Events
* 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
* 324 - Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
* 1180 - Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
* 1454 - In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
* 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage.
* 1544 - Charles V of Germany and Francis I of France sign peace treaty (Truce of Crepy-en-Laonnois)
* 1573 - Spanish attack on Alkmaar.
* 1635 - Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France.
* 1679 - New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
* 1739 - The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
* 1759 - The British capture Quebec City.
* 1793 - The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
* 1809 - Royal Opera House in London opens.
* 1810 - First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it was in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and it is commemorated as such.
* 1812 - Fire of Moscow (1812) fades down after destroying more than three quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from Petrovsky Palace to Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
* 1837 - Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young in New York City, New York. The store was called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
* 1838 - Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden.
* 1850 - The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act.
* 1851 - The New-York Daily Times, which will become The New York Times, begins publishing.
* 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
* 1872 - King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
* 1873 - The Panic of 1873 begins.
* 1879 - Blackpool Illuminations were switched on for the first time.
* 1882 - Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
* 1885 - Riots break out in Montreal to protest compulsory smallpox vaccination.
* 1895 - Booker T Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" address.
* 1895 - Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
* 1898 - Fashoda Incident - Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
* 1906 - A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
* 1910 - In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
* 1911 - Russian Premier Peter Stolypin shot at the Kiev Opera House
* 1914 - The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
* 1914 - World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.
* 1919 - The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
* 1919 - Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
* 1922 - Hungary admitted to League of Nations.
* 1927 - Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
* 1928 - Juan de la Cierva makes first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
* 1931 - The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
* 1932 - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign.
* 1934 - USSR admitted to League of Nations.
* 1939 - World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
* 1939 - William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast.
* 1940 - World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
* 1942 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized.
* 1943 - World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.
* 1943 - World War II: Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews.
* 1944 - World War II: British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyō Maru, 5,600 killed.
* 1945 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
* 1947 - The United States Air Force becomes an independent service.
* 1948 - Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies.
* 1948 - Margaret Chase Smith becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
* 1948 - Ralph Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator for Palestine and Israel.
* 1959 - Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit.
* 1960 - Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
* 1961 - U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
* 1962 - Rwanda, Burundi and Jamaica admitted to the United Nations.
* 1964 - Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
* 1964 - North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
* 1967 - Esporte Clube Santo André, of Brazil, is founded.
* 1972 - First Ugandans expelled by Idi Amin arrive in the UK.
* 1973 - East and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
* 1974 - Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
* 1975 - Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
* 1976 - Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing.
* 1977 - Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together.
* 1978 - Leaders of Israel and Egypt reach a settlement for the Middle East at Camp David.
* 1980 - Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
* 1981 - Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France
* 1982 - Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon.
* 1984 - Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
* 1987 - Ronald Reagan announces joint destruction of nuclear warheads by USA and USSR.
* 1988 - End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students) were killed by the Tatmadaw.
* 1989 - Hurricane Hugo hits Puerto Rico, killing six.
* 1990 - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
* 1991 - Yugoslavia began a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
* 1992 - An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labour dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
* 1997 - U.S. media magnate Ted Turner donates USD $1 billion to the United Nations.
* 1997 - Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) on a referendum on Welsh autonomy.
* 1998 - ICANN is formed.
* 2001 - First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
* 2002 - The body of missing schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is found in Yateley heath in Hampshire, ending a six-month search.
* 2003 - Hurricane Isabel makes landfall in the U.S.
* 2003 - The UK's Local Government Act 2003, repealing Section 28, receives Royal Assent.
* 2006 - Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one day after an audio tape was made public, on which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections.
* 2007 - President General Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president
* 2007 - Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution


Births
* 53 - Trajan, Roman Emperor (d. 117)
* 1344 - Marie Valois, Princess of France (d. 1404)
* 1434 - Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1467)
* 1505 - Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1558)
* 1587 - Francesca Caccini, Italian composer (d. circa 1640)
* 1643 - Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1715)
* 1676 - Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733)
* 1684 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer (d. 1748)
* 1709 - Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (d. 1784)
* 1718 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783)
* 1718 - Maria Anna of Austria, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1744)
* 1733 - George Read, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1798)
* 1750 - Tomas de Iriarte, Spanish writer (d. 1791)
* 1752 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (d. 1833)
* 1765 - Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
* 1779 - Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1845)
* 1786 - Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (d. 1848)
* 1786 - Justinus Kerner, German poet (d. 1862)
* 1812 - Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician (d. 1880)
* 1819 - Leon Foucault, French physicist (d. 1868)
* 1837 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880)
* 1838 - Anton Mauve, Dutch artist (d. 1888)
* 1857 - John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1945)
* 1858 - Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1955)
* 1859 - John L. Bates, 41st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
* 1859 - Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (d. 1940)
* 1863 - Hermann Kutter, Swiss theologian (d. 1931)
* 1870 - Clark Wissler, American anthropologist (d. 1947)
* 1875 - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (d.1945)
* 1876 - James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953)
* 1883 - Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, British composer (d. 1950)
* 1889 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (d. 1970)
* 1893 - Arthur Benjamin, Australian composer (d. 1960)
* 1893 - William March, American writer (d. 1954)
* 1895 - Tomoji Tanabe, the oldest man in the world as of June 2007
* 1895 - John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979)
* 1901 - Harold Clurman, American film producer (d. 1980)
* 1905 - Eddie Anderson, American actor (d. 1977)
* 1905 - Agnes de Mille, American choreographer (d. 1993)
* 1905 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (d. 1990)
* 1907 - Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
* 1907 - Edwin McMillan, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
* 1911 - Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
* 1912 - Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (d. 2005)
* 1914 - Jack Cardiff, British film director
* 1916 - Rossano Brazzi, Italian singer and actor (d. 1994)
* 1916 - John Jacob Rhodes, Jr., American politician and lawyer (d. 2003)
* 1916 - Frank Bell, British educator (d. 1989)
* 1917 - June Foray, American voice actress
* 1917 - Francis Parker Yockey, author of Imperium (d. 1960)
* 1918 - John Berger, English politician
* 1920 - Jack Warden, American actor (d. 2006)
* 1922 - Grayson Hall, American actress (d. 1985)
* 1922 - Ray Steadman-Allen, English composer
* 1923 - Peter Smithson, English architect (d. 2003)
* 1923 - Queen Anne of Romania
* 1925 - Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (d. 1994)
* 1926 - Bud Greenspan, American film producer
* 1926 - Bob Toski, American golfer
* 1927 - Phyllis Kirk, American actress (d. 2006)
* 1929 - Nancy Littlefield, American film producer (d. 2007)
* 1932 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2002)
* 1933 - Scotty Bowman, Canadian ice hockey coach
* 1933 - Robert Blake, American actor
* 1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, American singer and composer
* 1933 - Robert Foster Bennett, American senator (Utah)
* 1935 - John Spencer, English former snooker player (d. 2006)
* 1937 - Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1939 - Frankie Avalon, American musician
* 1939 - Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal
* 1939 - Fred Willard, American comedian
* 1939 - Harald Heide-Steen Jr., Norwegian actor
* 1942 - Alex Stepney, English football goalkeeper
* 1944 - Michael Franks, American musician
* 1944 - Charles L. Veach, American astronaut (d. 1995)
* 1944 - Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
* 1946 - Nicholas Clay, English actor (d. 2000)
* 1946 - Otis Sistrunk, American football player
* 1947 - Giancarlo Minardi, Italian motor racing team boss
* 1948 - Ken Brett, American baseball player (d. 2003)
* 1949 - Jim McCrery, American politician
* 1949 - Mo Mowlam, British politician (d. 2005)
* 1949 - Peter Shilton, English footballer
* 1949 - Kerry Livgren, American singer (Kansas)
* 1950 - Shabana Azmi, Indian actress
* 1950 - Darryl Sittler, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1950 - Anna Deavere Smith, American actress and playwright
* 1951 - Benjamin Carson, American neurosurgeon
* 1951 - Darryl Stingley, American football player (d. 2007)
* 1951 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (d. 2002)
* 1951 - Marc Surer, Swiss motor racing driver
* 1952 - Rick Pitino, American basketball coach
* 1953 - Betsy Boze nee: Vogel, American Academic
* 1954 - Tommy Tuberville, Auburn Head Football Coach
* 1954 - Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 1996)
* 1954 - Takao Doi, Japanese astronaut
* 1954 - Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (d. 2007)
* 1955 - Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (d. 2006)
* 1956 - Peter Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey player
* 1956 - Chris Hedges, American journalist and author
* 1958 - John Aldridge, Irish footballer
* 1958 - Don Geronimo, Radio personality of the Don & Mike Show
* 1959 - Ryne Sandberg, American baseball player
* 1959 - Ian Arkwright, English footballer
* 1961 - James Gandolfini, American actor
* 1962 - Joanne Catherall, English singer
* 1962 - John Fashanu, English footballer
* 1962 - Boris Said, American race car driver
* 1963 - Rob Brettle, British historian
* 1964 - Marco Masini, Italian singer-songwriter
* 1964 - Holly Robinson Peete, American actress
* 1967 - Ricky Bell, American singer (New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe)
* 1967 - Tara Fitzgerald, English actress
* 1968 - Toni Kukoč, Croatian basketball player
* 1968 - Cappadonna, American rapper
* 1970 - Darren Gough, English cricketer
* 1970 - Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (d. 1993)
* 1970 - Aisha Tyler, American actress and comedian
* 1971 - Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
* 1971 - Anna Netrebko, Russian opera singer
* 1971 - Jada Pinkett Smith, American model and actress
* 1971 - Michael Patrick Walker, American composer and lyricist
* 1972 - David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
* 1973 - Paul Brousseau, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1973 - James Marsden, American actor
* 1973 - Ami Onuki, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
* 1973 - Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur
* 1974 - Sol Campbell, English footballer
* 1974 - Ticha Penicheiro, Portuguese basketball player
* 1974 - Xzibit, American rapper
* 1975 - Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Belarusian pistol shooter
* 1975 - Jason Sudeikis, American actor and comedian
* 1976 - Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
* 1977 – Kieran West, British Olympic oarsman
* 1977 - Li Tie, Chinese footballer
* 1978 - Pilar López de Ayala, Spanish actress
* 1978 - Augustine Simo, Cameroonian footballer
* 1979 - Alison Lohman, American actress
* 1979 - Daniel Aranzubia, Spanish footballer
* 1980 - Charles Hedger - A British musician for the band Cradle of Filth
* 1980 - Chris Tarrant (footballer), Australian football Player
* 1981 - Jennifer Tisdale, American Actress & Model
* 1983 - Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
* 1984 - Anthony Gonzalez, Professional American Football Player
* 1986 - Keeley Hazell, British model
* 1988 - Annette Obrestad, Norwegian poker player

