estonia)
World Mosquito Day
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Events
Up to 1900
43 BC Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him as consul.
1153 Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother, Melisende, and also captures Ascalon.
1458 Pope Pius II is elected.
1493 Accession to the throne of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
1561 Mary, Queen of Scots returns to Scotland after 13 years in France.
1666 Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships.
1692 Salem Witch Trials: Five people are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
1745 Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard at Glenfinnan, beginning the second Jacobite rebellion.
1759 Seven Years' War: Naval Battle of Lagos off Portugal - The Royal Navy defeats a French fleet.
1768 St. Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1772 Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup, dividing power between the King and the Riksdag (Swedish parliament).
1782 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks - Last major engagement of the war.
1812 War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats British frigate HMS Guerriere off Nova Scotia.
1839 The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift 'free to the world'.
1848 The New York Herald reports on the gold found in California.
1854 The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
1861 The Weisshorn in the Alps is first climbed, by British scientist John Tyndall.
1889 Meteorological experiments are carried out on the Eiffel Tower to bring new knowledge of weather patterns to scientists. During this, a lightning bolt strikes the top of the building, something which hardly anyone on the lower deck notices.
1895 American Frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
1901 2000
1909 The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway occurs.
1914 The alliance between Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire is signed in Sofia.
1919 Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
1927 Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
1934 The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
1941 On Alaska's Kodiak Island, the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge is founded.
1942 World War II: Operation Jubilee - British and Canadian landings at Dieppe, northern France, fail.
1944 World War II: Paris rises up against German occupation, with help from allied troops.
1945 The Viet Minh, under Ho Chi Minh, take command in Hanoi, Vietnam.
1953 The CIA helps to overthrow Iranian leader Mohammed Mossadegh, allowing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to return to power.
1955 Hurricane Diane floods the Northeastern United States, killing 200 people.
1960 The Soviet Union sentences US pilot Francis Gary Powers to ten years in prison.
1960 Sputnik 5 is launched, with dogs, mice and plants on board. They all return safely back to Earth.
1965 Eisaku Sato, becomes the first post-World War II Prime Minister of Japan to visit Okinawa.
1966 An earthquake in Varto, Turkey, kills 2,500 people.
1978 An attack on the Cinema Rex in Abadan, western Iran, kills over 430 people. It had been carried out by allies of Ayatollah Khomeini in order to damage the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
1980 A Lockheed L-1011 airplane of the Saudia airline, burns after making an emergency landing at King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people. This is Saudi Arabia's worst-ever air disaster.
1981 Gulf of Sidra Incident: US fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
1987 In Hungerford, England, a gunman kills 16 people with an assault rifle, before killing himself.
1989 Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Tadeusz Mazowiecki as the first non-Communist Prime Minister of Poland in 42 years.
1989 Several East Germans cross the border between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events leading up to the Fall of the Berlin Wall later the same year.
1991 August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest, while on holiday in Foros, Crimea.
1999 In Belgrade, tens of thousands of people protest against President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic, demanding his resignation.
From 2001
2002 A Russian Mil Mir 26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile, killing 18.
2003 A car bomb attack on Baghdad's United Nations Headquarters kills 22 people, including Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello.
2003 A bus bombing attack planned by Hamas in Jerusalem kills 23 people.
2005 The first ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005, begins.
2005 Strong storms hit southern Ontario, bringing tornadoes and flooding.
2007 Pro-democracy demonstrations begin in Burma, led by Buddhist monks and nuns.
2008 President of Zambia Levy Mwanawasa dies aged 59. Rupiah Banda is later elected to replace him.
2009 A series of bombings in Baghdad kills 101 people, and injures 565.
2010 The last US combat troops leave Iraq.
2012 A Sudanese Antonov An-26 airliner crashes near Talodi, Sudan, killing over 30 people.
2012 Movie director Tony Scott commits suicide at the age of 68.
2013 The Dhamara Ghat train crash in the Indian state of Bihar kills 57 people.
Births
Up to 1900
232 Marcus Aurelius Robus, Roman Emperor (d. 282).
1342 Catherine of Bohemia (d. 1395).
1398 Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, 1st marquis of Santillana, Spanish politician and poet (d. 1458).
1557 Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608)
1558 Francois de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (d. 1614)
1570 Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1630).
1596 Elizabeth of Bohemia (d. 1662).
1621 Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674).
1631 John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700).
1646 John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719).
1689 Samuel Richardson, English writer (d. 1761).
1719 Charlie-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791).
1743 Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793).
1750 Johann Georg August Galletti, German historian and geographer (d. 1828).
1808 James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and architect (d. 1890).
1819 Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1894).
1830 Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist (d. 1895)
1846 Luis Martin, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906).
1848 Gustave Caillebotte, French painter (d. 1894).
1849 Joaquim Nabuco, Brazilian writer, statesman and abolitionist (d. 1910).
1853 Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926).
1870 Bernard Baruch, American businessman (d. 1965).
1871 Orville Wright of the Wright brothers, American airplane pioneer (d. 1948).
1873 Fred Stone, American actor and producer (d. 1959).
1875 Stepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936).
1878 Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines (d. 1944).
1881 George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955).
1881 Kingsley Wood, English politician (d. 1943).
1883 Coco Chanel, French designer (d. 1971).
1883 Leonid Kulik, Russian mineralogist (d. 1942).
1883 Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, Swedish politician (d. 1954).
1883 José Mendes Cabecadas, Portuguese politician (d. 1965).
1883 Elsie Ferguson, American movie actress (d. 1961).
1888 Ton Duc Thang, Vietnamese Communist leader (d. 1980).
1889 Arthur Waley, English orientalist and sinologist (d. 1966).
1890 Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, German-born last Queen Consort of Portugal (d. 1966).
1894 Luis Padilla Nervo, Mexican politician (d. 1985).
1897 Roman Vishniac, Russian-American photographer (d. 1990).
1900 Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976).
1900 Gontran de Poncins, French author and adventurer (d. 1962).
1901 1950
1902 Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971).
1906 Philo T. Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971).
1907 Thurston B. Morton, American politician (d. 1982).
1908 Warren P. Knowles, Governor of Wisconsin (d. 1993).
1913 John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer (d. 2004).
1914 Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (d. 1955).
1914 Lajos Baroti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005).
1915 Ring Lardner, Jr., American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000).
1918 Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (d. 1999).
1921 Jonas Algirdas Antanaitis, Lithuanian politician (d. 2018).
1921 Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991).
1924 Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist (d. 2011).
1928 Walter Massey, Canadian actor (d. 2014).
1930 Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (d. 2009).
1931 Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003).
1932 Banharn Silpa-archa, former Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2016).
1932 Thomas P. Salmon, 75th Governor of Vermont.
1934 Renée Richards, American tennis player.
1935 Zahir Raihan, Bangladeshi writer and movie maker (d. 1972).
1935 Story Musgrave, American astronaut.
1937 Richard Ingrams, English journalist.
1939 Ginger Baker, English musician (Cream) (d. 2019).
1940 Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter.
1940 Jill St. John, American actress.
1942 Jorgelina Aranda, Argentine actress (d. 2015).
1942 Fred Thompson, American actor and politician (d. 2015).
1944 Jakob von Uexküll, Swedish writer, philanthropist and political activist.
1945 Ian Gillan, English singer (Deep Purple).
1946 Christopher Malcolm, Scottish-English actor and singer (d. 2014).
1946 Charles Bolden, American astronaut.
1946 Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States.
1948 Tipper Gore, former Second Lady of the United States.
1948 Tommy Söderberg, Swedish football coach.
1950 Jennie Bond, British journalist.
1951 1975
1951 John Deacon, British musician.
1951 Jean-Luc Mélenchon, French politician.
1951 Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentine composer and musician.
1952 Jonathan Frakes, American actor.
1953 Nanni Moretti, Italian movie actor, director and producer.
1953 Lynwood Slim, American singer and harmonica player.
1955 Peter Gallagher, American actor, singer and writer.
1955 Manolo García, Spanish musician and composer.
1955 Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, Dominican-born British barrister
1955 Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager.
1956 Adam Arkin, American actor.
1956 Sergio Brio, Italian footballer.
1957 Cesare Prandelli, Italian footballer and coach.
1957 Martin Donovan, American actor.
1957 Gerda Verburg, Dutch diplomat, trade union leader and politician.
1958 Gordon Brand Jnr, Scottish golfer (d. 2019).
1958 Brendan Nelson, Australian politician.
1958 Darryl Sutter, Canadian-born ice hockey coach.
1959 Ricky Pierce, American basketball player.
1961 Jonathan Coe, English author.
1962 Michelangelo Rampulla, Italian footballer.
1962 Raimonds Vilde, Latvian volleyball player and coach.
1963 Hector Pieterson, South African student and symbol of the anti-Apartheid movement (d. 1976).
1963 Joey Tempest, Swedish singer.
1963 Bonnie Bianco, American actress and singer.
1963 John Stamos, American actor.
1965 Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress.
1965 Kyra Sedgwick, American actress.
1965 Kevin Dillon, American actor.
1966 Lee Ann Womack, American country music singer.
1967 Khandro Rinpoche, Indian spiritual leader.
1967 Satya Nadella, Indian-American businessman, CEO of Microsoft.
1968 Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, Greek sailor.
1969 Matthew Perry, American actor.
1969 Nate Dogg, American rapper (d. 2011).
1970 Fat Joe, American rapper.
1971 Mary Joe Fernandez, American tennis player.
1972 Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer.
1973 Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway.
1973 Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer.
1973 Roy Rogers, American basketball player.
1974 Sarah Burton, British fashion designer.
1975 Tracie Thoms, American actress.
From 1976
1977 Sara Martins, Portuguese-French actress
1978 Walter Baseggio, Belgian footballer.
1980 Darius Danesh, Scottish singer-songwriter and actor.
1980 Russell Kane, English comedian.
1982 Erika Christensen, American actress.
1983 Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter.
1983 Reeva Steenkamp, South African model (d. 2013).
1984 Simon Bird, English actor and comedian.
1984 Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer.
1985 Lindsey Jacobellis, American snowboarder.
1986 Christina Perri, American singer-songwriter.
1987 Anaïs Lameche, French-Swedish singer.
1987 Nico Hülkenberg, German racing driver.
1987 Richard Stearman, English footballer.
1989 Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper and actor.
1989 Sara Nuru, German model.
1991 Kendall Marshall, American basketball player.
1994 Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete.
1997 Joseph Castanon, American actor and singer.
Deaths
Up to 1900
14 Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC).
1186 Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158).
1245 Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195).
1297 Saint Louis of Toulouse, French bishop (b. 1274).
1493 Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415).
1580 Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (b. 1508).
1662 Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, philosopher and physicist (b. 1623).
1680 Jean Eudes, French Catholic priest (b. 1601).
1692 John Proctor, Salem farmer and tavern keeper (b. 1632).
1753 Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect (b. 1687).
1819 James Watt, Scottish engineer and inventor (b. 1736).
1822 Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (b. 1749).
1883 Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (b. 1810).
1895 John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853).
1900 Jean Baptiste Accolay, Belgian violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1833).
1901 2000
1905 William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter (b. 1825).
1914 Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844).
1915 Tevfik Fikret, Ottoman poet (b. 1867).
1923 Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845).
1928 Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker, diplomat and Prime Minister (b. 1838).
1929 Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872).
1936 Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet (b. 1898).
1942 Harald Kaarmann, Estonian footballer (b. 1901).
1946 Bob McKinney, American baseball player (b. 1875).
1950 Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871).
1954 Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881).
1957 Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898).
1959 Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (b. 1881).
1959 Blind Willie McTell, American blues singer (b. 1901).
1970 Pawel Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909).
1976 Alistair Sim, British actor (b. 1900).
1977 Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890).
1979 Dorsey Burnette, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932).
1980 Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889).
1981 Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer and dancer (b. 1907).
1994 Linus Pauling, American chemist (b. 1901).
1995 Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910).
2000 Theodore Trautwein, American judge (b. 1920).
2000 Bineshwar Brahma, Indian religious figure (b. 1948).
From 2001
2001 Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939).
2001 Donald Woods, South African anti-Apartheid activist and journalist (b. 1933).
2002 Eduardo Chillida, Basque sculptor (b. 1924).
2003 Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926).
2003 Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948) (killed in a car bombing in Baghdad).
2005 Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949).
2008 Levy Mwanawasa, President of Zambia (b. 1948).
2009 Don Hewitt, American television producer (b. 1922).
2010 Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (b. 1920).
2011 Raul Ruiz, Chilean movie director (b. 1941).
2011 Gun Hägglund, Swedish television journalist (b. 1932).
2012 Tony Scott, British movie director and producer (b. 1944).
2013 Jose Sarria, American political activist (b. 1922).
2013 Lee Thompson Young, American actor (b. 1984).
2013 Abdul Rahim Hatef, 8th President of Afghanistan (b. 1926).
2013 Donna Hightower, American singer (b. 1926).
2013 Cedar Walton, American jazz pianist (b. 1934).
2014 Simin Behbahani, Iranian poet (b. 1927).
2014 Brian G. Hutton, American actor and director (b. 1935).
2014 James Foley, American photographer and journalist (b. 1967).
2014 Candida Lycett Green, Irish-English journalist and author (b. 1942).
2014 Odessa Sathyan, Indian documentary filmmaker (b. 1954).
2014 Samih al-Qasim, Palestinian poet and linguist (b. 1939).
2014 Deborah Sussman, American graphic designer and artist (b. 1931).
2015 Suharno, Indonesian footballer (b. 1959).
2015 Egon Bahr, German politician (b. 1922).
2016 Lou Pearlman, American record producer, music manager and convicted criminal (b. 1954).
2017 Brian Aldiss, English science fiction writer (b. 1925).
2017 Pyotr Deynekin, Russian military personnel (b. 1937).
2017 Karl Otto Götz, German artist, filmmaker and writer (b. 1914).
2017 Dick Gregory, American comedian, writer and activist (b. 1932).
2017 Bea Wain, American singer (b. 1917).
2017 Gérard Férey, French chemist (b. 1941).
2017 Alan Sayers, New Zealand journalist, photographer and athlete (b. 1915).
2018 Bazlur Rahman Badal, Bangladeshi folk dancer (b. 1922)
2018 Rafael Calventi, Dominican architect and diplomat (b. 1932)
2018 Margareta Niculescu, Romanian artist and puppeteer (b. 1926)
2018 Khaira Arby, Malian singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
2019 Al Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1935)
2019 Mohammed Zahur Khayyam, Indian music director and film score composer (b. 1927)
2019 Gina Lopez, Filipino environmentalist and politician (b. 1953)
2019 Jan Ruff O'Herne, Dutch-Australian comfort women's rights activist (b. 1923)
2019 Larry Taylor, American guitarist (b. 1942)
Observances
World Humanitarian Day
Independence Day (Afghanistan)
National Aviation Day (United States)
International Photography Day
Days of the year |
9970 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%2018 | August 18 |
Events
Up to 1900
1201 – The city of Riga in present-day Latvia is founded.
1487 - The Siege of Malaga comes to an end, with the taking of the city by Castilian and Aragonese forces.
1572 – Henry IV of France and Margaret of Valois marry.
1587 - Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, Virginia, becomes the first child of English parents to be born in the Americas. Exactly three years later, White returns from a supply trip to England to find that everyone from the colony had disappeared.
1612 - The trial of the Pendle witches, one of England's most well-known witch trials, begins at Lancaster Assizes.
1634 - Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudon, France.
1783 - A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
1807 - Napoleon Bonaparte creates the Kingdom of Westphalia and installs his brother Jerome Bonaparte as its king.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern.
1868 - French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte.
1877 – Mars' moon Phobos is discovered by Asaph Hall.
1891 – A major hurricane strikes Martinique, killing around 700 people.
From 1901
1917 – The city of Thessaloniki in present-day Greece is largely destroyed by fire.
1920 - The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women the right to vote.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain's "Hardest Day", on which both sides suffer their heaviest losses.
1945 - Sukarno becomes President of Indonesia, a day after declaring Indonesia independent from the Netherlands.
1946 - The Vergarolla explosion in Croatia kills 70 people.
1948 - The Australian cricket team completes a 4-0 Ashes series win over England during its undefeated "Invincibles" tour.
1950 - Julien Lahaut, chairman of the Belgian Communist Party, is murdered by far-right extremists.
1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1958 - Brojen Das from Bangladesh becomes the first Asian to swim across the English Channel.
1959 – The Mini automobile goes on sale.
1960 - The combined oral contraceptive pill becomes available in the United States.
1963 - James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1965 - Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins - US marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the major American ground battle of the war.
1966 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy province.
1971 - Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
1976 - The Soviet Luna 24 probe lands on the Moon.
1976 - In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom, the axe murder incident results in the deaths of two US soldiers.
1977 – Steve Biko is arrested. His death a few weeks later, at the hands of the police, makes him a symbol of the brutality of South Africa's apartheid system.
1983 – Hurricane Alicia hits Texas, killing 22 people.
1988 – George H. W. Bush makes his campaign promise Read my lips, no new taxes during a speech in Louisiana.
1989 - Leading Presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galan is murdered near Bogota, Colombia.
1991 – The August Coup against Mikhail Gorbachev begins.
1994 - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake kills 159 people in Algeria.
2005 – A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting around 100 million people.
2008 – Pervez Musharraf announces his resignation as President of Pakistan. Asif Ali Zardari succeeds him in September.
2017 - Two people are killed and several are injured in a stabbing attack in Turku, Finland.
2018 - The 2018 Asian Games, co-hosted by the cities of Jakarta and Palembang (in Indonesia), begin.
2018 - Former cricketer Imran Khan becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Births
Up to 1900
1414 - Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)
1450 - Marko Marulic, Croatian poet (d. 1524)
1497 - Francesco Canovada Milano, Italian composer (d. 1543)
1587 – Virginia Dare, first child of English parents to be born in what is now the United States (d. before 1591)
1596 - Jean Bolland, Flemish painter (d. 1665)
1606 - Maria Anna of Spain (d. 1646)
1611 - Marie Louise Gonzaga, Queen Consort of Poland (d. 1667)
1657 - Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and painter (d. 1743)
1685 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician (d. 1731)
1692 - Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1740)
1700 - Baji Rao I, Indian Emperor (d. 1740)
1748 - Pierre Sonnerat, French naturalist and explorer (d. 1814)
1750 – Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825)
1774 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (d. 1809)
1786 - Jean Guillaume Lugol, French physician (d. 1851)
1792 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)
1803 - Nathan Clifford, 19th United States Attorney General (d. 1881)
1807 - Charles Francis Adams, Jr., American lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer (d. 1886)
1819 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1876)
1822 - Isaac P. Rodman, American general (d. 1862)
1830 – Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (d. 1916)
1855 - Alfred Wallis, British painter (d. 1942)
1856 - Ahad Ha'am, Hebrew essayist and Zionist thinker (d. 1927)
1857 - Eusebius Mandyczewski, Austrian composer and musicologist (d. 1929)
1859 – Anna Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1935)
1870 - Lavr Kornilov, Russian general (d. 1918)
1875 – King Prithvi of Nepal (d. 1911)
1877 - Jimmy Michael, Welsh cyclist (d. 1904)
1879 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (d. 1970)
1879 - Manuel Arce y Ochoterena, Spanish cardinal, Archbishop of Tarragona (d. 1948)
1882 - Herman Groman, American runner (d. 1954)
1883 - Sidney Hatch, American runner (d. 1966)
1890 – Walther Funk, Nazi politician (d. 1960)
1892 - Hal Foster, Canadian-American illustrator (d. 1982)
1893 - Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1985)
1896 - Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor (d. 1933)
1900 - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian politician ans diplomat (d. 1990)
1901 1950
1901 - Arne Borg, Swedish swimmer (d. 1987)
1901 - Jean Guitton, French philosopher and writer (d. 1999)
1904 – Max Factor, Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1996)
1908 - Edgar Faure, French politician and historian (d. 1988)
1908 - Sam English, Irish footballer (d. 1967)
1911 - Amelia Boynton Robinson, American activist (d. 2015)
1912 – Ertugrul Osman, head of the Ottoman dynasty (d. 2009)
1913 - Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1983)
1915 - Joseph Arthur Ankrah, leader of Ghana (d. 1992)
1916 - Neagu Djuvara, Romanian historian, journalist and diplomat (d. 2018)
1916 - Don Keefer, American actor (d. 2014)
1917 – Caspar Weinberger, American politician (d. 2006)
1919 – Wally Hickel, American politician, 2nd and 8th Governor of Alaska (d. 2010)
1920 - Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
1921 - Lydia Litvyak, Soviet pilot (d. 1943)
1921 - Zdzislaw Zigulski, Jr., Polish art historian (d. 2015)
1922 – Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and movie maker (d. 2008)
1924 - Julien Bogaert, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2018)
1925 – Brian Aldiss, British science-fiction writer (d. 2017)
1927 – Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady of the United States
1929 - Hugues Aufray, French singer
1930 - Bo Hi Pak, South Korean church leader
1930 - Liviu Librescu, Romanian-American scientist (d. 2007)
1931 - Bramwell Tillsley, 14th General of the Salvation Army
1931 - Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician (d. 2010)
1932 - Luc Montagnier, French microbiologist
1933 – Just Fontaine, French footballer
1933 – Roman Polanski, movie director
1934 - Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 1972)
1934 - Ronnie Carroll, Northern Irish singer, entertainer and political candidate (d. 2015)
1935 – Hifikepunye Pohamba, 2nd President of Namibia
1935 - Rafer Johnson, American athlete and actor
1936 - Gulzar, Indian director, producer and songwriter
1936 – Robert Redford, American actor
1939 – Johnny Preston, American singer (d. 2011)
1940 - Stanley Johnson, British author and politician, father of Boris Johnson
1941 – Mohamed Ghannouci, former Prime Minister of Tunisia
1941 - Christopher Jones, American actor (d. 2014)
1943 - Norma Pons, Argentine actress (d. 2014)
1943 – Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer and politician
1943 – Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (d. 2010)
1943 - Carl Wayne, British singer and actor (d. 2004)
1945 - Paula Danziger, American author (d. 2004)
1950 - Dennis Elliott, English drummer and sculptor
1951 1975
1952 – Patrick Swayze, American actor, singer and dancer (d. 2009)
1952 - Ricardo Villa, Argentine footballer
1952 - Mohammad Sarwar, British-Pakistani politician, former Glasgow MP and two-time Governor of the Punjab.
