1904 - Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Het Parool) 1908 - Lord Iliffe, English publisher (Coventry Evening Telegraph/Autocar) 1908 - W H V "Hopper" Levett, cricket keeper (England in 1 Test in Calcutta) 1910 - Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman 1910 - Hendrik Willem Hans Osieck, composer 1911 - Julia Frances Smith, composer 1912 - Lucius E Burch Jr, US lawyer/civil rights leader 1913 - Luis Marden, American photojournalist (d. 2003) 1915 - Michael Duane, educationalist 1917 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist Nobel Laureate (d. 2003) 1917 - Jnio Quadros, Brazilian politician (d. 1992) 1918 - Ken Mayers, actor (Robbie Robertson-Space Patrol) 1918 - Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster 1919 - Edwin Newman, NYC, newscaster/journalist/author (NBC-TV, Comment) 1919 - Patricia Louise Dalton, chair (Sherlock Holmes Society of London) 1921 - Alfred Reed, composer 1921 - Russell Reading Braddon, Australian author 1922 - Jules P de Palm, Antilles writer 1922 - Raymond Baxter, British TV host/author (Fast Lady) 1923 - Eva Zeller, writer 1923 - Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (d. 2003) 1923 - Shirley Mason, American psychiatric patient (Commonly known as "Sybil") (d. 1998) 1924 - Lou "The Toe" Groza, AAFC, NFL tackle, kicker (Cleve Browns) 1925 - Eric Dempster, cricketer (NZ slow bowl of mid-50's, bowling avg 109.5) 1925 - Giorgos Zampetas, Greek musician and songwriter (d. 1992) 1927 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, composer 1927 - Gregg Palmer, SF, actor (Scream, To Hell & Back) 1927 - Seung Sahn, zen teacher (Korean line) 1928 - Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Georgia, foreign minister of USSR (-91) 1928 - Jrme Choquette, Quebec lawyer and politician 1930 - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (d. 1944) 1931 - Dean Jones, Decatur Ala, actor (Ensign O'Toole, Company, Love Bug) 1931 - Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter) 1931 - Paavo J Haavikko, finnish writer/poet/husband of Marja-Liisa Vartio 1931 - Stikkan, Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur 1933 - Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines 1934 - Elizabeth Allen, Jersey City NJ, actress (Laura-Bracken's World) 1935 - Antnio Ramalho Eanes, 17th President of Portugal 1936 - Dan Schaefer, (Rep-R-CO, 1983- ) 1936 - Diana Hyland, Cleve Hgts Ohio, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough) 1937 - Don Maynard, NFL receiver (NY Jets), #13 1937 - Kathleen Tynan Halton, writer 1937 - Ange-Flix Patass, President of the Central African Republic 1938 - Betico Croes, Arubian politician (Status Aparte) 1938 - Etta James, [Jamesette Hawkins], US singer (Roll With Me Henry) 1938 - Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga author (d. 1998) 1938 - Leiji Matsumoto, sJapanese creator of anime. 1939 - Gabriel Romanus, Swedish politician 1941 - Elzie "Buddy" Baker, race-car driver 1941 - Gregory Sierra, American actor 1942 - Carl Eller, American football player 1942 - Eusbio, Portuguese footballer 1943 - Tobe Hooper, American film director 1944 - Anita Pallenberg, Italian model
1945 - Leigh Taylor-Young, Wash DC, actress (Peyton Place, Alice B Toklas) 1946 - Josephine M Verspaget, sociologist/Dutch MP (PvdA) 1946 - Ronnie Brandon, rocker (McCoys) 1946 - Silvio Blatter, writer 1947 - Tosto, Brazilian footballer 1947 - ngel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer 1948 - Gueorgui Chichkine, Russian painter 1948 - Ros Kelly, Australian politician 1949 - John Cooper Clarke, English punk-poet 1950 - Gloria Naylor, US author (Women of Brewster Place) 1950 - Michael Cotton, rocker (Tubes) 1951 - Steve Prefontaine, Coos Bay Oregon, 5K (Olympics-4th-1972) 1952 - Sara Mandiano, French singer and songwriter 1952 - Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002) 1953 - Malcolm Green, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You) 1953 - The Honky Tonk Man, American professional wrestler 1953 - Mark Weil, Uzbek theatre director (d. 2007) 1954 - Condredge Holloway, Alabama, CFL quarterback (Ottawa, Toronto) 1954 - Richard Finch, rock bassist (KC & Sunshine-That's the Way I Like It) 1954 - Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer 1954 - Kim Gandy, American feminist 1955 - Joe Strummer, vocalist/guitarist (Clash-Rock the Casbah) [or 8/21/53] 1956 - Andy Cox, rock guitarist (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy) 1957 - Edmund Theodore Sylvers, rocker (Sylvers) 1957 - Jeff Gossett, NFL punter (Oakland Raiders) 1957 - Jenifer Lewis, actress (Girl 6, Meteor Man, Sister Act) 1957 - Martha Elizabeth Thomsen, Moses Lake Wash, playmate (May, 1980) 1957 - Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish politician 1957 - Andrew P. Harris, American politician 1958 - Dinah Manoff, NYC, actress (Elaine-Soap, Carol Weston-Empty Nest) 1958 - Gary Brian Tibbs, London, rock bassist (Adam & The Ants, Roxy Music) 1958 - Harti Weirather, Austrian alpine skier 1961 - Michele Tobin, Chicago Ill, actress (Fitzpatricks) 1961 - Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician 1962 - Chris Chelios, Chicago, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks, Team USA) 1963 - Carl