[edit] Deaths

* 96 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)
* 887 - Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle)
* 1180 - King Louis VII of France (b. 1120)
* 1598 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
* 1630 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
* 1663 - St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (b. 1603)
* 1675 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)
* 1721 - Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (b. 1664)
* 1722 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
* 1783 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (b. 1707)
* 1783 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
* 1792 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (b. 1704)
* 1806 - Patrick Cotter O'Brien, first known eight-foot-tall person (b. 1760)
* 1827 - Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (b. 1789)
* 1830 - William Hazlitt, English essayist (b. 1778)
* 1860 - Joseph Locke, English railway builder and civil engineer (b. 1805)
* 1872 - King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden and Norway (b. 1826)
* 1891 - William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
* 1896 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819)
* 1905 - George MacDonald, Scottish writer and minister (b. 1824)
* 1911 - Pyotr Stolypin, Russian politician (b. 1862)
* 1924 - Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (b. 1846)
* 1939 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
* 1944 - Robert G. Cole American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division (b. 1915)
* 1949 - Frank Morgan, American actor (b. 1890)
* 1953 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)
* 1956 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
* 1959 - Benjamin Péret, French surrealist author
* 1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish United Nations Secretary-General and distinguished economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905)
* 1964 - Clive Bell, English art critic (b. 1881)
* 1964 - Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (b. 1880)
* 1967 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
* 1970 - Jimi Hendrix, American musician (b. 1942)
* 1977 - Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
* 1980 - Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist (b. 1890)
* 1986 - Pat Phoenix, English actress (b. 1923)
* 1994 - Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
* 1997 - Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer (b. 1920)
* 2001 - Ernie Coombs, Canadian entertainer (b. 1927)
* 2002 - Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942)
* 2002 - Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
* 2003 - Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)
* 2003 - Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927)
* 2004 - Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
* 2004 - Russ Meyer, American film director (b. 1922)
* 2005 - Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (b. 1966)
* 2006 - Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
* 2007 - Pepsi Tate Bassist from the glam-rock band, tigertailz (b. 1965)

Events
1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1542 - Queen Catherine Howard of England is confined in the Tower of London to be executed three days later for treason (adultery).
1567 - An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.
1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Rome, on February 15 proclaimed a Roman Republic and then on February 20 take Pope Pius VI as a prisoner.
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
1840 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1846 - First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon - British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
1863 - The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.
1870 - The YWCA is founded (New York City).
1904 - The Russo-Japanese War over Korea and Manchuria begins after the Battle of Port Arthur.
1906 - HMS Dreadnought (1906) is launched
1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1923- Texas Tech University was founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
1929 - Msgr. Stephen Alencastre, SS.CC., dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu.
1931 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
1933 - The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
1933 - In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1962 - Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1964 - Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified.
1981 - A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon that law.
2003 - France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2008 - The 2008 Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun, the first National Treasure of South Korea.

Births
1499 - Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
1524 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
1606 - Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
1609 - John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
1685 - Aaron Hill, English writer (d. 1750)
1775 - Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 1834)
1783 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
1785 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1936)
1795 - Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)
1846 - Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)
1846 - Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
1859 - Alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943)
1884 - Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1976)
1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)
1892 - Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)
1893 - Jimmy Durante, American actor/comedian (d. 1980)
1893 - Bill Tilden, American tennis player (d. 1953)
1894 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)
1897 - Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992)
1897 - John Franklin Enders, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1985)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
1898 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
1901 - Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)
1902 - Walter Houser Brattain, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987)
1903 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
1903 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
1904 - John Farrow, American film director (d. 1963)
1906 - Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
1906 - Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)
1910 - Georges Pire, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1969)
1914 - Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001)
1920 - Alex Comfort, physician and writer (d. 2000)
1924 - Bud Poile, National Hockey League player, coach, manager and executive (d. 2005)
1926 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1993)
1927 - Leontyne Price, American soprano
1927 - Brian Priestman, British conductor
1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (d. 2004)
1930 - Robert Wagner, American actor
1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)
1933 - Richard Schickel, American film critic
1934 - Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
1935 - John Alcorn (artist), American designer and illustrator (d. 1992)
1937 - Roberta Flack, American singer
1939 - Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
1940 - Mary Rand, British athlete
1941 - Michael Apted, British director
1944 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (d. 1992)
1944 - Frank Keating, American politician
1944 - Rufus Reid, American musician
1944 - Vernor Vinge, American novelist
1947 - Louise Arbour, Canadian judge
1947 - Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist, composer and conductor
1947 - Nicholas Owen, English newsreader
1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
1949 - Jim Corcoran, Quebec singer and songwriter
1949 - Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
1949 - Nigel Olsson, drummer
1949 - Harold Sylvester, American actor
1950 - Mark Spitz, American swimmer
1951 - Robert Iger, President/CEO of The Walt Disney Company
1952 - Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
1954 - Larry McWilliams, baseball player
1955 - Chris Adams, British pro wrestler and judoka (d. 2001)
1955 - Jim Cramer, American television personality
1955 - Greg Norman, Australian golfer
1958 - Michael Weiss, American musician
1959 - Dennis Gentry, American football player
1959 - Lisa McPherson, Former Scientologist (d. 1995)
1960 - Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003)
1961 - Alexander Payne, American film director
1961 - George Stephanopoulos, American political commentator
1962 - Cliff Burton, American musician (d. 1986)
1962 - Bobby Czyz, American boxer
1962 - Piero Pelù, Italian singer and song-writer, leader of Litfiba from 1980 to 1999
1963 - Lenny Dykstra, baseball player
1964 - Glenn Beck, radio and television host
1964 - Victor Davis, Canadian Olympic swimmer (d. 1989)
1964 - Arthur Lenk, Israeli diplomat
1964 - Francesca Neri, Italian actress
1965 - Mario Jean, Quebec stand up comedian and television actor
1967 - Laura Dern, American actress
1967 - Jacky Durand, French cyclist
1967 - Armand Serrano, Filipino Animator
1968 - Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player
1968 - Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster
1969 - Joe Mangrum, American artist
1969 - Laurie Dhue, FOX News personality
1970 - Alberto Castillo, Dominican baseball player
1970 - Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver
1970 - Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer
1970 - Myrea Pettit, British illustrator
1970 - Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist
1971 - Louie Spicolli, American wrestler (d. 1998)
1971 - Lisa Marie Varon, American professional wrestler
1974 - Elizabeth Banks, American actress
1974 - Ty Law, American football player
1974 - Tanoai Reed, American stunt performer
1975 - Amber Frey, American witness
1975 - Kool Savas, German rapper
1975 - Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese born baseball player
1976 - Lance Berkman, baseball player
1976 - Kev Brown, American rapper/producer
1977 - Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
1978 - Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer
1978 - Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer
1979 - Daryl Palumbo, American musician
1979 - Ross Powers, American snowboarder
1980 - César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 - Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Steve Tully, English footballer
1981 - Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer
1981 - Andrew Johnson, English footballer
1981 - Holly Willoughby, British TV presenter
1981 - The Reverend Tholomew Plague, drummer (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 - Keith Dunne, Irish footballer
1982 - Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
1982 - Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player
1984 - Alex Gordon, American baseball player
1984 - Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
1985 - Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper
1986 - Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1987 - Choi Si Won, actor/singer, member of Korean boyband Super Junior
1991 - Emma Roberts, American actress
1994 - Makenzie Vega, American actress
1997 - Chloe Moretz, American actress