1953 - Sergio Castellitto, Italian actor, screenwriter and director
1954 - Umberto Guidoni, Italian astronaut
1954 - Rustem Khamitov, Russian politician
1954- VK Sasikala,Indian Busniesswoman turned politician.
1957 – Denis Leary, American actor
1957 - Carole Bouquet, French actress and model
1957 - Harald Schmidt, German television presenter
1958 - Reg E. Cathey, American actor (d. 2018)
1958 - Sergei Treshchov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut
1958 – Madeleine Stowe, American actress
1961 - Huw Edwards, Welsh journalist and news presenter
1961 - Timothy Geithner, 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury
1962 – Felipe Calderon, former President of Mexico
1963 - Billy Reid, Scottish footballer
1964 - Kenny Walker, American basketball player
1968 - Lee Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and talk show host
1969 – Edward Norton, American actor
1969 – Christian Slater, American actor
1970 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor
1971 – Aphex Twin, Irish-born musician
1972 - Masahiro Nakai, Japanese actor, singer and television presenter
1972 - Keiko Yamada, Japanese singer
1972 - Victoria Coren Mitchell, British television presenter and poker player
1973 - Paulo Schroeber, Brazilian guitarist (d. 2014)
1975 - Kaitlin Olson, American actress
From 1976
1977 - Régine Chassagne, Canadian singer-songwriter (Arcade Fire)
1978 - Steve Chen, Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur, co-founder of YouTube
1978 - Andy Samberg, American actor and comedian
1980 – Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine footballer
1981 – Dimitris Salpingidis, Greek footballer
1981 – Jan Frodeno, German triathlete
1982 – Florian Kringe, German footballer
1983 – Kris Boyd, Scottish footballer
1983 – Mika, Lebanese-English singer
1983 - Georgina Bardach, Argentine swimmer
1983 - Danny!, American rapper and producer
1984 – Robert Huth, German footballer
1985 - Bryan Ruiz Gonzalez, Costa Rican footballer
1986 – Ross McCormack, Scottish footballer
1987 - Tine Thing Helseth, Norwegian trumpeter
1987 - Mika Boorem, American actress
1988 - Luke Jackson, British author
1988 - Eggert Jónsson, Icelandic footballer
1988 - G-Dragon, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer
1992 - Elizabeth Beisel, American swimmer
1992 - Amy Willerton, English model
1992 – Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
1993 - Maia Mitchell, Australian actress
1995 - Parker McKenna Posey, American actress
1997 - Renato Sanches, Portuguese footballer
Deaths
Up to 1900
353 - Decentius, Roman usurper
440 - Pope Sixtus III
472 - Ricimer, Roman general (b. 405)
673 - Kim Yu-shin, Korean general (b. 595)
1095 – Olaf I of Denmark (b. 1050)
1227 – Genghis Khan, Mongol ruler (b. around 1160)
1258 - Theodore II Laskaris, Byzantine-Greek Emperor (b. 1222)
1276 - Pope Adrian V (b. 1520)
1503 – Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
1559 – Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)
1613 - Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer, theorist and thinker (b. 1540)
1620 – Wanli, Chinese emperor (b. 1563)
1642 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1775)
1645 - Eudoxia Streshneva, Russian Empress (b. 1608)
1648 - Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1615)
1707 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and politician (b. 1640)
1765 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
1842 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
1850 – Honoré de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799)
1886 - Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor (b. 1795)
1901 2000
1919 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1841)
1939 - Frank Wild, English explorer (b. 1873)
1940 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
1942 - Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-American actress (b. 1888)
1944 - Ernst Thalmann, German politician (b. 1886)
1945 – Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence fighter (b. 1897)
1950 - Julien Lahaut, Belgian politician (b. 1884)
1952 - Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, writer and saint (b. 1901)
1963 - Clifford Odets, American playwright (b. 1906)
1968 - Cy Walter, American pianist (b. 1915)
1970 - Soledad Miranda, Spanish actress (b. 1943)
1981 - Anita Loos, American screenwriter and author (b. 1889)
1989 - Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian politician (b. 1943)
1990 – B. F. Skinner, American psychological theorist (b. 1904)
1992 – John Sturges, American director (b. 1910)
1994 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British chemist (b. 1914)
From 2001
2003 - Tony Jackson, British musician (b. 1938)
2004 – Hiram Fong, United States Senator for Hawaii (b. 1906)
2005 - Gao Xiumin, Chinese actress (b. 1959)
2009 – Kim Dae Jung, President of South Korea (b. 1925)
2010 - Hal Connolly, American hammer thrower (b. 1931)
2010 – Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1930)
2012 - Jesse Robredo, Filipino politician (b. 1958)
2012 - Scott McKenzie, American singer (b. 1939)
2013 - Rolv Wesenlund, Norwegian actor (b. 1936)
2013 - Dezso Gyarmati, Hungarian polo player (b. 1927)
2014 - Jim Jeffords, United States Senator for Vermont (b. 1934)
2014 - Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer (b. 1918)
2014 - Levente Lengyel, Hungarian chess player (b. 1933)
2014 - Gordon Faber, American politician (b. 1931)
2014 - Hashim Khan, Pakistani squash player (b. 1914)
2015 - Suvra Mukherjee, Indian philosopher and dancer, First Lady of India (b. 1940)
2015 - Khaled Asaad, Syrian scholar (b. 1932)
2015 - Louis Stokes, American politician (b. 1925)
2015 - William Jay Smith, American poet (b. 1918)
2017 - Pertti Alaja, Finnish footballer (b. 1952)
2017 - Alfonso Azpiri, Spanish comic artist (b. 1947)
2017 - Dave Creighton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1930)
2017 - Bruce Forsyth, English entertainer and television presenter (b. 1928)
2017 - Venero Mangano, American mobster (b. 1921)
2017 - Duncan Russell, English football manager (b. 1958)
2017 - Don Shepherd, Welsh cricketer (b. 1927)
2017 - Sonny Burgess, American rockabilly singer (b. 1929)
2017 - Vicente Iturat, Spanish racing cyclist (b. 1928)
2018 - Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat, 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1938)
2018 - Jack Costanzo, American percussionist and actor (b. 1919)
2018 - Ronnie Moore, Australian-born New Zealand speedway rider (b. 1933)
2018 - Peter Tapsell, British politician (b. 1930)
2018 - Henk Wesseling, Dutch historian (b. 1937)
2019 - Kathleen Blanco, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1942)
2019 - Karel Kuklík, Czech photographer (b. 1937)
2019 - Encarna Paso, Spanish actress (b. 1931)
2019 - Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster (b. 1924)
Observances
National Science Day (Thailand)
Days of the year |
9971 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%2017 | August 17 |
Events
Up to 1900
310 Pope Eusebius is banished by Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies.
682 Pope Leo II is elected.
986 A Byzantine army is destroyed at the pass of Trajan by Bulgarians.
1386 Karl Topia, ruler of the Princedom of Albania, creates an alliance with the Republic of Venice.
1424 Hundred Years' War: Battle of Verneuil - English victory over the French.
1498 Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first cardinal to-date to resign from his post.
1560 Protestantism becomes the official religion of Scotland.
1585 Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city.
1668 A magnitude 8.0 earthquake kills around 8,000 people in northern Anatolia, Ottoman Empire.
1740 Pope Benedict XIV is elected.
1771 Edinburgh botanist James Robertson makes the first recorded successful climb of Ben Nevis, the highest point in both Scotland and the whole of the present-day United Kingdom.
1786 Frederick II of Prussia dies, having been a very influential leader in Prussia. His son, Frederick William II of Prussia, succeeds him.
1807 Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany on the Hudson River.
1862 American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota.
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville - Confederate forces defeat Union forces near Gainesville, Florida.
1896 Bridget Driscoll becomes the first-recorded person to be killed in an automobile accident when she is run over in the grounds of London's Crystal Palace by a Benz car.
1901 2000
1908 Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Emil Cohl is shown in Paris.
1914 The first pilots are trained for the Royal Australian Air Force.
1915 A category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas.
1918 Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moises Uritsky is assassinated.
1942 World War II: The first US bombing raid in Europe takes place.
1943 World War II: The US Seventh Army under George S. Patton and the British 8th Army under field marshal Bernard Montgomery enter Messina, Sicily, completing the allied conquest of Sicily.
1945 Indonesia declares independence from the Netherlands. The Netherlands only recognize Indonesian independence in 1949.
1947 The Radcliffe Line is set to mark the border between India and Pakistan.
1959 Quake Lake in Yellowstone National Park is formed by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake centred near Hebgen Lake, Montana.
1960 Gabon becomes independent from France.
1962 East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter.
1969 Hurricane Camille kills 243 people in the Southern United States.
1970 The Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 is sent to the planet Venus.
1977 Soviet nuclear icebreaker Arktika becomes the first vessel to cross the North Pole overwater.
1978 US balloonists, Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman and Max Anderson, become the first people to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a hot-air balloon.
1982 The first CDs are released to the public in Germany.
1987 At age 18, Steffi Graf becomes women's singles Number One in tennis. She goes on to hold this position for 377 weeks.
1987 Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, dies aged 93, as the last prisoner at Spandau Prison.
1988 Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq is killed in a plane crash near Bahawalpur, Punjab.
1996 Claudie André-Deshays becomes the first Frenchwoman in space.
1998 US President Bill Clinton admits an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
1999 A magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits İzmit in northwestern Turkey, killing more than 17,000 people, and injuring around 44,000.
From 2001
2002 The water levels of the River Elbe reach their highest-recorded level. The city of Dresden is among the places flooded.
2004 New state symbols are adopted by Serbia.
2005 The first forced evacuation of settlers as part of the Israeli unilateral disengagement plan begins.
2005 Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at around 300 locations in 63 out of 64 districts in Bangladesh.
2008 Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win 8 individual gold medals at a single Olympic Games.
2009 An accident occurs at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam in Khakassia, Russia, killing 75 people and shutting down the hydroelectric power station.
2015 A bomb explodes at the Ratchaprasong Intersection near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing 23 people and injuring over 100.
2017 2017 Barcelona attack: A vehicle is driven at people on the street Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, killing 13 people.
2019 A bomb attack on a wedding party in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills at least 63 people and wounds 180.
Births
Up to 1900
1465 Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1482)
1473 Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower (d. 1483?)
1556 Alexander Briant, English martyr and saint (d. 1581)
1586 Johann Andreas Valentinus Andreae, German theologian, writer and mathematician (d. 1654)
1601 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
1603 Lennart Torstensson, Swedish field marshal and military officer (d. 1651)
1629 John III of Poland (d. 1696)
1686 Nicola Porpora, Italian composer and teacher (d. 1768)
1699 Bernard Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1777)
1735 Tobias Furneaux, British explorer (d. 1781)
1755 Thomas Stothard, British painter (d. 1834)
1761 William Carey, English botanist and missionary (d. 1824)
1768 Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (d. 1800)
1786 Davy Crockett, American frontiersman, soldier (d. 1836)
1786 Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1861)
1798 Thomas Hodgkin, English physician (d. 1866)
1799 Robert von Mohl, German jurist (d. 1875)
1800 Charles Rogier, 4th, 10th and 13th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1885)
1801 Fredrika Bremer, Swedish writer (d. 1865)
1828 Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897)
1844 Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
1863 Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and photographer (d. 1924)
1866 Julia Marlowe, née Sarah Frost, Shakespearean actress (d. 1950)
1870 Liberato Marcial Rojas, President of Paraguay (d. 1922)
1877 Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (d. 1923)
1877 Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (d. 1906)
1887 Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born American black leader (d. 1940)
1887 Emperor Karl of Austria (d. 1922)
1887 Samuel Stritch, American cardinal (d. 1958)
1890 Harry Hopkins, American politician (d. 1946)
1890 Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (d. 1920)
1893 Mae West, American actress and playwright (d. 1980)
1893 Walter Noddack, German chemist (d. 1960)
1894 Otto Suhr, German politician (d. 1957)
1896 Johannes Kleiman, Dutch helper of Anne Frank (d. 1959)
1901 1950
1901 Hedin Bru, Faroese writer (d. 1987)
1904 Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
1906 Marcelo Caetano, Portuguese politician (d. 1980)
1907 Gustav Schwarzenegger, Austrian police chief and postal inspector, father of Arnold Schwarzenegger (d. 1972)
1909 Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
1910 Erkki Aaltonen, Finnish composer (d. 1990)
1911 Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion (d. 1995)
1911 Martin Sandberger, German military officer (d. 2010)
1913 Mark Felt, American agent, 'Deep Throat' in the Watergate scandal (d. 2008)
1913 Rudy York, American Major League Baseball All-Star (d. 1970)
1913 Oscar Alfredo Galvez, Argentine racing driver (d. 1989)
1914 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., son of Franklin D. Roosevelt (d. 1988)
1919 Georgia Gibbs, American singer (d. 2006)
1920 Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress (d. 2015)
1922 Frederick B. Dent, American politician
1923 Larry Rivers, American artist, musician, filmmaker and actor (d. 2002)
1926 George Melly, British singer (d. 2007)
1926 Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
1926 Jean Poiret, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1992)
1929 Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 pilot (d. 1977)
1929 Jimmy Donley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1963)
1930 Glenn Corbett, actor (d. 1993)
1930 Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
1932 V. S. Naipaul, Trinidad and Tobago-born writer (d. 2018)
1932 Jean-Jacques Sempe, French cartoonist
1933 Tom Courtney, American athlete
1933 Gene Kranz, American NASA flight director and manager
1934 Carin Mannheimer, Swedish writer (d. 2014)
1936 Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist
1937 Ronnie Butler, Bahamian singer
1938 Theodoros Pangalos, Greek politician
1939 Luther Allison, American blues musician, guitarist (d. 1997)
1940 Eduardo Mignona, Argentine director (d. 2006)
1941 Lothar Bisky, German politician (d. 2013)
1941 Fritz Wepper, German actor
1941 Ibrahim Babangida, Nigerian military leader
1943 Robert De Niro, American actor
1943 John Humphrys, British broadcaster
1943 Yukio Kasaya, Japanese ski jumper
1943 Dave "Snaker" Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 Rexhep Meidani, former President of Albania
1944 Bobby Murdoch, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
1946 Patrick Manning, former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2016)
1946 Angel Romero, Spanish guitarist and conductor
1947 Mohamed Abdelaziz, Western Sahara politician (d. 2016)
1948 Chico Maki, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1949 Julian Fellowes, English actor, producer and director
1949 Mitsunori Fujiguchi, Japanese footballer
1949 Norm Coleman, American lawyer and politician
1951 1975
1951 Robert Joy, Canadian actor
1951 Alan Minter, boxer
1951 Elba Ramalho, Brazilian singer-songwriter
1952 Nelson Piquet, Brazilian racing driver
1952 Mario Theissen, German Formula 1 team principal
1952 Guillermo Vilas, Argentine tennis player
1953 Herta Müller, Romanian-German writer, Nobel Prize winner
1953 Kevin Rowland, British musician
1954 Andrés Pastrana Arango, former President of Colombia
1956 Fabio Armiliato, Italian tenor
1957 Robin Cousins, British figure skater
1958 Michael Brooks, American basketball player
1958 Belinda Carlisle, American singer, guitarist
1958 Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player
1958 Fred Goodwin, Scottish banker, former head of the Royal Bank of Scotland
1959 Jonathan Franzen, American writer
1959 David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993)
1960 Sean Penn, American actor, director
1962 Gilby Clarke, American musician (Guns N'Roses)
1963 Maritza Marbén, Cuban discus thrower
1963 Shankar, Indian director and producer
1964 Colin James, American blues musician
1965 Sergio Vargas, Chilean footballer
1966 Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder
1968 Helen McCrory, British actress
1968 Ed McCaffrey, American football player
1968 Anthony E. Zuiker, American television producer
1968 Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukrainian singer, writer, presenter, producer and actor (d. 2015)
1968 Andrew Koenig, American actor (d. 2010)
1969 Christian Laettner, American basketball player
1969 Donnie Wahlberg, American actor and singer
1970 Jim Courier, American tennis player
1970 Rupert Degas, Australian voice actor
1971 Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
1971 Jorge Posada, American Major League Baseball All-Star
1972 Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer
1974 Tomomi Kahala, Japanese singer
From 1976
1976 Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer (d. 2014)
1977 William Gallas, French footballer
1977 Thierry Henry, French footballer
1977 Tarja Turunen, Finnish lead singer of Nightwish
1977 Mike Lewis, Welsh guitarist
1977 Claire Richards, English singer (Steps)
1980 Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer
1980 Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer
1980 Daniel Güiza, Spanish footballer
1982 Phil Jagielka, English footballer
1982 Karim Ziani, French-Algerian footballer
1982 Mark Salling, American actor (d. 2018)
1983 Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
1984 Dee Brown, American basketball player
1985 Troy Brouwer, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 Marcus Berg, Swedish footballer
1986 Denis Kornilov, Russian ski jumper
1986 Rudy Gay, American basketball player
1989 Rachel Corsie, Scottish footballer
1989 Elena Hight, American snowboarder
1990 Rachel Hurd-Wood, English actress
1991 Austin Butler, American actor
1993 Cinta Laura, Indonesian actress and singer
1993 Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer
1994 Taissa Farmiga, American actress
Deaths
Up to 1900
1153 Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne, son of King Stephen of England (b. 1130)
1304 Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
1324 Irene of Brunswick, Empress of Constantinople (b. 1293)
1338 Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai (b. 1301)
1510 Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. 1462)
1657 Robert Blake, English admiral (b. 1599)
1673 Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
1769 Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and writer (b. 1703)
1785 Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1710)
1786 Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1712)
1838 Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian poet (b. 1749)
1850 Jose de San Martin, Argentine revolutionary (b. 1778)
1870 Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician and freedom fighter (b. 1818)
1880 Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)
1886 Alexander Butlerov, Russian chemist (b. 1828)
1896 Bridget Driscoll, English automobile accident victim (b. 1851)
1897 William Jervois, British Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1821)
1898 Carl Zeller, Austrian jurist and composer (b. 1842)
1900 Raimundo Andueza Palacio, 24th President of Venezuela (b. 1846)
1901 2000
1903 Hans Gude, Norwegian painter (b. 1825)
1918 Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1873)
1925 Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist (b. 1848)
1935 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American writer and feminist (b. 1860)
1935 Adam Gunn, American athlete (b. 1860)
1939 Wojciech Korfanty, Polish journalist and politician (b. 1873)
1942 Herman Auerbach, Polish mathematician (b. 1901)
1954 Billy Murray, American singer (b. 1877)
1962 Peter Fechter, shooting victim at the Berlin Wall (b. 1944)
1969 Otto Stern, German physicist (b. 1888)
1969 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (b. 1886)
1971 Maedayama Eigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1914)
1973 Conrad Aiken, American author and poet (b. 1889)
1974 Aldo Palozzeschi, Italian poet and writer (b. 1885)
1979 Vivian Vance, American actress (b. 1909)
1979 John C. Allen, American rollercoaster designer (b. 1907)
1983 Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1987 Rudolf Hess, Nazi leader (b. 1894)
1988 Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
1988 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., son of Franklin D. Roosevelt (b. 1914)
1990 Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (b. 1918)
1994 Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American racing driver (b. 1901)
1995 Howard E. Koch, American screenwriter (b. 1902)
1995 Ted Whitten, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1933)
1998 Wladyslaw Komar, Polish athlete (b. 1940)
1998 Tadeusz Slusarski, Polish athlete (b. 1950)
1998 Tameo Ide, Japanese footballer (b. 1908)
1999 Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (b. 1936)
From 2001
2003 Mazen Dana, Palestinian journalist (b. 1962)
2005 John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist (b. 1934)
2006 Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet, columnist and writer (b. 1929)
2007 Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
2010 Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of Italy (b. 1928)
2011 Pierre Quinon, French pole vaulter (b. 1962)
2013 Claus Jacobi, German journalist (b. 1927)
2014 Wolfgang Leonhard, German political author and historian (b. 1921)
2014 Sophie Masloff, American politician, 56th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1917)
2014 Pierre Vassiliu, French singer (b. 1937)
2014 Ger van Elk, Dutch artist (b. 1941)
2015 Eduardo Guerrero, Argentine rower (b. 1928)
2015 László Paskai, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1927)
2015 Arsen Dedic, Croatian poet (b. 1938)
2015 Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican-Israeli theoretical physicist (b. 1947)
2015 Yvonne Craig, American actress (b. 1937)
2015 Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, German football executive (b. 1933)
2016 Arthur Hiller, Canadian-American film director (b. 1923)
2017 Sonny Landham, American actor and politician (b. 1941)
2017 M. T. Liggett, American sculptor (b. 1930)
2017 Sirkka Selja, Finnish poet (b. 1920)
2017 Fadwa Soliman, Syrian actress and activist (b. 1970)
2017 Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed, Egyptian politician and scholar (b. 1932)
2018 Leonard Boswell, American politician (b. 1934)
2018 Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor (b. 1924)
2018 David McReynolds, American political activist and politician (b. 1929)
2018 Linton Freeman, American sociologist (b. 1927)
2019 Cedric Benson, American football player (b. 1982)
2019 Walter Buser, Swiss Federal Chancellor (b. 1926)
2019 Jacques Diouf, Senegalese diplomat (b. 1938)
2019 Donald A. B. Lindberg, American physician (b. 1933)
2019 José A. Martínez Suárez, Argentine film director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2019 Bill McDonagh, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
Observances
Independence Day (Indonesia, Gabon)
Days of the year |
9972 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%2015 | August 15 |
Events
Up to 1900
29 BC Octavian is celebrated as conqueror of Egypt and takes over the ruling of the Roman Empire, later changing his name to Augustus.