Fysh, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret) 1963 - Joe Lloyd, Highland Park Ill, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Space Coast) 1964 - Bob Sweeney, Concord, NHL center (NY Islanders, Calgary Flames) 1964 - Chip Foster, actor (Chip & Pepper's Surf's Up Saturday) 1964 - Pepper Foster, actress (Chip & Pepper's Surf's Up Saturday) 1964 - William Thomas Andrade, Fall River MA, PGA golfer (1991 Kemper Open) 1965 - Brian Holman, Winfield Ks, pitcher (Cin Reds, Seattle Mariners) 1965 - Esa Tikkanen, Helsinki FI, NHL left wing (Panthers, Canucks, Oly-B-98) 1966 - John [Vo] Velyvis, North Adams Mass, rower (Olympics-1996) 1966 - Mark Schlereth, NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32) 1966 - Paul Ranheim, St Louis, NHL left wing (Hartford Whalers) 1966 - Pavel Torgajev, Nizhnij Novgorod, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames) 1966 - Richie Lewis, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins) 1966 - Chet Culver, American politician, governor of Iowa 1967 - Mario Brunetta, hockey goaltender (Team Italy 1998) 1967 - Marty Calder, St Catharine ON, 62 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-12-92,96) 1967 - Randy Mckay, Montreal, NHL right wing (NJ Devils) 1967 - Mark Bamford, American writer/director
1884 - Edward Kilenyi, composer 1885 - A J Else Mauhs, German/Dutch actress (Eline Vere, L'aiglon) 1885 - Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poets and children's writers (d. 1942) 1886 - Wilhelm Furtwngler, German conductor (d. 1954) 1887 - Diego Valeri, Italian author/poet (Le Gaie Tristezze) 1889 - Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer 1891 - Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Britian, actress (Cleopatra) 1891 - William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador to USSR 1896 - John Moores, British gambling magnate/multi-millionaire 1898 - Joachim Wach, German/US philosopher/sociologist (Understanding) 1899 - Ace Goodman, KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces) 1900 - Mildred Dunnock, Balt, actress (Baby Doll, Nun's Story) 1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukraine, genetist/writer (Mankind Evolving) 1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986) 1901 - Eric Brown, architect 1901 - Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (d. 1982) 1902 - Gerard P M Knuvelder, Dutch literature historian (Vocation, Kitty) 1902 - Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (d. 1975) 1903 - "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker
41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate. 1348 - A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome. 1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples. 1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn. 1554 - Founding of So Paulo city, Brazil. 1573 - Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu. 1575 - Luanda, the capital of Angola is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais. 1755 - Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day. 1787 - American Daniel Shays leads a rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor's prisons. 1791 - The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. 1792 - The London Corresponding Society is founded. 1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia. 1879 - The Bulgarian National Bank is founded. 1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. 1909 - Richard Strauss' opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1955 - The Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany. 1960 - The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records. 1961 - In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference. 1969 - Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him 10 machine guns and 63 rifles. 1971 - Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders. 1971 - Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president. 1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state. 1981 - Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death. 1986 - The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda. 1990 - The Burns' Day storm hits northwestern Europe. 1993 - Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
1994 - The Clementine space probe launches. 1995 - The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile. 1996 - Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the United States of America. 1998 - During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country. 1998 - A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills 8 people and injures 25 others. 1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000. 2001 - A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24. 2003 - 2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people left London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations. 2004 - Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars. 2005 - A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258. 2006 - Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star. 2006 - Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women. 2010 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board. 2011 - Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt.