Deaths
1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071)
1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
1242 - Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
1278 - Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
1576 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
1686 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
1758 - Thomas Ripley, English architect
1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)
1857 - David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
1891 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
1904 - John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
1906 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician (b. 1827)
1912 - Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827)
1917 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)
1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1833)
1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
1932 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
1939 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
1944 - Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870)
1945 - Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
1952 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)
1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
1964 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
1966 - Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
1975 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
1984 - David Von Erich, professional wrestler (b. 1958)
1985 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)
1987 - Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
1992 - Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
1993 - Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
1997 - Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts (b. 1996)
2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
2001 - Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
2001 - George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913)
2002 - Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary (b. 1920)
2002 - Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936)
2003 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
2003 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1959)
2003 - Clark MacGregor, United States Congressman from Minnesota (b. 1922)
2003 - Al Ruffo, Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908)
2003 - Ron Ziegler, press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
2004 - Guy Provost, Quebec actor (b. 1925)
2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
2006 - J Dilla, American rapper/producer (b. 1974)
2006 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947)
2007 - Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
2007 - Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)
2008 - Roy Scheider, American Actor (b. 1932)
2008 - Steve Gerber, American comics writer (b. 1947)

Holidays and observances
Italy - National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe to commemorate Italian Istrian and Dalmatian exiles and Foibe massacres.
Saint Scholastica
St. Paul's Shipwreck day; birth of Catholicism in Malta
Saint Charalampe
Saint Austreberta
February 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Events

* 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
* 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
* 1598 - Boris Godunov becomes Tsar of Russia.
* 1608 - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
* 1610 - Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons.
* 1782 - The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
* 1785 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
* 1797 - The modern Italian flag is first used.
* 1835 - The HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.
* 1894 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
* 1904 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
* 1922 - Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
* 1927 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London.
* 1931 - Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
* 1935 - Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco–Italian Agreement.
* 1942 - World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
* 1945 - World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
* 1950 - A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
* 1953 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
* 1954 - Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
* 1959 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
* 1972 - Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashes into Mont San Jose on approach to Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board.
* 1973 - Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson’s Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana before being shot to death by police officers.
* 1979 - Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
* 1980 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
* 1984 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
* 1990 - The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
* 1991 - Beginning of the operation Desert Storm, during the Gulf War
* 1993 - The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
* 1999 - The impeachment of President Bill Clinton begins.