927 The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
982 Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Cape Colonna, in Calabria.
1040 King Duncan I of Scotland is killed in a battle he fought against his first cousin, and rival, Macbeth.
1057 King Macbeth is killed in battle.
1185 The cave city of Vardzia is founded in Georgia, by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
1237 The Battle of the Puig takes place during the Spanish Reconquista. The Kingdom of Aragon defeats the Tarifa of Valencia.
1248 The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral is laid.
1271 Philip III of France is crowned King.
1281 Attempted Mongol invasions of Japan: A Mongolian fleet led by Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "Divine Wind" for the second time in the Battle of Koan.
1430 Francesco Sforza, Lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.
1483 Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
1511 The city of Baracoa, Cuba, is founded by Diego Velazquez de Cuellar.
1519 Panama City is founded.
1537 The city of Asuncion in present-day Paraguay is founded, named after the religious feast day of the Assumption of Mary.
1540 The city of Arequipa in present-day Peru is founded.
1549 Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima, Japan.
1695 French forces end the bombardment of Brussels, leaving a third of the city's buildings in ruins.
1760 Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz - Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
1769 Napoleon, French general and emperor, is born on the island of Corsica.
1824 Freed African-American slaves found Liberia.
1843 The Tivoli Gardens theme park in Copenhagen, Denmark, opens.
1843 The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. It is now the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the city.
1869 The Meiji Government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
1901 2000
1912 Eduardo Schaerer becomes President of Paraguay.
1914 The Panama Canal opens.
1935 Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during take-off from Barrow, Alaska.
1939 The Wizard of Oz movie premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.
1941 Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad in the Tower of London, being the last person executed there for treason.
1945 Japan surrenders, ending World War II.
1945 World War II: Liberation of Korea.
1947 India becomes independent (separate) from the United Kingdom from the formal Transfer of Power as the Empire is partitioned and adopts the name Bharat, while the new mainly Islamic state of Pakistan is created.
1947 Muhammad Ali Jinnah becomes Governor-General of Pakistan.
1948 The Republic of Korea (South Korea) is founded south of the 38th parallel.
1950 Assam is struck by a major earthquake.
1952 The village of Lynmouth in Devon, England, is hit by a flash flood.
1954 In Paraguay, the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner begins.
1960 The Republic of the Congo becomes independent, with Fulbert Youlou as President. Exactly three years later, he is removed from office in a military coup.
1961 Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the building of the Berlin Wall.
1963 Henry John Burnett is executed, becoming the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
1963 President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital Brazzaville.
1965 The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 in New York City, an event later considered to be the birth of stadium rock.
1968 An earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
1969 The Woodstock music festival takes place in the State of New York.
1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play a professional game of American football.
1971 Bahrain becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1973 US bombing of Cambodia ends.
1974 The Seoul metro is opened, becoming the first metro in South Korea.
1974 Toronto Zoo is opened.
1975 Along with members of his family, Bangladeshi political leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is killed in a coup.
1989 F. W. de Klerk becomes President of South Africa.
1993 Juan Carlos Wasmosy becomes President of Paraguay.
1998 The Omagh bombing is carried out by the IRA in Northern Ireland, killing 29 people.
1999 The Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria kills 29 people at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border.
From 2001
2004 Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, gives his official royal duties over to his son, Alois, but remains as Head of State.
2005 Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements begins.
2007 A magnitude 8 earthquake centred off Peru's Pacific coast, devastates Ica province, killing 514 people, and injuring over 1000.
2008 Fernando Lugo becomes President of Paraguay.
2013 Horacio Cartes becomes President of Paraguay.
2013 The discovery of a species of mammal in northwestern South America is announced. It is named Olinguito.
2018 A bomb attack on an education centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 34 people; on the same day, an attack in the country's Baghlan Province kills 9 police officers and 35 soldiers.
2018 Mario Abdo Benítez becomes President of Paraguay.
Births
Up to 1800
774 Emperor Heizei of Japan (d. 824)
1171 King Alfonso IX of León (d. 1230)
1195 Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231)
1250 Matteo I Visconti, ruler of Milan (d. 1322)
1402 Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English politician (d. 1460)
1432 Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (d. 1484)
1455 George, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1503)
1575 Bartol Kasic, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650)
1613 Gilles Menage, French scholar (d. 1692)
1736 Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer (d. 1803)
1717 Blind Jack, English engineer (d. 1810)
1740 Matthias Claudius, German poet and journalist (d. 1815)
1743 Thomas Henderson, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1824)
1769 Napoleon, Emperor of France (d. 1821)
1771 Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (d. 1832)
1785 Thomas De Quincey, British writer (d. 1859)
1794 Elias Magnus Fries, Swedish botanist (d. 1878)
1795 Aaron V. Brown, 13th Governor of Tennessee (d. 1859)
1798 Sangolli Rayanna, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1831)
1801 1900
1813 Jules Grévy, 3rd President of France (d. 1891)
1817 James Wilson Henderson, 4th Governor of Texas (d. 1880)
1824 John Chisum, American cattle baron (d. 1884)
1828 Jean-Baptiste Billot, French general and statesman (d. 1907)
1836 Pyotr Boborykin, Russian writer, playwright and journalist (d. 1921)
1845 Walter Crane, English painter (d. 1915)
1846 Charles Woodruff, American archer (d. 1927)
1856 Keir Hardie, Scottish socialist and labor leader (d. 1915)
1856 Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (d. 1916)
1858 Edith Nesbit, English writer (d. 1924)
1858 Michael Hainisch, President of Austria (d. 1940)
1859 Charles Comiskey, American baseball owner (d. 1931)
1860 Florence Harding, First Lady of the United States (d. 1924)
1860 Henrietta Vinton Davis, American actress and playwright (d. 1941)
1863 Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (d. 1945)
1865 Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual figure (d. 1926)
1872 Sri Aurobindo, Indian writer and guru (d. 1950)
1875 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer and musician (d. 1912)
1876 Stylianos Gonatas, Greek military officer and politician (d. 1966)
1877 Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1941)
1878 Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1928)
1879 Ethel Barrymore, American actress (d. 1959)
1881 Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (d. 1956)
1890 Elizabeth Bolden, American supercentenarian (d. 2006)
1890 Jacques Ibert, French composer (d. 1962)
1892 Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist (d. 1987)
1892 Walther Nehring, German general (d. 1983)
1893 Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and mechanical computation designer (d. 1950)
1896 Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist (d. 1957)
1896 Léon Theremin, Russian inventor (d. 1993)
1897 Benedetta Cappa, Italian painter (d. 1977)
1900 Estelle Brody, American actress (d. 1995)
1901 1950
1901 Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (d. 1975)
1901 Arnulfo Arias, three-time President of Panama (d. 1988)
1904 George Klein, Canadian inventor (d. 1992)
1909 Hugo Winterhalter, American composer and bandleader (d. 1973)
1912 Naoto Tajima, Japanese athlete (d. 1990)
1912 Julia Child, American cook (d. 2004)
1912 Wendy Hiller, English actress (d. 2003)
1912 Guido Morselli, Italian novelist and essayist (d. 1973)
1917 Jack Lynch, 5th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1999)
1917 Oscar Romero, Salvadoran priest (d. 1980)
1917 Yukio Tsuda, Japanese footballer (d. 1979)
1919 Dina Wadia, daughter of Muhammad Ali Jinnah (d. 2017)
1920 Huntz Hall, American actor (d. 1999)
1921 August Kowalczyk, Polish actor, director and Holocaust survivor (d. 2012)
1922 Mary Fairfax, Polish-born Australian philanthropist (d. 2017)
1922 Lukas Foss, German-born composer (d. 2009)
1923 Rose Marie, American actress (d. 2017)
1924 Robert Bolt, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1995)
1924 Jo Benkow, Norwegian politician (d. 2013)
1924 Hedy Epstein, German-American political activist (d. 2016)
1924 Phyllis Schlafly, American conservative political activist and author (d. 2016)
1925 Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-French pianist (d. 2015)
1925 Leonie Ossowski, German writer (d. 2019)
1925 Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (d. 2007)
1926 Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, former President of Greece (d. 2016)
1928 Carl Joachim Classen, German classical philologist (d. 2013)
1928 Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2002)
1928 Malcolm Glazer, American businessman and sports team owner (d. 2014)
1928 Paul Adderley, acting Governor-General of the Bahamas (d. 2012)
1928 Nicolas Roeg, English film director and cinematographer (d. 2018)
1929 Anna Walentynowicz, Polish activist (d. 2010)
1931 Richard F. Heck, American chemist (d. 2015)
1932 Jim Lange, American game show and DJ (d. 2014)
1934 Ebrahim Abadi, Iranian actor (d. 2019)
1934 Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer and actor (d. 1998)
1934 Bobby Byrd, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2007)
1934 Darrell K. Sweet, American illustrator (d. 2011)
1935 Régine Deforges, French author, editor and playwright (d. 2014)
1938 Pran Kumar Sharma, Indian cartoonist (d. 2014)
1938 Bounnhang Vorachith, President of Laos
1938 Maxine Waters, American politician
1940 Gudrun Ensslin, member of the Red Army Faction (d. 1977)
1942 Pete York, English musician
1943 Jean-Luc Mandaba, Central African politician, former Prime Minister of the Central African Republic
1943 Eileen Bell, Northern Irish politician
1943 Eni Faleomavaega, American Samoan politician (d. 2017)
1944 Sylvie Vartan, Bulgarian-French singer and actress
1944 Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., American politician, 56th Mayor of Pittsburgh
1945 Khaleda Zia, 9th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
1945 Alain Juppé, former Prime Minister of France
1946 William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, English politician
1946 Jimmy Webb, American songwriter and composer
1946 Tony Robinson, English actor and television presenter
1949 Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor
1950 Anne, Princess Royal, member of the British royal family
1950 Tommy Aldridge, American drummer
1951 1975
1952 Rudi Kargus, German footballer
1952 Bernard Lacombe, French footballer
1953 Vigdís Grímsdóttir, Icelandic writer
1953 Wolfgang Hohlbein, German writer
1953 Mark Thatcher, British businessman and son of Margaret Thatcher
1953 Carol Thatcher, daughter of Margaret Thatcher
1954 Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (d. 2004)
1955 Roger Willemsen, German author, essayist and television presenter (d. 2016)
1958 Simon Baron-Cohen, British psychiatrist and writer
1958 Craig MacTavish, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1959 Scott Altman, American astronaut
1961 Arjun, Indian movie actor and director
1961 Ed Gillespie, former White House counsel
1962 Moreno Mannini, Italian footballer
1963 Valery Levaneuski, Russian activist
1963 Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican film director and producer
1964 Melinda Gates, wife of Bill Gates
1966 Dimitris Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
1967 Alan Henning, British humanitarian and aid worker (d. 2014)
1968 Debra Messing, American actress
1969 Bernard Fanning, Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist (Powderfinger)
1969 Juli Minoves Triquell, Andorran diplomat and writer
1970 Anthony Anderson, American comedian and actor
1970 Masahiro Endo, Japanese footballer
1970 Ben Silverman, American television producer
1970 Maya Soetoro-Ng, sister of Barack Obama
1972 Ben Affleck, American actor
1973 Amitabh Bhattacharjee, Indian actor
1975 Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi, Japanese footballer
1975 Vijay Bharadwaj, Indian cricketer
1975 Brendan Morrison, Canadian ice hockey player
From 1976
1976 Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian politician, Prime minister of Ethiopia
1976 Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch footballer
1977 Martin Biron, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 Lilia Podkopayeva, Ukrainian gymnast
1981 Brendan Hansen, American swimmer
1982 Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Japanese actor
1983 Luke McCormick, English footballer
1985 Nipsey Hussle, American rapper (d. 2019)
1985 Emily Kinney, American actress, singer, model and composer
1986 Natalia Kills, British singer-songwriter, musician and actress
1986 Besik Kudukhov, Russian wrestler (d. 2013)
1988 Oussama Assaidi, Moroccan footballer
1989 Kristina Karjalainen, Estonian-Finnish model
1989 Carlos Pena, Jr., American actor, dancer and singer
1989 Joe Jonas, American actor and singer (Jonas Brothers)
1990 Jennifer Lawrence, American actress
1990 Danny Verbeek, Dutch footballer
1991 Petja Piiroinen, Finnish snowboarder
1992 Baskaran Adhiban, Indian chess player
1993 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, English footballer
1998 Gulliver McGrath, Australian actor
Deaths
Up to 1900
423 Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (b. 384)
465 Libius Severus, Roman Emperor
778 Roland, Frankish commander
1038 King Stephen I of Hungary
1040 King Duncan I of Scotland
1057 King Macbeth of Scotland
1118 Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1048)
1196 Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)
1274 Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and educator (b. 1201)
1369 Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of Edward III of England
1464 Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
1528 Odet de Foix, French general (b. 1485)
1552 Hermann of Wied, German archbishop (b. 1477)
1621 John Barclay, Scottish poet (b. 1582)
1714 Constantin Brancoveanu, Romanian prince (b. 1654)
1728 Marin Marais, French composer (b. 1656)
1758 Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (b. 1698)
1799 Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (b. 1729)
1860 Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Grand Duchess of Russia (b. 1781)
1901 2000
1904 John Henry Kinkead, Governor of Nevada (b. 1826)
1909 Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian author, publicist and engineer (b. 1866)
1925 Konrad Magi, Estonian artist (b. 1878)
1931 Nigar Shikhlinskaya, Azerbaijani World War I nurse (b. 1878)
1933 Christie Fuller, Australia Singer
1935 Paul Signac, French painter (b. 1863)
1935 Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898)
1935 Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (b. 1879)
1936 Grazia Deledda, Italian writer (b. 1871)
1941 Josef Jakobs, German spy (b. 1898)
1942 Mahadev Desai, Indian activist and writer (b. 1892)
1945 Korechika Anami, Japanese Minister of War (b. 1887)
1951 Artur Schnabel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1882)
1953 Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
1962 Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (b. 1940)
1963 Henry John Burnett, last person to be hanged in Scotland (b. 1942)
1964 Dr. Atl, Mexican painter and writer (b. 1875)
1967 René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
1967 Manuel Prado Ugarteche, President of Peru (b. 1889)
1971 Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1887)
1974 Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea (b. 1925)
1975 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1920)
1982 Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist (b. 1903)
1989 Minoru Genda, Japanese military aviator and politician (b. 1904)
1989 Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek army officer (b. 1897)
1990 Viktor Tsoi, Russian singer (b. 1962)
From 2001
2001 Richard Chelimo, Kenyan runner (b. 1972)
2004 Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist (b. 1916)
2004 Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician, 8th Chief Minister of Gujarat (b. 1941)
2006 Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori Queen (b. 1931)
2006 Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer (b. 1923)
2007 John Gofman, American scientist (b. 1918)
2011 Rick Rypien, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1984)
2012 Harry Harrison, American science fiction writer (b. 1925)
2012 Biff Elliot, American actor (b. 1923)
2013 Marich Man Singh Shrestha, former Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1942)
2013 Slawomir Mrozek, Polish author and playwright (b. 1930)
2013 Jacques Vergès, French lawyer (b. 1925)
2014 Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano (b. 1913)
2014 Jan Ekier, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1913)
2014 James Freeman Gilbert, American geophysicist (b. 1931)
2014 James Cama, American martial artist and teacher (b. 1957)
2015 Rafael Chirbes, Spanish writer (b. 1949)
2015 Julian Bond, American social activist (b. 1940)
2016 Dalian Atkinson, English footballer (b. 1968)
2016 Stefan Henze, German slalom canoeist (b. 1981)
2017 Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian-born American architect (b. 1925)
2017 Vern Ehlers, American politician (b. 1932)
2017 Abdirahman Jama Barre, Somali politician (b. 1937)
2018 Rita Borsellino, Italian anti-Mafia activist and politician (b. 1945)
2018 François Garnier, French Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1944)
2018 Albert Millaire, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
2019 Eddie Marlin, American wrestler and promoter (b. 1930)
2019 Qin Hanzhang, Chinese engineer and food scientist (b. 1908)
2019 Antonio Rastrelli, Italian politician (b. 1927)
2019 Vidya Sinha, Indian actress (b. 1947)
2019 Glenn Tasker, Australian sports columnist (b. 1951)
2019 Wrestling Pro, American professional wrestler (b. 1938)
Observances
Independence Day in India, Bahrain and the Republic of the Congo
Liberation Day in South Korea
VJ Day, marking the end of World War II in East Asia
Assumption of Mary – Roman Catholic Church and other churches in Western Christianity
Ferragosto (Italy)
National Day of Liechtenstein
Mother's Day (Costa Rica)
Days of the year |
9973 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%2014 | August 14 |
Events
Up to 1900
29 BC Octavian celebrates the second of his three consecutive triumphs in Rome after his victory over the Dalmatians.
1040 Macbeth kills King Duncan I of Scotland, and crowns himself King of Scotland.
1352 War of the Breton Succession: The Anglo-Britons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
1385 The Battle of Aljubarrota is fought, in which forces of King John I of Portugal defeat those of King John I of Castile.
1415 Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.
1502 Christopher Columbus lands in present-day Honduras; this is the first time he sets foot on the mainland of the Americas.
1592 Imjin War: Battle of Hansan Island - Admiral Yi Sun-sin decisively defeats the Japanese Navy at Hansan Island.
1762 English forces take Havana, Cuba during the Seven Years' War.
1816 The United Kingdom annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the South Atlantic.
1842 Seminole Native Americans are forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
1848 The Oregon territory is created by an act of the United States Congress.
1880 After taking more than 600 years, the construction of Cologne Cathedral is completed.
1885 Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of rust-proof paint.
1888 Danish passenger steamer Geiser sinks off Sable Island after a collision with a ship of the same shipping line, killing 118 people.
1893 France introduces motor vehicle registration.
1900 The Eight-Nation Alliance occupy Beijing, China, in an attempt to end of the Boxer Rebellion.
1901 2000
1912 US marines land in Nicaragua to support the US-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
1914 The Big Hole Diamond mine in South Africa is closed.
1916 World War I: Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1917 World War I: China declares war on Germany.
1921 Tannu Uriankhai, later the Tuvan People's Republic, is established as a completely independent country, supported by Soviet Russia.
1933 Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later becoming known as the forest fire of Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5.
1935 The Social Security Act creates a government pension for retired people in the United States.
1936 Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, in the last public execution in the United States.
1941 World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of War, stating postwar aims.
1945 World War II: Japan accepts Allied terms of surrender and the Emperor, Hirohito, records the Imperial Rescription surrender.
1945 Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France, is sentenced to death.
1947 Partition of India: Pakistan, a new Islamic state, becomes independent from the United Kingdom, and consists of West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan) and East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh).
1958 A propeller plane operated by the Dutch airline KLM crashes into the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland.
1959 The American Football League is founded.
1969 Operation Banner: British troops are deployed to Northern Ireland.
1971 Bahrain declares its independence.
1972 A plane crash, of an Ilyushin II-62, in East Berlin kills 156 people.
1973 The Pakistan Constitution of 1973 goes into effect.
1974 The Second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins. 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. 6,000 are killed and 1,619 are missing.
1980 The Gdansk shipyard strike in Poland occurs, as an uprising against Communist rule, and leads to the foundation of the Solidarity movement led by Lech Walesa.
1992 Georgian troops enter Abkhazia, which had declared independence.
1994 Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal is arrested.
From 2001
2003 A wide scale power blackout affects parts of Canada and the northeastern United States.
2005 Helios Airways Flight 522, travelling from Larnaca in Cyprus, crashes near Grammatiko in Greece, killing all 121 people on board, after the air conditioner fails.
2006 Chencholai bombing: 61 Tamil girls are killed in a bombing by the Sri Lankan Air Force.
2007 Bomb attacks across Northern Iraq kill a total of 796 people. 1,500 are injured.
2010 The first ever Summer Youth Olympic Games begin in Singapore. 3,531 athletes aged 14 to 18, from 204 National Olympic Committees take part.
2013 Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators who support the ousted President Mohamed Morsi.
2013 The England national football team and Scotland national football team play each other for the first time since 1999 in the oldest international football fixture. England wins a closely fought match 3-2.
2015 The United States re-opens its Embassy in Havana, Cuba, 54 years after the countries initially broke diplomatic ties.
