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Day History: January-6

Events History
1066 - [[Harold Godwinson]] -(or Harold II) is crowned King of England.
1118 - [[Reconquista]] -Alfonso the Battler conquers Zaragoza.
1205 - [[Philip of Swabia]] -becomes King of the Romans.
1322 - [[Stephen Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia|Stephen Uroš III]] -is crowned Kingdom of Serbia (medieval)|King of Serbia.
1355 - [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles I of Bohemia]] -is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
1449 - [[Constantine XI Palaiologos|Constantine XI]] -is crowned List of Byzantine emperors|Byzantine Emperor at Mystras.
1492 - [[Ferdinand and Isabella]] -enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.
1540 - [[Henry VIII of England]] -marries Anne of Cleves.
1579 - [[Union of Arras]] -is signed.
1661 - [[Restoration (England)|English Restoration]] -The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London|London, England.
1690 - [[Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor|Joseph]] -son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
1721 - [[South Sea Company|South Sea Bubble]] -publishes its findings.
1781 - [[Battle of Jersey]] -the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
1809 - [[Invasion of Cayenne (1809)|Invasion of Cayenne]] -during the Napoleonic Wars.
1838 - [[Alfred Vail]] -demonstrates a telegraphy|telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1839 - [[Night of the Big Wind|most damaging storm in 300 years]] -sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
1853 - [[President-elect of the United States]] -Franklin Pierce and Jane Pierce|his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. Pierce's 11-year-old son Benjamin is killed in the crash.
1870 - [[Musikverein]] -in Vienna|Vienna, Austria.
1893 - [[Washington National Cathedral]] -is chartered by United States Congress|Congress. The charter is signed by President of the United States|President Benjamin Harrison.
1900 - [[Second Boer War]] -Having already Siege of Ladysmith|sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal|Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British defenders.
1907 - [[Maria Montessori]] -opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome|Rome, Italy.
1912 - [[New Mexico]] -is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
1912 - [[Geophysics|geophysicist]] -Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
1921 - [[Iraqi Army]] -
1929 - [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia|Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]] -suspends Kingdom of Yugoslavia|his country's constitution (the 6 January Dictatorship|January 6th Dictatorship).
1929 - [[Mother Teresa]] -arrives in Kolkata|Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
1930 - [[Diesel engine|diesel]] -engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis|Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City|New York, New York.
1931 - [[Thomas Edison]] -submits his last patent application.
1941 - [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] -delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
1946 - [[North Vietnamese parliamentary election, 1946|first general election]] -ever in Vietnam is held.
1947 - [[Pan American World Airways|Pan American Airlines]] -becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
1950 - [[Republic of China]] -severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
1951 - [[Korean War]] -An estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered in what becomes the Ganghwa massacre.
1953 - [[Asian Socialist Conference]] -opens in Yangon|Rangoon, Burma.
1960 - [[National Airlines Flight 2511]] -is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
1960 - [[Associations Law]] -comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
1967 - [[Vietnam War]] -United States Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam|ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
1974 - [[1973 oil crisis]] -daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
1978 - [[Holy Crown of Hungary|Crown of St. Stephen]] -(also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
1992 - [[President of Georgia]] -Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military Coup d'état|coup.
1993 - [[Border Security Force]] -units Sopore massacre|kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
1994 - [[Nancy Kerrigan]] -is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.
1995 - [[Manila|Manila, Philippines]] -leads to the discovery of plans for Bojinka plot|Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
2000 - [[Pyrenean ibex]] -was found dead after a tree had landed on her.
2005 - [[African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)|American Civil Rights Movement]] -Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 Mississippi civil rights workers' murders|murders of three civil rights workers.
2005 - [[Graniteville, South Carolina, train crash|train collision]] -in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
2009 - [[Israel]] -conducts an Operation Cast Lead|assault on the Gaza Strip
2012 - [[January 2012 al-Midan bombing|blows himself up]] -at a police station in Damascus.