[edit] Births

* 1355 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)
* 1502 - Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
* 1528 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)
* 1647 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
* 1685 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
* 1706 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
* 1718 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
* 1768 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844)
* 1786 - John Catron, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865)
* 1796 - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817)
* 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
* 1827 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
* 1830 - Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter (d. 1902)
* 1831 - Heinrich von Stephan, German labor organizer (d. 1897)
* 1832 - James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
* 1834 - Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
* 1844 - Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879)
* 1845 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
* 1858 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)
* 1860 - Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
* 1870 - Lord Gordon Hewart, British judge (d. 1943)
* 1871 - Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
* 1873 - Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist (d. 1914)
* 1873 - Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (d. 1976)
* 1875 - Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
* 1875 - Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1963)
* 1876 - William Hurlstone, English composer (d. 1906)
* 1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (d. 1960)
* 1895 - Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
* 1895 - Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and co-founder of QANTAS (d. 1974)
* 1896 - Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor (d. 1984)
* 1898 - Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
* 1899 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
* 1900 - John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969)
* 1903 - Warren Hull, American actor (d. 1974)
* 1903 - Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
* 1907 - Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (d. 1993)
* 1908 - Red Allen, American musician (d. 1967)
* 1910 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. 1984)
* 1910 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
* 1911 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
* 1912 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
* 1912 - Günter Wand, German conductor, composer (d. 2002)
* 1913 - Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
* 1916 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
* 1917 - Ulysses Kay, American composer (d. 1995)
* 1922 - Vincent Gardenia, Italian-born actor (d. 1992)
* 1922 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d. 2000)
* 1922 - Eric Jupp, British-born Australian composer, arranger, conductor (d. 2003)
* 1922 - Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager
* 1923 - Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
* 1924 - Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (d. 1966)
* 1925 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995)
* 1928 - William Peter Blatty, American screenwriter
* 1929 - Terry Moore, American actress
* 1932 - Joe Berinson, Australian politician
* 1933 - Elliott Kastner, U.S. film producer
* 1934 - Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
* 1934 - Charlie Jenkins, American runner
* 1935 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)
* 1935 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006)
* 1935 - Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut
* 1936 - Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter, spearfishing champion, underwater photographer
* 1937 - Paul Revere, American musician
* 1938 - Rory Storm, British singer (d. 1972)
* 1938 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
* 1938 - Lou Graham, American golfer
* 1939 - Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
* 1941 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
* 1941 - Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer coach
* 1941 - John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1942 - Danny Williams, South African singer (d. 2005)
* 1942 - Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter
* 1942 - Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager
* 1943 - Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955)
* 1943 - Sir Richard Armstrong, British conductor
* 1944 - Arne Scheie, Norwegian sports commentator
* 1944 - Tony Whitlam, Australian judge
* 1945 - Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
* 1945 - Dick Marty, Swiss politician
* 1946 - Jann Wenner, American publisher
* 1947 - Shobha De, Indian writer
* 1948 - Kenny Loggins, American singer
* 1949 - Marshall Chapman, American singer/songwriter
* 1949 - Anne Schedeen, American actress
* 1949 - Steven Williams, American actor
* 1950 - Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter
* 1950 - Erin Gray, American actress
* 1950 - Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
* 1950 - Johnny Lever, Indian actor
* 1951 - Helen Worth, British actress
* 1952 - Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor
* 1956 - David Caruso, American actor
* 1956 - Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1957 - Nicholson Baker, American novelist
* 1957 - Katie Couric, American television host
* 1957 - Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
* 1957 - Reena Roy, Indian actress
* 1958 - Linda Kozlowski, American actress
* 1958 - Donna Rice, American sex scandal figure and anti-pornography activist
* 1959 - Kathy Valentine, American musician (The Go-Gos)
* 1960 - David Marciano, American actor
* 1960 - Loretta Sanchez, American politician
* 1961 - Andrew Thomson, Australian politician
* 1961 - Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
* 1962 - Aleksandr Dugin, Russian politician
* 1963 - Clint Mansell, English musician and composer
* 1964 - Nicolas Cage, American actor
* 1966 - Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (d. 1999)
* 1967 - Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player
* 1967 - Mark Lamarr, British comedian and broadcaster
* 1969 - David Yost, American actor
* 1970 - Doug E. Doug, American actor
* 1970 - Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer
* 1971 - C.W. Anderson, American professional wrestler
* 1971 - Jeremy Renner, American actor
* 1972 - Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player
* 1973 - Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer
* 1974 - John Rich, American guitarist and bassist (Big & Rich)
* 1976 - Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
* 1976 - Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
* 1977 - Michelle Behennah, British model
* 1977 - Dustin Diamond, American actor
* 1977 - John Gidding, Turkish American architect and TV host (Designed to Sell)
* 1978 - Kevin Mench, American baseball player
* 1979 - Bipasha Basu, Indian model
* 1979 - Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model
* 1979 - Ryan Tedder, American singer (OneRepublic)
* 1981 - Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1981 - Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
* 1982 - Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player
* 1982 - Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
* 1982 - Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine racing driver
* 1983 - Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
* 1984 - Jon Lester, American baseball player
* 1985 - Lewis Hamilton, English F1 racing driver
* 1986 - Grant Leadbitter, English footballer
* 1988 - Haley Bennett, American Singer and Actress
* 1988 - Scott Pendlebury, Australian rules footballer
* 1989 - Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
* 1990 - Liam Aiken, American actor
* 1990 - Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
* 1990 - Camryn Grimes, American actress
* 1990 - Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian skijumper
* 1991 - Max Morrow, Canadian actor
* 1991 - Arei, Crazy internet fangirl