2017 Heavy rain and mudslides kill hundreds of people in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
2018 Part of the Morandi motorway Bridge in Genoa, Liguria, Italy, collapses, killing 43 people.
2019 With support on board, Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg starts sailing across the Atlantic Ocean from Plymouth, Devon, England to New York City to take part in a climate change summit.
2021 2021 Haiti earthquake of M 7.2 occurs in Haiti.
Births
Up to 1900
1297 Emperor Hanazano of Japan (d. 1348)
1337 King Robert III of Scotland (d. 1406)
1473 Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (d. 1541)
1479 Princess Catherine of York (d. 1527)
1552 Paolo Sarpi, Italian church reformer and historian (d. 1623)
1642 Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
1688 Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740)
1714 Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d. 1789)
1727 Princess Marie Louise Elisabeth of France (d. 1759)
1727 Princess Anne Henriette of France (d. 1752)
1734 Thomas Sumter, American general and politician (d. 1832)
1738 Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer (d. 1793)
1740 Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
1758 Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (d. 1835)
1773 Jean-Baptiste de Villele, French statesman (d. 1854)
1777 Hans Christian Orsted, Danish physicist (d. 1851)
1777 Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)
1802 Fabio Maria Asquini, Italian cardinal (d. 1878)
1814 Adolph Tidemand, Norwegian painter (d. 1876)
1818 François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, French admiral (d. 1900)
1819 Agenor, duc de Gramont, French diplomat (d. 1880)
1840 Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (d. 1902)
1847 Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1922)
1848 Margaret Lindsay Hughes, Irish-English astronomer (d. 1915)
1851 Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (d. 1887)
1857 Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922)
1862 Prince Henry of Croatia (d. 1929)
1863 Ernest Thayer, American poet (d. 1940)
1865 Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (d. 1952)
1866 Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (d. 1962)
1867 John Galsworthy, English writer (d. 1933)
1867 Cupid Childs, American baseball player (d. 1912)
1871 Quangxu Emperor of China (d. 1908)
1874 Georgios Kondylis, Greek politician (d. 1936)
1876 Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia (d. 1903)
1876 Sibilla Aleramo, Italian writer and poet (d. 1960)
1878 Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and Prime Minister (d. 1936)
1880 Fred Alexander, American tennis player (d. 1969)
1881 Francis Ford, American actor (d. 1953)
1882 Gisela Richter, British-born art historian (d. 1972)
1883 Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith, English tennis player (d. 1941)
1887 Marija Leiko, Latvian actress (d. 1937)
1889 Willi Münzenberg, German Communist, publisher and movie producer (d. 1940)
1892 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English pianist and composer (d. 1988)
1895 Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1973)
1899 Alma Reville, British actress and screenwriter (d. 1982)
1899 Evelyn Kozak, American supercentenarian (d. 2013)
1901 1950
1901 Franz Konwitschny, German conductor (d. 1962)
1910 Willy Ronis, French photographer (d. 2009)
1910 Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d. 1995)
1911 Jaime Rodriguez, Chilean footballer (d. 2003)
1912 Frank Oppenheimer, American particle physicist (d. 1985)
1914 Poul Hartling, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 2000)
1916 Fumio Fujimura, Japanese baseball player (d. 1992)
1921 Julia Hartwig, Polish writer and translator (d. 2017)
1921 Sidney Rittenberg, American linguist (d. 2019)
1923 Kuldip Nayar, Indian journalist (d. 2018)
1924 Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect (d. 2009)
1924 Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor (d. 2013)
1924 Georges Pretre, French conductor (d. 2017)
1925 Russell Baker, columnist
1926 René Goscinny, French comic-strip writer (d. 1977)
1928 Lina Wertmüller, Italian director
1929 Giacomo Capuzzi, Italian bishop
1929 Thomas Meehan, American playwright (d. 2017)
1930 Liz Fraser, English actress (d. 2018)
1930 Earl Weaver, American Baseball Hall of Fame manager (d. 2013)
1931 Frederick Raphael, American screenwriter, biographer, novelist and journalist
1932 James V. Hansen, American politician (d. 2018)
1933 Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist
1935 John Brodie, American football player
1936 Trevor Bannister, English actor (d. 2011)
1940 Dash Crofts, musician
1940 Aristides Royo, 36th President of Panama
1940 Arthur Laffer, American economist
1941 David Crosby, American guitarist, songwriter
1941 Lynne Cheney, American political figure, former Second Lady of the United States
1942 Molefi Kete Asante, American author
1943 Jimmy Johnson, American football player and broadcaster
1945 Steve Martin, American comedian and actor
1945 Wim Wenders, German director
1946 Antonio Fargas, actor
1946 Susan Saint James, actress
1946 Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish racing driver (d. 2010)
1947 Danielle Steel, American novelist
1949 Morten Olsen, Danish footballer and coach
1950 Gary Larson, American cartoonist
1950 Bob Backlund, American professional wrestler
1951 1975
1952 Carl Lumbly, actor
1952 Debbie Meyer, swimmer
1953 James Horner, American Academy Award-winning composer (d. 2015)
1954 Mark Fidrych, American baseball player
1954 Stanley McChrystal, American general
1954 Christian Gross, Swiss football coach
1955 Gillian Taylforth, English actress
1956 Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
1957 Peter Costello, Australian politician
1959 Marcia Gay Harden, Academy Award-winning actress
1959 Magic Johnson, American basketball player
1960 Sarah Brightman, British singer
1961 Susan Olsen, actress
1961 Satoshi Tsunami, Japanese footballer
1962 Rameez Raja, Pakistani cricketer and sportscaster
1964 Brannon Braga, American writer and director
1965 Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
1965 Mark Francois, English politician
1966 Halle Berry, American Academy Award-winning actress
1968 Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
1968 Adrian Lester, English actor
1971 Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan cricketer
1972 Laurent Lamothe, Haitian politician
1972 Giuseppe Mazzarelli, Swiss footballer
1973 Daisuke Ishiwatari, Japanese game developer and composer
1973 Rana Faheem Aslam, Pakistani journalist
1973 Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
1973 Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer
1973 Chucky Atkins, American basketball player
1974 Ana Matronic, American singer (Scissor Sisters)
1974 Martin Bulloch, Scottish drummer (Mogwai)
From 1976
1976 Alex Albrecht, co-host of The Screen Savers
1977 Juan Pierre, American baseball player
1977 Philip Stamper, American pro wrestler, actor
1978 Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer
1981 Matthew Etherington, English footballer
1982 Simon Andrews, English motorcycle racer (d. 2014)
1983 Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American television actress
1983 Heiko Westermann, German footballer
1983 Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-born British tennis player (d. 2014)
1983 Lu Yen-hsun, Taiwanese tennis player
1984 Carl Valeri, Australian footballer
1984 Nick Grimshaw, British radio DJ and television presenter
1984 Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player
1984 Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer
1985 Christian Gentner, German footballer
1986 Cameron Jerome, English footballer
1989 Ander Herrera, Spanish footballer
1990 Jaydee Bixby, Canadian singer
1992 Sarah Correa, Brazilian swimmer (d. 2015)
1993 Gongchan, South Korean singer and actress
1993 Cassi Thomson, Australian-American actress and singer
1999 Garrett Ryan, American actor
Deaths
Up to 1900
582 Tiberius II, Byzantine Empress (b. 535)
1040 Duncan I of Scotland
1167 Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne
1204 Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)
1369 Philippa of Hainault, Queen Consort of England (b. 1311)
1390 John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
1430 Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
1433 King John I of Portugal (b. 1357)
1464 Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
1573 Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)
1691 Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630)
1704 Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675)
1727 William Croft, English composer (b. 1678)
1754 Maria Anna of Austria (b. 1683)
1774 Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar and physician (b. 1716)
1784 Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
1852 Margaret Taylor, First Lady of the United States (b. 1788)
1856 Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)
1860 André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)
1870 David Farragut, American navy officer (b. 1801)
1891 Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (b. 1803)
1901 2000
1905 Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
1909 William Stanley, American inventor and engineer (b. 1829)
1928 Klabund, German writer and poet (b. 1890)
1941 Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (b. 1854)
1941 Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
1943 Joe Kelley, American baseball player (b. 1871)
1951 William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate (b. 1863)
1954 Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868)
1955 Herbert Putnam, American Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
1956 Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898)
1958 Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1900)
1958 Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (b. 1873)
1972 Oscar Levant, American actor, composer, and musician (b. 1906)
1980 Dorothy Stratton, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960)
1980 Paul Snider, Canadian entrepreneur and manager (b. 1951)
1981 Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)
1982 Patrick Magee, Irish-English actor (b. 1922)
1984 Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach and manager (b. 1904)
1984 J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (b. 1894)
1985 Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
1988 Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
1989 Ricky Berry, American basketball player (b. 1964)
1991 Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (b. 1920)
1994 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer (b. 1905)
2000 Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher (b. 1943)
From 2001
2002 Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)
2003 Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
2004 Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2005 Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932)
2007 Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1940)
2010 Abbey Lincoln, American singer (b. 1930)
2011 Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor (b. 1931)
2012 Svetozar Gligoric, Serbian chess player (b. 1923)
2012 Sergey Kapitsa, Russian physicist (b. 1928)
2012 Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (b. 1919)
2012 Ron Palillo, American actor (b. 1949)
2013 Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (b. 1970)
2014 Mariana Briski, Argentine actress (b. 1965)
2014 George V. Hansen, American politician (b. 1930)
2014 Jay Adams, American skateboarder (b. 1961)
2014 Stephen Lee, American actor (b. 1955)
2015 Bob Johnston, American record producer (b. 1932)
2016 Fyvush Finkel, American actor (b. 1922)
2016 Hermann Kant, German historian (b. 1926)
2017 Andrzej Blumenfeld, Polish actor (b. 1951)
2017 Frank Broyles, American college football coach (b. 1924)
2017 Franklin Cleckley, American state judge (b. 1940)
2017 Abdelkrim Ghallab, Moroccan politician, journalist and novelist (b. 1919)
2017 Stephen Wooldridge, Australian cyclist (b. 1977)
2017 Lateef Raji, Nigerian politician (b. 1962)
2018 Hugh Cortazzi, British diplomat (b. 1924)
2018 Balram Das Tandon, Indian politician (b. 1927)
2018 Jill Janus, American singer (b. 1975)
2018 Michael Persinger, American-Canadian psychology professor and neuroscience researcher (b. 1945)
2018 Eduard Uspensky, Russian author (b. 1937)
2018 Chemmanam Chacko, Indian poet (b. 1926)
2019 Graham Farmer, Australian footballer (b. 1935)
2019 Karim Olowu, Nigerian sprinter and long jumper (b. 1924)
2019 Héctor Rivoira, Argentine footballer (b. 1960)
2019 Gjergj Xhuvani, Albanian film director (b. 1963)
Observances
Feast of Maximilian Kolbe, martyr
Independence Day (Pakistan)
Days of the year |
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Events
Up to 1900
3113 B.C. Maya Calendar, started on this date (some sources give August 11). It ends either on December 21 or 23, 2012. Although some people thought the world would end in 2012, life continued as normal.
29 BC Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
523 John succeeds Hormisdas as Pope.
582 Maurice becomes Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.
1099 Paschal II is elected Pope.
1315 Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou.
1326 Aradia de Toscano, according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult, subsequently founds the tradition of Stregheria later known as the Malandanti.
1415 Henry V of England lands at Chef-en-Caux, France with 8000 men.
1516 Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain signed. In it, Francis recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.
1521 Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés
1532 The Duchy of Brittany absorbed into the Kingdom of France.
1536 Buddhist monks from Kyoto's Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).
1553 Michael Servetus arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic.
1624 Louis XIII of France appoints Cardinal Richelieu as Prime Minister.
1704 War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim - English and Austrians victorious over French and Bavarians.
1762 Seven Years' War: British forces take Havana in the then-Spanish colony of Cuba.
1779 American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of US Naval Forces before the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.
1792 Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal and declared an enemy of the people.
1806 The United Kingdom takes control of the Cape Colony in present-day South Africa from the Netherlands.
1809 Battle of Bergisel: Tyroleans under Andreas Hofer defeat the French.
1814 The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London.
1826 Scotsman Alexander Gordon Laing enters Timbuktu, at the first time that a European is known to have arrived there.
1831 Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse which he believes is a sign of God. 8 days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
1868 A large earthquake strikes near Arica (then in Peru, now in Chile), causing an estimated 25,000 casualties and a tsunami that causes damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
1878 The Luray Caverns in Northwest Virginia are discovered.
1898 Spanish-American War: Spanish and US forces engage in a mock battle in Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrenders in order to keep the city out of Filipino hands.
1898 Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
1901 2000
1905 Norway holds a referendum in favour of dissolving the union with Sweden.
1913 Otto Witte, an acrobat, is crowned King of Albania.
1913 Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
1918 Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
1918 BMW is founded as a public company in Germany.
1920 Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw begins, lasts till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
1923 First major seagoing ship arrives at Gdynia, newly constructed Polish seaport.
1923 Gustav Stresemann forms Germany's first "Grand Coalition" government.
1935 The wall of the dam Alla Sella Zerbino breaks in the Ligurian Appenines in Italy. Flooding in Molare and Ovada kills over 100 or more.
1937 The Japanese attack Shanghai, China.
1940 World War II: Battle of Britain begins - The Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on British fighter bases and radar installations.
1942 Walt Disney's fifth animated feature, Bambi, premiers.
1948 Austria joins UNESCO.
1952 West Germany and Japan join the International Monetary Fund.
1954 The national anthem of Pakistan - Qaumi Taranah - is broadcast for the first time.
1960 The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
1961 The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to stop its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West. The Berlin Wall is built as a result.
1964 Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the murder of John Alan West, becoming the last people to be executed in the United Kingdom.
1968 Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate Greek military leader George Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
1969 The three Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, are released from a 3-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York City. That evening, at a dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Richard Nixon.
1977 Members of the British National Front clash with anti-National Front demonstrators in Lewisham, London. 111 people are injured and 214 arrested.
1978 150 Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
1984 The new International Airport of Jakarta is opened.
1987 U.S. President Ronald Reagan assumes responsibility for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal.
1996 Marc Dutroux, his wife Michelle Martin and Lelièvre were arrested.
1997 South Park debuts on Comedy Central.
1999 The rising sun flag, already in use since 1868, becomes the official Flag of Japan.
From 2001
2001 The Arena auf Schalke is opened, as the home of the football team FC Schalke 04 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
2002 Major flooding occurs in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, in what is referred to there as the "Flood of the Century".
2004 Games of the XXVIII Olympiad opens in Athens, Greece.
2004 Hurricane Charley, a category 4 storm, strikes the Fort Myers, Florida, area.
2004 Black Friday crackdown by NSS on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé.
2004 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
2008 American swimmer Michael Phelps breaks the Olympic Games' individual gold medal record.
2008 South Ossetian War: Russian troops occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
Births
Up to 1900
582 Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640)
1311 King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon (d. 1350)
1625 Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician and physicist (d. 1698)
1651 Balthasar Permoser, German sculptor (d. 1732)
1666 William Wotton, English scholar (d. 1727)
1700 Heinrich von Bruhl, German politician (d. 1763)
1717 Louis François, Prince of Conti, French prince (d. 1776)
1743 Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (d. 1808)
1752 Maria Carolina of Austria, Queen Consort of Naples and Sicily (d. 1814)
1757 James Gillray, British caricaturist (d. 1815)
1762 Therione de Mericourt, French revolutionary (d. 1817)
1790 William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician (d. 1872)
1792 Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort of William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849)
1800 Ippolito Rosellini, Italian Egyptologist (d. 1843)
1802 Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian writer (d. 1850)
1803 Vladimir Odoyevsky, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1869)
1810 Christian C. A. Lange, Norwegian historian and archivist (d. 1861)
1814 Anders Jonas Angstrom, Swedish astronomer and physicist (d. 1874)
1818 Lucy Stone, American Women's Rights activist (d. 1893)
1819 Aurelio Saffi, Italian politician (d. 1890)
1819 George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (d. 1903)
1820 George Grove, English musicologist (d. 1900)
1842 Albert Sorel, French writer and historian (d. 1906)
1851 Felix Adler, German-born American educator (d. 1933)
1852 Christian Krohg, Norwegian painter (d. 1925)
1853 Antonio Salandra, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1931)
1857 Henri Pittier, Swiss-Venezuelan naturalist and biologist (d. 1950)
1860 Annie Oakley, American sharp shooter (d. 1926)
1866 Giovanni Agnelli, Italian industrialist and founder of Fiat (d. 1945)
1867 William Craigie, Scottish philologist and lexicographer (d. 1957)
1867 George Luks, American painter (d. 1933)
1869 Tony Garnier, French architect and urban planner (d. 1948)
1871 Karl Liebknecht, German political activist (d. 1919)
1872 Richard Willstaetter, German chemist (d. 1942)
1873 Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1941)
1879 John Ireland, English composer (d. 1962)
1887 Julius Freed, American investor and banker (d. 1952)
1888 John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor (d. 1946)
1889 Camillien Houde, 34th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1958)
1890 Li Zongren, Chinese politician (d. 1969)
1895 Bert Lahr, American actor (d. 1967)
1898 Jean Borotra, French tennis player (d. 1994)
1898 Regis Toomey, American actor (d. 1991)
1899 Alfred Hitchcock, English movie director (d. 1980)
1899 Soledad Mexia, Mexican-American supercentenarian (d. 2013)
1901 1950
1904 Felix Wankel, German engineer and inventor (d. 1988)
1904 Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor (d. 1999)
1907 Basil Spence, Scottish architect (d. 1976)
1907 William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, English politician (d. 1966)
1908 Gene Raymond, American actor (d. 1998)
1911 Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (d. 2003)
1912 Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist (d. 1991)
1913 Makarios III, Archbishop and President of Cyprus (d. 1977)
1913 Fred Davis, English snooker player (d. 1998)
1914 Luis Mariano, Basque operetta singer (d. 1970)
1918 Frederick Sanger, English chemist and two-time Nobel Prize winner (d. 2013)
1918 Noor Hassanali, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2006)
1919 George Shearing, British jazz pianist (d. 2011)
1920 Neville Brand, American actor (d. 1992)
1921 Jimmy McCracklin, American blues musician (d. 2012)
1925 Benny Bailey, American jazz trumpeter
1925 José Sazatornil, Spanish actor (d. 2015)
1926 Fidel Castro, President of Cuba (d. 2016)
1928 Pedro Pedrossian, Brazilian politician (d. 2017)
1930 Tomás Borge, Nicaraguan politician (d. 2012)
1930 Bernard Manning, English comedian (d. 2007)
1930 Eddie Marlin, American wrestler and promoter (d. 2019)
1931 Norman Read, New Zealand athlete (d. 1994)
1933 Madhur Jaffrey, Indian actress and cookery writer
1933 Joycelyn Elders, 15th Surgeon General of the United States
1934 Gyoji Matsumoto, Japanese footballer
1936 Vyjayanthimala, Indian actress, dancer, singer and politician
1937 James David Santini, American politician (d. 2015)
1938 Dave "Baby" Cortez, American pianist
1940 Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (d. 2000)
1940 Dirk Sager, German journalist (d. 2014)
1941 Ambrogio Fogar, Italian sailor, writer, rally driver and all-round adventurer and television presenter (d. 2005)
1941 Henning Voscherau, German politician (d. 2016)
1941 Susan Jameson, English actress
1942 Sheila Armstrong, English soprano
1944 Kevin Tighe, American actor
1945 Lars Engqvist, Swedish politician
1945 Howard Marks, Welsh drug smuggler (d. 2016)
1946 Janet Yellen, American economist, 15th Chair of the Federal Reserve
1947 Margareta Winberg, Swedish politician
1948 Roberto Micheletti, Honduran politician
1949 Philippe Petit, French high wire artist
1949 Bobby Clarke, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 1975
1951 Dan Fogelberg, American musician (d. 2007)
1952 Hughie Thomasson, American guitarist
1953 Carla Bodendorf, German athlete
1953 Thomas Pogge, German philosopher
1955 Mulgrew Miller, American pianist (d. 2013)
1955 Paul Greengrass, American director
1958 Feargal Sharkey, Northern Irish singer
1959 Andreas Ravelli, Swedish footballer
1959 Thomas Ravelli, Swedish footballer
1959 Michael Bradley, Irish musician
1960 Phil Taylor, English darts player
1960 Janusz Kurtyka, Polish historian (d. 2010)
1961 Christos Christodolou, Greek basketball player
1961 Cary Stayner, American serial killer
1961 Chad Brown, American poker player and actor (d. 2014)
1962 Manuel Valls, Spanish-born French politician, Prime Minister of France
1962 John Slattery, American actor
1963 Valerie Plame, American CIA agent and author
1963 Sridevi, Indian actress (d. 2018)
1964 Debi Mazar, American actress
1965 Hayato Matsuo, Japanese composer and conductor
1966 Shayne Corson, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 Scooter Barry, American basketball player
1969 Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
1970 Casiano Delvalle, Paraguayan footballer
1970 Alan Shearer, English footballer
1971 Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor
1972 Michael Sinterniklaas, French-American actor, director and screenwriter
1972 Hani Hanjour, Saudi Arabian terrorist (d. 2001)
1975 Joe Perry, English snooker player
1975 Marty Turco, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
From 1976
1978 Benjani Mwaruwari, Zimbabwean footballer
1980 Irina Berezhna, Ukrainian politician (d. 2017)
1982 Sarah Huckabee Sanders, 29th White House Press Secretary
1982 Sebastian Stan, Romanian-American actor
1982 Shani Davis, American speed skater
1982 Kalenna Harper, American singer-songwriter
1983 Thomas Schwall, American ski jumper
1984 Niko Kranjcar, Croatian footballer
1984 James Morrison, British singer
1984 L'Aura, Italian singer-songwriter, composer, violinist and pianist
1984 Alona Bondarenko, Ukrainian tennis player
1984 Colin Fleming, Scottish tennis player
1985 Olubayo Adefemi, Nigerian footballer
1985 Lacey Brown, American singer-songwriter
1985 Mattia Pasini, Italian motorcycle racer
1988 Keith Benson, American basketball player
1989 Justin Greene, American basketball player
1990 Shila Amzah, Malaysian singer-songwriter and actress
1990 Elise Christie, Scottish short-track speed skater
1990 DeMarcus Collins, American basketball player
1990 Sae Miyazawa, Japanese singer (AKB48)
1991 Alexander Kacaniklic, Swedish footballer
1993 Johnny Gaudreau, American ice hockey player
1994 Filip Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player
2000 Piper Reese, American internet celebrity and actress
Deaths
Up to 1900
586 Radegund, Queen consort of Clotaire I
604 Emperor Wen of Sui of China (b. 541)
612 Eudokia, Byzantine Empress (b. 580)
900 Zwentibold, last King of Lotharingia (b. 870)
1134 Irene of Hungary (b. 1088)
1382 Eleanor of Aragon, queen of John I of Castile (b. 1358)
1447 Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1392)
1667 Jeremy Taylor, Irish writer and bishop (b. 1613)
1686 Louis Maimbourg, historian (b. 1610)
1744 John Cruger, Dutch-born American politician and 39th Mayor of New York City (b. 1678)
1749 Johann Elias Schlegel, German poet and critic (b. 1719)
1826 René Laënnec, French physician (b. 1781)
1863 Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)
1865 Ignaz Semmelweis, Austrian-Hungarian physician (b. 1818)
1884 Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington (b. 1807)
1901 2000
1910 Florence Nightingale, English nurse (b. 1820)
1912 Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
1913 August Bebel, German politician (b. 1840)
1917 Eduard Buchner, German chemist (b. 1860)
1933 Hasan Prishtina, Albanian politician (b. 1873)
1934 Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (b. 1868)
1946 H. G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866)
1948 Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (b. 1897)
1958 Francis J. McCormick, American football player, basketball player and coach (b. 1903)
1958 Otto Witte, German acrobat and claimant to the throne of Albania (b. 1868)
1965 Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
1977 Henry Williamson, English writer (b. 1895)
1982 Joe Tex, American musician (b. 1933)
1984 Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess player (b. 1929).
