1188 - Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I
1909 - Clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame)
1954 - Donna Pescow, Brooklyn, actress (Angie, Out of this World, Rainbow)
1607 - Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune)
1910 - Richard Conte, Jersey City NJ, actor (4 Just Men, Tony Rome, Hotel)
1630 - Jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal
1657 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)
1911 - Joseph Barbera, animator (Hanna-Barbera)
1703 - Jose F de Isla, [Francisco de Salazar], Spanish Jesuit/writer
1714 - Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer
1960 - Barry Horowitz, American professional wrestler
1725 - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788)
1917 - Constantine Andreou, Greek-Brazilian artist (d. 2007)
1918 - Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter
1919 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, US, beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind)
1755 - Rufus King, framer of US constitution
1962 - Angle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
1919 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005
1796 - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878)
1964 - Hans Schwaier, West Germany, tennis star
1965 - Angela Zuckerman, St Louis Mo, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1922 - Dorothy Irene Height, president (national council of negro women)
1809 - Joseph Liouville, France, discover of transcendental numbers
1965 - Marian Vajda, Czech, tennis star
1817 - Aime Maillart, composer
1820 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
1965 - The Undertaker, American professional wrestler
1924 - Norman Fell, Phila, actor (Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate)
1925 - Duncan Wood, TV director/producer
1925 - Mai Zetterling, Vaeras Sweden, actress (Hidden Agenda, Ringer)
1925 - Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (d. 1994)
1969 - Yoko Zetterlund, SF Calif, volleyball setter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1969 - Houston, American pornographic actress
1927 - Martin Walser, writer
1835 - Josef Stefan, Austria, physicist (Stefan-Boltzmann law)
1928 - Vanessa Brown, Vienna Austria, actress (My Favorite Husband)
1929 - Cuan McCarthy, cricketer (36 Test wkts for S Africa, 1 career no-ball)
1850 - Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935)
1930 - Steve McQueen, Slater Mo, actor (Wanted, Dead or Alive, Blob, Bullitt)
1931 - Thelma Kalama, US, 4 X 100m relay swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1866 - Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer
1973 - Chip McCaw, Chicago Ill, volleyball setter (Olympics-96)
1874 - Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy (1948-55)
1934 - William Smith, American actor
1973 - Philippe Boucher, St Apollinaire Ca, NHL defense (LA Kings, Oly-G-98)
1936 - Fredrick Kaufmamn, composer
1974 - Terry Killens, linebacker (Tennessee Oilers)
1937 - Benjamin Luxon, Redruth England, baritone (Owen Wingrave)
1975 - Debbie Keller, Winfield Ill, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1937 - Billy Stewart, US R&B singer (I Do Love You)
1975 - Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1975 - Krisdayanti, Indonesian singer, actress and diva
1888 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922)
1938 - David Irving, British historian
1891 - Annie "Charley" Toorop, Dutch painter (3 Generations)
1976 - Aaron Brooks, American football player
1943 - H Martin Lancaster, (Rep-D-NC)
1943 - Jesus Alou, baseball outfielder (SF Giants)
1943 - Marika Kilius, German FR, ice skating pair (Olympic-silver-1960, 64)
1895 - Sid Saylor, Chicago Ill, actor (Wally-Waterfront)
1896 - Gianna Manzini, writer
1979 - Periklis Iakovakis, Greek athlete
1979 - Lake Bell, American actress
1945 - Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist
1898 - George Alpert, railroad executive
1979 - Graeme Swann, English cricketer
1946 - Paul Williams, climber
1902 - Thomas E Dewey, Oh, 1st Catholic Pres candidate 1944, 1948 (R)
1947 - Alan Sugar, English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer (Amstrad)
1982 - Corey Hart, American baseball player
1982 - Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
1947 - Pieter W Coetzer, South African journalist/MP (NP)
1947 - Christine Gregoire, American politician, current governor of Washington
1984 - Chris Bosh, American basketball player
1906 - Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984)
1907 - Janet Harmon Bragg, US pilot/columnist (Chicago Defender)
1907 - Lauris Norstad, US gen (NATO commander)/CEO (Owens-Corning Fiberglass)
1951 - Kenneth S Reightler Jr, Patuxent R Md, Cmdr USN/astro (STS 48, 60)
1907 - Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer
1992 - Thomas Law, English actor
1401 - Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
1603 - James VI of Scotland also becomes James I of England.
1603 - Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.
1707 - The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1731 - Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
1765 - American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
1832 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..
1837 - Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
1860 - Sakuradamon incident (1860): Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairo) Ii Naosuke
1869 - The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
1878 - The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
1882 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
1896 - A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
1900 - Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1907 - The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
1923 - Greece becomes a republic.
1927 - Nanjing Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
1933 - The Enabling Act of 1933 is passed by the German Reichstag, allowing Adolf Hitler to gain plenary power.
1934 - U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
1944 - Ardeatine Massacre: German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
1944 - World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
1946 - The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
1958 - Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
1959 - The Party of the African Federation is launched by Lopold Sdar Senghor and Modibo Keita.
1965 - NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
1972 - The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
1973 - Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, California.
1976 - In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Pern and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
1980 - Archbishop scar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
1986 - The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
1989 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (42,000 m) of petroleum after running aground.
