1209 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272) 1548 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617) 1560 - William Cobbold, composer 1587 - Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641) 1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal 1596 - Henry Lawes, English composer 1614 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662) 1661 - Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer 1667 - Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1740) 1679 - Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer 1696 - Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1757) 1710 - Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer 1717 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793) 1729 - Paul C la Fargue, cartoonist/painter 1759 - Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader 1762 - Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842) 1769 - Jean Baptiste Say, French economist (Political Economics) 1773 - Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter/drawer 1778 - Fortunato Santini, composer 1779 - Stephen Decatur, US, naval hero (War of 1812) 1779 - Zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer (Pike's Peak) 1787 - John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage) 1788 - Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer 1806 - Andre H C van Hasselt, Belgian poet (La Belgium) 1810 - Auguste Mermet, composer
1811 - Cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary (est Robert College, Turkey) 1813 - Thomas Neville Waul, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1903 1822 - Joseph Brevard Kershaw, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 1823 - William Rockstro, composer 1828 - August Valentine Kautz, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895 1829 - Sir Roger Tichborne, missing U.K. heir who was the subject of the longest criminal trial in British history (d. c.1854) 1834 - William John Wills, English explorer of Australia, member of the Burke and Wills expedition (d. 1861) 1835 - Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer 1835 - Hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch gouvernement doctor on Saint Maarten 1837 - A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5] 1838 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922) 1840 - John Doby Kennedy, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 1846 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908) 1848 - Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet 1850 - Theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher 1855 - King Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor) 1858 - Gustaf af Geijerstam, Swedish author (Boken om Lillebror) 1859 - DeWitt B Brace, inventor (spectrophotometer) 1864 - Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (d. 1911) 1865 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920) 1871 - Frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton Mass, composer 1874 - Joseph Erlanger, doctor (shock therapy-Nobel 1944)
1876 - Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany (BRD, 1949) 1879 - Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946) 1880 - Nicolai Karlovich Medtner, composer 1881 - Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer 1882 - Herbert Bayard Swope, U.S. journalist who coined the term "Cold War" (d. 1958) 1885 - Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (d. 1940) 1889 - Albert van Dalsum, Dutch actor/director (Little Rascal) [or 1899] 1890 - Cora Witherspoon, New Orleans LA, actress (Bank Dick), dies 1891 - Johan Boskamp, Dutch actor/singer (Potasch & Perlemoer) [or 1893] 1892 - Francesca Bertini, Florence Italy, actress (Odette, Assunta Spina) 1893 - Friedrich Blume, German musicologist (Das Rassenproblem in der Musik) 1893 - Zoltn Bszrmny, Hungarian Nazi politician (d. unknown) 1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952) 1895 - Jeannette Piccard, balloonist/Episcopal priest 1895 - Elizabeth Cotten, American musician (d. 1987) 1896 - Hendrik Algra, Dutch MP (ARP) 1897 - Jack Wagner, OH, actor (Jive Junction) 1897 - Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer (Lady Fanny, Bel Ami) 1900 - Dennis Gabor, Hung/Brit physicist (holography-Nobel 1971) [or Jun 5] 1900 - Paula Ludwig, writer 1900 - Yves Tanguy, French/US sailor/surrealistic painter 1901 - H L Honore comte d'Estienne d'Orves, French officer/resistance fighter 1901 - Mario Scelba, premier Italy (1954-55) 1902 - Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English author (Cold Comfort Farm) 1902 - Pierre Palla, Dutch pianist/organist
1945 - Chuck McKinley, U.S. tennis player (d. 1986) 1945 - Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian-born film director 1946 - "Crazy Barret Diamond" Syd, rocker (Pink Floyd) 1946 - Diane Keaton, [Hall], LA, actress (Annie Hall, Little Drummer Girl) 1947 - Michael DeWine, (Rep-R-Oh, 1983- ) 1947 - Ted Lange, Oakland Calif, actor (Isaac-Love Boat, Mr T & Tina) 1947 - Mercury Morris, American football player 1948 - Parthasarathy Sharma, cricketer (Indian batsman of the mid-70's) 1948 - Thom Mooney, rocker 1949 - George Brown, rock drummer (Kool & the Gang-Celebration) 1950 - Chris Stein, rock guitarist and co-founder of Blondie (Heart of Glass, Call Me) born in Brooklyn, New York 1950 - Michael O'Donoghue, writer/performer 1950 - Ioan Petru Culianu, Romanian-born professor (d. 1991) 1950 - John Manley, Canadian politician 1950 - Charlie Richmond, Canadian entrepreneur 1951 - Steve Arnold, English footballer 1953 - Pamela Sue Martin, Westport Ct, actress (Nancy Drew, Fallon-Dynasty) 1953 - Steve Archer, American singer (The Archers) 1953 - Mike Rann, Australian politician 1953 - George Tenet, American CIA director 1954 - Bryan Hitt, rocker (REO Speedwagon-Keep on Loving You) 1956 - Chen Kenichi, Japanese-born chef 1957 - Vincent Calloway, Kentucky, trumpet player (Midnight Star-No Parking) 1957 - Kevin Hastings, Australian rugby league footballer 1958 - Suzy Amis, Okla City, actress (Blame it on Rio, Where the Heart is) 1960 - Steve Jones, British aviator (Red Bull Air Race World Series) 1960 - Glenn Strmberg, Swedish footballer