[edit] Deaths

* 1285 - King Charles I of Naples (b. 1226)
* 1325 - King Dinis of Portugal (b. 1261)
* 1400 - Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
* 1451 - Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy (b. 1383)
* 1536 - Catherine of Aragon, consort of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)
* 1566 - Louis de Blois, Flemish mystic (b. 1506)
* 1619 - Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (bc. 1547)
* 1625 - Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (bc. 1560)
* 1655 - Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
* 1658 - Theophilus Eaton, American colonist (b. 1590)
* 1694 - Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (bc. 1618)
* 1700 - Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
* 1715 - François Fénelon, French-Catholic theologian and writer (b. 1651)
* 1758 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
* 1767 - Thomas Clap, 1st president of Yale University (b. 1703)
* 1770 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
* 1783 - William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
* 1786 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
* 1830 - Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
* 1864 - Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
* 1872 - James Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)
* 1876 - Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
* 1878 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
* 1892 - Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (b. 1852)
* 1893 - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
* 1913 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
* 1919 - Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1843)
* 1920 - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
* 1932 - André Maginot, French eponym of the Maginot Line (b. 1877)
* 1936 - Guy d'Hardelot, French composer, best known for Because (b. 1858)
* 1943 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (b. 1856)
* 1944 - Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady (b. 1874)
* 1944 - Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
* 1946 - Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (b. 1874)
* 1951 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
* 1953 - Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
* 1960 - Dorothea Douglass Chambers (aka Katharine Lambert Chambers), UK tennis player (b. 1878)
* 1963 - Arthur Moore, Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
* 1964 - Cyril Davies, American musician (b. 1932)
* 1967 - Carl Schuricht, German conductor (b. 1880)
* 1967 - David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
* 1968 - Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)
* 1972 - John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
* 1972 - Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist
* 1980 - Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (b. 1935)
* 1981 - Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
* 1981 - Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
* 1984 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
* 1985 - Mary Hardy, Australian radio and television presenter (b. 1931)
* 1986 - Philip D. Eastman, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1909)
* 1986 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (b. 1917)
* 1988 - Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
* 1988 - Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922)
* 1989 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)
* 1990 - Horace Stoneham, American baseball executive (b. 1903)
* 1990 - Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908)
* 1992 - Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (The Muppets) (b. 1951)
* 1995 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
* 1996 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b. 1911)
* 1996 - Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)
* 1998 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
* 1998 - Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
* 2000 - Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (b. 1963)
* 2002 - Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
* 2002 - Jon Lee, Welsh musician (Feeder) (b. 1968)
* 2004 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
* 2005 - Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)
* 2005 - Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
* 2006 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
* 2007 - Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic-born television presenter (b. 1929)
* 2007 - Bobby Hamilton, NASCAR team owner (b. 1957)
* 2008 - Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917)

996 - Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1520 - The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage.
1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 - William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1612 - (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
1683 - The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1755 - Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty thousand and ninety thousand people.
1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
1790 - Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
1800 - US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
1802 - Delegates meet at Chillicothe, Ohio to form a state constitutional convention.
1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
1814 - Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
1848 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
1859 - The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
1861 - American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing the aged General Winfield Scott.
1870 - In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1876 - New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
1884 - The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
1886 - Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka was established with 37 students.
1894 - Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
1896 - A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1901 - Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national men's collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
1911 - The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
1914 - World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific.
1915 - Parris Island is officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
1916 - Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
1918 - Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 deaths.
1918 - Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1920 - American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
1922 - The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
1928 - The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used, comes into force in Turkey.
1937 - Stalinists executed by shooting Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community (including three women).
1938 - Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
1939 - The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
1941 - American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
1942 - Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 4.
1943 - World War II: Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
1943 - World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
1944 - World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
1945 - The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro. Australia joins the United Nations.
1946 - The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks would win 68-66.
1948 - Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
1950 - Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
1951 - American soldiers are exposed to an atomic explosion for training purposes in Desert Rock, Nevada. Participation was not voluntary.
1952 - Operation Ivy - The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["M" for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.
1954 - The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
1955 - The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs.
1956 - Formation of Indian state of Andhra Pradesh with its capital as Hyderabad, formerly known as Nizam state.
1956 - Formation of the Indian state of Karnataka (1973), formerly known as Mysore State.
1956 - Formation of Kerala state in India.
1957 - The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
1960 - While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
1963 - The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
1970 - A fire at a dance hall in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 144 young people.
1973 - Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1973 - The Indian state of Mysore was renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu .
1981 - Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
1982 - Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
1991 - Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.
1993 - The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
1998 - The European Court of Human Rights is instituted.
2005 - First part of the Gomery Report, which discusses allegations of political money manipulation, is released in Canada.