Famous Birthdays
1367 - [[Richard II of England]] -(d. 1400)
1384 - [[Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent]] -English noblemen (d. 1408)
1412 - [[Joan of Arc]] -French martyr and saint (d. 1431)
1486 - [[Martin Agricola]] -German composer and theorist (d. 1556)
1488 - [[Helius Eobanus Hessus]] -German poet (d. 1540)
1525 - [[Caspar Peucer]] -German physician and scholar (d. 1602)
1561 - [[Thomas Fincke]] -Danish mathematician and physicist (d. 1656)
1587 - [[Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares]] -(d. 1645)
1595 - [[Claude Favre de Vaugelas]] -French educator and courtier (d. 1650)
1617 - [[Christoffer Gabel]] -Danish politician (d. 1673)
1655 - [[Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg]] -(d. 1720)
1670 - [[Alexander Gordon (general)|Alexander Gordon]] -Scottish-Russian general (d. 1752)
1673 - [[James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos]] -English academic and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire (d. 1744)
1695 - [[Giuseppe Sammartini]] -Italian oboe player and composer (d. 1750)
1702 - [[José de Nebra]] -Spanish composer (d. 1768)
1714 - [[Percivall Pott]] -English surgeon (d. 1788)
1766 - [[Mihály Fazekas]] -Hungarian author (d. 1828)
1785 - [[Andreas Moustoxydis]] -Greek historian and philologist (d. 1860)
1793 - [[James Madison Porter]] -American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War (d. 1862)
1795 - [[Anselme Payen]] -French chemist and academic (d. 1871)
1799 - [[Jedediah Smith]] -American hunter, explorer, and author (d. 1831)
1803 - [[Henri Herz]] -Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1888)
1807 - [[Joseph Petzval]] -German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1891)
1808 - [[Joseph Pitty Couthouy]] -American oncologist and paleontologist (d. 1864)
1811 - [[Charles Sumner]] -American lawyer and politician (d. 1874)
1812 - [[Melchora Aquino]] -Filipino activist (d. 1919)
1819 - [[Baldassare Verazzi]] -Italian painter (d. 1886)
1822 - [[Heinrich Schliemann]] -German archaeologist and businessman (d. 1890)
1832 - [[Gustave Doré]] -French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
1836 - [[Ludwig Schüler]] -German politician, List of mayors of Marburg|Mayor of Marburg (d. 1930)
1838 - [[Max Bruch]] -German composer and conductor (d. 1920)
1842 - [[Clarence King]] -American geologist, mountaineer, and critic (d. 1901)
1848 - [[Hristo Botev]] -Bulgarian poet and journalist (d. 1876)
1850 - [[Eduard Bernstein]] -German theorist and politician (d. 1932)
1850 - [[Franz Xaver Scharwenka]] -Polish-German pianist and composer (d. 1924)
1856 - [[Giuseppe Martucci]] -Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1909)
1857 - [[Hugh Mahon]] -Irish-Australian publisher and politician; 10th Minister for Foreign Affairs (Australia)|Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1931)
1857 - [[William Russell (governor)|William Russell]] -American lawyer and politician; 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1859 - [[Samuel Alexander]] -Australian-English philosopher and academic (d. 1938)
1861 - [[Victor Horta]] -Belgian architect, designed Hôtel van Eetvelde (d. 1947)
1861 - [[George Lloyd (bishop of Saskatchewan)|George Lloyd]] -English-Canadian bishop and theologian (d. 1940)
1861 - [[János Zsupánek]] -Slovene-Hungarian author and poet (d. 1951)
1866 - [[Dante Cappelli]] -Italian actor (d. 1948)
1868 - [[Ștefan Luchian]] -Romanian painter (d. 1917)
1868 - [[Vittorio Monti]] -Italian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1922)
1870 - [[Gustav Bauer]] -German politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944)
1872 - [[Alexander Scriabin]] -Russian pianist and composer (d. 1915)
1874 - [[Fred Niblo]] -American actor, director, and producer (d. 1948)
1878 - [[Adeline Genée]] -Danish-English ballerina (d. 1970)
1878 - [[Carl Sandburg]] -American poet and historian (d. 1967)
