1466 - French van Brederode, leader Hoeksen
1474 - Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint
1521 - Mauritius, duke/nice monarch of Saksen (1547-53)
1926 - Andre Delvaux, Heverie Belgium, director/writer (Benvenuta)
1943 - Hartmut Haenchen, German conductor
1927 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German minister of Foreign affairs (FDP)
1944 - Marie-Christine Barrault, French actress
1928 - James W Kinnear, Pittsburgh Pa, CEO (Texaco)
1945 - Rose Stone, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
1708 - Caspar Ruetz, composer
1929 - Jules Verne Berman, space & science reporter (ABC-TV)
1929 - Maurice Catarcio, wrestler
1949 - Slavoj iek, Slovenian sociologist and cultural critic
1949 - Eddie Money, American musician
1933 - John Hall, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1779 - Alexis Garaude, composer
1953 - Paul Martin Lester, American educator, author, and photographer
1806 - Benito Pablo Juarez, Oaxaca Mexico, president of Mexico (1858-72)
1811 - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (d. 1891)
1813 - James Jesse Strang, King of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI (1850-56)
1820 - Frank Mori, composer
1936 - Ed Broadbent, Canadian politician
1937 - Tom Flores, Fresno Calif, NFL quarterback/coach (Raiders)
1938 - Grahame Thomas, cricketer (Australian batsman of the mid-60's)
1854 - Alick A C Bannerman, cricketer (bro of Charles, Australia 1878-1893)
1960 - Benito de Leon, Filipino military officer
1863 - George Owen Squier, American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp(d.1934)
1940 - Solomon Burke, American singer
1869 - Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design
1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld, producer (Ziegfield Follies)
1943 - Antal Dunai, Hungary, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1968)
1878 - Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer
1966 - Karen Lunn, Cowra Australia, LPGA golfer (1993 Women's British Open)
1944 - Charles Edward Greene, Pine Bluff Ark, 4x100m runner (Oly-gold-1968)
1967 - Elaina Oden, Orange CA, volleyball middle blocker (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1967 - Troy Westwood, CFL kicker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1944 - Marie-Christine Barrault, Paris France, actress (Stardust Memories)
1945 - Rosemary Stone, vocalist/pianist (Sly & Family Stone-Everyday People)
1884 - George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure)
1946 - Ray Dorset, rocker (Cold Blue Excursion)
1891 - Jonathan Hale, actor (Saint's Double Trouble, Saint Strikes Back)
1949 - Alvin Kallicharran, cricketer (wonderful West Indies LHB 1972-81)
1895 - Zlatko Balokovic, Croatian violinist (d. 1955)
1900 - Eugenie Leontovitch, Moscow Russia, actor (Homicidal)
1900 - Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist/composer/conductor
1951 - Helena Antonaccio, playmate (June, 1969)
1969 - Jennifer Lyn Jackson, Cleveland Ohio, playmate (April, 1989)
1952 - Chris O'Connell, rocker
1953 - Carl Wolfson, Wash DC, comedian (Thicke of the Night)
1953 - Robert Johnson, rocker
1953 - Shotgun Johnson, rock drummer (KC & the Sunshine Boys-Give it Up)
1972 - Boris Mironov, Moscow, NHL defenseman (Team Russia Oly-S-98, Edmonton)
1972 - Chris Ball, Costa Mesa Calif, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1905 - Phyllis McGinley, US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters)
1972 - John Leach, CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Michele Michael, Miss Maryland USA (1996)
1908 - Maurice Stans, rocker
1972 - Chris Candido, professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1910 - M S Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978)
1911 - John Paxton, screenwriter (On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely)
1973 - Ananda Lewis, American model and television personality
1960 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian formula-1 racer (1988 champ)
1913 - Max Youngstein, NYC, producer (United Artists)
1913 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991)
1960 - Robert Sweet, American drummer
1961 - Kassie Wesley, Ky, actress (Evil Dead 2, Blair-One Life to Live)
1961 - Slim MacDonnell, Jim Phantom rock percussionist (Stray Cats)
1961 - Wei Wang, Beijing China, US table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1961 - Shawn Lane, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2003)
1961 - Lothar Matthus, German footballer
1978 - Rani Mukherjee, Indian actress
1980 - Ronaldinho Gaucho, Brazilian international footballer
1920 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (d. 1970)
1980 - Deryck Whibley, Canadian guitarist and singer (Sum41)
1982 - Colin Turkington, British racing driver
1921 - Logan Ramsey, Long Beach Calif, actor (Head, Joy Sticks, Say Yes)
1964 - Ahmed Radhi, Iraqi international football star
1923 - Philip Abbott, Lincoln Neb, actor (Arthur Ward-The FBI)
1965 - Xavier Bertrand, French politician
1966 - Al Iafrate, Dearborn Mich, NHL defenseman (San Jose Sharks)
717 - Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1152 - Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1188 - Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.
