399 - Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453) 570 - Mohammed, Islamic prophet (Koran) 1200 - Dogen Kigen, Japan, Zen teacher, 1st patriarch of the Japanese Soto 1544 - Francis II de Valois-Angouleme, king of France (1559-60) 1613 - Jacques Huyn, composer 1639 - Noel Alexandre, French theologian/historian 1676 - John Weldon, composer 1679 - Girolamo Chiti, composer 1686 - Hakuin Ekakuborn, Japan, Zen Buddhist 1736 - James Watt, Scotland, inventor (steam engine) 1736 - Laurens P van de Spiegel, Dutch regent/secretary of State 1787-95 1737 - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Fr writer (Paul et Virgin) 1739 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808) 1749 - Isaiah Thomas, US, printer/editor/publisher/historian 1752 - James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820) 1757 - Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831) 1760 - Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer
1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet (Blommorna) 1798 - Auguste Comte, philosopher/founder (sociology & positivism) 1802 - [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belg min of Foreign affairs (1831) 1806 - Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer 1807 - Robert E. Lee, Stratford Virginia, American Confederate General in Chief (d. 1870) 1808 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887) 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum) 1813 - Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine) 1816 - Henry Gray, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 1820 - John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 1827 - Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentina, conductor (Rafagas,) 1830 - George Blake Cosby, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1909 1832 - Ferdinand Laub, composer 1832 - Salvador Giner y Vidal, composer 1837 - William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain) 1839 - Bohumil Pazdirek, composer
1839 - Paul Czanne, French painter (d. 1906) 1848 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904) 1851 - David Starr Jordan, NY, biologist/university pres (Leland Stanford) 1851 - Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer 1858 - Eugene Brieux, French playwright (Blanchette, Lesson Avaries) 1859 - Alice Eastwood, Toronto, botanist (Handbook of Trees of Calif) 1863 - Werner Sombart, German fascist (Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben) 1866 - Harry Davenport, NYC, actor/director (Her Unborn Child, My Sin) 1868 - Gustav Meyrink, writer 1869 - Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor (Rotterdam 1906-22)/Dir (League of Nations) 1873 - Hans E Blaich, writer 1877 - Charles Coburn, Savannah Ga, actor (Devil & Miss Jones) 1878 - Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934) 1879 - Marie Koenen, author/wife of Felix Rutten (Wassend Cereal) 1879 - Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (d. 1925) 1883 - Hermann Abendroth, German conductor 1884 - Albert Louis Wolff, composer
1968 - Whitfield Crane, rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad) 1969 - Andrew Murray Stone, Auckland NZ, Open 470 yachter (Olympics-96) 1969 - Junior Seau, NFL inside linebacker (SD Chargers) 1969 - Luc Longley, NBA center (Chicago Bulls) 1969 - Orlando Palmeiro, Hoboken NJ, outfielder (California Angels) 1969 - Predrag Mijatović, Yugoslavian footballer 1969 - Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-born American author 1969 - Steve Staunton, Irish footballer 1970 - Ghetty Chasun, Erie Penn, actress (Red Lips) 1970 - Rick Krivda, Mckeesport PA, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles) 1970 - T J Mathews, Belleville IL, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals) 1970 - Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete 1970 - Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian 1971 - Jeff Juden, Salem MA, baseball pitcher (Phila Phillies, SF Giants) 1971 - Maurice Hofman, Dutch soccer player (MVV) 1971 - Reggie Brooks, NFL running back (Washington Redskins) 1971 - Shawn Wayans, actor (In Living Color) 1971 - John Wozniak, American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground) 1972 - Tyrone Wheatley, NFL running back (NY Giants) 1972 - Joana Benedek, Mexican actress 1972 - Ron Killings, American professional wrestler 1972 - Princess Kalina of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family 1973 - Chris Stynes, Queens NY, infielder (KC Royals)
1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy. 1511 - Mirandola surrenders to the French. 1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund. 1607 - San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines. 1764 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. 1788 - The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. 1795 - The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. 1806 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope. 1812 - Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo. 1817 - An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General Jos de San Martn, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru. 1829 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance. 1839 - The British East India Company captures Aden. 1840 - Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States. 1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome. 1861 - American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States. 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs - The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict. 1871 - Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day. 1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. 1893 - Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin. 1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. 1915 - Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. 1915 - World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. 1917 - Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London. 1920 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations. 1935 - Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
1981 - Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. 1983 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. 1983 - The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced. 1986 - The first computer virus released into the wild is a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written. 1991 - Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries. 1993 - Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations. 1996 - The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. 1997 - Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. 1999 - British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999. 2006 - A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary. 2006 - The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto. 2007 - Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogn Samast.
