1957 - Denise Austin, American fitness expert
1480 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1542)
1599 - Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Siena Italy, pope (1655-67)
1918 - Patty Berg, Minneapolis MN, LPGA golfer (1938 US Amateur)
1622 - Adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, baptized
1919 - Joan Edwards, NYC, vocalist (Joan Edwards Show)
1959 - Gaston Gingras, National Hockey League defenceman
1672 - tienne Franois Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
1960 - Kelly McCormick, Anaheim Calif, diver (Olympic-silver-1984)
1713 - Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, composer
1721 - John Reid, composer
1960 - Pierluigi Collina, Italian football referee
1922 - Gordon Tullock, American economist
1754 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician (d. 1838)
1961 - Henry Rollins, US vocalist/poet (Big Ugly Mouth, Talking From the Box)
1923 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese violinist (d. 2003)
1924 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French economist/politician
1925 - Gene Ames, singer
1962 - Anbal Acevedo Vil, American politician
1926 - Barney Childs, composer
1927 - Harry Wich, Dutch set designer
1929 - Omar Torrijos Herrera, president Panama
1805 - David Dudley Field, lawyer/law codifier
1805 - Peter G L Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist/analysist
1931 - Marjorie Jackson, Austria, 100m/200m dash (Oly-gold-1952) [or Sep 13]
1813 - Charles Pierre Schimpf, governor of Suriname (1855-59)
1933 - Caroline Blakiston, actress (At Bertram's Hotel)
1933 - Emanuel Ungaro, France, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1969)
1829 - Gerard Keller, writer (Netherlands Spectator)
1933 - Paul Biya, president of Cameroon (1982- )
1967 - Melanie Denise Bridges, Derry NH, Miss NH-America (1991)
1967 - Stanimir Stoilov, Bulgarian footballer and coach
1968 - Matt Mieske, US baseball outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1840 - Georg Jacobi, composer
1849 - Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father
1970 - Ruben Brown, NFL guard (Buffalo Bills)
1855 - Paul Deschanel, French President (d. 1922)
1859 - Frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist
1859 - William Strang, Scottish painter/engraver
1939 - Valery Illych Rozhdestvensky, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
1862 - Karel Weis, composer
1870 - Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer
1971 - Sonia, British singer
1876 - Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player (d. 1933)
1942 - Carol Lynley, NYC, actress (Night Stalker, Fantasy Island, Immortal)
1879 - Sarojini Naidu, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1949)
1881 - Eleanor Farjeon, English writer (Martin Pippin)
1974 - Gus Hansen, Danish professional poker player
1974 - Robbie Williams, English singer
1974 - Jeff Duran, American radio personality
1975 - Mark Gerald Keddell, Christchurch NZ, 200m (Olympics-96)
1944 - Sal Bando, baseball player (Oakland A's)
1976 - Martin Sastre, Uruguayan artist
1976 - Feist, Canadian singer and songwriter
1976 - Dave Padden, Canadian musician (Annihilator)
1945 - Keith Nichols, jazz pianist
1892 - Robert Houghwout Jackson, 84th Supreme Court justice (1941-54)
1945 - Roy Dyke, Liverpool, rock drummer (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
1978 - Mini Anden, Swedish model and actress
1898 - Neville Pearson, English publisher
1946 - Louis Kondos, Greek actor
1902 - Karl Menger, Austria/US mathematician (theory of dimension)
1903 - Georges Simenon, Belgium, mystery writer (Snow Was Black)
1950 - Leonard Pascoe, cricketer (dynamic Aussie quick 1977-82)
1981 - Luiso, Brazilian footballer
1951 - David Naughton, Hartford Ct, actor (My Sister Sam, Separate Vacations)
1981 - Luke Ridnour, American basketball player
1952 - David Puilum Choi, Hong Kong, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1952 - Ed Gagliardi, NYC, rock bassist (Foreigner-Cold As Ice)
1952 - Freddy Maertens, Belgian cyclist
1912 - French J Van den Brande, Flemish actor
1985 - David Padgett, American basketball player
1986 - Luke Moore, English footballer
1955 - Jan de Ligt, Dutch saxophonist (I've Got the Bullets)
1989 - Rhys Palmer, Australian footballer
1989 - Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian Footballer
1956 - Liam Brady, British soccer player
1990 - Olivia Allison, British synchronized swimmer
1503 - Disfida di Barletta - famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
1542 - Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
1575 - Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims, marrying Louise de Lorraine-Vaudmont on the same day.
1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
1689 - William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
1692 - Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
1739 - Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1867 - Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
1880 - Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
1881 - The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
1894 - Auguste and Louis Lumire patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
1914 - Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1920 - The Negro National League is formed.
1931 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
1934 - The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
1935 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1945 - World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
1945 - World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
1951 - Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
1954 - Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game
1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
1960 - With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
1960 - Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
1961 - A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
1967 - American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
1970 - Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.
1971 - Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
1978 - Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
1979 - An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
1981 - A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
1982 - Ro Negro massacre in Guatemala.