846 - Louis the Stammerer, King of West Francia (d. 879)
1339 - Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (d. 1365)
1351 - Duke Leopold III of Austria (d. 1386)
1526 - Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, queen of Sweden and duchess of Finland (d. 1583)
1530 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563)
1539 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
1549 - Anna of Austria, fourth wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1580)
1567 - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (d. 1626)
1578 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
1585 - Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)
1607 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658)
1611 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
1629 - St. Oliver Plunkett, last Catholic martyr to die in England. (d. 1681)
1636 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711)
1643 - John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
1661 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (d. 1725)
1704 - Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (d. 1779)
1720 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
1727 - Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (d. 1797)
1762 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1812)
1778 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
1782 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1859)
1808 - John Taylor, American religious leader (d. 1887)
1847 - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)
1860 - Boies Penrose, United States Senator from Pennsylvania (d. 1921)
1871 - Stephen Crane, American writer (d. 1900)
1877 - Roger Quilter, British composer (d. 1953)
1878 - Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter (d. 1925)
1878 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)
1880 - Sholom Asch, Polish-born American writer (d. 1957)
1880 - Grantland Rice, American sports writer (d. 1954)
1880 - Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930)
1881 - Edward Van Sloan, American actor (d. 1964)
1886 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (d. 1951)
1887 - L. S. Lowry, British painter of industrial scenes (d. 1976)
1889 - Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1982)
1892 - Alexander Alekhine, Russian-born chess player (d. 1946)
1898 - Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (d. 1960)
1902 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987)
1903 - Max Adrian, Irish actor (d. 1973)
1903 - Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
1905 - Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (d. 1960)
1911 - Henri Troyat, French author and historian (d. 2007)
1914 - Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (d. 2006)
1920 - James Kilpatrick, American journalist
1920 - Ted Lowe, English former snooker commentator
1921 - John W. Peterson, American songwriter (d. 2006)
1923 - Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian author (d. 2001)
1923 - Victoria de los Angeles, Spanish soprano (d. 2005)
1924 - Jean-Luc Pépin, French Canadian politician (d. 1995)
1924 - Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey
1926 - Lou Donaldson, American jazz alto saxophonist
1929 - Betsy Palmer, American actress
1929 - Nicholas Mavroules, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts (d. 2003)
1930 - A. R. Gurney, American playwright
1932 - John Clark, English-born actor/director
1932 - Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1934 - Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (d. 2004)
1934 - Gillian Knight, English mezzo-soprano
1934 - William Mathias, British composer (d. 1992)
1935 - Gary Player, South African golfer
1935 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)
1936 - Eddie Colman, English footballer (d. 1958)
1937 - Bill Anderson, American country music singer and songwriter
1939 - Barbara Bosson, American actress
1940 - Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India
1940 - Barry Sadler, American singer (d. 1989)
1941 - Alfio Basile, Argentine football coach
1942 - Larry Flynt, American magazine publisher
1942 - Ralph Klein, Premier of Alberta
1942 - Marcia Wallace, American actress
1943 - Salvatore Adamo, popular singer
1943 - John McEnery, English actor
1944 - Oscar Temaru, President of French Polynesia
1946 - Ric Grech, English rock bassist (Family, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Traffic) (d. 1990)
1946 - Dennis Muren, American special effects artist
1946 - Lynne Russell, ex-CNN news anchor
1947 - Jim Steinman, American songwriter
1948 - Phil Myre, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 - Michael D. Griffin, NASA chief administrator
1950 - Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1950 - Dan Peek, American guitarist (America)
1951 - Ronald Bell, American singer and saxophonist (Kool & the Gang)
1951 - Fabrice Luchini, French actor
1953 - Jan Davis, American astronaut
1955 - Beth Leavel, American musical theatre actress
1955 - Mike Mendoza, British radio personality
1957 - Lyle Lovett, American singer
1957 - Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (d. 1988)
1958 - Charlie Kaufman, American screenwriter
1958 - Jim Steinmeyer, Illusion creator
1958 - Rachel Ticotin, American actress
1960 - Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican baseball player
1961 - Louise Boije af Gennäs, Swedish writer
1961 - Calvin Johnson, American musician (Beat Happening, The Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic Sound System)
1962 - Anthony Kiedis, American singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1963 - Rick Allen, British drummer (Def Leppard)
1963 - Kenny Alphin, American guitarist (Big & Rich)
1963 - Monty Sopp, American professional wrestler
1963 - Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer
1964 - Daran Norris, American actor
1966 - Barbara Becker, German actress; ex-wife of Boris Becker
1966 - Willie D, American hip hop artist, famous for being a member of The Geto Boys
1966 - Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (d. 2002)
1967 - Sophie B. Hawkins, American musician
1967 - Tina Arena, Australian singer
1967 - Carla van de Puttelaar, Dutch photographer
1968 - Park Shin-yang, South Korean actor
1969 - Tie Domi, Canadian ice hockey player
1971 - Vikram Chatwal, Indian hotelier
1972 - Jenny McCarthy, American "Playmate of the Year" and TV actress
1972 - Toni Collette, Australian actress
1972 - Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer
1973 - Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress
1973 - Geoff Horsfield, English footballer
1974 - V. V. S. Laxman, Indian cricketer
1975 - Bo Bice, American singer
1975 - Scott "Skippy" Chapman, American singer/musician/songwriter
1976 - Matt Chapman, American cartoonist and voice actor
1976 - Logan Marshall-Green, American actor
1978 - Manju Warrier, Indian actress
1978 - Mary Kate Schellhardt, American actress
1979 - Coco Crisp, American baseball player
1979 - Delgado, Angolan footballer
1979 - Milan Dudić, Serbian footballer
1979 - Henry Shefflin, Irish hurler
1982 - Michael Copon, American actor
1983 - Yuko Ogura, Japanese model
1983 - Josh Wicks, American soccer player
1986 - Penn Badgley, American actor
1986 - Dizzee Rascal, English rapper
1987 - Caitlin McCarthy, Victoria's secret model
1988 - Ross Montague, English footballer

921 - Richard, Duke of Burgundy
955 - Henry I, Duke of Bavaria
1296 - Guillaume Durand, French writer (b. 1230)
1391 - Amadeus VII of Savoy (b. 1360)
1399 - John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
1546 - Giulio Romano, Italian painter
1588 - Jean Daurat, French poet (b. 1508)
1596 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
1642 - Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598)
1676 - Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (b. 1589)
1678 - William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
1700 - Charles II of Spain (b. 1661)
1814 - Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
1888 - Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1838)
1894 - Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)
1903 - Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)
1907 - Alfred Jarry, French writer (b.1873)
1942 - Hugo Distler, German composer (b. 1908)
1947 - Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1917)
1955 - Dale Carnegie, American writer (b. 1888)
1962 - Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1942)
1968 - George Papandreou, Greek politician (b. 1888)
1972 - Ezra Pound, American poet (b. 1885)
1979 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (b. 1896)
1982 - King Vidor, American film director (b. 1894)
1982 - James Broderick, American actor (b. 1927)
1983 - Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (b. 1887)
1985 - Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (b. 1911)
1986 - Serge Garant, French-Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1929)
1987 - René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (b. 1922)
1993 - Severo Ochoa, Spanish–born biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1994 - Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Walter Payton, American football player (b. 1954)
1999 - Jean Coutu, Canadian actor (b. 1925)
2000 - Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (b. 1934)
2004 - Mac Dre, American rapper (b. 1970)
2004 - Terry Knight, American music promoter (b. 1943)
2005 - Skitch Henderson, English-born bandleader (b. 1918)
2005 - Michael Piller, American screenwriter (b. 1948)
2006 - William Styron, American author (b. 1925)
2006 - Adrienne Shelly, American actress (b. 1966)
2007 - Paul Tibbets, US Air Force retired Brigadier General (b. 1915)
2007 - S. Ali Raza, Bollywood Screenwriter (b. 1922)

