1913 - Rene Clement, Bordeaux France, director/writer (Is Paris Burning)
1913 - William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author
1950 - Richard Kretchmer, English artist and historian
1548 - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet
1951 - Ben Cohen, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
1952 - Mike Webster, American football player (d. 2002)
1953 - Helmer C Koetje, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1918 - Al Benton, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1953 - Margaret L Augustine, Buffalo NY, project manager (Biosphere 2)
1609 - Frederick III, King of Denmark & Norway (1648-70); absolutist
1919 - Len Johnson, cricketer (Australian fast bowler played Test in 1948)
1955 - Graham Porter, cricketer (1 day intl for Australia 1979)
1920 - Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator
1922 - Egon Bahr, German journalist/politician
1956 - Ingamar Stenmark, Sweden, slalom (Olympic-2 gold-1980)
1690 - Christian Goldbach, German mathematician (Goldbach position)
1957 - Christer Fuglesang, Stockholm Sweden, physicist/astronaut (Mir backup)
1734 - Joseph Schmitt, composer
1957 - Gyrgy Pazdera, Hungarian bassist (Pokolgp)
1765 - David H Chasse, Dutch baron/general (fought Napoleon at Waterloo)
1780 - Milos Obrenovic, Leader of The Second Serbian Uprising and Prince of Serbia (d. 1860)
1928 - William R Boggs, Georgia, Brig Gen/chief of engineers under Bragg
1960 - Claudia Udy, Albuquerque NM, actress (Out of Control, Nightforce)
1813 - Friedrich Hebbel, writer
1828 - William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1908)
1929 - Ctirad Kohoutek, composer
1929 - Kai Winding, rocker
1929 - John Macurdy, American bass
1838 - Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter
1838 - Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
1931 - Howard Coble, (Rep-R-NC, 1985- )
1962 - Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor
1962 - Mike Rowe, American television personality
1962 - Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor
1844 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Scheherazade)
1934 - Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1983)
1964 - Christina Ferguson, Phoenix Az, playmate (Apr, 1983)
1936 - Hans Peter Bleuel, writer
1964 - Rozalla, Zambian singer
1964 - Alex Caffi, Italian racecar driver
1937 - Mark Donohue, auto racer (1972 Indianapolis 500)
1965 - Geronimo Berroa, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Oakland A's)
1965 - Jeff Labarr, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1938 - Carl Gottlieb, comedian (Ken Berry Wow Show)
1872 - Anna Held, Polish actress and singer (d. 1918)
1874 - Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher (d. 1948)
1877 - Clem Hill, cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman)
1967 - Andre Rison, NFL wide receiver (Cleve Browns, KC Chiefs)
1939 - Giannis Markopoulos, Greek composer
1881 - Paul Le Flem, composer
1882 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer
1968 - Joseph Ouellet, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1941 - Wolfgang Bauer, writer
1968 - Shinichiro Miki, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
1886 - Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, Dutch author (Between Heaven & Earth)
1943 - Kevin Dobson, Jackson Hgts NY, actor (Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon)
1969 - Michael Dumas, NFL free safety (SD Chargers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1944 - Dick Smith, Australian Adventurer and Businessman
1944 - Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military leader and politician
1945 - Aleksey Vakhonin, USSR, bantam weight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1970 - Michael Rapaport, actor (Zak-Zebrahead)
1945 - Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer
1970 - Sarah Thorsett, Winona Minn, 1.5k runner
1971 - Mariaan de Swardt, Johannesburg, tennis star (1996 3rd round Aust))
1972 - Dane Cook, American comedian and actor
1972 - Nathan Quarry, American mixed martial arts fighter
1947 - David Lloyd, cricketer (England opener, 214 v India 1974)
1947 - Steven H Schiff, (Rep-R-New Mexico)
1973 - Max Barry, Australian author
1947 - Patrick Barlow, English actor, comedian and playwright
1947 - Roger Kenneth Evans, English politician
1974 - Tina Krizan, Maribor Slovenia, tennis star (1995 Surabaya doubles)
1905 - Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (d. 1985)
1975 - Claude N'Goran, Adzope Ivory Coast, tennis pro
1948 - Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer
1975 - Tomas virgdauskas, Lithuanian footballer
1909 - Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (d. 2007)
1949 - Hannu Siitonen, Finnish athlete
1949 - se Kleveland, Norwegian singer and politician
1950 - Brad Dourif, WV, actor (Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal Beauty)
37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
235 - Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea are murdered by legionaries near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz). The Severan dynasty ends.
1229 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
1241 - Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Krakw in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
1314 - Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
1438 - Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1608 - Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
1673 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
1766 - American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
1793 - The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
1834 - Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
1850 - American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
1865 - American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
1871 - Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
1874 - Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
1893 - Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
1906 - Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 20 meters at 1 meter altitude.
1913 - King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
1915 - World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
1921 - The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
1922 - In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
1925 - The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
1937 - The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
1937 - The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside Milan.
1938 - Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
1940 - World War II: Axis Powers - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
1942 - The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
1944 - The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
1945 - World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
1946 - Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
1948 - Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of a Tito-Stalin split.
1953 - An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.
1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
1962 - The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.
1965 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
1967 - The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
1968 - Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
1969 - The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
1970 - Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1971 - In Peru a landslide crashes into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 at the mining camp of Chungar.
1974 - Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
1980 - At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.
1990 - In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
1992 - White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.
1994 - Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending warring between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1996 - A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.
1997 - The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en-route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.
2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.
2003 - FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company's top executives.
2003 - In the House of Commons, British MPs vote in favour of military intervention in Iraq by 412 votes to 149.