1989 Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b. 1955)
1991 James Roosevelt, American politician (b. 1907)
1994 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer (b. 1905)
1995 Alison Hargreaves, British mountaineer (b. 1963)
1995 Mickey Mantle, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1931)
1995 Jan Křesadlo, Czech-born writer (b. 1926)
1996 David Tudor, pianist and composer (b. 1926).
1996 António de Spínola, Portuguese general and politician (b. 1910)
1998 Nino Ferrer, Italian-French singer and composer (b. 1934)
1998 Waneta Hoyt, American serial killer (b. 1946)
1999 Ignatz Bubis, German Jewish leader (b. 1927)
From 2001
2003 Lothar Emmerich, German footballer (b. 1941)
2004 Julia Child, American chef and television personality (b. 1912)
2005 David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)
2007 Yone Minegawa, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1893)
2007 Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player (b. 1917)
2008 Henri Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1904)
2008 Sandy Allen, American, world's tallest woman (b. 1953)
2009 Les Paul, American musician (b. 1915)
2010 Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (b. 1981)
2012 Helen Gurley Brown, American writer, publisher and businesswoman (b. 1922)
2012 Johnny Pesky, American baseball player and coach (b. 1919)
2013 Lothar Bisky, German politician (b. 1941)
2013 Jean Vincent, French footballer (b. 1930)
2014 Eduardo Campos, Brazilian politician (b. 1965)
2014 Robert Bruce Smith, IV, American music expert, writer, historian and poet (b. 1945)
2015 Bob Fillion, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
2016 Kenny Baker, British actor (b. 1934)
2016 Joyce Carol Thomas, American poet and playwright (b. 1938)
2016 Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian writer (b. 1930)
2017 Aung Shwe, Burmese politician and general (b. 1918)
2017 Joseph Bologna, American actor (b. 1934)
2018 Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician (b. 1929)
2018 Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
2018 Powell A. Moore, American politician (b. 1938)
2019 Cecilia Caballero Blanco, First Lady of Colombia (b. 1913)
2019 Nadia Toffa, Italian journalist and television presenter (b. 1979)
Observances
Independence Day (Central African Republic)
International Lefthanders Day
Lao Issara - Day of the Free Laos
Women's Day (Tunisia)
Days of the year |
9975 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%2011 | August 11 |
Events
Up to 1900
3114 BC The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilisations, notably the Maya, begins, ending either on December 21 or 23, 2012.
106 The Southwestern part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province, Roman Dacia.
117 Hadrian becomes Roman Emperor, following Trajan's death.
355 Claudius Silvanus proclaims himself Roman Emperor.
490 Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River near Milan.
1332 The Battle of Dupplin Moor takes place during the Scottish Wars of Independence.
1677 A large part of the city of Rostock is destroyed by fire.
1711 The first horse race is held at Ascot, England.
1718 A British fleet attacks a Spanish fleet in the Naval Battle of Cape Passero.
1786 Captain Francis Light establishes a British colony at Penang, Malaysia.
1804 Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor takes the title of Emperor of Austria.
1812 Peninsular War: French troops engage in battle with British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
1813 In Colombia, Juan de Corral declares the independence of Antioquia.
1858 The Eiger in the Swiss Alps is first climbed by Charles Barrington, accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohlen.
1863 Cambodia becomes a French protectorate.
1867 Das Kapital, by Karl Marx, goes on sale in Hamburg.
1898 Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
1901 2000
1901 The first German Antarctic expedition, led by Erich von Drygalski, leaves Kiel.
1904 Battle of Waterberg in present-day Namibia: In a battle with German colonial troops, 30,000 Herero and Nama people are killed.
1914 World War I: France declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1918 World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
1919 The Constitution of Germany's Weimar Republic is adopted.
1920 End of the Latvian War of Independence
1929 Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs, at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
1934 The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal Prison at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.
1942 Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a frequency hopping, spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
1952 Hussein of Jordan is proclaimed king.
1959 Sheremetyevo International Airport opens near Moscow.
1960 Chad declares independence from France.
1961 The former Portuguese territories of India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged into the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, as part of the Republic of India.
1962 Vostok 3 launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome and Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
1965 Race riots begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
1968 The last steam train runs on British railways.
1972 Vietnam War: The last US ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
1979 A dam break in Morvi, Gujarat, India, following heavy rain, kills between 2,000 and 5,000 people.
1982 A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, between Tokyo and Honolulu, killing one person, and injuring 15.
1983 Rio Abiseo National Park is created in Peru.
1984 'We begin bombing in five minutes': Ronald Reagan jokes while preparing for a weekly radio address while running for re-election as US President.
1986 Ove Joensen completes his rowing journey from the Faroe Islands to Copenhagen.
1987 Alan Greenspan becomes Chairman of the US Federal Reserve.
1988 Al-Qaeda is founded.
1999 A total Solar eclipse is seen over much of Europe and Asia. It is the last solar eclipse of the 2nd millennium.
From 2001
2003 A heatwave in Paris, France kills an estimated 144 people, with temperatures reaching 44 degrees Celsius.
2003 President of Liberia Charles Taylor flees into exile in Nigeria.
2003 Jemaah Islamiyah leader Ridyan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
2006 Filipino oil tanker Solar 1 sinks at the island of Guimaras, leading to an oil spill.
2012 Two earthquakes of a magnitude over 6, followed by several aftershocks, strike the area around Tabriz, in northwestern Iran.
2014 American actor and comedian Robin Williams is found dead at his home in California, having committed suicide. He was 63 years old.
2017 A train collision near Alexandria, Egypt, kills at least 41 people.
Births
Up to 1900
1086 Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1125)
1379 Yolande of Aragon (d. 1442)
1467 Mary of York, English princess (d. 1482)
1667 Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Italian princess (d. 1743)
1673 Richard Mead, English physician (d. 1754)
1706 Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis (d. 1756)
1718 Sir Frederick Haldimand, professional soldier (d. 1891)
1772 Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, British general (d. 1842)
1778 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German teacher (d. 1852)
1794 James Barton Longacre, engraver and designer of United States Indian Head cent (d. 1869)
1801 Eduard Devrient, German baritone (d. 1877)
1807 David Rice Atchison, American politician (d. 1886)
1808 William W. Chapman, American politician (d. 1892)
1816 Frederick Innes, Scottish-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1882)
1823 Charlotte Mary Yonge, British writer (d. 1901)
1824 Martin Gropius, German architect (d. 1880)
1825 István Türr, Hungarian soldier, architect and engineer (d. 1908)
1833 Robert G. Ingersoll, American political leader and orator, atheist, American Civil War Colonel (d. 1899)
1833 Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician, leading figure of the Meiji restoration (d. 1877)
1837 Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (d. 1894)
1858 Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch doctor, won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering vitamins (d. 1930)
1864 Duarte Leite, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1950)
1865 Gifford Pinchot, American politician and environmentalist (d. 1946)
1870 Tom Richardson, English cricketer (d. 1912).
1872 Kijuro Shidehara, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)
1879 Frieda von Richthofen, German writer (d. 1956)
1882 Kimon Georgiev, 24th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1969)
1882 Rodolfo Graziani, Italian general and politician (d. 1955)
1889 Arturo Martini, Italian sculptor (d. 1947)
1891 Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect and lecturer (d. 1962)
1892 Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (d. 1962)
1892 Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (d. 1978)
1897 Enid Blyton, English writer (d. 1968)
1897 Louise Bogan, American poet (d. 1970)
1898 Peter Mohr Dam, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1968)
1900 Alexander Mosolov, Russian composer (d. 1973)
1901 - 1950
1902 Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
1902 Lloyd Nolan, actor (d. 1982)
1905 Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)
1905 Kurt Gerstein, German SS officer (d. 1945)
1911 Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai general and politician (d. 2004)
1912 Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, astronomer (d. 1954)
1913 Angus Wilson, British novelist (d. 1991)
1913 Paul Dupuis, French Canadian actor (d. 1976)
1913 Bob Scheffing, American baseball player and manager (d. 1985)
1914 Hugh Martin, American songwriter (d. 2011)
1915 Morris Weiss, American comic book artist and writer (d. 2014)
1917 Dik Browne, American cartoonist (d. 1989)
1917 Ilse Scholl, German activist (d. 1998)
1918 Thomas A. Bird, British World War II army officer and architect (d. 2017)
1919 Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949)
1920 Mike Douglas, American entertainer (d. 2006)
1921 Alex Haley, American historian and novelist (d. 1992)
1923 Stan Chambers, American television reporter (d. 2015)
1925 Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
1926 Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born British chemist (d. 2018)
1926 Claus von Bülow, Danish-born socialite (d. 2019)
1927 Raymond Leppard, English conductor
1927 Stuart Rosenberg, American director (d. 2007)
1928 Beniamino Andreatta, Italian economist and politician (d. 2007)
1928 Arlene Dahl, American actress
1929 Alun Hoddinott, Welsh composer (d. 2008)
1932 Fernando Arrabal, Spanish playwright and novelist
1932 Peter Eisenman, American architect
1933 Jerry Falwell, American Christian preacher and politician (d. 2007)
1936 Bill Monbouquette, American baseball player (d. 2015)
1937 Anna Massey, British actress (d. 2011)
1937 Patrick Joseph McGovern, American businessman (d. 2014)
1942 Mike Hugg, British musician
1943 Abigail Folger, American Coffee heiress (d. 1969)
1943 Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and politician, former President of Pakistan
1943 Jim Kale, Canadian musician
1944 Frederick W. Smith, American businessman
1944 Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
1946 Marilyn vos Savant, American newspaper columnist
1946 Oscar Berger, 34th President of Guatemala
1947 Theo de Jong, Dutch footballer and manager
1948 Don Boyd, Scottish director, producer and screenwriter
1948 Jan Palach, Czech activist (d. 1969)
1949 Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
1949 Eric Carmen, American singer and guitarist
1950 Erik Brann, American guitarist
1950 Andrei Golovin, Russian composer
1950 Gennidy Nikonov, designer of the AN-94 assault rifle
1950 Steve Wozniak, American personal computer pioneer
1951 1975
1952 Reid Blackburn, American photographer (d. 1980)
1953 Hulk Hogan (Terry Gene Bollea), American professional wrestler
1954 Joe Jackson, British singer
1955 Sylvia Hermon, British politician
1956 Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician
1957 Richie Ramone, American musician, drummer with The Ramones
1957 Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (d. 1993)
1958 Jah Wobble, British musician
1959 Gustavo Cerati, Argentine singer and musician (d. 2014)
1959 Richard Scudamore, English businessman
1961 Sunil Shetty, Indian actor
1961 Frederick W. Sturckow, American astronaut
1965 Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer
1965 Viola Davis, American actress
1965 Marc Bergevin, Canadian ice hockey player and general manager
1965 Robert Fleck, Scottish footballer
1966 Juan María Solare, Argentine music composer and pianist
1966 Nigel Martyn, English footballer
1967 Joe Rogan, comedian and television host
1968 Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau, sister-in-law to King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
1968 Sophie Okonedo, British actress
1968 Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian terrorist (d. 2009)
1969 Ashley Jensen, Scottish actress
1969 Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima, Brazilian marathon runner
1970 Gianluca Pessotto, Italian footballer
1972 Agnes Samaria, Namibian athlete
1972 Jonathon Prandi, American male model
1974 Audrey Mestre, French freediver (d. 2002)
1974 Marie-France Dubreuil, Canadian ice dancer
1974 Anju Jain, Indian cricketer and coach
From 1976
1976 Iván Córdoba, Colombian footballer
1976 Erick Lindgren, American poker player
1977 Gemma Hayes, Irish musician
1978 Jermain Taylor, American boxer
1978 Chris Kelly, American rapper (Kris Kross) (d. 2013)
1979 Nemanja Vucicevic, Serbian footballer
1980 José Antonio Castro, Mexican footballer
1980 Sébastien Squillaci, French footballer
1980 Lee Suggs, American football player
1981 Sandi Thom, Scottish singer
1983 Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
1983 Yuriy Krymarenko, Ukrainian high-jumper
1984 Melky Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
1984 Lucas di Grassi, Brazilian racing driver
1986 Kaori Fukihara, Japanese voice actress
1986 Richard Keogh, English-Irish footballer
1986 Pablo Sandoval, Venezuelan baseball player
1987 Dany N'Guessan, French footballer
1988 Patty Mills, Australian basketball player
1990 Nicola Zagame, Australian water polo player
1991 Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer
1992 Bryce Cotton, American basketball player
1992 Tomi Lahren, American conservative political commentator
1992 Gilli Rólantsson, Faroese footballer
1993 Alyson Stoner, American actress
1993 Gita Gutawa, Indonesian singer-songwriter and actress
1993 Sean McGinty, English-Irish footballer
1993 Andre Drummond, American basketball player
1994 Rand Al-Mashhadani, Iraqi competitive shooter
Deaths
Up to 1900
480 BC Leonidas, King of Sparta
223 Jia Xu, Chinese politician (b. 147)
353 Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)
449 Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople
897 Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona
1204 King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)
1253 Saint Clare of Assisi, patron saint of television (b. 1193)
1259 Mongke Khan, Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (b. 1208)
1456 Janos Hunyadi, Hungarian regent (b. 1387)
1563 Bartolome de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. 1500)
1578 Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502)
1656 Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (b. 1599)
1801 Felix Maria Samaniego, Spanish poet (b. 1745)
1813 Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)
1851 Lorenz Oken, German industrialist (b. 1779)
1854 Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798)
1872 Andrew Smith, Scottish physician, surgeon and zoologist (b. 1797)
1886 Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)
1890 John Henry Newman, English cardinal (b. 1801)
1892 Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
1901 2000
1903 Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839)
1908 Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1889)
1919 Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American industrialist, philanthropist (b. 1835)
1936 Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1885)
1937 Edith Wharton, American writer (b. 1862)
1939 Jean Bugatti, Automobile designer (b. 1909)
1953 Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racecar driver (b. 1892)
1955 Robert W. Wood, American experimental physicist (b. 1868)
1956 Jackson Pollock, American artist (b. 1912)
1956 Frieda von Richthofen, German writer (b. 1879)
1972 Max Theiler, South African virologist (b. 1899)
1974 Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan musicologist and composer (b. 1887)
1975 Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Israeli politician (b. 1885)
1978 Mario Varglien, Italian footballer (b. 1905)
1980 Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)
1982 Tom Drake, American actor (b. 1918)
1984 Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonia-born German chess player (b. 1916)
1984 Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (b. 1892)
1986 Heinz Strehl, German footballer (b. 1938)
1988 Alfred Kelbassa, German footballer (b. 1925)
1994 Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913)
1996 Rafael Kubelik, conductor and composer (b. 1914)
From 2001
2003 Diana Mitford, widow of British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley (b. 1910)
2003 Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (b. 1937)
2003 Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)
2006 Mike Douglas, American entertainer (b. 1920)
2008 Fred Sinowatz, former Chancellor of Austria (b. 1929)
2009 Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, and sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1921)
2011 Jani Lane, American musician (b. 1964)
2013 Henry Polic II, American actor (b. 1945)
2013 Shirley Herz, American publicist (b. 1925)
2013 Jean Bethbo Elshtain, American scholar (b. 1941)
2014 Vladimir Beara, Yugoslavian footballer (b. 1928)
2014 Raymond Gravel, Canadian politician (b. 1952)
2014 Pierre Ryckmans, Belgian-Australian diplomat and author (b. 1935)
2014 Kika Szaszkiewiczowa, Polish artist and writer (b. 1917)
2014 Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (b. 1951)
2015 Nour El-Sherif, Egyptian actor and conspiracy theorist (b. 1946)
2015 Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer (b. 1941)
2016 Hanif Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1934)
2017 Abdulhussain Abdulredha, Kuwaiti actor and writer (b. 1939)
2017 Segun Bucknor, Nigerian musician and journalist (b. 1946)
2017 Yisrael Kristal, Polish-Israeli supercentenarian and Holocaust survivor, oldest-living man (b. 1903)
2017 Kent Lee, American Vice Admiral (b. 1923)
2017 Eugenio Polgovsky, Mexican film director (b. 1977)
2018 V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-British writer (b. 1932)
2018 Fabio Mamerto Rivas Santos, Dominican Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1932)
2018 Morris G. Hallock, American politician (b. 1926)
2019 Bluey Adams, Australian footballer (b. 1935)
2019 Darryl Drake, American football player (b. 1956)
2019 Michael E. Krauss, American linguist (b. 1934)
2019 Ningali Lawford, Australian actress (b. 1967)
2019 Barbara March, Canadian actress (b. 1953)
2019 Walter Martínez, Honduran footballer (b. 1982)
Observances
Independence Day in Chad
Days of the year |
9976 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%2010 | August 10 |
Events
Up to 1900
612 BC Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
654 Eugene I is elected Pope, although his predecessor, Pope Martin I, is still alive at this time.
843 The Treaty of Verdun divides the Frankish Kingdom between Lothair I, Louis the German and Charles the Bald.
AD 955 Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
1270 Yekuno Amlak takes the Ethiopian Imperial throne.
1492 Alexander VI is elected Pope.
1519 Ferdinand Magellan's 5 ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
1535 The Saint Lawrence River is named by Jacques Cartier.
1628 The Vasa warship, prestige project of King Gustav II Adolph of Sweden.
1664 The Austro-Turkish War ends.
1675 The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London is laid.
1680 Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
1755 Under orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.
1776 Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1792 French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
1793 The Musée du Louvre opens in Paris.
1809 Quito, the present-day capital of Ecuador declares independence from Spain.
1813 Chile's Instituto Nacional is founded.
1821 Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
1830 Ecuador separates from Greater Colombia.
1846 The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist Joseph Smithson.
1856 In Louisiana, a hurricane kills about 400 people.
1861 American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek - The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
1864 Start of the Uruguayan War.
1893 At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel's prime model runs on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
1897 Felix Hoffmann produces Aspirin for the first time.
1899 Norwegian Football Club Viking FK is founded.
1901 2000
1904 Russo-Japanese War: Battle of the Yellow Sea.
1905 Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1913 Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
1920 World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
1932 A 5.1 kg chondrite type meteorite broke into at least seven pieces and struck earth near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri, USA.
1944 World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
1948 Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
1949 US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishment with the United States Department of Defense.
1954 At Massena, New York, the ground breaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
1961 Agent Orange is used in Vietnam for the first time.
1969 A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
1977 In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year's period.
1981 The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the United States Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America's Most Wanted.
1986 A Formula One Grand Prix is held in a then-Eastern Bloc country for the first time. The first Hungarian Grand Prix is won by Nelson Piquet.
1988 Japanese American internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
1990 The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
1990 More than 127 Muslims are killed in Northeastern Sri Lanka by paramilitary troops.
1993 A magnitude 7 earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand.
1995 Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony.