1993 - Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
1998 - Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
1998 - A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
1999 - Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
2000 - S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
2003 - The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
2008 - Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
1909 - Clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame)
1954 - Donna Pescow, Brooklyn, actress (Angie, Out of this World, Rainbow)
1607 - Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune)
1910 - Richard Conte, Jersey City NJ, actor (4 Just Men, Tony Rome, Hotel)
1630 - Jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal
1657 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)
1911 - Joseph Barbera, animator (Hanna-Barbera)
1703 - Jose F de Isla, [Francisco de Salazar], Spanish Jesuit/writer
1714 - Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer
1960 - Barry Horowitz, American professional wrestler
1725 - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788)
1917 - Constantine Andreou, Greek-Brazilian artist (d. 2007)
1918 - Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter
1919 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, US, beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind)
1755 - Rufus King, framer of US constitution
1962 - Angle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
1919 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005
1796 - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878)
1964 - Hans Schwaier, West Germany, tennis star
1965 - Angela Zuckerman, St Louis Mo, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1922 - Dorothy Irene Height, president (national council of negro women)
1809 - Joseph Liouville, France, discover of transcendental numbers
1965 - Marian Vajda, Czech, tennis star
1817 - Aime Maillart, composer
1820 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
1965 - The Undertaker, American professional wrestler
1924 - Norman Fell, Phila, actor (Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate)
1925 - Duncan Wood, TV director/producer
1925 - Mai Zetterling, Vaeras Sweden, actress (Hidden Agenda, Ringer)
1925 - Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (d. 1994)
1969 - Yoko Zetterlund, SF Calif, volleyball setter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1969 - Houston, American pornographic actress
1927 - Martin Walser, writer
1835 - Josef Stefan, Austria, physicist (Stefan-Boltzmann law)
1928 - Vanessa Brown, Vienna Austria, actress (My Favorite Husband)
1929 - Cuan McCarthy, cricketer (36 Test wkts for S Africa, 1 career no-ball)
1850 - Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935)
1930 - Steve McQueen, Slater Mo, actor (Wanted, Dead or Alive, Blob, Bullitt)
1931 - Thelma Kalama, US, 4 X 100m relay swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1866 - Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer
1973 - Chip McCaw, Chicago Ill, volleyball setter (Olympics-96)
1874 - Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy (1948-55)
1934 - William Smith, American actor
1973 - Philippe Boucher, St Apollinaire Ca, NHL defense (LA Kings, Oly-G-98)
1936 - Fredrick Kaufmamn, composer
1974 - Terry Killens, linebacker (Tennessee Oilers)
1937 - Benjamin Luxon, Redruth England, baritone (Owen Wingrave)
1975 - Debbie Keller, Winfield Ill, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1937 - Billy Stewart, US R&B singer (I Do Love You)
1975 - Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1975 - Krisdayanti, Indonesian singer, actress and diva
1888 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922)
1938 - David Irving, British historian
1891 - Annie "Charley" Toorop, Dutch painter (3 Generations)
1976 - Aaron Brooks, American football player
1943 - H Martin Lancaster, (Rep-D-NC)
1943 - Jesus Alou, baseball outfielder (SF Giants)
1943 - Marika Kilius, German FR, ice skating pair (Olympic-silver-1960, 64)
1895 - Sid Saylor, Chicago Ill, actor (Wally-Waterfront)
1896 - Gianna Manzini, writer
1979 - Periklis Iakovakis, Greek athlete
1979 - Lake Bell, American actress
1945 - Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist
1898 - George Alpert, railroad executive
1979 - Graeme Swann, English cricketer
1946 - Paul Williams, climber
1902 - Thomas E Dewey, Oh, 1st Catholic Pres candidate 1944, 1948 (R)
1947 - Alan Sugar, English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer (Amstrad)
1982 - Corey Hart, American baseball player
1982 - Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
1947 - Pieter W Coetzer, South African journalist/MP (NP)
1947 - Christine Gregoire, American politician, current governor of Washington
1984 - Chris Bosh, American basketball player
1906 - Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984)
1907 - Janet Harmon Bragg, US pilot/columnist (Chicago Defender)
1907 - Lauris Norstad, US gen (NATO commander)/CEO (Owens-Corning Fiberglass)
1951 - Kenneth S Reightler Jr, Patuxent R Md, Cmdr USN/astro (STS 48, 60)
1907 - Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer
1992 - Thomas Law, English actor
1401 - Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
1603 - James VI of Scotland also becomes James I of England.
1603 - Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.
1707 - The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1731 - Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
1765 - American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
1832 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..
1837 - Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
1860 - Sakuradamon incident (1860): Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairo) Ii Naosuke
1869 - The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
1878 - The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
1882 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
1896 - A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
1900 - Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1907 - The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
1923 - Greece becomes a republic.
1927 - Nanjing Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
1933 - The Enabling Act of 1933 is passed by the German Reichstag, allowing Adolf Hitler to gain plenary power.
1934 - U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
1944 - Ardeatine Massacre: German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
1944 - World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
1946 - The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
1958 - Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
1959 - The Party of the African Federation is launched by Lopold Sdar Senghor and Modibo Keita.
1965 - NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
1972 - The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
1973 - Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, California.
1976 - In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Pern and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
1980 - Archbishop scar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
1986 - The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
1989 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (42,000 m) of petroleum after running aground.
1993 - Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
1998 - Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
1998 - A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
1999 - Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
2000 - S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
2003 - The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
2008 - Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
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