1133 - King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
1324 - David II Bruce, king of Scotland (1331..71)
1958 - Bill Timoney, TV commercial actor (Addicted to Love)
1512 - Gerardus Mercator, Rupelmonde (Belgium), geographer/mapmaker
1563 - John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
1574 - William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor (slide rule)
1961 - Dan Stuart, US singer/songwriter (Green on Red)
1961 - Zeke Mowatt, NFL tight end (NY Giants)
1962 - Elise Burgin, Baltimore MD, tennis star
1918 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and ice hockey referee (d. 2006)
1962 - Jonathan Penner, American reality show contestant
1962 - Charlie and Craig Reid, Scottish musicians (The Proclaimers)
1703 - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
1920 - Virginia Christine, actress (Mrs Olson)
1920 - Jos Aboulker, Jewish Communist
1921 - Berkley Bedell, (Rep-D-IA, 1975- )
1746 - Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/naval chaplain
1966 - Bob Halkidis, Canadian hockey player
1966 - Aasif Mandvi, Indian-born American actor and comedian
1750 - Jean B G d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical (Apollonii Lexicon)
1968 - Marq Mellor, Long Island NY, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1929 - Joan Shawlee, Forest Hills NY, actress (Prehistoric Women)
1929 - Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
1930 - Lorin Maazel, Neuilly France, conductor (NBC Symphony Orch 1941)
1930 - Del Crandall, American baseball player
1969 - MC Solaar, French rapper
1970 - John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1815 - John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
1971 - Amy Peistrup-Matthews, Arlington Hgts Ill, WPVA (Old Orchard-17-1995)
1971 - Brian Hunter, Portland OR, outfielder (Houston Astros)
1971 - Chad Fonville, Jacksonville NC, infielder (LA Dodgers)
1971 - James Roberson, WLAF defensive end (Rhein Fire)
1935 - Malcolm J Anderson, tennis champ (US Open-1957)
1828 - Johann Gungl, composer
1936 - Dale Douglass, Wewoka OK, PGA golfer (1970 Phoenix Open)
1840 - Constance Fenimore Woolson, NH, writer (Jupiter Lights)
1936 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
1937 - Stephen Fitz-Simon, entrepreneur
1850 - Daniel Brink Towner, composer
1852 - Isabella Gregory, Ireland, writer/playwright (Golden Apple)
1972 - Tom Hipsz, CFL defensive tackle (Montreal Alouettes)
1853 - Howard Pyle, illustrator/painter/author (King Stork)
1973 - Nicole Pratt, Mackay Australia, tennis star (1995 Futures Australia)
1973 - Paul Lieftink, Dutch soccer player (NAC, Spakenburg)
1939 - Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer
1869 - Michael von Faulhaber, cardinal/archbishop of Munich
1940 - Malcolm Hebden, English actor
1942 - Michael D[iamond] Resnick, sci-fi author (Sideshow, Eros Ascending)
1942 - Felipe Gonzlez, Prime Minister of Spain
1873 - Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)
1874 - Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer (The World a Dancing Party)
1944 - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. 1998)
1877 - Malcolm D Whitman, tennis champ (US Open-1898)
1975 - Niki Taylor, model (Elle, Marie Claire)
1946 - Michael Warren, Indiana, actor (Bobby Hill-Hill Street Blues)
1975 - Luciano Burti, Brazilian racing driver
1946 - Rocky Bleier, Wisc, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1947 - Eddie Hodges, Miss, actor/singer (High Hopes, Adv of Huckleberry Finn)
1976 - Katerina Matziou, Greek actress
1888 - Friedrich Schnack, German journalist/writer (Rosewood)
1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyana, reggae performer (Electric Avenue)
1948 - Jacques Kloes, singer (Dizzy Man's Band)
1977 - Mike MacDougal, American baseball player
1894 - Henry Daniell, London, actor (Camille, Phila Story, Body Snatchers)
1948 - Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
1978 - Mike Hessman, American baseball player
1978 - Papoose, American rapper
1950 - Harvey Jacob Alperin, Minneapolis MN, actor (Cocktail)
1899 - Patrick Hadley, composer
1981 - Paul Martin, American ice hockey player
1901 - Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Sruby)
1953 - Russel D Feingold, (Sen-D Wisconsin)
1904 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
1985 - Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
1985 - Whitney Port, Cast member of The Hills TV series
1955 - Penn Jillette, Mass, magician (Penn & Teller-Penn & Teller are Dead)
1908 - Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990)
1988 - Trevor Carson, Northern Irish footballer
1909 - Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47)
1910 - Joan Sterndale Bennett, NJ, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows)
363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
1046 - Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1279 - the Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1496 - King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
1766 - Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 - Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by John Adams.
1824 - First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1850 - The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1860 - Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1868 - Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its premire performance at La Scala.
1872 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1906 - Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
1912 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1931 - The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
1933 - Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 - Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1940 - Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
1943 - First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1944 - World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman-Botosani Offensive in western Ukrainian SSR.
1946 - Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1946 - Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
1960 - Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase, giving rise to the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis.