1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1990 - German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
1991 - Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
2001 - An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
2004 - The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
2007 - Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
2008 - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
2010 - A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
1480 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1542)
1599 - Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Siena Italy, pope (1655-67)
1918 - Patty Berg, Minneapolis MN, LPGA golfer (1938 US Amateur)
1622 - Adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, baptized
1919 - Joan Edwards, NYC, vocalist (Joan Edwards Show)
1959 - Gaston Gingras, National Hockey League defenceman
1672 - tienne Franois Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
1960 - Kelly McCormick, Anaheim Calif, diver (Olympic-silver-1984)
1713 - Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, composer
1721 - John Reid, composer
1960 - Pierluigi Collina, Italian football referee
1922 - Gordon Tullock, American economist
1754 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician (d. 1838)
1961 - Henry Rollins, US vocalist/poet (Big Ugly Mouth, Talking From the Box)
1923 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese violinist (d. 2003)
1924 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French economist/politician
1925 - Gene Ames, singer
1962 - Anbal Acevedo Vil, American politician
1926 - Barney Childs, composer
1927 - Harry Wich, Dutch set designer
1929 - Omar Torrijos Herrera, president Panama
1805 - David Dudley Field, lawyer/law codifier
1805 - Peter G L Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist/analysist
1931 - Marjorie Jackson, Austria, 100m/200m dash (Oly-gold-1952) [or Sep 13]
1813 - Charles Pierre Schimpf, governor of Suriname (1855-59)
1933 - Caroline Blakiston, actress (At Bertram's Hotel)
1933 - Emanuel Ungaro, France, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1969)
1829 - Gerard Keller, writer (Netherlands Spectator)
1933 - Paul Biya, president of Cameroon (1982- )
1967 - Melanie Denise Bridges, Derry NH, Miss NH-America (1991)
1967 - Stanimir Stoilov, Bulgarian footballer and coach
1968 - Matt Mieske, US baseball outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1840 - Georg Jacobi, composer
1849 - Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father
1970 - Ruben Brown, NFL guard (Buffalo Bills)
1855 - Paul Deschanel, French President (d. 1922)
1859 - Frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist
1859 - William Strang, Scottish painter/engraver
1939 - Valery Illych Rozhdestvensky, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
1862 - Karel Weis, composer
1870 - Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer
1971 - Sonia, British singer
1876 - Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player (d. 1933)
1942 - Carol Lynley, NYC, actress (Night Stalker, Fantasy Island, Immortal)
1879 - Sarojini Naidu, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1949)
1881 - Eleanor Farjeon, English writer (Martin Pippin)
1974 - Gus Hansen, Danish professional poker player
1974 - Robbie Williams, English singer
1974 - Jeff Duran, American radio personality
1975 - Mark Gerald Keddell, Christchurch NZ, 200m (Olympics-96)
1944 - Sal Bando, baseball player (Oakland A's)
1976 - Martin Sastre, Uruguayan artist
1976 - Feist, Canadian singer and songwriter
1976 - Dave Padden, Canadian musician (Annihilator)
1945 - Keith Nichols, jazz pianist
1892 - Robert Houghwout Jackson, 84th Supreme Court justice (1941-54)
1945 - Roy Dyke, Liverpool, rock drummer (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
1978 - Mini Anden, Swedish model and actress
1898 - Neville Pearson, English publisher
1946 - Louis Kondos, Greek actor
1902 - Karl Menger, Austria/US mathematician (theory of dimension)
1903 - Georges Simenon, Belgium, mystery writer (Snow Was Black)
1950 - Leonard Pascoe, cricketer (dynamic Aussie quick 1977-82)
1981 - Luiso, Brazilian footballer
1951 - David Naughton, Hartford Ct, actor (My Sister Sam, Separate Vacations)
1981 - Luke Ridnour, American basketball player
1952 - David Puilum Choi, Hong Kong, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1952 - Ed Gagliardi, NYC, rock bassist (Foreigner-Cold As Ice)
1952 - Freddy Maertens, Belgian cyclist
1912 - French J Van den Brande, Flemish actor
1985 - David Padgett, American basketball player
1986 - Luke Moore, English footballer
1955 - Jan de Ligt, Dutch saxophonist (I've Got the Bullets)
1989 - Rhys Palmer, Australian footballer
1989 - Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian Footballer
1956 - Liam Brady, British soccer player
1990 - Olivia Allison, British synchronized swimmer
1503 - Disfida di Barletta - famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
1542 - Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
1575 - Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims, marrying Louise de Lorraine-Vaudmont on the same day.
1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
1689 - William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
1692 - Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
1739 - Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1867 - Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
1880 - Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
1881 - The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
1894 - Auguste and Louis Lumire patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
1914 - Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1920 - The Negro National League is formed.
1931 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
1934 - The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
1935 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1945 - World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
1945 - World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
1951 - Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
1954 - Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game
1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
1960 - With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
1960 - Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
1961 - A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
1967 - American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
1970 - Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.
1971 - Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
1978 - Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
1979 - An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
1981 - A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
1982 - Ro Negro massacre in Guatemala.
1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1990 - German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
1991 - Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
2001 - An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
2004 - The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
2007 - Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
2008 - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
2010 - A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
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