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[edit] Births

• 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 actor
• 1917 - Robert Burns Woodward chemist (d. 1979)
• 1918 - Jørn Utzon, Danish architect
• 1921 - 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 actor
• 1930 - Claude Bolling, French jazz composer and pianist
• 1932 - Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor
• 1934 - David Halberstam, writer
• 1934 - Vladimir Posner, Soviet journalist
• 1936 - John Madden, American football coach and broadcaster
• 1938 - Don Meredith, American football player and broadcaster
• 1941 - Paul Theroux, American author
• 1943 - Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete
• 1946 - David Angell, American television producer (d. 2001)
• 1947 - Bunny Wailer, Jamaican musician
• 1950 - Ken Griffey, Sr., Major League Baseball player
• 1950 - Eddie Hazel, guitarist (P-Funk and The Temptations)
• 1951 - Steven Seagal, actor
• 1954 - Peter MacNicol, actor
• 1955 - Lesley Garrett, British soprano
• 1958 - Yefim Bronfman, Russian pianist
• 1958 - Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, music producer, musician, and film producer
• 1960 - Brian Setzer, musician
• 1960 - Katrina Leskanich, singer (Katrina and the Waves)
• 1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, American musician and activist
• 1962 - Steve Tasker, American football player
• 1965 - Tim Alexander, American musician
• 1968 - Orlando Jones, American actor, comedian
• 1970 - Kenny Lattimore, American singer
• 1979 - 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, actor
• 1983 - Ryan Merriman, actor
• 1984 - Mandy Moore, pop singer
• 1987 - Hayley Westenra, singer
• 1988 - Haley Joel Osment, actor

[edit] Deaths

• 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, writer
• 1945 - Charles Nordhoff, writer
• 1954 - 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 designer
• 1975 - Josephine Baker, dancer (b. 1906)
• 1975 - Marjorie Main, actress (b. 1890)
• 1979 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)
• 1980 - Kay Medford, American actress
• 1986 - Linda Creed, American songwriter
• 1991 - Kevin Peter Hall, American actor
• 1991 - Natalie Schafer, American actress
• 1992 - Sam Kinison, American comedian
• 1993 - Chris Hani, activist
• 1994 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
• 1995 - Morarji Desai, Indian activist
• 1997 - 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 astronomer
• 2003 - Little Eva, singer (b. 1943)

[edit] Events

• 1741 - Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz
• 1815 - 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 Fox Trot débuts.
• 1998 - The Belfast Agreement is signed.