1556 - In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
1788 - A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
1800 - With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mch.
1801 - The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
1804 - Code Napolon is adopted as French civil law.
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
1821 - Greek War of Independence: First revolutionary act in the monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta.
1844 - The Bah' calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bah' calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bah' Faith as the Bah' New Year or Nw-Rz.
1857 - An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
1871 - Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
1871 - Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1913 - Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
1918 - World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
1919 - The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
1928 - Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1933 - Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
1935 - Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans.'
1937 - Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-year-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
1943 - Wehrmacht officer Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
1945 - World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
1945 - World War II: Operation Carthage - British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
1945 - World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of Drava concludes.
1946 - The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
1952 - Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
1960 - Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1963 - Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
1964 - In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'et" ("I'm not old enough").
1965 - Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
1965 - Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1968 - Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
1980 - US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
1980 - On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who shot J.R.?"
1989 - Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
1990 - Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
1997 - In a Tel Aviv, Israel coffee shop, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 49.
1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
2002 - In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2006 - Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Khalifa and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport riot causing $1M in damage.
1474 - Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint
1521 - Mauritius, duke/nice monarch of Saksen (1547-53)
1926 - Andre Delvaux, Heverie Belgium, director/writer (Benvenuta)
1943 - Hartmut Haenchen, German conductor
1927 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German minister of Foreign affairs (FDP)
1944 - Marie-Christine Barrault, French actress
1928 - James W Kinnear, Pittsburgh Pa, CEO (Texaco)
1945 - Rose Stone, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
1708 - Caspar Ruetz, composer
1929 - Jules Verne Berman, space & science reporter (ABC-TV)
1929 - Maurice Catarcio, wrestler
1949 - Slavoj iek, Slovenian sociologist and cultural critic
1949 - Eddie Money, American musician
1933 - John Hall, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1779 - Alexis Garaude, composer
1953 - Paul Martin Lester, American educator, author, and photographer
1806 - Benito Pablo Juarez, Oaxaca Mexico, president of Mexico (1858-72)
1811 - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (d. 1891)
1813 - James Jesse Strang, King of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI (1850-56)
1820 - Frank Mori, composer
1936 - Ed Broadbent, Canadian politician
1937 - Tom Flores, Fresno Calif, NFL quarterback/coach (Raiders)
1938 - Grahame Thomas, cricketer (Australian batsman of the mid-60's)
1854 - Alick A C Bannerman, cricketer (bro of Charles, Australia 1878-1893)
1960 - Benito de Leon, Filipino military officer
1863 - George Owen Squier, American inventor and Major General in U.S. Signal Corp(d.1934)
1940 - Solomon Burke, American singer
1869 - Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design
1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld, producer (Ziegfield Follies)
1943 - Antal Dunai, Hungary, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1968)
1878 - Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer
1966 - Karen Lunn, Cowra Australia, LPGA golfer (1993 Women's British Open)
1944 - Charles Edward Greene, Pine Bluff Ark, 4x100m runner (Oly-gold-1968)
1967 - Elaina Oden, Orange CA, volleyball middle blocker (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1967 - Troy Westwood, CFL kicker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1944 - Marie-Christine Barrault, Paris France, actress (Stardust Memories)
1945 - Rosemary Stone, vocalist/pianist (Sly & Family Stone-Everyday People)
1884 - George D Birkhoff, US mathematician (Aesthetic measure)
1946 - Ray Dorset, rocker (Cold Blue Excursion)
1891 - Jonathan Hale, actor (Saint's Double Trouble, Saint Strikes Back)
1949 - Alvin Kallicharran, cricketer (wonderful West Indies LHB 1972-81)