1998 Jamil Mahuad becomes President of Ecuador.
From 2001
2001 An attack on a train in Angola kills 225 people.
2003 The highest temperature ever recorded in England, 38.5°C, occurs in Kent; the record holds until 2019, when a temperature of 38.7 degrees Celsius is measured at the University of Cambridge.
2003 Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space, to a woman on the ground in Texas.
2006 British police prevent an attempt by Islamist terrorists to blow up Transatlantic airliners.
2009 Slovakia's deadliest mining disaster kills 20 people.
2010 The WHO declares that the H1N1 influenza pandemic is over.
2014 Turkey holds its first direct Presidential election, in which Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is elected President.
2014 Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes near Tehran, Iran, killing 39 people.
2017 Swedish journalist Kim Wall disappears after going on inventor Peter Madsen's submarine to interview him, in the Oresund between Denmark and Sweden; Madsen is later found to have murdered her and is found guilty of the crime.
2018 2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident: Seattle airport employee Richard Russell flies a small plane from the airport and later crashes it on a nearby island.
2019 American billionaire financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is found dead in his prison cell in New York City, from suspected suicide.
Births
Up to 1800
914 Le Hoan, Emperor of Vietnam (died 1005)
1267 James II of Aragon (died 1327)
1296 King John of Bohemia (died 1346)
1397 Albert II of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (died 1439)
1449 Bona of Savoy, Duchess of Savoy (died 1503)
1489 Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (died 1553)
1520 Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (died 1537)
1535 Kaspar Olevianus, German theologian (died 1587)
1556 Philipp Nicolai, German Lutheran minister (died 1608)
1560 Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (died 1629)
1602 Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (died 1675)
1737 Anton Losenko, Russian painter (died 1773)
1740 Samuel Arnold, English composer and organist (died 1802)
1753 Edmund Randolph, United States Secretary of State (died 1813)
1782 Charles James Napier, British general (died 1853)
1794 Leopold Zunz, German Jewish scientist (died 1886)
1799 Samuel Dickinson Hubbard, American politician (died 1855)
1801 1900
1810 Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and Italy (died 1861)
1810 Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, President of Uruguay (died 1887)
1814 Henri Nestlé, Swiss industrialist (died 1890)
1814 John C. Pemberton, American Confederate general (died 1881)
1814 Ketil Motzfeldt, Norwegian politician (died 1889)
1821 Jay Cooke, financier (died 1905)
1823 Goncales Dias, Brazilian poet (died 1864)
1827 Lovro Toman, Slovenian politician (died 1870)
1839 Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist (died 1896)
1845 Abai Kunanbaev, Kazak poet (died 1904)
1856 William Willett, British builder and Daylight Saving Time supporter (died 1915)
1860 Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (died 1936)
1865 Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (died 1936)
1865 Andreas Heusler, Swiss medievalist (died 1940)
1869 Laurence Binyon, British poet (died 1943)
1871 Aino Sibelius, wife of Jean Sibelius (died 1969)
1872 Bill Johnson, jazz musician (died 1972)
1874 Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (died 1964)
1874 Antanas Smetona, 1st President of Lithuania (died 1944)
1877 Frank Marshall, American chess player (died 1944)
1878 Alfred Döblin, German writer (died 1957)
1887 Sam Warner, Polish-American film producer (died 1927)
1888 Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (died 1940)
1889 Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish writer and World War II Resistance activist (died 1968)
1889 Charles Darrow, American creator of the Monopoly board game (died 1967)
1890 Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1954)
1894 Vaharagiri Venkata Giri, President of India (died 1980)
1896 Walter Lang, American film director (died 1972)
1898 Jack Haley, actor (died 1979)
1899 Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish writer (died 1968)
1900 Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1994)
1901 1950
1901 Sergio Frusoni, Cape Verdean poet (died 1975)
1902 Norma Shearer, American actress (died 1983)
1902 Curt Siodmak, science fiction writer (died 2000)
1902 Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist (died 1971)
1907 Su Yu, Chinese Communist military leader (died 1984)
1908 Lauri Lehtinen, Finnish athlete (died 1973)
1909 Leo Fender, American luthier (died 1991)
1909 King Mohammed V of Morocco (died 1961)
1909 Richard J. Hughes, Governor of New Jersey (died 1992)
1910 Gordon Gray, Scottish cardinal (died 1993)
1912 Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist (died 2001)
1913 Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (died 1993)
1913 Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (died 1994)
1914 Ken Annakin, British movie director and screenwriter (died 2009)
1916 Coutoucou Hubert Maga, President of present-day Benin (died 2000)
1919 Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer (died 2001)
1920 Red Holzman, American basketball player (died 1998)
1923 Rhonda Fleming, American actress
1924 Martha Hyer, American actress (died 2014)
1926 Marie-Claire Alain, French organist (died 2013)
1927 Vittorio Gregotti, Italian architect
1928 Jimmy Dean, American country music singer (died 2010)
1928 Eddie Fisher, American singer and entertainer (died 2010)
1930 Fakir Musafar, American performance artist (died 2018)
1930 Barry Unsworth, British writer (died 2012)
1932 Gaudencio Rosales, Filipino cardinal
1933 Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, English judge
1935 Giya Kancheli, Georgian composer
1937 Lucinda Williams, American athlete
1937 Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (died 2000)
1939 Kate O'Mara, British actress (died 2014)
1940 Bobby Hatfield, American singer, (Righteous Brothers) (died 2003)
1942 Betsey Johnson, American fashion designer
1942 Giovanni Leodetti, Italian footballer
1943 Ronnie Spector, American singer, lead singer of the Ronettes
1945 Harriet Miers, former White House counsel
1947 Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysian politician
1947 Ian Anderson, Scottish musician (Jethro Tull)
1950 Patsy Austin, American singer
1951 1975
1951 Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Colombia
1952 Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
1952 Diane Venora, American actress
1956 Fred Ottman, American professional wrestler
1956 Charlie Peacock, American singer-songwriter and producer
1957 David Crane, American television producer and screenwriter
1957 Fred Ho, American musician, composer, bandleader, playwright and social activist (died 2014)
1958 Wolfgang Funkel, German football manager
1958 Rosie Winterton, English politician
1958 Don Swayze, American actor
1959 Rosanna Arquette, American actress
1960 Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
1960 Kenny Perry, American golfer
1962 Suzanne Collins, American screenwriter and writer
1963 Phoolan Devi, Indian political figure (d. 2001)
1963 Andrew Sullivan, journalist
1965 Toumani Diabaté, Malian musician
1965 Claudia Christian, actress
1965 Mike Smith, Hall of Fame jockey
1965 John Starks, American basketball player
1965 Eduardo Campos, Brazilian politician (d. 2014)
1966 Hossam Hassan, Egyptian footballer
1967 Riddick Bowe, American heavyweight boxer
1967 Lorraine Pearson, musician (Five Star)
1967 Mart Sander, Estonian actor, singer, director and author
1968 Tsuyoshi Kitazawa, Japanese footballer
1968 Salvatore Licitra, Italian tenor (died 2011)
1971 Mario Kindelán, Cuban boxer
1971 Justin Theroux, actor
1971 Roy Keane, Irish footballer
1972 Christofer Johnsson, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1972 Angie Harmon, American model and actress
1972 Lawrence Dallaglio, English rugby player
1973 Daijiro Takakuwa, Japanese footballer
1973 Javier Zanetti, Argentine footballer
1973 Lisa Raymond, American tennis player
1974 Luis Marin, Costa Rican footballer
1974 David Sommeil, French footballer
1975 Ilhan Mansiz, Turkish footballer, actor and ice skater
From 1976
1976 Ian Murray, Scottish politician
1977 Luciana Aymar, Argentine field hockey player
1978 Danny Allsopp, Australian footballer
1978 Marcus Fizer, American basketball player
1979 Joanna Garcia, American actress
1979 Ted Geoghegan, American author, screenwriter and producer
1979 Yannick Schroeder, French racing driver
1980 Roxanne McKee, British actress
1981 Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer (formerly of Morning Musume)
1981 Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian badminton player
1982 Josh Anderson, American baseball player
1982 Shaun Murphy, English snooker player
1983 Alexander Perezhogin, Russian ice hockey player
1983 Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 Enrico Cortese, Italian footballer
1986 Kazuma Watanabe, Japanese footballer
1988 Julia Melim, Brazilian actress
1989 Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
1990 Lucas Till, American actor
1991 Pratyusha Banerjee, Indian actress (died 2016)
1991 Amy Dowden, Welsh professional dancer
1992 Go Ah-sung, South Korean actress
1993 Andre Drummond, American basketball player
1993 Yuto Nakajima, Japanese actor and singer
1994 Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer
1996 Jacob Latimore, American singer, actor and director
1997 Kylie Jenner, American model, television personality and entrepreneur
Deaths
Up to 1900
258 Saint Lawrence of Rome, Christian martyr.
1241 Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (b. 1184).
1250 King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216).
1535 Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1509).
1590 Princess Christina of Denmark (b. 1521).
1637 Johann Gerhard, German church leader and theologian (b. 1582).
1655 Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat (b. 1572).
1723 Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656).
1759 King Ferdinand VI of Spain (b. 1713).
1784 Allan Ramsey, Scottish painter (b. 1713).
1802 Franz Aepinius, German natural philosopher (b. 1724).
1806 Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737).
1862 Horinbo Shusaku, Japanese Go player (b. 1829).
1875 Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808).
1896 Otto Lilienthal, German aviator (b. 1848).
1901 2000
1904 Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (b. 1846).
1915 Henry Moseley, British physicist (b. 1887).
1918 William P. Kellogg, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1831).
1920 Adam Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician (b. 1835).
1929 Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878).
1929 Aletta Jacobs, first female physician in the Netherlands (b. 1854).
1932 Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (b. 1918).
1939 Carlo Galimberti, Italian weightlifter (b. 1894).
1945 Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882).
1960 Frank Lloyd, Scottish-American actor (b. 1886).
1963 Ernst Wetter, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1877).
1963 Estes Kefauver, American politician (b. 1903).
1971 Federico Callori di Vignale, Italian cardinal (b. 1890).
1979 Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889).
1980 Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, Last President of United Pakistan (b. 1917).
1986 Alan Rouse, British mountaineer (b. 1951).
1987 Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek politician (b. 1893).
1992 Aribert Heim, Austrian physician (b. 1914).
1993 Euronymous, Norwegian singer, guitarist and producer (b. 1958).
1999 Jennifer Paterson, English chef (b. 1928).
From 2001
2001 Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917).
2002 Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926).
2007 Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American military pilot and Civil rights figure (b. 1925).
2008 Isaac Hayes, American musician (b. 1942).
2010 Antonio Pettigrew, American athlete (b. 1967).
2012 Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (b. 1925).
2013 Eydie Gormé, American singer (b. 1928).
2013 William P. Clark, Jr., American politician (b. 1931).
2013 Laszlo Csatary, Hungarian Nazi war criminal (b. 1915).
2014 Kathleen Ollerenshaw, English mathematician (b. 1912).
2014 Shree Krishna Shrestha, Nepalese actor (b. 1940).
2014 Ann Rowan, Irish actress (b. 1929)
2015 Endre Czeizel, Hungarian physicist, geneticist and professor (b. 1935)
2015 Fred Eckhardt, American beer expert (b. 1926)
2017 Ruth Pfau, German-Pakistani nun, physician and activist (b. 1929)
2017 Kim Wall, Swedish journalist (b. 1987)
2018 Lillian Cox, American supercentenarian (b. 1907)
2018 Richard Russell, American mechanic and hijacker (b. 1989)
2019 Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and sex offender (b. 1953)
2019 J. Neil Schulman, American novelist (b. 1953)
2019 Cándido Sibilio, Dominican-Spanish basketball player (b. 1958)
2019 Piero Tosi, Italian costume designer (b. 1927)
Observances
Independence Day in Ecuador
Saint Lawrence of Rome (Christian martyr)
Days of the year |
9977 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%2022 | August 22 |
Events
Up to 1900
392 Arbogast is elected Roman Emperor.
476 Odoacer is proclaimed, by West Roman mercenaries, as Rex Italiae, King of Italy.
1138 Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England near Northallerton, Yorkshire.
1485 The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses. Richard III of England dies, and Henry VII of England takes over, starting the period with the Tudor Dynasty ruling England, lasting until 1603.
1559 Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
1639 Madras (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) is founded by the British East India Company.
1642 Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War
1654 Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immigrant to what is later the United States
1717 Spanish troops land on Sardinia
1770 James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia
1775 King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion
1777 American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix, after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
1780 James Cook's ship Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage)
1791 Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution
1827 Jose de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
1832 Dressed as an Arab, Swiss Jean Louis Burckhardt reaches Petra, the famous rock city in Jordan. In Europe, it had until then only been rumored to exist.
1848 The United States annexes New Mexico.
1851 Gold is discovered in Australia.
1851 The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
1864 Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
1875 The Treaty of Saint Petersburg is ratified between Russia and Japan, providing for exchange between Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands.
From 1901
1902 Cadillac Motor Company is founded
1902 Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile
1910 Japan annexes Korea.
1911 The theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered, after being stolen in the night from August 21.
1914 In Belgium, British and German troops meet for the first time in World War I
1922 Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an anti-treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork during the Irish Civil War.
1926 Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
1930 Peruvian President Augusto B. Leguia y Salcedo is deposed in a coup led by General Luis Miguel Sanchez Cerro.
1932 The BBC experiments with television broadcasting.
1934 Australian Bill Woodfull becomes the first cricket captain to regain The Ashes twice. The Ashes is a series of fives matches played between Australia and England.
1941 German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the Siege of Leningrad
1942 Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan)
1944 Last transport of French Jews to concentration camps in Germany
1944 32 Spaniards and 4 Frenchmen tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with six tanks and two self-propelled guns), at La Madeleine, France. Three Maquis wounded, 110 Germans killed, 200 wounded.
1950 Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
1952 France permanently closes the Devil's Island penal colony off French Guiana. French convicts were often sent there.
1961 Ida Siekmann falls to her death in an attempt to cross the Berlin Wall.
1962 An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails
1962 The Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered ship, completes its maiden voyage
1968 Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
1971 Hugo Banzer takes power in Bolivia.
1972 Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies.
1973 United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers resigns. Henry Kissinger succeeds him.
1975 An attempt to assassinate US President Gerald Ford fails.
1978 The Sandinista Liberation Front occupies the national palace in Managua, Nicaragua.
1981 The Voyager 2 space probe photographs Saturn's moon Iapetus.
1985 The Manchester Air Disaster occurs when 55 people are killed after a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester International Airport.
1988 The Australian koala, the first platinum coin, is issued.
1989 The first ring of Neptune is discovered
1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5000 strikeouts.
1992 FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shot and killed Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
1996 US President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law.
2001 The Trojan Room coffee pot is switched off for the last time.
2004 The Scream and The Madonna by Edvard Munch is stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2006 Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes in eastern Ukraine, killing 170 people.
2007 Major League Baseball: The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3.
2011 2011 Libyan civil war: Rebel forces advance on Tripoli, as the war enters its final phase.
2015 A plane at an airshow in Shoreham, Southern England, crashes onto a motorway, killing 11 people.
Births
Up to 1900
1412 Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1464)
1485 Beatus Rhenanus, German humanist (d. 1547)
1601 Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
1647 Denis Papin, French inventor (pressure cooker) (d. around 1712)
1724 Jens Schielderup Sneedorff, Danish author and professor of political science (d. 1764)
1760 Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
1764 Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
1771 Henry Maudslay, inventor and tool-maker (d. 1831)
1773 Aime Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858)
1778 James Kirke Paulding, American politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1860)
1800 William S. Harney, American general (d. 1889)
1800 Edward Bouverie, English theologian (d. 1882)
1818 Carlo Pisacane, Italian politician, guerrilla and writer (d. 1857)
1820 Manolache Costache Epureanu, Romanian politician (d. 1880)
1822 Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
1834 Samuel Pierpoint Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
1845 William Lewis Douglas, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924)
1846 Amalie Skram, Norwegian-Danish writer and Women's Rights activist (d. 1905)
1847 John Forrest, Australian explorer and politician, 1st Premier of Western Australia (d. 1918)
1854 King Milan I of Serbia (d. 1901)
1857 Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
1860 Paul Nipkow, German inventor and television pioneer (d. 1940)
1860 Eleonore Reuss of Koestritz, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 1917)
1860 Gustaf Fröding, Swedish poet (d. 1911)
1862 Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
1867 Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
1873 Alexander Bogdanov, Russian philosopher and physician (d. 1928)
1874 Max Scheler, philosopher (d. 1928)
1880 George Herriman, cartoonist (d. 1944)
1882 Raymonde de Laroche, French pilot (d. 1919)
1884 Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
1885 Thomas Cooke, American soccer player (d. 1964)
1887 Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1977)
1888 Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, German general (d. 1976)
1893 Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
1893 Wilfred Kitching, 7th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1977)
1896 Frank Loomis, American athlete (d. 1971)
1900 Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
1901 1950
1902 Leni Riefenstahl, German movie director (d. 2003)
1903 Francis Birch, English geophysicist (d. 1992)
1904 Deng Xiaoping, leader of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
1906 Stig Wennerström, Swedish spy (d. 2006)
1908 Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
1909 Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992)
1909 Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1911 John J. Hickey, Governor of Wyoming (d. 1970)
1913 Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1992)
1915 Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
1915 Edward Szczepanik, Polish Prime Minister (d. 2005)
1915 James Hiller, Canadian-American scientist (d. 2007)
1917 John Lee Hooker, American blues guitarist and singer (d. 2001)
1917 Oscar E. Huber, American politician (d. 2017)
1918 Said Mohamed Djohar, President of the Comoros (d. 2006)
1920 Ray Bradbury, American writer (d. 2012)
1920 Doctor Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon (d. 2016)
1924 James Kirkwood Jr., novelist (d. 1989)
1924 Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet and author (d. 2015)
1925 Honor Blackman, British actress
1928 Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
1928 Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and activist
1930 Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
1932 Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
1933 Sylva Koscina, Croatian-Italian actress
1933 Michael von Albrecht, German classical scholar
1934 Norman Schwarzkopf, American general (d. 2012)
1935 E. Annie Proulx, Canadian Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
1936 Petar Mladenov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 2000)
1937 Francesco Musso, Italian boxer
1938 Paul Maguire, American football player
1939 George Reinholt, actor
1939 Carl Yastrzemski, American Baseball Hall of Famer
1939 Valerie Harper, American actress (d. 2019)
1941 Bill Parcells, American football coach
1942 Kathy Lennon, American singer
1942 Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993)
1942 Joe Klein, American baseball executive (d. 2017)
1943 Alun Michael, Welsh politician
1943 Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist
1945 David Chase, American screenwriter, director and producer
1945 Ron Dante, American singer-songwriter and producer
1947 Robert E. Cramer, American politician
1947 Donna Godchaux, American singer (Grateful Dead)
1947 Cindy Williams, actress
1948 David Marks, American songwriter and musician
1950 Lewis Libby, American White House counsel
1951 1975
1951 Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
1953 Paul Ellering, American weightlifter, wrestler and manager
1955 Will Shetterly, writer
1956 Paul Molitor, American Baseball Hall of Famer
1957 Steve Davis, English snooker player
1958 Colm Feore, American-Canadian actor
1958 Vernon Reid, musician (Living Colour)
1959 Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
1959 Mark Williams, English actor and screenwriter
1960 Collin Raye, American country music singer and songwriter
1960 Regina Taylor, American actress
1961 Debbi Peterson, drummer (The Bangles)
1961 Roland Orzabal, singer and guitarist (Tears for Fears)
1961 Andrés Calamaro, Argentine musician and composer
1961 Thomas Hoeren, German law professor
1962 Viktor Bryzhin, Ukrainian sprinter
1962 Ilkka Laitinen, Finnish military officer and politician (d. 2019)
1963 Tori Amos, American singer, songwriter, and pianist
1964 Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player
1964 Andrew Wilson, American actor
1966 Paul Ereng, Kenyan athlete
1966 Rob Witschge, Dutch footballer
1967 Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
1967 Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
1967 Ty Burrell, American actor and comedian
1967 Adewode Akinnouye-Agbaje, British actor
1968 Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian businesswoman
1969 Paola Epifani, Italian artist
1970 Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-American chef and author
1971 Richard Armitage, British actor
1972 Paul Doucette, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and drummer
1972 Steve Kline, American baseball player and coach
1973 Howie Dorough, American singer-songwriter, dancer and actor (Backstreet Boys)
1973 Kristin Wiig, American actress and comedienne
1975 Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
From 1976
1977 Heidar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
1977 Jenna Leigh Green, American actress and singer
1978 Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1978 James Corden, English actor and television personality
1979 Jennifer Finnigan, Canadian actress
1979 Mia Audina, Indonesian-Dutch badminton player
1980 Aya Sumika, American actress
1981 Alex Holmes, American Football player
1982 Marco Wölfli, Swiss footballer
1983 Laura Breckenridge, American actress
1983 Theo Bos, Dutch motorcycle racer
1984 Lawrence Quaye, Ghanaian-Qatari footballer
1986 Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress
1986 Monsieur Adi, French musician, record producer and DJ
1986 Janis Vahter, Estonian basketball player
1987 Mischa Zverev, Russian-German tennis player
1991 Federico Macheda, Italian footballer
1991 Brayden Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player
1994 Olli Maatta, Finnish ice hockey player
1995 Dua Lipa, English singer and songwriter
1999 Dakota Goyo, Canadian actor
Deaths
Up to 1900
408 Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
1155 Emperor Konoe of Japan (b. 1139)
1188 Ferdinand II of Leon (b. 1137)
1241 Pope Gregory IX
1280 Pope Nicholas III (b. 1216)
1304 John II, Count of Holland (b. 1247)
1350 King Philip VI of France (b. 1293)
1358 Isabella, Queen of England (b. 1295)
1456 Vladislav II of Wallachia
1485 King Richard III of England (b. 1452)
1532 William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1450)
1553 John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (b. 1504)
1554 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)
1572 Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
1584 Jan Kochanowski, Polish poet (b. 1530)
1599 Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. 1553)
1652 Jacob de La Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
1680 John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
1701 John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
1752 William Whiston, English mathematician, historian and theologian (b. 1667)
1793 Louis de Noailles, Marshal of France (b. 1713)
1806 Jean-Honore Fragonard, French painter (b. 1732)
1818 Warren Hastings, English politician, 1st Governor of Bengal (b. 1732)
1850 Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian writer (b. 1802)
1861 Xianfeng, Chinese Emperor (b. 1830)
1890 Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian poet, writer and politician (b. 1821)
1891 Jan Neruda, Czech writer (b. 1834)
1901 2000
1903 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
1922 Michael Collins, Irish political leader (b. 1890)
1940 Gerald Strickland, British statesman (b. 1861)
1940 Isidro Goma y Tomas, Spanish cardinal (b. 1869)
1942 Michel Fokine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1880)
1944 Luigi Maglione, Italian cardinal (b. 1877)
1958 Roger Martin du Gard, French writer (b. 1881)
1961 Ida Siekmann, victim of the Berlin Wall (b. 1902)
1965 Ellen Church, American flight attendant (b. 1904)
1967 Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist (b. 1903)
1976 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (b. 1902)
1977 Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (b. 1918)
1978 Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (b. 1891)
1980 Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (b. 1891)
1986 Celal Bayar, 3rd President of Turkey (b. 1883)
1989 Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer (b. 1906)
1989 Huey Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
1991 Boris Pugo, Soviet-Latvian politician (b. 1937)
1993 Kasdi Merbah, Algerian politician
2000 Abulfaz Elchibey, President of Azerbaijan (b. 1938)
From 2001
2003 Imperio Argentina, Argentine singer and actress (b. 1906)
2004 Angus Bethune, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1908)
2005 Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
2010 Stjepan Bobek, Croatian footballer (b. 1923)
2011 Jack Layton, Canadian politician, leader of the New Democratic Party (b. 1950)
2011 Loriot, German humorist, cartoonist, actor and writer (b. 1923)
2011 Jerry Leiber, American songwriter (b. 1933)
2012 Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, Chinese cardinal and archbishop (b. 1923)
2013 Jetty Paerl, Dutch singer (b. 1921)
2014 U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian writer and critic (b. 1932)
2014 Emmanuel Kriaras, Greek lexicographer and philologist (b. 1906)
2014 John S. Waugh, American chemist (b. 1929)
2014 Jack Harris, Australian golfer (b. 1922)
2015 Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer (b. 1922)
2015 Ieng Thirith, Cambodian politician (b. 1932)
2015 Merl Reagle, American crossword compiler (b. 1950)
2015 Jörg Schneider, Swiss actor and comedian (b. 1935)
2015 Mariem Hassan, Sahrawi singer (b. 1958)
2016 Sellapan Ramanathan, President of Singapore (b. 1924)
2016 Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician (b. 1922)
2017 John Abercrombie, American jazz guitarist (b. 1944)
2017 Alain Berbérian, Lebanese-born French film director and screenwriter (b. 1953)
2017 Tony deBrum, Marshallese politician (b. 1945)
2017 Rishang Keishing, Indian politician (b. 1920)
2017 Matthew Kia Yen-wen, Taiwanese archbishop (b. 1925)
2017 Tom Pritchard, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1917)
2017 Jim Whelan, American politician (b. 1948)
2017 Michael J. C. Gordon, British computer scientist (b. 1948)
2017 Pedro Pedrossian, Brazilian politician (b. 1928)
2018 Tullio Ilomets, Estonian chemist and science historian (b. 1921)
2018 Ed King, American guitarist (b. 1949)
2018 Lazy Lester, American blues guitarist (b. 1933)
2018 Richard Kadison, American mathematician (b. 1925)
2019 Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
2019 Gary Ray Bowles, American serial killer (b. 1962)
2019 Tim Fischer, Australian politician (b. 1946)
2019 Tom Nissalke, American basketball coach (b. 1932)
Observances
Flag Day (Russia)
Days of the year |
9981 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1485 | 1485 |
Events
August 22 – Battle of Bosworth Field ends the War of the Roses, Henry VII becomes King of England.