1961 - Curt Bader, Bloomfield Iowa, sprint kayak (Olympics-96) 1962 - Brendon Kuruppu, cricketer (Sri Lankan batsman, 201 debut v NZ 1987) 1962 - Danny Jackson, US baseball pitcher (Royals/Phillies/Cardinals) 1962 - Donald John Cowie, Auckland NZ, yachting Star class (Olympics-96) 1962 - Joel Wyner, actor/director (Lyle Springer-Sirens, Listen, Club) 1962 - Suzy Amis, American actress 1962 - Perry Fenwick, English actor 1963 - Jeff Fassero, Springfield IL, pitcher (Montreal Expos) 1963 - Rick Ambrose, singer (Jewel) 1964 - John Erickson, Woodland Hills Calif, golfer (1991 Windsor Charity) 1964 - Ted Harris Poley, Englewood NJ, rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It) 1964 - Tracy Ham, CFL quarterback (Montreal Alouettes) 1965 - Rick Tuten, NFL punter (Seattle Seahawks) 1965 - Vinnie Jones, English-born Welsh footballer and actor 1966 - Kate Schellenbach, musician (Luscious Jackson) 1066 - Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman Conquest of England. 1355 - Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in Milan. 1477 - Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France. 1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan. 1527 - Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zrich, is executed by drowning. 1554 - A great fire occurs in Eindhoven, Netherlands. 1675 - Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg. 1757 - Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-Franois Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides. 1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis. 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold. 1782 - American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts. 1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom. 1854 - The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people.
1974 - An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses. 1974 - Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59F (+15C) recorded at Vanda Station 1975 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people. 1976 - Cambodia is renamed the Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge. 1976 - Ten Protestant civilians are shot dead by a paramilitary group at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland (part of The Troubles). 1991 - Georgian troops attack Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, opening the 1991-1992 South Ossetia War. 1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil. 1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the last legal hanging in America). 1996 - Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone. 2003 - Police arrest seven suspects in connection with Wood Green ricin plot. 2005 - Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
1811 - Cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary (est Robert College, Turkey) 1813 - Thomas Neville Waul, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1903 1822 - Joseph Brevard Kershaw, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 1823 - William Rockstro, composer 1828 - August Valentine Kautz, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895 1829 - Sir Roger Tichborne, missing U.K. heir who was the subject of the longest criminal trial in British history (d. c.1854) 1834 - William John Wills, English explorer of Australia, member of the Burke and Wills expedition (d. 1861) 1835 - Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer 1835 - Hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch gouvernement doctor on Saint Maarten 1837 - A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5] 1838 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922) 1840 - John Doby Kennedy, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 1846 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908) 1848 - Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet 1850 - Theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher 1855 - King Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor) 1858 - Gustaf af Geijerstam, Swedish author (Boken om Lillebror) 1859 - DeWitt B Brace, inventor (spectrophotometer) 1864 - Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (d. 1911) 1865 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920) 1871 - Frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton Mass, composer 1874 - Joseph Erlanger, doctor (shock therapy-Nobel 1944)