1895 - Zlatko Balokovic, Croatian violinist (d. 1955)
1900 - Eugenie Leontovitch, Moscow Russia, actor (Homicidal)
1900 - Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist/composer/conductor
1951 - Helena Antonaccio, playmate (June, 1969)
1969 - Jennifer Lyn Jackson, Cleveland Ohio, playmate (April, 1989)
1952 - Chris O'Connell, rocker
1953 - Carl Wolfson, Wash DC, comedian (Thicke of the Night)
1953 - Robert Johnson, rocker
1953 - Shotgun Johnson, rock drummer (KC & the Sunshine Boys-Give it Up)
1972 - Boris Mironov, Moscow, NHL defenseman (Team Russia Oly-S-98, Edmonton)
1972 - Chris Ball, Costa Mesa Calif, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1905 - Phyllis McGinley, US, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters)
1972 - John Leach, CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Michele Michael, Miss Maryland USA (1996)
1908 - Maurice Stans, rocker
1972 - Chris Candido, professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1910 - M S Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978)
1911 - John Paxton, screenwriter (On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely)
1973 - Ananda Lewis, American model and television personality
1960 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian formula-1 racer (1988 champ)
1913 - Max Youngstein, NYC, producer (United Artists)
1913 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991)
1960 - Robert Sweet, American drummer
1961 - Kassie Wesley, Ky, actress (Evil Dead 2, Blair-One Life to Live)
1961 - Slim MacDonnell, Jim Phantom rock percussionist (Stray Cats)
1961 - Wei Wang, Beijing China, US table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1961 - Shawn Lane, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2003)
1961 - Lothar Matthus, German footballer
1978 - Rani Mukherjee, Indian actress
1980 - Ronaldinho Gaucho, Brazilian international footballer
1920 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (d. 1970)
1980 - Deryck Whibley, Canadian guitarist and singer (Sum41)
1982 - Colin Turkington, British racing driver
1921 - Logan Ramsey, Long Beach Calif, actor (Head, Joy Sticks, Say Yes)
1964 - Ahmed Radhi, Iraqi international football star
1923 - Philip Abbott, Lincoln Neb, actor (Arthur Ward-The FBI)
1965 - Xavier Bertrand, French politician
1966 - Al Iafrate, Dearborn Mich, NHL defenseman (San Jose Sharks)
717 - Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1152 - Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1188 - Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.
1556 - In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
1788 - A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
1800 - With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mch.
1801 - The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
1804 - Code Napolon is adopted as French civil law.
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
1821 - Greek War of Independence: First revolutionary act in the monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta.
1844 - The Bah' calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bah' calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bah' Faith as the Bah' New Year or Nw-Rz.
1857 - An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
1871 - Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
1871 - Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1913 - Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
1918 - World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
1919 - The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
1928 - Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1933 - Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
1935 - Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans.'
1937 - Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-year-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
1943 - Wehrmacht officer Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
1945 - World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
1945 - World War II: Operation Carthage - British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
1945 - World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of Drava concludes.
1946 - The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
1952 - Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
1960 - Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1963 - Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
1964 - In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'et" ("I'm not old enough").
1965 - Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
1965 - Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1968 - Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
1980 - US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
1980 - On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who shot J.R.?"
1989 - Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
1990 - Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
1997 - In a Tel Aviv, Israel coffee shop, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 49.
1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
2002 - In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2006 - Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Khalifa and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport riot causing $1M in damage.
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