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Events

• 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees and appeared in Hispania.
• 1282 - Nichiren Daishonin, founder of the Nichiren School of Buddhism, dies. His ashes are interred at Taisekiji Temple.
• 1307 - Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Philip IV of France, to be later tortured into "Coercion" Christian heresy.
• 1492 - Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas
• 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1773 - The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier
• 1775 - The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
• 1792 - In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
• 1812 - War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights - As part of the Niagara campaign in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by United Kingdom and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock.
• 1843 - In New York City, Henry Jones (B'nai Brith) and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
• 1845 - A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the Congress of the United States, will make Texas a U.S. state.
• 1870 - The Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity is founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, by six pioneering women.
• 1881 - Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.
• 1885 - The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1884 - Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude.
• 1890 - The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
• 1892 - Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1 (Barnard 3), the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13-14.
• 1917 - The Solar Miracle of Fatima is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
• 1918 - Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
• 1923 - Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
• 1943 - World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
• 1944 - World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is seized by the Red Army.
• 1946 - France adopts the constitution of the French Fourth Republic.
• 1958 - Burial of Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII on the 41st anniversary of the Solar Miracle of Fatima.
• 1960 - 1960 World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski becomes the first person to end a World Series with a home run, as the Pirates beat the New York Yankees, four games to three.
• 1967 - The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Virginia Squires 134-129 in Oakland, California.
• 1971 - 1971 World Series: The first night game in World Series history is played at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Three Rivers Stadium between the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates.
• 1972 - An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashed outside Moscow killing 176.
• 1972 - Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, in between the borders of Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972 only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued.
• 1976 - A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
• 1976 - The first Electron microscope of an Ebola virus particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at University of California, Davis, who was then working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• 1977 - Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
• 1983 - Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1990 - End of the Lebanese war. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
• 1993 - Captured United States Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew.
• 1999 - The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
• 2003 - The Public Library of Science commences publication of an open access scientific journal, PLoS Biology.

