1955 - Paul Overstreet, Van Cleave Miss, country singer (Daddy's Come Around)
1473 - James IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513)
1578 - Francesco Albana, Ital painter (Mary's Ascension)
1920 - John La Montaine, Oak Park Ill, composer (Pulitzer 1959)
1957 - Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer
1958 - Pat Bolland, Canadian Broadcaster
1676 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)
1685 - Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter
1924 - Stephen Dodgson, composer
1925 - G M Hughes, British zoologist
1777 - Roger Brooke Taney, Calvert Md, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott dec)
1925 - Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian film and stage actor
1926 - Siegfried Lenz, German writer (Ein Kriegsende)
1781 - Ebenezer Elliott, British Poet. Know as the "Corn Law Rhymer'" (d. 1849)
1960 - Arye Gross, American actor
1927 - Nancy Sheehan, writer
1804 - James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance
1961 - Andrew Paul, English actor
1928 - Edino Krieger, composer
1825 - Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain)
1962 - Patrick Thomas Burke, Hollywood FL, PGA golfer (1992 BellSouth-6th)
1931 - Eunice Gayson, London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love)
1931 - David Peakall, British scientist (d. 2001)
1832 - Walter Quintin Gresham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1834 - Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle
1839 - Josef Rheinberger, Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer (Munich Conser)
1963 - Alex Fong Chung-Sun, Chinese actor
1964 - Alex Shoumidoub, NHL goaltender (Belarus, Oly-98)
1936 - Ladislaw Kupkovic, composer
1936 - Thomas K Mattingly II, Chic, Capt USN/astro (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
1964 - Ron Warren Jr, jockey (Bay Meadows)
1937 - Adam Wade, actor (Kiss Me Goodbye, Crazy Joe)
1964 - Jacques Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russia, ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov)
1939 - Shahid Mahmoud, cricketer (opener scored 16 & 9 in only Pak Test)
1965 - John Smiley, Phoenixville PA, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1874 - Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America
1966 - Jeremy Sheffield, English actor
1967 - Chris Luongo, Detroit, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1941 - Edward Harper, composer
1880 - Sir Patrick Hastings, British barrister (d. 1952)
1880 - Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (d. 1912)
1967 - Billy Corgan, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
1967 - Barry Minkow, American religious leader and ex-convict (fraud)
1968 - Judy Mosley McAfee, WNBA forward (Sacramento Monarchs)
1944 - Cito Gaston, MLB manager (Toronto Blue Jays)
1969 - Andrew McMarlin, Vienna VA, rower (Olympics-1996)
1887 - Ben Sajet, Dutch physician/politician
1969 - Gilbert Schaller, Bruck Austria, tennis star
1944 - Patti Boyd, Somerset England, (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton)
1890 - Harold Morris, composer
1945 - Paco Gonzalez, race horse trainer
1945 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (d. 1982)
1972 - Mia Hamm, Selma Alabama, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1895 - Shemp Howard, Bkln, comedian (3 Stooges, Bank Dick) [or 1891]
1972 - Marc Gunn, poet, podcaster, and Celtic musician (Brobdingnagian Bards)
1946 - Michael Peter Finnissey, composer
1900 - Alfred Newman, New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing)
1947 - James Morrow, American author
1947 - Jan Andersson, Swedish politician
1974 - Marisa Coughlan, American actress
1974 - Mark Dolan, TV show host
1948 - Pat Lloyd, rocker
1948 - Robert Braunwart, who added thousands of dates to this database
1975 - Natalie Zea, American actress
1908 - Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [OS=Mar 4]
1976 - lvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer
1949 - Pat Rice, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1976 - Cynthia Daniel, American actress and photographer
1951 - Scott Gorham, Irish hard rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy-21 Guns)
1977 - Hadeel Abol-Naga, Miss Universe-Egypt (1996)
1977 - Iveta Jankularova, Miss Universe-Slovak Republic (1996)
1915 - Hans Namuth, German/US photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala)
1979 - Nicole "Coco" Austin, American glamor model
1979 - Andrew Ference, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Samoa Joe, Samoan professional wrestler
1979 - Stormy Daniels, American pornographic actress
1955 - Bill Beyers, actor (Wally McCandless-Capitol)
1981 - Kyle Korver, American Basketball Player
1955 - Gary Sinise, actor (Apollo 13, Forrest Gump)
45 BC - In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
180 - Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
624 - Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr.
1337 - Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
1776 - American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
1780 - American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
1805 - The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
1842 - The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is formed;
1860 - The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.
1861 - The Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) is proclaimed.
1891 - SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
1921 - The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
1939 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins,
1941 - In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1942 - Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
1945 - The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany collapses, ten days after its capture.
1947 - First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
1948 - Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
1950 - Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium".
1957 - A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
1958 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
1959 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1960 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
1966 - Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
1969 - Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
1970 - My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
1973 - The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family.
1979 - The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
1985 - Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
1988 - A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
1988 - Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
1992 - Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
1992 - A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
2000 - More than 800 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in what is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult.
2003 - Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
2004 - Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. 35 Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Ni are destroyed.