1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet (Blommorna) 1798 - Auguste Comte, philosopher/founder (sociology & positivism) 1802 - [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belg min of Foreign affairs (1831) 1806 - Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer 1807 - Robert E. Lee, Stratford Virginia, American Confederate General in Chief (d. 1870) 1808 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887) 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum) 1813 - Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine) 1816 - Henry Gray, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 1820 - John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 1827 - Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentina, conductor (Rafagas,) 1830 - George Blake Cosby, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1909 1832 - Ferdinand Laub, composer 1832 - Salvador Giner y Vidal, composer 1837 - William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain) 1839 - Bohumil Pazdirek, composer
1839 - Paul Czanne, French painter (d. 1906) 1848 - John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904) 1851 - David Starr Jordan, NY, biologist/university pres (Leland Stanford) 1851 - Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer 1858 - Eugene Brieux, French playwright (Blanchette, Lesson Avaries) 1859 - Alice Eastwood, Toronto, botanist (Handbook of Trees of Calif) 1863 - Werner Sombart, German fascist (Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben) 1866 - Harry Davenport, NYC, actor/director (Her Unborn Child, My Sin) 1868 - Gustav Meyrink, writer 1869 - Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor (Rotterdam 1906-22)/Dir (League of Nations) 1873 - Hans E Blaich, writer 1877 - Charles Coburn, Savannah Ga, actor (Devil & Miss Jones) 1878 - Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934) 1879 - Marie Koenen, author/wife of Felix Rutten (Wassend Cereal) 1879 - Boris Savinkov, Russian writer (d. 1925) 1883 - Hermann Abendroth, German conductor 1884 - Albert Louis Wolff, composer
1968 - Whitfield Crane, rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad) 1969 - Andrew Murray Stone, Auckland NZ, Open 470 yachter (Olympics-96) 1969 - Junior Seau, NFL inside linebacker (SD Chargers) 1969 - Luc Longley, NBA center (Chicago Bulls) 1969 - Orlando Palmeiro, Hoboken NJ, outfielder (California Angels) 1969 - Predrag Mijatović, Yugoslavian footballer 1969 - Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-born American author 1969 - Steve Staunton, Irish footballer 1970 - Ghetty Chasun, Erie Penn, actress (Red Lips) 1970 - Rick Krivda, Mckeesport PA, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles) 1970 - T J Mathews, Belleville IL, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals) 1970 - Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete 1970 - Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian 1971 - Jeff Juden, Salem MA, baseball pitcher (Phila Phillies, SF Giants) 1971 - Maurice Hofman, Dutch soccer player (MVV) 1971 - Reggie Brooks, NFL running back (Washington Redskins) 1971 - Shawn Wayans, actor (In Living Color) 1971 - John Wozniak, American singer and songwriter (Marcy Playground) 1972 - Tyrone Wheatley, NFL running back (NY Giants) 1972 - Joana Benedek, Mexican actress 1972 - Ron Killings, American professional wrestler 1972 - Princess Kalina of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family 1973 - Chris Stynes, Queens NY, infielder (KC Royals)
1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy. 1511 - Mirandola surrenders to the French. 1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund. 1607 - San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines. 1764 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. 1788 - The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. 1795 - The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. 1806 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope. 1812 - Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo. 1817 - An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General Jos de San Martn, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru. 1829 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance. 1839 - The British East India Company captures Aden. 1840 - Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States. 1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome. 1861 - American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States. 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs - The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict. 1871 - Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day. 1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. 1893 - Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin. 1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. 1915 - Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. 1915 - World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. 1917 - Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London. 1920 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations. 1935 - Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
1981 - Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. 1983 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. 1983 - The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced. 1986 - The first computer virus released into the wild is a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written. 1991 - Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries. 1993 - Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations. 1996 - The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. 1997 - Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. 1999 - British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999. 2006 - A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary. 2006 - The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto. 2007 - Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogn Samast.
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