Births

• 1474 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (d. 1515)
• 1566 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (d. 1643)
• 1696 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey, English statesman and writer (d. 1743)
• 1713 - Allan Ramsay (1713-1784), Scottish painter (d. 1784)
• 1714 - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (d. 1778)
• 1768 - Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (d. 1839)
• 1820 - John William Dawson, Canadian geologist (d. 1899)
• 1821 - Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician (d. 1902)
• 1853 - Lillie Langtry, British actress (d. 1929)
• 1862 - Mary Kingsley, English writer and explorer (d. 1900)
• 1876 - Rube Waddell, American baseball player (d. 1914)
• 1878 - Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1952)
• 1880 - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (d. 1932)
• 1887 - Jozef Tiso, Slovak politician (d. 1947)
• 1890 - Conrad Richter, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1968)
• 1900 - Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me (song)) (d. 1997)
• 1902 - Arna Wendell Bontemps, American writer (d. 1973)
• 1907 - Yves Allégret, French film director (d. 1987)
• 1909 - Art Tatum, American jazz pianist (d. 1956)
• 1909 - Herblock, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
• 1911 - Ashok Kumar (actor), Indian actor (d. 2001)
• 1915 - Terry Frost, English artist (d. 2003)
• 1915 - Cornel Wilde, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1917 - Laraine Day, American actor
• 1917 - Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (d. 1985)
• 1918 - Robert Hudson Walker, American actor (d. 1951)
• 1921 - Yves Montand, Italian-born singer and actor (d. 1991)
• 1923 - Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer (d. 2006)
• 1925 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (d. 1966)
• 1925 - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1925 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (d. 1979)
• 1926 - Ray Brown (musician), American jazz bassist (d. 2002)
• 1927 - Lee Konitz, American jazz saxophonist
• 1931 - Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (d. 2001)
• 1931 - Raymond Kopa, French footballer
• 1932 - Jack Colvin, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1933 - Raynald Frechette, Quebec politician and judge (d. 2007)
• 1933 - Narriman Sadek, second and last wife of Farouk I of Egypt and mother of their only child Fuad II of Egypt (d. 2005)
• 1934 - Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer and politician
• 1937 - Sami Frey, French actor
• 1938 - Hugo Young, English journalist (d. 2003)
• 1939 - T. J. Cloutier, American poker player
• 1939 - Melinda Dillon, American actress
• 1940 - Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist
• 1941 - Paul Simon, American singer and musician (Simon and Garfunkel)
• 1942 - Jerry Jones, American football team owner
• 1942 - Pamela Tiffin, American film actress
• 1942 - Bob Bailey (baseball), American baseball player
• 1944 - Robert Lamm, American musician (Chicago (band))
• 1945 - Christophe, French singer
• 1945 - Dési Bouterse, Surinam politician
• 1946 - Edwina Currie, British politician
• 1947 - Sammy Hagar, American singer (Van Halen)
• 1947 - Jerry Trupiano, American sports broadcaster
• 1948 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician and singer
• 1948 - Ted Poe, American politician
• 1948 - John Ford Coley, American musician
• 1949 - Tom Mees, American sports broadcaster (d. 1996)
• 1949 - Patrick Nève, Belgian racing driver
• 1952 - John Lone, Hong Kong actor
• 1953 - Pat Day, American jockey
• 1954 - Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician
• 1954 - Claude Ribbe, French historian
• 1954 - George Frazier (baseball player), American baseball player
• 1956 - Chris Carter (screenwriter), American television producer
• 1958 - Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, American musician and composer
• 1959 - Marie Osmond, American entertainer
• 1960 - Joey Belladonna, American musician (Anthrax (band))
• 1960 - Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary
• 1960 - Tim Brewster, American football coach
• 1961 - Doc Rivers, basketball player and coach
• 1962 - T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, American actress
• 1962 - Kelly Preston, American actress
• 1962 - Jerry Rice, American football star
• 1963 - Colin Channer, Jamaican writer
• 1964 - Niè Hǎishèng, Chinese astronaut
• 1964 - Christopher Judge, American actor
• 1965 - Johan Museeuw, Belgian cyclist
• 1967 - Steve Vickers (footballer), English footballer
• 1967 - Scott Cooper, American baseball player
• 1967 - Trevor Hoffman, American baseball player
• 1967 - Kate Walsh (actor), American actress
• 1968 - Carlos Marin, Spain baritone (Il Divo)
• 1968 - Tisha Campbell-Martin, American actress and singer
• 1969 - Nancy Kerrigan, American figure skater
• 1969 - Cady McClain, American actress
• 1969 - Rhett Akins, American country singer
• 1970 - Serena Altschul, American reporter
• 1970 - Mel Jackson, American actor and R&B musician
• 1971 - Sacha Baron Cohen, English comedian
• 1971 - Billy Bush, American TV host
• 1971 - Pyrros Dimas, Greek weightlifter
• 1972 - Summer Sanders, American swimmer
• 1973 - Brian Dawkins, American football player
• 1973 - Nanako Matsushima, Japanese actress
• 1973 - Matt Hughes (fighter), American mixed martial artist
• 1974 - Hawick Lau, Chinese actor and singer
• 1974 - Joseph Utsler, American rapper (Insane Clown Posse)
• 1975 - Tom Anderson (MySpace), American entrepreneur
• 1975 - David Kennedy (guitarist), American musician (Boxcar Racer, Angels and Airwaves)
• 1977 - Paul Pierce, American basketball player
• 1977 - Gareth Batty, English cricketer
• 1977 - Kiele Sanchez, American actress
• 1978 - Jermaine O'Neal, American basketball player
• 1979 - Wes Brown, English footballer
• 1980 - Ashanti (singer), American singer
• 1980 - Jon Micah Sumrall, American singer (Kutless)
• 1980 - Magne Hoseth, Norwegian footballer
• 1980 - Scott Parker (footballer), English footballer
• 1981 - Ryan Ashford, English footballer
• 1981 - Kele Okereke, lead singer of Bloc Party
• 1982 - Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer

Deaths

• 54 - Claudius, Roman Emperor (b. 10 BC)
• 1093 - Robert I, Count of Flanders
• 1282 - Nichiren Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (b. 1222)
• 1415 - Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1381)
• 1508 - Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1446)
• 1605 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (b. 1519)
• 1673 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617)
• 1687 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)
• 1694 - Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (b. 1632)
• 1706 - Iyasus I of Ethiopia, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1682)
• 1715 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)
• 1759 - John Henley, English minister (b. 1692)
• 1788 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)
• 1812 - Sir Isaac Brock, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1769)
• 1815 - Joachim Murat, French marshal and King of Naples (executed) (b. 1767)
• 1825 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria (b. 1756)
• 1869 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b. 1804)
• 1882 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (b. 1816)
• 1890 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1816)
• 1904 - Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (b. 1870)
• 1905 - Sir Henry Irving, the first British actor to be knighted (b. 1838)
• 1909 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (b. 1849)
• 1917 - Florence La Badie, American actress
• 1919 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1857)
• 1926 - Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (b. 1865)
• 1931 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)
• 1938 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (b. 1894)
• 1945 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (b. 1857)
• 1950 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
• 1955 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1966 - Clifton Webb, American actor (b. 1889)
• 1968 - Bea Benaderet, American actress (b. 1906)
• 1971 - Stafford Smythe, Canadian National Hockey League executive (b. 1921)
• 1974 - Ed Sullivan, American television personality (b. 1901)
• 1979 - Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (b. 1886)
• 1985 - Umesh Charola, Engineer])
• 1987 - Walter Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1902)
• 1988 - Mike Venezia, jockey (b. 1945)
• 1990 - Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
• 2000 - Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2001 - Peter Doyle (singer), Australian pop singer (The New Seekers) (b. 1949)
• 2002 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)
• 2003 - Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
• 2005 - Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)
• 2006 - Wang Guangmei, Chinese first lady (b. 1921)
• 2007 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances

• Roman festivals - Fontanalia: festival dedicated to Fontus
• Calendar of Saints - translation (1163) of Saint Edward the Confessor; memorial of Saint Gerald of Aurillac optional feast of Our Lady of Fatima
• French Republican Calendar - Peach Day, twenty-second day in the Vendémiaire

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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Events

• 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees and appeared in Hispania.
• 1282 - Nichiren Daishonin, founder of the Nichiren School of Buddhism, dies. His ashes are interred at Taisekiji Temple.
• 1307 - Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Philip IV of France, to be later tortured into "Coercion" Christian heresy.
• 1492 - Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas
• 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1773 - The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier
• 1775 - The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
• 1792 - In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
• 1812 - War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights - As part of the Niagara campaign in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by United Kingdom and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock.
• 1843 - In New York City, Henry Jones (B'nai Brith) and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
• 1845 - A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the Congress of the United States, will make Texas a U.S. state.
• 1870 - The Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity is founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, by six pioneering women.
• 1881 - Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.
• 1885 - The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1884 - Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude.
• 1890 - The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
• 1892 - Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1 (Barnard 3), the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13-14.
• 1917 - The Solar Miracle of Fatima is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
• 1918 - Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
• 1923 - Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
• 1943 - World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
• 1944 - World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is seized by the Red Army.
• 1946 - France adopts the constitution of the French Fourth Republic.
• 1958 - Burial of Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII on the 41st anniversary of the Solar Miracle of Fatima.
• 1960 - 1960 World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski becomes the first person to end a World Series with a home run, as the Pirates beat the New York Yankees, four games to three.
• 1967 - The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Virginia Squires 134-129 in Oakland, California.
• 1971 - 1971 World Series: The first night game in World Series history is played at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Three Rivers Stadium between the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates.
• 1972 - An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashed outside Moscow killing 176.
• 1972 - Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, in between the borders of Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972 only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued.
• 1976 - A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
• 1976 - The first Electron microscope of an Ebola virus particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at University of California, Davis, who was then working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• 1977 - Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
• 1983 - Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1990 - End of the Lebanese war. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
• 1993 - Captured United States Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew.
• 1999 - The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
• 2003 - The Public Library of Science commences publication of an open access scientific journal, PLoS Biology.