2008 - Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson becomes New York State governor.
1473 - James IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513)
1578 - Francesco Albana, Ital painter (Mary's Ascension)
1920 - John La Montaine, Oak Park Ill, composer (Pulitzer 1959)
1957 - Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer
1958 - Pat Bolland, Canadian Broadcaster
1676 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)
1685 - Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter
1924 - Stephen Dodgson, composer
1925 - G M Hughes, British zoologist
1777 - Roger Brooke Taney, Calvert Md, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott dec)
1925 - Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian film and stage actor
1926 - Siegfried Lenz, German writer (Ein Kriegsende)
1781 - Ebenezer Elliott, British Poet. Know as the "Corn Law Rhymer'" (d. 1849)
1960 - Arye Gross, American actor
1927 - Nancy Sheehan, writer
1804 - James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance
1961 - Andrew Paul, English actor
1928 - Edino Krieger, composer
1825 - Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain)
1962 - Patrick Thomas Burke, Hollywood FL, PGA golfer (1992 BellSouth-6th)
1931 - Eunice Gayson, London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love)
1931 - David Peakall, British scientist (d. 2001)
1832 - Walter Quintin Gresham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1834 - Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle
1839 - Josef Rheinberger, Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer (Munich Conser)
1963 - Alex Fong Chung-Sun, Chinese actor
1964 - Alex Shoumidoub, NHL goaltender (Belarus, Oly-98)
1936 - Ladislaw Kupkovic, composer
1936 - Thomas K Mattingly II, Chic, Capt USN/astro (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
1964 - Ron Warren Jr, jockey (Bay Meadows)
1937 - Adam Wade, actor (Kiss Me Goodbye, Crazy Joe)
1964 - Jacques Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
1938 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russia, ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov)
1939 - Shahid Mahmoud, cricketer (opener scored 16 & 9 in only Pak Test)
1965 - John Smiley, Phoenixville PA, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1874 - Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America
1966 - Jeremy Sheffield, English actor
1967 - Chris Luongo, Detroit, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1941 - Edward Harper, composer
1880 - Sir Patrick Hastings, British barrister (d. 1952)
1880 - Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (d. 1912)
1967 - Billy Corgan, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
1967 - Barry Minkow, American religious leader and ex-convict (fraud)
1968 - Judy Mosley McAfee, WNBA forward (Sacramento Monarchs)
1944 - Cito Gaston, MLB manager (Toronto Blue Jays)
1969 - Andrew McMarlin, Vienna VA, rower (Olympics-1996)
1887 - Ben Sajet, Dutch physician/politician
1969 - Gilbert Schaller, Bruck Austria, tennis star
1944 - Patti Boyd, Somerset England, (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton)
1890 - Harold Morris, composer
1945 - Paco Gonzalez, race horse trainer
1945 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (d. 1982)
1972 - Mia Hamm, Selma Alabama, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1895 - Shemp Howard, Bkln, comedian (3 Stooges, Bank Dick) [or 1891]
1972 - Marc Gunn, poet, podcaster, and Celtic musician (Brobdingnagian Bards)
1946 - Michael Peter Finnissey, composer
1900 - Alfred Newman, New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing)
1947 - James Morrow, American author
1947 - Jan Andersson, Swedish politician
1974 - Marisa Coughlan, American actress
1974 - Mark Dolan, TV show host
1948 - Pat Lloyd, rocker
1948 - Robert Braunwart, who added thousands of dates to this database
1975 - Natalie Zea, American actress
1908 - Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [OS=Mar 4]
1976 - lvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer
1949 - Pat Rice, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1976 - Cynthia Daniel, American actress and photographer
1951 - Scott Gorham, Irish hard rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy-21 Guns)
1977 - Hadeel Abol-Naga, Miss Universe-Egypt (1996)
1977 - Iveta Jankularova, Miss Universe-Slovak Republic (1996)
1915 - Hans Namuth, German/US photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala)
1979 - Nicole "Coco" Austin, American glamor model
1979 - Andrew Ference, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Samoa Joe, Samoan professional wrestler
1979 - Stormy Daniels, American pornographic actress
1955 - Bill Beyers, actor (Wally McCandless-Capitol)
1981 - Kyle Korver, American Basketball Player
1955 - Gary Sinise, actor (Apollo 13, Forrest Gump)
45 BC - In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
180 - Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
624 - Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr.
1337 - Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
1776 - American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
1780 - American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
1805 - The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
1842 - The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is formed;
1860 - The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.
1861 - The Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) is proclaimed.
1891 - SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
1921 - The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
1939 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins,
1941 - In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1942 - Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
1945 - The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany collapses, ten days after its capture.
1947 - First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
1948 - Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
1950 - Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium".
1957 - A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
1958 - The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
1959 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1960 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
1966 - Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
1969 - Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
1970 - My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
1973 - The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family.
1979 - The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
1985 - Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
1988 - A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
1988 - Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
1992 - Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
1992 - A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
2000 - More than 800 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in what is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult.
2003 - Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
2004 - Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. 35 Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Ni are destroyed.
2008 - Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson becomes New York State governor.
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