1889 – Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (d. 1977)
1930 – JPS van Neerven, Dutch economist/editor (Limbourg Daily)
1500 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
1514 – Tahmasp I, shah of Persia (1524-76)/author (Tazkire-i Shah)
1891 – Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
1573 – Gemignano Capilupi, composer
1599 – Anthony Van Dyck, Antwerp Belgium, painter
1612 – George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
1934 – Thomas Paul, Chicago Illinois, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70)
1935 – Ineke [R M] Haas-Berger, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1936 – Ernie K-Doe, [Ernest Kador Jr], New Orleans La, rocker
1936 – J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1896 – Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City)
1897 – Karol Swierczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
1937 – Joanna Russ, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx)
1899 – Dwight Frye, Salina KS, actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein)
1937 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/multi-millionaire
1761 – Jacob Kimball, composer
1764 – Alexander Campbell, composer
1770 – Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer
1772 – Joseph Lipavsky, composer
1772 – Karl Jacob Wagner, composer
1901 – Charles E Whittaker, Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62)
1901 – Mildred Davis, PA, actress (Grandma’s Boy)
1779 – Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer
1940 – Billy Name, American photographer
1903 – Morley Callaghan, Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy)
1903 – Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
1797 – William I, Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88)
1798 – Charles Mynn Thruston, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
1806 – Jzef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
1906 – Edmund von Borck, composer
1810 – Holger Simon Paulli, composer
1814 – Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer
1817 – Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist/composer/conductor
1944 – Ranjit Fernando, Sri Lankan cricket wicketkeeper (1975 World Cup)
1819 – Bernardo Calvo Puig, composer
1944 – Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
1945 – Oliver, rock vocalist (Good Morning Starshine, Jean)
1822 – Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease)
1824 – Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
1947 – John Bryant, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
1914 – Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1828 – Robert Alexander Cameron, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1949 – Leslie Charleson, KC Missouri, actress (Monica-General Hospital)
1917 – Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter (WW II)
1949 – Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
1917 – Jane Bowles, writer
1950 – Julie Walters, England, actress (Educating Rita, Prick Up Your Ears)
1918 – Don Pardo, Westfield Mass, TV announcer (Jeopardy, SNL)
1842 – Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder (Rosa opera company)
1842 – Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor (Ukkel)
1843 – Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay, France/Brazil writer (Inocencia)
1951 – Harley O Staggers Jr, (Rep-D-WV, 1983- )
1952 – James Philip Bagian, Philadelphia, MDPE/astronaut (STS 29, STS 40)
1952 – Wayne John Levi, Little Falls NY, PGA golfer (1983 Buick Open)
1952 – Bill Frist, American politician
1857 – Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
1921 – Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dictator
1921 – Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
1864 – Jules Renard, France, writer (Poil de Carotte)
1956 – Amy Alcott, Kansas City MO, LPGA golfer (1983 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
1868 – Henri Polak, union leader/politician (soc-dem)
1959 – Susan Benjamin, actress (Tracy-Accidental Family)
1959 – Jir Cunek, Czech politician
1877 – Yme C Schuitmaker, Dutch potato salesman/dramatist
1878 – Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
1880 – Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
1961 – Mike Morris, NFL center (Minn Vikings)
1882 – Eric Gill, England, sculptor/engraver/typographer (Perpetua)
1962 – Lenda Murray, Detroit Mich, body builder (4X Ms Olympia)
1962 – Lisa Jacquin, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-96)
1883 – Marguerite Clark, voice (Snow White)
1884 – Abraham “Abe” Attell, boxing hall of famer
1886 – Hugo Ball, German playwright/co-founder Flametti
1929 – Ryne Duren, near-sighted pitcher (NY Yankees)
1888 – Owen Brewster, American politician (d. 1961)
1964 – Gigi Fernandez, [Beatriz], San Juan PR, US tennis star (Olymp-gold-96)
1371 – Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
1495 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city’s throne.
1632 – Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
1797 – The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1819 – By the Adams-Ons Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1847 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
1853 – Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
1855 – The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania)
1856 – The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
1882 – The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
1915 – World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1943 – World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1948 – Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
1957 – Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
1958 – Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1972 – The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
1973 – Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1974 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1979 – Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.
1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre.
1986 – Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
2002 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2006 – At least six men stage Britain’s biggest robbery, stealing 53m (about $92.5 million or 78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2011 – A 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Christchurch, New Zealand at only 5 kilometers from the surface, causing widespread damage and hundreds of fatalities.
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