Births

• 1474 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (d. 1515)
• 1566 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (d. 1643)
• 1696 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey, English statesman and writer (d. 1743)
• 1713 - Allan Ramsay (1713-1784), Scottish painter (d. 1784)
• 1714 - Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (d. 1778)
• 1768 - Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (d. 1839)
• 1820 - John William Dawson, Canadian geologist (d. 1899)
• 1821 - Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician (d. 1902)
• 1853 - Lillie Langtry, British actress (d. 1929)
• 1862 - Mary Kingsley, English writer and explorer (d. 1900)
• 1876 - Rube Waddell, American baseball player (d. 1914)
• 1878 - Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1952)
• 1880 - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (d. 1932)
• 1887 - Jozef Tiso, Slovak politician (d. 1947)
• 1890 - Conrad Richter, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1968)
• 1900 - Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me (song)) (d. 1997)
• 1902 - Arna Wendell Bontemps, American writer (d. 1973)
• 1907 - Yves Allégret, French film director (d. 1987)
• 1909 - Art Tatum, American jazz pianist (d. 1956)
• 1909 - Herblock, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
• 1911 - Ashok Kumar (actor), Indian actor (d. 2001)
• 1915 - Terry Frost, English artist (d. 2003)
• 1915 - Cornel Wilde, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1917 - Laraine Day, American actor
• 1917 - Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (d. 1985)
• 1918 - Robert Hudson Walker, American actor (d. 1951)
• 1921 - Yves Montand, Italian-born singer and actor (d. 1991)
• 1923 - Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer (d. 2006)
• 1925 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (d. 1966)
• 1925 - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1925 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (d. 1979)
• 1926 - Ray Brown (musician), American jazz bassist (d. 2002)
• 1927 - Lee Konitz, American jazz saxophonist
• 1931 - Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (d. 2001)
• 1931 - Raymond Kopa, French footballer
• 1932 - Jack Colvin, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1933 - Raynald Frechette, Quebec politician and judge (d. 2007)
• 1933 - Narriman Sadek, second and last wife of Farouk I of Egypt and mother of their only child Fuad II of Egypt (d. 2005)
• 1934 - Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer and politician
• 1937 - Sami Frey, French actor
• 1938 - Hugo Young, English journalist (d. 2003)
• 1939 - T. J. Cloutier, American poker player
• 1939 - Melinda Dillon, American actress
• 1940 - Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist
• 1941 - Paul Simon, American singer and musician (Simon and Garfunkel)
• 1942 - Jerry Jones, American football team owner
• 1942 - Pamela Tiffin, American film actress
• 1942 - Bob Bailey (baseball), American baseball player
• 1944 - Robert Lamm, American musician (Chicago (band))
• 1945 - Christophe, French singer
• 1945 - Dési Bouterse, Surinam politician
• 1946 - Edwina Currie, British politician
• 1947 - Sammy Hagar, American singer (Van Halen)
• 1947 - Jerry Trupiano, American sports broadcaster
• 1948 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician and singer
• 1948 - Ted Poe, American politician
• 1948 - John Ford Coley, American musician
• 1949 - Tom Mees, American sports broadcaster (d. 1996)
• 1949 - Patrick Nève, Belgian racing driver
• 1952 - John Lone, Hong Kong actor
• 1953 - Pat Day, American jockey
• 1954 - Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician
• 1954 - Claude Ribbe, French historian
• 1954 - George Frazier (baseball player), American baseball player
• 1956 - Chris Carter (screenwriter), American television producer
• 1958 - Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, American musician and composer
• 1959 - Marie Osmond, American entertainer
• 1960 - Joey Belladonna, American musician (Anthrax (band))
• 1960 - Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary
• 1960 - Tim Brewster, American football coach
• 1961 - Doc Rivers, basketball player and coach
• 1962 - T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, American actress
• 1962 - Kelly Preston, American actress
• 1962 - Jerry Rice, American football star
• 1963 - Colin Channer, Jamaican writer
• 1964 - Niè Hǎishèng, Chinese astronaut
• 1964 - Christopher Judge, American actor
• 1965 - Johan Museeuw, Belgian cyclist
• 1967 - Steve Vickers (footballer), English footballer
• 1967 - Scott Cooper, American baseball player
• 1967 - Trevor Hoffman, American baseball player
• 1967 - Kate Walsh (actor), American actress
• 1968 - Carlos Marin, Spain baritone (Il Divo)
• 1968 - Tisha Campbell-Martin, American actress and singer
• 1969 - Nancy Kerrigan, American figure skater
• 1969 - Cady McClain, American actress
• 1969 - Rhett Akins, American country singer
• 1970 - Serena Altschul, American reporter
• 1970 - Mel Jackson, American actor and R&B musician
• 1971 - Sacha Baron Cohen, English comedian
• 1971 - Billy Bush, American TV host
• 1971 - Pyrros Dimas, Greek weightlifter
• 1972 - Summer Sanders, American swimmer
• 1973 - Brian Dawkins, American football player
• 1973 - Nanako Matsushima, Japanese actress
• 1973 - Matt Hughes (fighter), American mixed martial artist
• 1974 - Hawick Lau, Chinese actor and singer
• 1974 - Joseph Utsler, American rapper (Insane Clown Posse)
• 1975 - Tom Anderson (MySpace), American entrepreneur
• 1975 - David Kennedy (guitarist), American musician (Boxcar Racer, Angels and Airwaves)
• 1977 - Paul Pierce, American basketball player
• 1977 - Gareth Batty, English cricketer
• 1977 - Kiele Sanchez, American actress
• 1978 - Jermaine O'Neal, American basketball player
• 1979 - Wes Brown, English footballer
• 1980 - Ashanti (singer), American singer
• 1980 - Jon Micah Sumrall, American singer (Kutless)
• 1980 - Magne Hoseth, Norwegian footballer
• 1980 - Scott Parker (footballer), English footballer
• 1981 - Ryan Ashford, English footballer
• 1981 - Kele Okereke, lead singer of Bloc Party
• 1982 - Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer

Deaths

• 54 - Claudius, Roman Emperor (b. 10 BC)
• 1093 - Robert I, Count of Flanders
• 1282 - Nichiren Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (b. 1222)
• 1415 - Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1381)
• 1508 - Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1446)
• 1605 - Theodore Beza, French theologian (b. 1519)
• 1673 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617)
• 1687 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)
• 1694 - Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (b. 1632)
• 1706 - Iyasus I of Ethiopia, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1682)
• 1715 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)
• 1759 - John Henley, English minister (b. 1692)
• 1788 - Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)
• 1812 - Sir Isaac Brock, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1769)
• 1815 - Joachim Murat, French marshal and King of Naples (executed) (b. 1767)
• 1825 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria (b. 1756)
• 1869 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (b. 1804)
• 1882 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (b. 1816)
• 1890 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1816)
• 1904 - Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (b. 1870)
• 1905 - Sir Henry Irving, the first British actor to be knighted (b. 1838)
• 1909 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (b. 1849)
• 1917 - Florence La Badie, American actress
• 1919 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1857)
• 1926 - Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (b. 1865)
• 1931 - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)
• 1938 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (b. 1894)
• 1945 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (b. 1857)
• 1950 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
• 1955 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1966 - Clifton Webb, American actor (b. 1889)
• 1968 - Bea Benaderet, American actress (b. 1906)
• 1971 - Stafford Smythe, Canadian National Hockey League executive (b. 1921)
• 1974 - Ed Sullivan, American television personality (b. 1901)
• 1979 - Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (b. 1886)
• 1985 - Umesh Charola, Engineer])
• 1987 - Walter Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1902)
• 1988 - Mike Venezia, jockey (b. 1945)
• 1990 - Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
• 2000 - Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2001 - Peter Doyle (singer), Australian pop singer (The New Seekers) (b. 1949)
• 2002 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)
• 2003 - Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
• 2005 - Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)
• 2006 - Wang Guangmei, Chinese first lady (b. 1921)
• 2007 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances

• Roman festivals - Fontanalia: festival dedicated to Fontus
• Calendar of Saints - translation (1163) of Saint Edward the Confessor; memorial of Saint Gerald of Aurillac optional feast of Our Lady of Fatima
• French Republican Calendar - Peach Day, twenty-second day in the Vendémiaire

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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