The first appearance of the sweating sickness in England.
Births
16 December – Catherine of Aragon, later first Queen-consort of King Henry VIII of England.
Thomas Cromwell, English statesman (approximately).
Hernán Cortés, conqueror of Mexico
Clément Janequin, French chanson composer (approximate date)
Hugh Aston, English composer (approximate date)
Pierre Moulu, French composer (approximate date)
Deaths
March 16 – Anne Neville, Queen consort of Richard III of England.
22 August – King Richard III of England.
October 28 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar |
9984 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon | Noon | Noon is the time exactly halfway through the day (12.00-12:00 in the 24-hour clock and 12:00 PM-12:00 PM in the 12-hour clock). Midday also means noon, although this also means around noon, or very early afternoon.
Solar noon is when the sun appears the highest in the sky, compared to its positions during the rest of the day. It occurs when the Sun is exactly halfway between sunrise (dawn) and sunset. This is also the origin of the terms a.m. and p.m., ante meridiem and post meridiem. At solar noon, the sun is due south seen from the Northern Hemisphere, and due north seen from the Southern Hemisphere. The sun is directly overhead at solar noon at the Equator on the equinoxes; at Tropic of ♋ (latitude 23½°N) on the summer solstice in June; and at Tropic of Capricorn (23½°S) on the winter solstice in December.
Because of the use of time zones and daylight saving time, the highest point of the sun and a clock time of noon are usually different.
The opposite of noon is midnight.
Cultural meanings
In traditional magical thinking, noon represents with heaven, order and life.
Parts of a day |
9985 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour%20clock | 24-hour clock | The 24-hour clock is a way of telling the time in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours, numbered from 0 to 24. It does not use a.m. or p.m. This system is also referred to (only in the US and the English speaking parts of Canada) as military time or (only in the United Kingdom and now very rarely) as continental time. In some parts of the world, it is called railway time. Also, the international standard notation of time (ISO 8601) is based on this format.
A time in the 24-hour clock is written in the form hours:minutes (for example, 01:23), or hours:minutes:seconds (01:23:45). Numbers under 10 usually have a zero in front (called a leading zero); e.g. 09:07. Under the 24-hour clock system, the day begins at midnight, 00:00, and the last minute of the day begins at 23:59 and ends at 24:00, which is identical to 00:00 of the following day. 12:00 can only be mid-day. Midnight is called 24:00 and is used to mean the end of the day and 00:00 is used to mean the beginning of the day. For example, you would say "Tuesday at 24:00" and "Wednesday at 00:00" to mean exactly the same time.
However, the US military prefers not to say 24:00 - they do not like to have two names for the same thing, so they always say "23:59", which is one minute before midnight.
24-hour clock time is used in computers, military, public safety, and transport. In many Asian, European and Latin American countries people use it to write the time. Many European people use it in speaking.
Many digital wristwatches and clocks can display the time of day using the 24-hour clock.
In railway timetables 24:00 means the end of the day. For example, a train due to arrive at a station during the last minute of a day arrives at 24:00; but trains which depart during the first minute of the day go at 00:00.
To write shop opening hours until midnight use, for example, "00:00–24:00", "07:00–24:00".
Advantages over the 12-hour clock system:
Fewer confusions between morning and evening; e.g. 7 o'clock in the evening is called 19:00.
People do not have to figure out if noon is 00h00.m.24 or 12hmr to calculate duration.
References
Time |
9986 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth%20Avenue | Fifth Avenue | Fifth Avenue is a large avenue in New York City (U.S.). Running from Greenwich Village in southern Manhattan to Harlem in the north, the avenue marks the line dividing Manhattan into two parts, called the East Side and the West Side. The nearest avenues, on either side, are Madison Avenue (east) and Sixth Avenue (west), also known as the Avenue of the Americas.
There are many famous sights, such as the New York Public Library, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Rockefeller Center and Central Park (which runs along the west side, between 59th and 110th Street). On Fifth Avenue there are many expensive shops like Gucci.
Related pages
Madison Avenue
Roads in New York City |
9987 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarm | Yarm | Yarm is a small town in North East England, in Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire. It is next to the River Tees and the River Leven. It has a railway station. From 1974 to 1996 it was part of Cleveland, England.
Towns in North Yorkshire |
9990 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster%20Volunteer%20Force | Ulster Volunteer Force | The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is a loyalist paramilitary (civilians trained as soldiers) group based in Northern Ireland. It was formed in 1966. Its name comes from the UVF of World War I. The Ulster Volunteer Force was started as a Protestant/Unionist militia (citizen military force) in 1912 to oppose the Home Rule campaign for a separate Irish parliament. Many UVF members formed the 36th (Ulster) Division that fought with the British Army in World War I. The Progressive Unionist Party is the political wing of the outlawed Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando. Although the PUP is called a loyalist fringe party, it has more moderate unionist views than any of the traditional unionist parties.
Crimes
During the Troubles in Northern Ireland (1969-1998), the UVF carried out many attacks:
In 1971, they bombed McGurk's Bar in Belfast which was in a mostly Catholic area of the city. The blast killed 15 Catholics and destroyed the building.
In 1974, they placed three car bombs in the centre of Dublin and another in Monaghan, which were deliberately exploded at rush hour to kill as many people as possible. The bombs killed 33 people and injured over 300, making it the worst atrocity of the conflict.
In 1975, they shot dead three members of the Miami Showband, a popular showband from Dublin, as they were travelling home from doing a show in County Down, Northern Ireland.
In 1994, they attacked a bar in Loughinisland County Down and fired on the customers. The attack killed six Catholics and injured five others.
Following the murder of a Catholic taxi driver in Portadown in July 1996, the Mid-Ulster Brigade of the UVF was expelled. They immediately set up the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF).
Ceasefire and decommissioning
After a continuous campaign of 28 years, the UVF called a ceasefire in October 1994. They stated in October 2007 that they had ended their campaign and in June 2009 they announced they had decommissioned (destroyed their weapons), however the UVF have been involved in a number of incidents since then, which has put the announcement in doubt.
Deaths as a result of campaign
From the organization's creation in 1966 and ending of campaign in 2007, the UVF were responsible for at least 400 murders, however it is believed the actual figure is closer to 1,000. The UVF stated that their mission was to destroy Irish republican paramilitary groups, however over 80% of their victims were Catholic civilians.
References
Steve Bruce, The Red Hand, 1992,
Jim Cusack & Henry McDonald, UVF, 2000,
Martin Dillon, The Dirty War
Brendan O'Brien, The Long War - the IRA and Sinn Féin
Peter Taylor, Loyalists
Tony Geraghty, The Irish War
Other websites
History of the 1912 UVF
History of the YCV
CAIN - University of Ulster Conflict Archive
Photographs of UVF murals
Ulster Volunteer Force
1966 establishments in the United Kingdom
20th-century establishments in Northern Ireland
Nationalist organisations in the United Kingdom |
9992 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/June%2012 | June 12 |
Events
Up to 1950
1381 – Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
1418 – An Insurrection delivers Paris to control of the Burgundians.
1429 – Battle of Jargeau: Joan of Arc leads the French army in the capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the battle's second day.
1550 - Helsinki, present-day capital of Finland and then-part of Sweden, is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York.
1758 - French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg - James Wolfe's attack on Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, begins.
1775 - American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts.
1776 - The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted in what would become the United States.
1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is founded.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his Union troops from their positions, handing victory to Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
1872 – The Royal Mint (where money is made) opens in Melbourne.
1889 – The Armagh rail disaster occurs in present-day Northern Ireland, killing 78 people.
1897 – Carl Elsener patents a small pen knife, now called the Swiss army knife.
1898 – The republic of the Philippines declares independence from Spain.
1899 – United States: The New Richmond tornado kills 117 people.
1929 – Anne Frank is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
1932 - Bayern Munich win the German football championship for the first time.
1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
1939 - Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror movie photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1940 - World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
1942 – Anne Frank receives her diary for her 13th birthday.
1943 - Holocaust: Nazi Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in what is now Berezhany, Ukraine. 1,800 Jews are led to the city's graveyard and shot.
1951 2000
1962 – The Roraima National Park is created in the border area of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana.
1963 – Civil Rights activist Medgar Evans is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi by Byron De La Beckwith.
1964 – Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison.
1967 – The United States Supreme Court rules in the Loving v Virginia case that US State laws prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional.
1967 – Venera programme: The Venera 4 space probe is launched to Venus.
1968 - Eddy Merckx wins the Tour de France for the first time.
1973 - Helmut Kohl is chosen as leader of the CDU, one of the main parties in the Federal Republic of Germany.
1975 – Indira Gandhi is found guilty of electoral corruption.
1978 – David Berkowitz is sentenced to 365 years in prison for the six Son of Sam murders in New York.
1987 – Ronald Reagan makes a speech at the Brandenburg Gate, calling for Mikhail Gorbachev to 'Tear down this wall!'
1987 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, former self-declared Emperor of the present-day Central African Republic, is sentenced to death.
1990 – The parliament of Russia declares its sovereignty.
1991 – Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia.
1991 – The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 Tamil civilians in the eastern Sri Lankan village of Kokkadichcholai.
1993 – Elections are held in Nigeria, but they later annulled by the military government under Ibrahim Babangida.
1994 – A referendum in Austria supports EU membership.
1994 – Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson are murdered in Los Angeles. O. J. Simpson is later found not guilty of their murders.
1994 – The Boeing 777 makes its first flight.
1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
1999 – A NATO-led UN peacekeeping force enters Kosovo.
2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing a bus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It results in a stand-off in which do Nascimento and one of the hostages die.
2000 - In the Treaty of Jeddah, Yemen recognizes the determined border with Saudi Arabia.
From 2001
2004 – UEFA Euro 2004 in Portugal starts, as the Portugal national football team, hosting the tournament, loses 2-1 to the Greece national football team.
2009 – A Presidential Election is held in Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims victory over Mir-Hossein Mousavi, in a disputed result. Soon after, protests begin in Tehran against his rule, following the controversial outcome of the election.
2013 - Jiroemon Kimura dies in Japan. At the age of 116 years, 53 days, he is recognized as the oldest man ever, and the last-surviving man to have been born in the 19th century.
2013 - The government of Greece shuts down the national broadcaster for a previously undetermined amount of time.
2014 - The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the 20th edition of the tournament, begins. In the opening game, the Brazil national football team comes from behind to beat the Croatia national football team 3-1.
2015 - The first European Games begin in Baku, Azerbaijan, lasting until June 28.
2016 - 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting: Gunman Omar Mateen kills 49 people in a shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida in the worst mass shooting in recent US history.
2016 - Pittsburgh Penguins win the Stanley Cup by beating the San Jose Sharks 3-1 and winning the series 4-2.
2018 - 2018 North Korea–United States summit takes place as US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet for talks in Singapore.
2018 - Politicians in the Republic of Macedonia reach an agreement with Greece in a dispute over its name.
Births
Up to 1900
950 – Emperor Reizei of Japan (d. 1011)
1107 – Emperor Gaozong of Song, of China (d. 1187)
1519 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss mathematician and astronomer (d. 1643)
1771 – Patrick Gass, American sergeant in the Lewis and Clark expedition (d. 1870)
1777 - Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
1795 - John Marston, American sailor (d. 1885)
1802 – Harriet Martineau, American journalist, political economist, abolitionist and feminist (d. 1876)
1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American architect (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
1812 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
1819 - Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian and novelist (d. 1875)
1827 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (d. 1901)
1831 - Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (d. 1905)
1843 - David Gill, Scottish astronomer (d. 1914)
1851 - Oliver Lodge, English physicist (d. 1940)
1858 - Harry Hamilton Johnston, English polymath (d. 1927)
1858 - Henry Scott Tuke, English painter and photographer (d. 1929)
1872 - Emil Hacha, Czech politician (d. 1945)
1885 – Frank Ferera, Hawaiian musician (d. 1951)
1888 - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
1890 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (d. 1918)
1890 - Théophile Alajouanine, French psychiatrist (d. 1980)
1892 – Basil Rathbone, British actor (d. 1967)
1892 – Djuna Barnes, American writer (d. 1982)
1892 - Apostolos Grozos, Greek Communist politician (d. 1981)
1897 - Walter Peterhans, German photographer (d. 1960)
1897 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist (d. 1986)
1899 - Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer (d. 1968)
1901 1950
1901 - Clyde Geronimi, Italian-American animation director (d. 1989)
1902 - Hendrik Elias, Flemish politician (d. 1973)
1903 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
1905 – Ray Barbuti, American sportsperson (d. 1988)
1906 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
1908 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (d. 2010)
1908 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian engineer and designer (d. 1988)
1908 - Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer (d. 1975)
1912 - Bill Cowley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1993)
1914 - Go Seigen, Japanese Go player (d. 2014)
1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker (d. 2017)
1915 - Priscilla Lane, American actress (d. 1995)
1916 – Raul Hector Castro, American politician, 14th Governor of Arizona (d. 2015)
1916 - Irwin Allen, American director and producer (d. 1991)
1917 - Gottfried Honegger, Swiss artist and graphic designer (d. 2016)
1918 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
1919 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress (d. 2004)
1919 - Ahmed Abdallah, President of the Comoros (d. 1989)
1921 – Luis Garcia Berlanga, Spanish movie director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1922 – Günter Behnisch, German architect (d. 2010)
1922 - Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist (d. 2013)
1924 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (d. 2018)
1926 - Amadeo Carrizo, Argentine footballer
1928 – Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician
1928 - Vic Damone, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2018)
1928 - Richard M. Sherman, American composer, songwriter and publisher
1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist who died in the Holocaust (d. 1945)
1929 - Alberto De Martino, Italian movie director (d. 2015)
1929 – Brigid Brophy, British writer (d. 1995)
1929 – Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani writer and Urdu language scholar
1930 - Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
1930 - Innes Ireland, British racing driver (d. 1993)
1932 - Mano Wolde, Ethiopian long-distance runner (d. 2002)
1933 – Eddie Adams, American photographer (d. 2004)
1937 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician (d. 2010)
1938 - Jean-Marie Doré, Prime Minister of Guinea (d. 2016)
1938 - Ian Partridge, English tenor
1941 – Chick Corea, American musician
1941 - Roy Harper, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, poet and actor
1941 - Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1942 – Bert Sakmann, German physiologist
1945 – Pat Jennings, Northern Irish footballer
1946 - Michel Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 - Salman Taseer, Pakistani politician (d. 2011)
1949 – Jens Boehrnsen, German politician, Mayor of Bremen and former acting President of Germany
1949 - John Wetton, English singer, bassist and guitarist (d. 2017)
1951 1975
1951 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (d. 2007)
1951 - Bun E. Carlos, American drummer (Cheap Trick)
1951 – Brad Delp, American musician (d. 2007)
1952 – Pete Farndon, English musician (d. 1983)
1952 – Spencer Abraham, American politician
1953 - Rocky Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 - Tess Gerritsen, Chinese-American novelist
1953 - David Thornton, American actor
1958 - Rebecca Holden, American actress and singer
1961 – Hannelore Kraft, German politician, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
1965 - Vicky Vette, Norwegian-Canadian pornographic actress
1965 - Cathy Tyson, English actress
1965 - Gwen Torrence, American athlete
1967 - Aivar Kuusmaa, Estonian basketball player and coach
1968 - Manuel Blanc, French actor
1968 - Htay Kywe, Burmese activist
1969 - Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
1971 – Mark Henry, American professional wrestler
1972 - Sophie Lawrence, English actress, singer and director
1973 - Jason Caffey, American basketball player and coach
1973 – Takis Fyssas, Greek footballer
1973 - Darryl White, Australian footballer
1974 – Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
1974 - Jason Mewes, American actor
From 1976
1976 – Thomas Sorensen, Danish footballer
1976 - Antawn Jamison, American basketball player
1977 - Richard Ayoade, English actor, director and screenwriter
1977 - Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978 - Lewis Moody, English rugby player
1978 - Yumiko Shaku, Japanese actress and model
1978 - Shiloh Strong, American actor, screenwriter, photographer and director
1979 – Diego Milito, Argentine footballer
1979 – Robyn, Swedish singer
1980 – Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby player
1980 - Diem Brown, American television personality (d. 2014)
1980 - Walter Erviti, Argentine footballer
1981 - Adriana Lima, Brazilian model
1981 – Nora Tschirner, German television presenter
1982 – Jason David, American football player
1983 – Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
1983 - Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer player
1985 - Blake Ross, American software developer
1985 - Colin Doyle, Irish footballer
1985 - Dave Franco, American actor
1985 - Kendra Wilkinson, American model, actress and author
1986 – Sergio Rodriguez, Spanish basketball player
1986 – Stanislava Komarova, Russian swimmer
1986 - Mario Casas, Spanish actor
1987 – Abbey Lee Kershaw, Australian model
1987 – Antonio Barragan, Spanish footballer
1988 – Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
1988 - Mauricio Isla, Chilean footballer
1989 - Laura Kirkpatrick, American model
1990 - Jrue Holiday, American basketball player
1992 – Allie DiMeco, American actress and musician
1992 - Laura Jones, English gymnast
1992 - Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer
1996 - Anna Margaret, American singer, songwriter and actress
Deaths
Up to 1950
816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750)
1020 – Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
1560 – Imawaga Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
1560 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
1574 - Princess Renée of France (b. 1510)
1675 - Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1634)
1758 – Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
1772 - Marc-Joseph Marion de Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
1778 - Philip Livingston, American merchant and statesman (b. 1716)
1816 - Pierre Augereau, French marshal (b. 1757)
1818 - Egwale Seyon of Ethiopia
1841 - Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Greek composer, archaeologist and philologist (b. 1786)
1878 – George V of Hanover (b. 1819)
1900 - Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (b. 1820)
1904 - Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian nobleman, entrepreneur and author (b. 1836)
1912 – Frédéric Passy, French Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1822)
1917 - Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan singer, pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1853)
1929 - Marie Henri Andoyer, French astronomer and mathematician (b. 1862)
1932 – Theo Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
1937 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
1951 2000
1952 - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (b. 1869)
1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1904)
1962 - John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879)
1963 – Medgar Evans, American Civil Rights activist (b. 1925)
1964 – Walter Seifert, German retired World War II veteran, ran amok in a Cologne school (b. 1922)
1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German composer and conductor (b. 1891)
1969 - Percival Proctor, Governor of Maine (b. 1876)
1976 - Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1887)
1978 - Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author and poet (b. 1892)
1978 - Georg Simenson, Estonian footballer (b. 1912)
1980 – Billy Butlin, British holiday entrepreneur (b. 1899)
1980 – Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910)
1982 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist (b. 1886)
1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902)
1987 – Paul Janes, German footballer (b. 1912)
1990 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill, Northern Irish politician (b. 1914)
1994 – Ronald Goldman, American waiter and murder victim (b. 1968)
1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (b. 1959)
1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter, musician and author (b. 1924)
2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, Brazilian hostage taker (b. 1978)
2000 - Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, producer and author (b. 1919)
From 2001
2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
2006 – Gyorgy Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
2006 – Nijiro Tukuda, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
2007 - Guy de Rothschild, French banker (b. 1909)
2009 – Félix Malloum, President of Chad (b. 1932)
2012 – Elinor Ostrom, American economist (b. 1933)
2012 - Henry Hill, American convict (b. 1943)
2013 - Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest-recorded man ever (b. 1897)
2014 - Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist (b. 1959)
2014 - Carla Laemmle, American actress (b. 1909)
2014 - Jimmy Scott, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
2014 - Khagen Mahanta, Indian folk singer (b. 1942)
2014 - Joe Pittman, American baseball player (b. 1954)
2015 - Monica Lewis, American actress (b. 1922)
2015 - Fernando Brant, Brazilian poet and composer (b. 1946)
2016 - Omar Mateen, American gunman, perpetrator of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting (b. 1986)
2016 - Donald Carr, English cricketer (b. 1926)
2016 - Vladimir Dolgopolov, Russian footballer (b. 1961)
2016 - Alfonso Portugal, Mexican footballer (b. 1934)
2016 - George Voinovich, American politician, former Governor of Ohio (b. 1936)
2016 - Janet Waldo, American actress (b. 1920)
2017 - C. Narayana Reddy, Indian screenwriter, composer and poet (b. 1931)
2017 - Charles P. Thacker, American computer designer (b. 1943)
Observances
Independence Day (the Philippines)
Loving Day (United States)
Russia Day
World Day Against Child Labour
Chaco Armistice Day (Paraguay)
Dia dos Namorados (Brazil)
Helsinki Day
Democracy Day (Nigeria)
Events
Up to 1950
1381 – Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
1418 – An Insurrection delivers Paris to control of the Burgundians.