1945 - Leigh Taylor-Young, Wash DC, actress (Peyton Place, Alice B Toklas) 1946 - Josephine M Verspaget, sociologist/Dutch MP (PvdA) 1946 - Ronnie Brandon, rocker (McCoys) 1946 - Silvio Blatter, writer 1947 - Tosto, Brazilian footballer 1947 - ngel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer 1948 - Gueorgui Chichkine, Russian painter 1948 - Ros Kelly, Australian politician 1949 - John Cooper Clarke, English punk-poet 1950 - Gloria Naylor, US author (Women of Brewster Place) 1950 - Michael Cotton, rocker (Tubes) 1951 - Steve Prefontaine, Coos Bay Oregon, 5K (Olympics-4th-1972) 1952 - Sara Mandiano, French singer and songwriter 1952 - Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002) 1953 - Malcolm Green, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You) 1953 - The Honky Tonk Man, American professional wrestler 1953 - Mark Weil, Uzbek theatre director (d. 2007) 1954 - Condredge Holloway, Alabama, CFL quarterback (Ottawa, Toronto) 1954 - Richard Finch, rock bassist (KC & Sunshine-That's the Way I Like It) 1954 - Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer 1954 - Kim Gandy, American feminist 1955 - Joe Strummer, vocalist/guitarist (Clash-Rock the Casbah) [or 8/21/53] 1956 - Andy Cox, rock guitarist (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy) 1957 - Edmund Theodore Sylvers, rocker (Sylvers) 1957 - Jeff Gossett, NFL punter (Oakland Raiders) 1957 - Jenifer Lewis, actress (Girl 6, Meteor Man, Sister Act) 1957 - Martha Elizabeth Thomsen, Moses Lake Wash, playmate (May, 1980) 1957 - Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish politician 1957 - Andrew P. Harris, American politician 1958 - Dinah Manoff, NYC, actress (Elaine-Soap, Carol Weston-Empty Nest) 1958 - Gary Brian Tibbs, London, rock bassist (Adam & The Ants, Roxy Music) 1958 - Harti Weirather, Austrian alpine skier 1961 - Michele Tobin, Chicago Ill, actress (Fitzpatricks) 1961 - Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician 1962 - Chris Chelios, Chicago, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks, Team USA) 1963 - Carl Fysh, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret) 1963 - Joe Lloyd, Highland Park Ill, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Space Coast) 1964 - Bob Sweeney, Concord, NHL center (NY Islanders, Calgary Flames) 1964 - Chip Foster, actor (Chip & Pepper's Surf's Up Saturday) 1964 - Pepper Foster, actress (Chip & Pepper's Surf's Up Saturday) 1964 - William Thomas Andrade, Fall River MA, PGA golfer (1991 Kemper Open) 1965 - Brian Holman, Winfield Ks, pitcher (Cin Reds, Seattle Mariners) 1965 - Esa Tikkanen, Helsinki FI, NHL left wing (Panthers, Canucks, Oly-B-98) 1966 - John [Vo] Velyvis, North Adams Mass, rower (Olympics-1996) 1966 - Mark Schlereth, NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32) 1966 - Paul Ranheim, St Louis, NHL left wing (Hartford Whalers) 1966 - Pavel Torgajev, Nizhnij Novgorod, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames) 1966 - Richie Lewis, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins) 1966 - Chet Culver, American politician, governor of Iowa 1967 - Mario Brunetta, hockey goaltender (Team Italy 1998) 1967 - Marty Calder, St Catharine ON, 62 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-12-92,96) 1967 - Randy Mckay, Montreal, NHL right wing (NJ Devils) 1967 - Mark Bamford, American writer/director
1884 - Edward Kilenyi, composer 1885 - A J Else Mauhs, German/Dutch actress (Eline Vere, L'aiglon) 1885 - Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poets and children's writers (d. 1942) 1886 - Wilhelm Furtwngler, German conductor (d. 1954) 1887 - Diego Valeri, Italian author/poet (Le Gaie Tristezze) 1889 - Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer 1891 - Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Britian, actress (Cleopatra) 1891 - William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador to USSR 1896 - John Moores, British gambling magnate/multi-millionaire 1898 - Joachim Wach, German/US philosopher/sociologist (Understanding) 1899 - Ace Goodman, KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces) 1900 - Mildred Dunnock, Balt, actress (Baby Doll, Nun's Story) 1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukraine, genetist/writer (Mankind Evolving) 1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986) 1901 - Eric Brown, architect 1901 - Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (d. 1982) 1902 - Gerard P M Knuvelder, Dutch literature historian (Vocation, Kitty) 1902 - Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (d. 1975) 1903 - "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker
41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate. 1348 - A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome. 1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples. 1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn. 1554 - Founding of So Paulo city, Brazil. 1573 - Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu. 1575 - Luanda, the capital of Angola is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais. 1755 - Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day. 1787 - American Daniel Shays leads a rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor's prisons. 1791 - The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. 1792 - The London Corresponding Society is founded. 1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia. 1879 - The Bulgarian National Bank is founded. 1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. 1909 - Richard Strauss' opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1955 - The Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany. 1960 - The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records. 1961 - In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference. 1969 - Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him 10 machine guns and 63 rifles. 1971 - Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders. 1971 - Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president. 1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state. 1981 - Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death. 1986 - The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda. 1990 - The Burns' Day storm hits northwestern Europe. 1993 - Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
1994 - The Clementine space probe launches. 1995 - The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile. 1996 - Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the United States of America. 1998 - During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country. 1998 - A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills 8 people and injures 25 others. 1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000. 2001 - A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24. 2003 - 2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people left London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations. 2004 - Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars. 2005 - A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258. 2006 - Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star. 2006 - Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in conjunction with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women. 2010 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board. 2011 - Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt.
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