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1389 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1464 )1512 - James V of Scotland (exact date uncertain) (d. 1542 )1583 - Hugo Grotius, jurist (d. 1645 )1755 - Samuel Hahnemann, physician, originator of homeopathy (d. 1843 )1778 - William Hazlitt, English writer (d. 1830 )1783 - Hortense de Beauharnais, queen of Holland as wife of Louis Bonaparte (d. 1837 )1794 - Matthew Perry, American commodore (d. 1858 )1829 - William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (d. 1912 )1847 - Joseph Pulitzer , American journalist and publisher (d. 1911 )1867 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist (d. 1935 )1868 - George Arliss, actor (d. 1946 )1870 (O.S. ) - Vladimir Lenin , Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1924 )1880 - Montague Summers, English writer (d. 1948 )1882 - Frances Perkins, American politician (d. 1965 )1894 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist, Gandhian, and educator (d. 1983 )1899 - Vladimir Nabokov 1910 - Eddy Duchin, musician (d. 1951 )1913 - Stefan Heym, author (d. 2001 )1915 - Harry Morgan, American actor1917 - Robert Burns Woodward chemist (d. 1979 )1918 - Jørn Utzon, Danish architect1921 - Chuck Connors, American actor and baseball player (d. 1992 )1921 - Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (d. 2003 )
1926 - Junior Samples, American country musician (d. 1983 )1929 - Max von Sydow, Swedish actor1930 - Claude Bolling, French jazz composer and pianist1932 - Omar Sharif , Egyptian actor1934 - David Halberstam, writer1934 - Vladimir Posner, Soviet journalist
1936 - John Madden, American football coach and broadcaster1938 - Don Meredith, American football player and broadcaster1941 - Paul Theroux, American author1943 - Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete1946 - David Angell, American television producer (d. 2001 )1947 - Bunny Wailer, Jamaican musician1950 - Ken Griffey, Sr., Major League Baseball player1950 - Eddie Hazel, guitarist (P-Funk and The Temptations )
1951 - Steven Seagal, actor1954 - Peter MacNicol, actor1955 - Lesley Garrett, British soprano1958 - Yefim Bronfman, Russian pianist1958 - Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, music producer, musician, and film producer
1960 - Brian Setzer, musician1960 - Katrina Leskanich, singer (Katrina and the Waves)
1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, American musician and activist
1962 - Steve Tasker, American football player1965 - Tim Alexander, American musician1968 - Orlando Jones, American actor, comedian1970 - Kenny Lattimore, American singer1979 - Rachel Corrie, American activist, member of the International Solidarity Movement (d. 2003 )1979 - Tsuyoshi Domoto, artist
1979 - Sophie Ellis-Bextor, singer
1979 - Shemekia Copeland, American singer
1980 - Charlie Hunnam, actor1983 - Ryan Merriman, actor1984 - Mandy Moore , pop singer1987 - Hayley Westenra, singer1988 - Haley Joel Osment, actor
879 - Louis the Stammerer , king of the West Franks (b. 846)
1533 - Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471 )1585 - Pope Gregory XIII (b. 1502 )1599 - Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1571 )1813 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange mathematician (b. 1736 )1862 - W.H.L. Wallace Union brigadier general (b. 1821 )1882 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter (b. 1828 )1909 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (b. 1909 )1919 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1879 )1931 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883 )1939 - Alfredo Panzini , writer1947 - Charles Nordhoff, writer1954 - Auguste Lumière, French film pioneer (b. 1862 )1962 - Michael Curtiz, director (b. 1886 )1962 - Stuart Sutcliffe , musician (The Beatles ) (b. 1940 )
1965 - Linda Darnell, actress (b. 1923 )1966 - Evelyn Waugh , English writer (b. 1903 )1968 - Gustavs Celmins, politician (b. 1899 )1969 - Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer1975 - Josephine Baker, dancer (b. 1906 )1975 - Marjorie Main, actress (b. 1890 )
1979 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911 )1980 - Kay Medford, American actress1986 - Linda Creed, American songwriter1991 - Kevin Peter Hall, American actor1991 - Natalie Schafer, American actress
1992 - Sam Kinison, American comedian1993 - Chris Hani, activist1994 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924 )1995 - Morarji Desai, Indian activist1997 - Michael Dorris, American author (b. 1945 )1999 - Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, biochemist (b. 1910 )2000 - Peter Jones, comedian and scriptwriter (b. 1920 )2000 - Larry Linville, actor
2001 - Willie Stargell, baseball player (b. 1940 )2002 - Yuji Hyakutake, Japanese astronomer2003 - Little Eva, singer (b. 1943 )
1741 - Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz1815 - Mount Tambora eruption covers several islands with ash in Indonesia .1816 - The U.S. government approved the creation of a Second Bank of the United States.1865 - American Civil War : A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.1906 - The Four Million, O. Henry's second short story collection, is published.1912 - The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton , England .1916 - The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City by 82 charter members.1919 - Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos .1933 - New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps is created.1938 - Édouard Daladier becomes Prime Minister of France 1939 - Dr. I.Q., the Mental Banker debuts.1941 - World War II : The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustase fascist insurgents in power.1944 - Henry Ford II is named executive vice president of Ford Motor Company .1953 - The House of Wax opens at New York City's Paramount Theater (it was the first color feature in 3-D).1957 - The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.1959 - Akihito , future Emperor of Japan , weds Michiko (née Michiko Shoda), a commoner.1963 - The submarine USS Thresher is lost at sea, with all hands (129 officers, crewmen and civilian technicians)1968 - Shipwreck of the Wahine outside Wellington harbour.1970 - Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have broken up.1970 - Vietnam War : 48 percent of the Americans polled in a Gallup Poll approve of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's Vietnam policy, while 41 percent disapprove.
1971 - Cold War : In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States , the People's Republic of China host the U.S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit.1972 - 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires , Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.1972 - Vietnam War : For the first time since November 1967 American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam .
1973 - A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104.1979 - On the day known to meteorologists as "terrible Tuesday", a tornado hits in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. (see Wichita Falls, Texas Tornado).1988 - The comic strip FoxTrot débuts.1998 - The Belfast Agreement is signed.
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