1429 – Battle of Jargeau: Joan of Arc leads the French army in the capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the battle's second day.
1550 - Helsinki, present-day capital of Finland and then-part of Sweden, is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York.
1758 - French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg - James Wolfe's attack on Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, begins.
1775 - American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts.
1776 - The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted in what would become the United States.
1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is founded.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor - General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his Union troops from their positions, handing victory to Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
1872 – The Royal Mint (where money is made) opens in Melbourne.
1889 – The Armagh rail disaster occurs in present-day Northern Ireland, killing 78 people.
1897 – Carl Elsener patents a small pen knife, now called the Swiss army knife.
1898 – The republic of the Philippines declares independence from Spain.
1899 – United States: The New Richmond tornado kills 117 people.
1929 – Anne Frank is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
1932 - Bayern Munich win the German football championship for the first time.
1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
1939 - Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror movie photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1940 - World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
1942 – Anne Frank receives her diary for her 13th birthday.
1943 - Holocaust: Nazi Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in what is now Berezhany, Ukraine. 1,800 Jews are led to the city's graveyard and shot.
1951 2000
1962 – The Roraima National Park is created in the border area of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana.
1963 – Civil Rights activist Medgar Evans is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi by Byron De La Beckwith.
1964 – Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison.
1967 – The United States Supreme Court rules in the Loving v Virginia case that US State laws prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional.
1967 – Venera programme: The Venera 4 space probe is launched to Venus.
1968 - Eddy Merckx wins the Tour de France for the first time.
1973 - Helmut Kohl is chosen as leader of the CDU, one of the main parties in the Federal Republic of Germany.
1975 – Indira Gandhi is found guilty of electoral corruption.
1978 – David Berkowitz is sentenced to 365 years in prison for the six Son of Sam murders in New York.
1987 – Ronald Reagan makes a speech at the Brandenburg Gate, calling for Mikhail Gorbachev to 'Tear down this wall!'
1987 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, former self-declared Emperor of the present-day Central African Republic, is sentenced to death.
1990 – The parliament of Russia declares its sovereignty.
1991 – Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia.
1991 – The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 Tamil civilians in the eastern Sri Lankan village of Kokkadichcholai.
1993 – Elections are held in Nigeria, but they later annulled by the military government under Ibrahim Babangida.
1994 – A referendum in Austria supports EU membership.
1994 – Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson are murdered in Los Angeles. O. J. Simpson is later found not guilty of their murders.
1994 – The Boeing 777 makes its first flight.
1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
1999 – A NATO-led UN peacekeeping force enters Kosovo.
2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing a bus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It results in a stand-off in which do Nascimento and one of the hostages die.
2000 - In the Treaty of Jeddah, Yemen recognizes the determined border with Saudi Arabia.
From 2001
2004 – UEFA Euro 2004 in Portugal starts, as the Portugal national football team, hosting the tournament, loses 2-1 to the Greece national football team.
2009 – A Presidential Election is held in Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims victory over Mir-Hossein Mousavi, in a disputed result. Soon after, protests begin in Tehran against his rule, following the controversial outcome of the election.
2013 - Jiroemon Kimura dies in Japan. At the age of 116 years, 53 days, he is recognized as the oldest man ever, and the last-surviving man to have been born in the 19th century.
2013 - The government of Greece shuts down the national broadcaster for a previously undetermined amount of time.
2014 - The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the 20th edition of the tournament, begins. In the opening game, the Brazil national football team comes from behind to beat the Croatia national football team 3-1.
2015 - The first European Games begin in Baku, Azerbaijan, lasting until June 28.
2016 - 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting: Gunman Omar Mateen kills 49 people in a shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida in the worst mass shooting in recent US history.
2016 - Pittsburgh Penguins win the Stanley Cup by beating the San Jose Sharks 3-1 and winning the series 4-2.
Births
Up to 1900
950 – Emperor Reizei of Japan (d. 1011)
1107 – Emperor Gaozong of Song, of China (d. 1187)
1519 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss mathematician and astronomer (d. 1643)
1771 – Patrick Gass, American sergeant in the Lewis and Clark expedition (d. 1870)
1777 - Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
1795 - John Marston, American sailor (d. 1885)
1802 – Harriet Martineau, American journalist, political economist, abolitionist and feminist (d. 1876)
1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American architect (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
1812 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
1819 - Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian and novelist (d. 1875)
1827 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (d. 1901)
1831 - Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (d. 1905)
1843 - David Gill, Scottish astronomer (d. 1914)
1851 - Oliver Lodge, English physicist (d. 1940)
1858 - Harry Hamilton Johnston, English polymath (d. 1927)
1858 - Henry Scott Tuke, English painter and photographer (d. 1929)
1872 - Emil Hacha, Czech politician (d. 1945)
1885 – Frank Ferera, Hawaiian musician (d. 1951)
1888 - Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
1890 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (d. 1918)
1890 - Théophile Alajouanine, French psychiatrist (d. 1980)
1892 – Basil Rathbone, British actor (d. 1967)
1892 – Djuna Barnes, American writer (d. 1982)
1892 - Apostolos Grozos, Greek Communist politician (d. 1981)
1897 - Walter Peterhans, German photographer (d. 1960)
1897 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist (d. 1986)
1899 - Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer (d. 1968)
1901 1950
1901 - Clyde Geronimi, Italian-American animation director (d. 1989)
1902 - Hendrik Elias, Flemish politician (d. 1973)
1903 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
1905 – Ray Barbuti, American sportsperson (d. 1988)
1906 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
1908 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (d. 2010)
1908 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian engineer and designer (d. 1988)
1908 - Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer (d. 1975)
1912 - Bill Cowley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1993)
1914 - Go Seigen, Japanese Go player (d. 2014)
1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker (d. 2017)
1915 - Priscilla Lane, American actress (d. 1995)
1916 – Raul Hector Castro, American politician, 14th Governor of Arizona (d. 2015)
1916 - Irwin Allen, American director and producer (d. 1991)
1917 - Gottfried Honegger, Swiss artist and graphic designer (d. 2016)
1918 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
1919 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress (d. 2004)
1919 - Ahmed Abdallah, President of the Comoros (d. 1989)
1921 – Luis Garcia Berlanga, Spanish movie director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1922 – Günter Behnisch, German architect (d. 2010)
1922 - Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist (d. 2013)
1924 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
1926 - Amadeo Carrizo, Argentine footballer
1928 – Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician
1928 - Vic Damone, American singer-songwriter and actor
1928 - Richard M. Sherman, American composer, songwriter and publisher
1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist who died in the Holocaust (d. 1945)
1929 - Alberto De Martino, Italian movie director (d. 2015)
1929 – Brigid Brophy, British writer (d. 1995)
1929 – Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani writer and Urdu language scholar
1930 - Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
1930 - Innes Ireland, British racing driver (d. 1993)
1932 - Mano Wolde, Ethiopian long-distance runner (d. 2002)
1933 – Eddie Adams, American photographer (d. 2004)
1937 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician (d. 2010)
1938 - Jean-Marie Doré, Prime Minister of Guinea (d. 2016)
1938 - Ian Partridge, English tenor
1941 – Chick Corea, American musician
1941 - Roy Harper, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, poet and actor
1941 - Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1942 – Bert Sakmann, German physiologist
1945 – Pat Jennings, Northern Irish footballer
1946 - Michel Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 - Salman Taseer, Pakistani politician (d. 2011)
1949 – Jens Boehrnsen, German politician, Mayor of Bremen and former acting President of Germany
1949 - John Wetton, English singer, bassist and guitarist (d. 2017)
1951 1975
1951 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (d. 2007)
1951 – Brad Delp, American musician (d. 2007)
1952 – Pete Farndon, English musician (d. 1983)
1952 – Spencer Abraham, American politician
1953 - Rocky Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 - Tess Gerritsen, Chinese-American novelist
1953 - David Thornton, American actor
1958 - Rebecca Holden, American actress and singer
1961 – Hannelore Kraft, German politician, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
1965 - Vicky Vette, Norwegian-Canadian pornographic actress
1965 - Cathy Tyson, English actress
1965 - Gwen Torrence, American athlete
1967 - Aivar Kuusmaa, Estonian basketball player and coach
1968 - Manuel Blanc, French actor
1968 - Htay Kywe, Burmese activist
1969 - Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
1971 – Mark Henry, American professional wrestler
1972 - Sophie Lawrence, English actress, singer and director
1973 - Jason Caffey, American basketball player and coach
1973 – Takis Fyssas, Greek footballer
1973 - Darryl White, Australian footballer
1974 – Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
1974 - Jason Mewes, American actor
From 1976
1976 – Thomas Sorensen, Danish footballer
1976 - Antawn Jamison, American basketball player
1977 - Richard Ayoade, English actor, director and screenwriter
1977 - Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978 - Lewis Moody, English rugby player
1978 - Yumiko Shaku, Japanese actress and model
1978 - Shiloh Strong, American actor, screenwriter, photographer and director
1979 – Diego Milito, Argentine footballer
1979 – Robyn, Swedish singer
1980 – Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby player
1980 - Diem Brown, American television personality (d. 2014)
1980 - Walter Erviti, Argentine footballer
1981 - Adriana Lima, Brazilian model
1981 – Nora Tschirner, German television presenter
1982 – Jason David, American football player
1983 – Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
1983 - Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer player
1985 - Blake Ross, American software developer
1985 - Colin Doyle, Irish footballer
1985 - Dave Franco, American actor
1985 - Kendra Wilkinson, American model, actress and author
1986 – Sergio Rodriguez, Spanish basketball player
1986 – Stanislava Komarova, Russian swimmer
1986 - Mario Casas, Spanish actor
1987 – Abbey Lee Kershaw, Australian model
1987 – Antonio Barragan, Spanish footballer
1988 – Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
1988 - Mauricio Isla, Chilean footballer
1989 - Laura Kirkpatrick, American model
1990 - Jrue Holiday, American basketball player
1992 – Allie DiMeco, American actress and musician
1992 - Laura Jones, English gymnast
1992 - Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer
1996 - Anna Margaret, American singer, songwriter and actress
Deaths
Up to 1950
816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750)
1020 – Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
1560 – Imawaga Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
1560 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
1574 - Princess Renee of France (b. 1510)
1675 - Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1634)
1758 – Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
1772 - Marc-Joseph Marion de Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
1778 - Philip Livingston, American merchant and statesman (b. 1716)
1816 - Pierre Augereau, French marshal (b. 1757)
1818 - Egwale Seyon of Ethiopia
1841 - Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Greek composer, archaeologist and philologist (b. 1786)
1878 – George V of Hanover (b. 1819)
1900 - Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (b. 1820)
1904 - Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, Belgian nobleman, entrepreneur and author (b. 1836)
1912 – Frédéric Passy, French Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1822)
1917 - Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan singer, pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1853)
1929 - Marie Henri Andoyer, French astronomer and mathematician (b. 1862)
1932 – Theo Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
1937 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
1951 2000
1952 - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (b. 1869)
1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1904)
1962 - John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879)
1963 – Medgar Evans, American Civil Rights activist (b. 1925)
1964 – Walter Seifert, German retired World War II veteran, ran amok in a Cologne school (b. 1922)
1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German composer and conductor (b. 1891)
1969 - Percival Proctor, Governor of Maine (b. 1876)
1976 - Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1887)
1978 - Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author and poet (b. 1892)
1978 - Georg Simenson, Estonian footballer (b. 1912)
1980 – Billy Butlin, British holiday entrepreneur (b. 1899)
1980 – Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910)
1982 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist (b. 1886)
1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902)
1987 – Paul Janes, German footballer (b. 1912)
1990 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill, Northern Irish politician (b. 1914)
1994 – Ronald Goldman, American waiter and murder victim (b. 1968)
1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim (b. 1959)
1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter, musician and author (b. 1924)
2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, Brazilian hostage taker (b. 1978)
2000 - Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, producer and author (b. 1919)
From 2001
2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
2006 – Gyorgy Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
2006 – Nijiro Tukuda, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
2007 - Guy de Rothschild, French banker (b. 1909)
2009 – Félix Malloum, President of Chad (b. 1932)
2012 – Elinor Ostrom, American economist (b. 1933)
2012 - Henry Hill, American convict (b. 1943)
2013 - Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest-recorded man ever (b. 1897)
2014 - Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist (b. 1959)
2014 - Carla Laemmle, American actress (b. 1909)
2014 - Jimmy Scott, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
2014 - Khagen Mahanta, Indian folk singer (b. 1942)
2014 - Joe Pittman, American baseball player (b. 1954)
2015 - Monica Lewis, American actress (b. 1922)
2015 - Fernando Brant, Brazilian poet and composer (b. 1946)
2016 - Omar Mateen, American gunman, perpetrator of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting (b. 1986)
2016 - Donald Carr, English cricketer (b. 1926)
2016 - Vladimir Dolgopolov, Russian footballer (b. 1961)
2016 - Alfonso Portugal, Mexican footballer (b. 1934)
2016 - George Voinovich, American politician, former Governor of Ohio (b. 1936)
2016 - Janet Waldo, American actress (b. 1920)
2017 - C. Narayana Reddy, Indian screenwriter, composer and poet (b. 1931)
2017 - Charles P. Thacker, American computer designer (b. 1943)
Observances
Independence Day (the Philippines)
Loving Day (United States)
Russia Day
World Day Against Child Labour
Chaco Armistice Day (Paraguay)
Dia dos Namorados (Brazil)
Helsinki Day
Days of the year |
9993 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1254 | 1254 |
Year 1254 (MCCLIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Births
September 15 – Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
Deaths
December 7 – Pope Innocent IV |
9994 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1473 | 1473 | Year 1473 (MCDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. It was the 473rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 15th century and the 4th year of the 1470s decade.
Events
February 12 - The first complete edition of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (in Latin translation) is published in Milan.
August 11 - Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Mehmed II defeats the White Sheep Turkmens led by Uzun Hasan at Otlukbeli.
Unknown dates
Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, in present-day Mexico, invades the territory of the neighbouring Aztec city of Tlatelolco. The ruler of Tlatelolco is killed and replaced by a military governor, and it loses its independence in the process.
The city walls of Celje, Slovenia, are built.
Marsilio Ficino becomes a priest.
Nicolo Marcello becomes Doge of Venice.
Births
February 19 – Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer and mathematician (d. 1543)
March 16 – Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541)
March 17 – King James IV of Scotland (d. 1513)
August 14 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (d. 1541)
August 17 – Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower (d. 1483)
September 24 – Georg von Frundsberg, German Knight and landowner (d. 1528)
October 26 – Friedrich of Saxony (d. 1510)
date unknown – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Tudor politician (d. 1555)
probable
Jean Lemaire de Belges, Walloon poet and historian (d. 1525)
Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, only son of Richard III of England (d. 1484)
Deaths
January 24 – Conrad Paumann, German composer (b. c. 1410)
February 23 – Arnold, Duke of Gelderland (b. 1410)
April – Alessandro Sforza, condottiero
May 8 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)
July 10 – James II of Cyprus (b. c. 1440)
December 24 – John Cantius, Polish scholar and theologian (b. 1390)
date unknown
Jean Jouffroy, French prelate and diplomat (b. c. 1412)
Hosokawa Katsumoto, Japanese nobleman (b. 1430)
Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1448)
Yamana Sōzen, Japanese daimyo and monk (b. 1404)
probable – Patriarch Gennadios II of Constantinople (b. c. 1400) |
9995 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1898 | 1898 | The year of 1898 was a common year (a year that had 365 days), and began on a Saturday.
Events
January
January 1 – New York City creates the City of Greater New York.
February
February 12 – Henry Lindfield dies in England, and is the first person to die from a car accident.
March
March 24 – Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania becomes the first person to buy a car built in America.
March 26 – The Sabi Game Reserve is created in South America, and becomes the first official game reserve.
April
April 25 – The United States declares war on Spain.
June
June 12 – The Republic of the Philippines declares official independence from Spain during the Spanish-American War.
Deaths
March 16 – Aubrey Beardsley
March 27 – Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Bahadur |
9996 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American%20War | Spanish–American War | The Spanish–American War was a war fought between Spain and the United States of America in 1898. The war was fought in part because many people wanted Cuba, one of the last parts of the Spanish Empire, to become independent. Many Americans also wanted their country to get a colonial empire.
Spain lost the sea war and so had to give up its colonies of Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and part of Guam. All of those colonies, except for Cuba, became US colonies after the war.
Causes
Following reports of Spain abusing and killing Cubans, the US sent warships to Cuba. Spain was losing control of Cuba and had been putting Cubans into concentration camps. The US sent ships to Cuba to try to force Spain to give up Cuba. The USS Maine (ACR-1) exploded in Havana harbor, killing about 260 people on board. "Remember the Maine" became a common wartime saying. US newspapers blamed Spain for the explosion. Spain tried to avoid going to war, but pressure from US newspapers, called "yellow journalism," and ordinary people, persuaded the US government to go to war. Some of them wanted Cuba to become independent, but others hoped that the US could build a colonial empire overseas, as many European countries had already done so.
Fighting
Volunteers throughout the country signed up for the war. Future US President Theodore Roosevelt raised troops and became famous in leading the Rough Riders during the Battle of San Juan Hill.
In a big naval battle in Manila Bay, an American fleet, commanded by George Dewey, destroyed the Spanish fleet. Ground battles took place in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
The US won the war and soon began to occupy and take control of the colonies after Spain surrendered. Almost 400 American soldiers died during fighting, but more than 4000 Americans died from diseases such as yellow fever, typhoid, and malaria.
End of war
The war stopped when the Treaty of Paris was signed on December 10, 1898 by the United States and Spain. The United States became the owners of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, Later, it got the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
References
1898
1898 in the United States
Wars involving Spain
Wars involving the United States |