2003 - British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
1913 - William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author
1950 - Richard Kretchmer, English artist and historian
1548 - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet
1951 - Ben Cohen, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
1952 - Mike Webster, American football player (d. 2002)
1953 - Helmer C Koetje, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1918 - Al Benton, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1953 - Margaret L Augustine, Buffalo NY, project manager (Biosphere 2)
1609 - Frederick III, King of Denmark & Norway (1648-70); absolutist
1919 - Len Johnson, cricketer (Australian fast bowler played Test in 1948)
1955 - Graham Porter, cricketer (1 day intl for Australia 1979)
1920 - Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator
1922 - Egon Bahr, German journalist/politician
1956 - Ingamar Stenmark, Sweden, slalom (Olympic-2 gold-1980)
1690 - Christian Goldbach, German mathematician (Goldbach position)
1957 - Christer Fuglesang, Stockholm Sweden, physicist/astronaut (Mir backup)
1734 - Joseph Schmitt, composer
1957 - Gyrgy Pazdera, Hungarian bassist (Pokolgp)
1765 - David H Chasse, Dutch baron/general (fought Napoleon at Waterloo)
1780 - Milos Obrenovic, Leader of The Second Serbian Uprising and Prince of Serbia (d. 1860)
1928 - William R Boggs, Georgia, Brig Gen/chief of engineers under Bragg
1960 - Claudia Udy, Albuquerque NM, actress (Out of Control, Nightforce)
1813 - Friedrich Hebbel, writer
1828 - William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1908)
1929 - Ctirad Kohoutek, composer
1929 - Kai Winding, rocker
1929 - John Macurdy, American bass
1838 - Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter
1838 - Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
1931 - Howard Coble, (Rep-R-NC, 1985- )
1962 - Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor
1962 - Mike Rowe, American television personality
1962 - Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor
1844 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Scheherazade)
1934 - Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1983)
1964 - Christina Ferguson, Phoenix Az, playmate (Apr, 1983)
1936 - Hans Peter Bleuel, writer
1964 - Rozalla, Zambian singer
1964 - Alex Caffi, Italian racecar driver
1937 - Mark Donohue, auto racer (1972 Indianapolis 500)
1965 - Geronimo Berroa, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Oakland A's)
1965 - Jeff Labarr, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1938 - Carl Gottlieb, comedian (Ken Berry Wow Show)
1872 - Anna Held, Polish actress and singer (d. 1918)
1874 - Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher (d. 1948)
1877 - Clem Hill, cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman)
1967 - Andre Rison, NFL wide receiver (Cleve Browns, KC Chiefs)
1939 - Giannis Markopoulos, Greek composer
1881 - Paul Le Flem, composer
1882 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer
1968 - Joseph Ouellet, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1941 - Wolfgang Bauer, writer
1968 - Shinichiro Miki, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
1886 - Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, Dutch author (Between Heaven & Earth)
1943 - Kevin Dobson, Jackson Hgts NY, actor (Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon)
1969 - Michael Dumas, NFL free safety (SD Chargers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1944 - Dick Smith, Australian Adventurer and Businessman
1944 - Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military leader and politician
1945 - Aleksey Vakhonin, USSR, bantam weight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1970 - Michael Rapaport, actor (Zak-Zebrahead)
1945 - Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer
1970 - Sarah Thorsett, Winona Minn, 1.5k runner
1971 - Mariaan de Swardt, Johannesburg, tennis star (1996 3rd round Aust))
1972 - Dane Cook, American comedian and actor
1972 - Nathan Quarry, American mixed martial arts fighter
1947 - David Lloyd, cricketer (England opener, 214 v India 1974)
1947 - Steven H Schiff, (Rep-R-New Mexico)
1973 - Max Barry, Australian author
1947 - Patrick Barlow, English actor, comedian and playwright
1947 - Roger Kenneth Evans, English politician
1974 - Tina Krizan, Maribor Slovenia, tennis star (1995 Surabaya doubles)
1905 - Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (d. 1985)
1975 - Claude N'Goran, Adzope Ivory Coast, tennis pro
1948 - Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer
1975 - Tomas virgdauskas, Lithuanian footballer
1909 - Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (d. 2007)
1949 - Hannu Siitonen, Finnish athlete
1949 - se Kleveland, Norwegian singer and politician
1950 - Brad Dourif, WV, actor (Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal Beauty)
37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
235 - Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea are murdered by legionaries near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz). The Severan dynasty ends.
1229 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
1241 - Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Krakw in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
1314 - Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
1438 - Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1608 - Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
1673 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
1766 - American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
1793 - The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
1834 - Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
1850 - American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
1865 - American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
1871 - Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
1874 - Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
1893 - Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
1906 - Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 20 meters at 1 meter altitude.
1913 - King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
1915 - World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
1921 - The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
1922 - In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
1925 - The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
1937 - The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
1937 - The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside Milan.
1938 - Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
1940 - World War II: Axis Powers - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
1942 - The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
1944 - The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
1945 - World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
1946 - Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
1948 - Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of a Tito-Stalin split.
1953 - An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.
1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
1962 - The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.
1965 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
1967 - The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
1968 - Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
1969 - The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
1970 - Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1971 - In Peru a landslide crashes into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 at the mining camp of Chungar.
1974 - Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
1980 - At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.
1990 - In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
1992 - White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.
1994 - Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending warring between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1996 - A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.
1997 - The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en-route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.
2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.
2003 - FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company's top executives.
2003 - In the House of Commons, British MPs vote in favour of military intervention in Iraq by 412 votes to 149.
2003 - British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
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