1960 - Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
1965 - March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1966 - BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
1970 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1974 - Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1975 - First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
1978 - The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979 - Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 - America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1981 - The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
1984 - 6,000 miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
1988 - The Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
1999 - Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
2003 - In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
1324 - David II Bruce, king of Scotland (1331..71)
1958 - Bill Timoney, TV commercial actor (Addicted to Love)
1512 - Gerardus Mercator, Rupelmonde (Belgium), geographer/mapmaker
1563 - John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
1574 - William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor (slide rule)
1961 - Dan Stuart, US singer/songwriter (Green on Red)
1961 - Zeke Mowatt, NFL tight end (NY Giants)
1962 - Elise Burgin, Baltimore MD, tennis star
1918 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and ice hockey referee (d. 2006)
1962 - Jonathan Penner, American reality show contestant
1962 - Charlie and Craig Reid, Scottish musicians (The Proclaimers)
1703 - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
1920 - Virginia Christine, actress (Mrs Olson)
1920 - Jos Aboulker, Jewish Communist
1921 - Berkley Bedell, (Rep-D-IA, 1975- )
1746 - Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/naval chaplain
1966 - Bob Halkidis, Canadian hockey player
1966 - Aasif Mandvi, Indian-born American actor and comedian
1750 - Jean B G d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical (Apollonii Lexicon)
1968 - Marq Mellor, Long Island NY, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1929 - Joan Shawlee, Forest Hills NY, actress (Prehistoric Women)
1929 - Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
1930 - Lorin Maazel, Neuilly France, conductor (NBC Symphony Orch 1941)
1930 - Del Crandall, American baseball player
1969 - MC Solaar, French rapper
1970 - John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1815 - John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
1971 - Amy Peistrup-Matthews, Arlington Hgts Ill, WPVA (Old Orchard-17-1995)
1971 - Brian Hunter, Portland OR, outfielder (Houston Astros)
1971 - Chad Fonville, Jacksonville NC, infielder (LA Dodgers)
1971 - James Roberson, WLAF defensive end (Rhein Fire)
1935 - Malcolm J Anderson, tennis champ (US Open-1957)
1828 - Johann Gungl, composer
1936 - Dale Douglass, Wewoka OK, PGA golfer (1970 Phoenix Open)
1840 - Constance Fenimore Woolson, NH, writer (Jupiter Lights)
1936 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
1937 - Stephen Fitz-Simon, entrepreneur
1850 - Daniel Brink Towner, composer
1852 - Isabella Gregory, Ireland, writer/playwright (Golden Apple)
1972 - Tom Hipsz, CFL defensive tackle (Montreal Alouettes)
1853 - Howard Pyle, illustrator/painter/author (King Stork)
1973 - Nicole Pratt, Mackay Australia, tennis star (1995 Futures Australia)
1973 - Paul Lieftink, Dutch soccer player (NAC, Spakenburg)
1939 - Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer
1869 - Michael von Faulhaber, cardinal/archbishop of Munich
1940 - Malcolm Hebden, English actor
1942 - Michael D[iamond] Resnick, sci-fi author (Sideshow, Eros Ascending)
1942 - Felipe Gonzlez, Prime Minister of Spain
1873 - Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)
1874 - Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer (The World a Dancing Party)
1944 - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. 1998)
1877 - Malcolm D Whitman, tennis champ (US Open-1898)
1975 - Niki Taylor, model (Elle, Marie Claire)
1946 - Michael Warren, Indiana, actor (Bobby Hill-Hill Street Blues)
1975 - Luciano Burti, Brazilian racing driver
1946 - Rocky Bleier, Wisc, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1947 - Eddie Hodges, Miss, actor/singer (High Hopes, Adv of Huckleberry Finn)
1976 - Katerina Matziou, Greek actress
1888 - Friedrich Schnack, German journalist/writer (Rosewood)
1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyana, reggae performer (Electric Avenue)
1948 - Jacques Kloes, singer (Dizzy Man's Band)
1977 - Mike MacDougal, American baseball player
1894 - Henry Daniell, London, actor (Camille, Phila Story, Body Snatchers)
1948 - Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
1978 - Mike Hessman, American baseball player
1978 - Papoose, American rapper
1950 - Harvey Jacob Alperin, Minneapolis MN, actor (Cocktail)
1899 - Patrick Hadley, composer
1981 - Paul Martin, American ice hockey player
1901 - Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Sruby)
1953 - Russel D Feingold, (Sen-D Wisconsin)
1904 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
1985 - Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
1985 - Whitney Port, Cast member of The Hills TV series
1955 - Penn Jillette, Mass, magician (Penn & Teller-Penn & Teller are Dead)
1908 - Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990)
1988 - Trevor Carson, Northern Irish footballer
1909 - Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47)
1910 - Joan Sterndale Bennett, NJ, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows)
363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
1046 - Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1279 - the Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1496 - King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
1766 - Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 - Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by John Adams.
1824 - First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1850 - The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1860 - Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1868 - Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its premire performance at La Scala.
1872 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1906 - Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
1912 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1931 - The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
1933 - Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 - Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1940 - Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
1943 - First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1944 - World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman-Botosani Offensive in western Ukrainian SSR.
1946 - Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1946 - Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
1960 - Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase, giving rise to the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis.
1960 - Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
1965 - March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1966 - BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
1970 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1974 - Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1975 - First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
1978 - The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979 - Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 - America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1981 - The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
1984 - 6,000 miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
1988 - The Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
1999 - Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
2003 - In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
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