1876 - Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany (BRD, 1949) 1879 - Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946) 1880 - Nicolai Karlovich Medtner, composer 1881 - Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer 1882 - Herbert Bayard Swope, U.S. journalist who coined the term "Cold War" (d. 1958) 1885 - Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (d. 1940) 1889 - Albert van Dalsum, Dutch actor/director (Little Rascal) [or 1899] 1890 - Cora Witherspoon, New Orleans LA, actress (Bank Dick), dies 1891 - Johan Boskamp, Dutch actor/singer (Potasch & Perlemoer) [or 1893] 1892 - Francesca Bertini, Florence Italy, actress (Odette, Assunta Spina) 1893 - Friedrich Blume, German musicologist (Das Rassenproblem in der Musik) 1893 - Zoltn Bszrmny, Hungarian Nazi politician (d. unknown) 1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952) 1895 - Jeannette Piccard, balloonist/Episcopal priest 1895 - Elizabeth Cotten, American musician (d. 1987) 1896 - Hendrik Algra, Dutch MP (ARP) 1897 - Jack Wagner, OH, actor (Jive Junction) 1897 - Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer (Lady Fanny, Bel Ami) 1900 - Dennis Gabor, Hung/Brit physicist (holography-Nobel 1971) [or Jun 5] 1900 - Paula Ludwig, writer 1900 - Yves Tanguy, French/US sailor/surrealistic painter 1901 - H L Honore comte d'Estienne d'Orves, French officer/resistance fighter 1901 - Mario Scelba, premier Italy (1954-55) 1902 - Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English author (Cold Comfort Farm) 1902 - Pierre Palla, Dutch pianist/organist
1945 - Chuck McKinley, U.S. tennis player (d. 1986) 1945 - Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian-born film director 1946 - "Crazy Barret Diamond" Syd, rocker (Pink Floyd) 1946 - Diane Keaton, [Hall], LA, actress (Annie Hall, Little Drummer Girl) 1947 - Michael DeWine, (Rep-R-Oh, 1983- ) 1947 - Ted Lange, Oakland Calif, actor (Isaac-Love Boat, Mr T & Tina) 1947 - Mercury Morris, American football player 1948 - Parthasarathy Sharma, cricketer (Indian batsman of the mid-70's) 1948 - Thom Mooney, rocker 1949 - George Brown, rock drummer (Kool & the Gang-Celebration) 1950 - Chris Stein, rock guitarist and co-founder of Blondie (Heart of Glass, Call Me) born in Brooklyn, New York 1950 - Michael O'Donoghue, writer/performer 1950 - Ioan Petru Culianu, Romanian-born professor (d. 1991) 1950 - John Manley, Canadian politician 1950 - Charlie Richmond, Canadian entrepreneur 1951 - Steve Arnold, English footballer 1953 - Pamela Sue Martin, Westport Ct, actress (Nancy Drew, Fallon-Dynasty) 1953 - Steve Archer, American singer (The Archers) 1953 - Mike Rann, Australian politician 1953 - George Tenet, American CIA director 1954 - Bryan Hitt, rocker (REO Speedwagon-Keep on Loving You) 1956 - Chen Kenichi, Japanese-born chef 1957 - Vincent Calloway, Kentucky, trumpet player (Midnight Star-No Parking) 1957 - Kevin Hastings, Australian rugby league footballer 1958 - Suzy Amis, Okla City, actress (Blame it on Rio, Where the Heart is) 1960 - Steve Jones, British aviator (Red Bull Air Race World Series) 1960 - Glenn Strmberg, Swedish footballer
1961 - Curt Bader, Bloomfield Iowa, sprint kayak (Olympics-96) 1962 - Brendon Kuruppu, cricketer (Sri Lankan batsman, 201 debut v NZ 1987) 1962 - Danny Jackson, US baseball pitcher (Royals/Phillies/Cardinals) 1962 - Donald John Cowie, Auckland NZ, yachting Star class (Olympics-96) 1962 - Joel Wyner, actor/director (Lyle Springer-Sirens, Listen, Club) 1962 - Suzy Amis, American actress 1962 - Perry Fenwick, English actor 1963 - Jeff Fassero, Springfield IL, pitcher (Montreal Expos) 1963 - Rick Ambrose, singer (Jewel) 1964 - John Erickson, Woodland Hills Calif, golfer (1991 Windsor Charity) 1964 - Ted Harris Poley, Englewood NJ, rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It) 1964 - Tracy Ham, CFL quarterback (Montreal Alouettes) 1965 - Rick Tuten, NFL punter (Seattle Seahawks) 1965 - Vinnie Jones, English-born Welsh footballer and actor 1966 - Kate Schellenbach, musician (Luscious Jackson) 1066 - Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman Conquest of England. 1355 - Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in Milan. 1477 - Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France. 1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan. 1527 - Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zrich, is executed by drowning. 1554 - A great fire occurs in Eindhoven, Netherlands. 1675 - Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg. 1757 - Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-Franois Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides. 1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis. 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold. 1782 - American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts. 1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom. 1854 - The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people.
1974 - An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses. 1974 - Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59F (+15C) recorded at Vanda Station 1975 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people. 1976 - Cambodia is renamed the Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge. 1976 - Ten Protestant civilians are shot dead by a paramilitary group at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland (part of The Troubles). 1991 - Georgian troops attack Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, opening the 1991-1992 South Ossetia War. 1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil. 1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the last legal hanging in America). 1996 - Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone. 2003 - Police arrest seven suspects in connection with Wood Green ricin plot. 2005 - Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
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