Mexico- Day of the Dead celebrations begin.
Roman festivals - last day of the Ludi Victoriae Sullanae.
Catholicism - Holy Day of Obligation, All Saints Day. Holiday in Austria, Belgium, Chile, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Guatemala.
Algeria - National day
Antigua and Barbuda - Independence Day (from Britain, 1981)
Ireland - Samhain the traditional first day of Winter
World Vegan Day
United States - Start of National Novel Writing Month
India-Kerala- State formation day (kerala piravi dinam-malayalam language)
India-Karnataka- Kannada Rajyotsava
India-Andhra Pradesh- State formation day
November 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Events:
1942 - Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas album in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
1968 - Manchester United win the European Cup, the first English Club to do so. <--

Births:
1956 - LaToya Jackson
1959 - Rupert Everett
1967 - Noel Gallagher <-- OH MY GOD <3333333333
1986 - Jaslene Gonzalez (haha I have the same DOB as a winner of ANTM, and we are so different)

Holidays:
United Kingdom: Oak Apple Day <-- never heard of it.

* 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. (Well, he sure got his salad tossed. BY KNIVES~. Okay I ain't funny today.)
* 221 - Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty.
* 1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas. (Where he fucking failed to find the mainland but we'll forgive him for that. We won't forgive him for the whole giving smallpox blankets to the Natives though. NOW TESTIFY~)
* 1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent. (Actually relevant to me so fuck you.)
* 1917 - Czar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar. (Only to get BOLCHEVIZED~ son!)
* 1952 - In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record. (I inherited my ability to make it rain on 'dem hoes from this day)
* 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union. (GORBY-KINS! TEAR DOWN THIS WALL PLZ KTHX ^^;)

* 1874 - Eugène Fiset, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1951) (FUCKING PUPPET~)
* 1918 - Punch Imlach, Canadian hockey coach and general manager (d. 1987) (He probably didn't do anything important but his name is PUNCH, folks. PUNCH! If that's not a license to beat people up I don't know what is.)
* 1940 - Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead) (And people wonder why I toke from time to time)
* 1941 - Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys) (...)
* 1943 - David Cronenberg, Canadian film director (Well, fuck. Now I gotta share a birthday with the asshole that gave us Eastern Promises and Elephantman. You know, the only guy that allows us to say that English-Canadian cinema isn't dead.)
* 1955 - Dee Snider, American singer (Twisted Sister) (Well, this explains my bigender-ism which is according to my girlfriend so take that with a grain of salt. I don't really believe it myself.)
* 1968 - Mark McGrath, American musician (Sugar Ray) (Eww... and here I thought I had great musical pedigree.)
* 1969 - Rona Ambrose, Canadian politician (AW HELL NAW. I DO NOT SHARE A BIRTHDAY WITH THE MOST USELESS WOMAN IN CANADIAN POLITICS. NUH-UH BITCH. No seriously I'm gonna have to change the date just because I'm now associated to her via March 15th. Thanks a lot Rona, you old man jizz-sucking cunt!)
* 1972 - Mark Hoppus, American musician (+44 and blink-182) (There goes the good musical pedigree again...)
* 1975 - Darcy Tucker, Canadian hockey player (Who's completely useless on or off the ice.)
* 1975 - Will.i.am, American musician (Okay, scratch that musician and call him a sampler. When was the last time this fucker made a good song? Let's Get Retarded? I believe you already are, considering you decided to sample Misirlou, you limp dicked idiot!)
* 1977 - Joe Hahn, American musician (Linkin Park) (Okay I'm not emo and I really want to kill myself. LINKIN FUCKING PARK!? SERIOUSLY!?)
* 1981 - Young Buck, American rapper (Might as well say it I'm addicted to shitty artists that are the low end of the barrel.)
* 1982 - Jordan Hastings, Canadian drummer (Alexisonfire) ("HEY GUYS! YOU KNOW WHAT'D MAKE OUR ALBUM BETTER? PUTTING A CHICK IN A SCHOOLGIRL UNIFORM CARRYING A KNIFE!" "What about making music that doesn't suck?" "Fuck no that's the basis of our formation.")

* 44 BC - Julius Caesar (murdered) (b. 100 BC) (The man so nice he made it twice on this list.)
* 220 - Cao Cao, King of Wei (b. 155) (So I get Liu Bei and Cao Cao doing shit on my birthday. Whoo.)
* 1145 - Pope Lucius II (What can I say? Popes dying makes me laugh.)
* 1891 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823) (I remember him vaguely. Which probably means he did something that failed miserably.)
* 1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890) (SCORE! But seriously though that sucks his stories were decent.)
* 1977 - Hubert Aquin, Quebec novelist, political activist and editor (b. 1929) (FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! I love Aquin and all of you should too (unless you're English-canadian in which case you probably hate his guts))