1880 - [[Tom Mix]] -American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1940)
1881 - [[Ion Minulescu]] -Romanian poet and writer (d. 1944)
1882 - [[Aleksandra Ekster]] -Polish-French painter and set designer (d. 1949)
1882 - [[Fan S. Noli]] -Albanian-American bishop and politician; 14th Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1965)
1882 - [[Sam Rayburn]] -American lawyer and politician; 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1961)
1883 - [[Kahlil Gibran]] -Lebanese-American poet, painter, and philosopher (d. 1931)
1883 - [[Frank Haller]] -American boxer (d. 1939)
1896 - [[Péter Veres (politician)|Péter Veres]] -Hungarian politician; Ministry of Defence (Hungary)|Minister of Defense of Hungary (d. 1970)
1898 - [[James Fitzmaurice (pilot)|James Fitzmaurice]] -Irish soldier and pilot (d. 1965)
1898 - [[Charles E. Pont]] -American minister and painter (d. 1971)
1899 - [[Phyllis Haver]] -American actress (d. 1960)
1899 - [[Heinrich Nordhoff]] -German engineer (d. 1968)
1900 - [[Maria of Yugoslavia]] -(d. 1961)
1902 - [[Helmut Poppendick]] -German physician (d. 1994)
1903 - [[Maurice Abravanel]] -Greek-American pianist and conductor (d. 1993)
1903 - [[Francis L. Sullivan]] -English-American actor (d. 1956)
1905 - [[Idris Davies]] -Welsh poet and author (d. 1953)
1907 - [[David Fleay]] -Australian ornithologist and zoologist (d. 1993)
1908 - [[Menachem Avidom]] -Hungarian-Israeli composer (d. 1995)
1910 - [[G. N. Balasubramaniam]] -Indian singer-songwriter (d. 1965)
1910 - [[Wright Morris]] -American author and photographer (d. 1998)
1910 - [[Yiannis Papaioannou]] -Greek composer and educator (d. 1989)
1912 - [[Jacques Ellul]] -French philosopher and critic (d. 1994)
1912 - [[Danny Thomas]] -American actor and producer (d. 1991)
1913 - [[Edward Gierek]] -Polish politician (d. 2001)
1913 - [[Loretta Young]] -American actress (d. 2000)
1914 - [[Godfrey Edward Arnold]] -Austrian-American physician and academic (d. 1989)
1915 - [[Ibolya Csák]] -Hungarian high jumper and gymnast (d. 2006)
1915 - [[Don Edwards]] -American soldier, lawyer, and politician
1915 - [[John C. Lilly]] -American psychoanalyst, physician, and philosopher (d. 2001)
1915 - [[Liisi Oterma]] -Finnish astronomer (d. 2001)
1915 - [[Alan Watts]] -English-American philosopher and author (d. 1973)
1916 - [[Eugene Thomas Maleska]] -American journalist (d. 1993)
1916 - [[Vincent Serventy]] -Australian ornithologist and author (d. 2007)
1917 - [[Koo Chen-fu]] -Taiwanese businessman and diplomat (d. 2005)
1919 - [[Roy Cochran]] -American hurdler and sprinter (d. 1981)
1920 - [[John Maynard Smith]] -English biologist and geneticist (d. 2004)
1920 - [[Doris Stokes]] -English psychic (d. 1987)
1920 - [[Early Wynn]] -American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1999)
1921 - [[Marianne Grunberg-Manago]] -Russian-French biochemist and academic (d. 2013)
1921 - [[Cary Middlecoff]] -American golfer and sportscaster (d. 1998)
1923 - [[Vladimir Kazantsev (athlete)|Vladimir Kazantsev]] -Russian runner (d. 2007)
1923 - [[Norman Kirk]] -New Zealand engineer and politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1974)
1923 - [[Jacobo Timerman]] -Argentinian journalist and author (d. 1999)
1924 - [[Earl Scruggs]] -American banjo player (Flatt and Scruggs) (d. 2012)
1925 - [[John DeLorean]] -American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company (d. 2005)
1926 - [[Ralph Branca]] -American baseball player
1926 - [[Pat Flaherty]] -American race car driver (d. 2002)
1926 - [[Kid Gavilán]] -Cuban-American boxer (d. 2003)
1926 - [[Mickey Hargitay]] -Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
1926 - [[Günter Rössler]] -German photographer and journalist (d. 2012)
1927 - [[Jesse Leonard Steinfeld]] -American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 2014)
1928 - [[Capucine]] -French actress and model (d. 1990)
1928 - [[George H. Ross]] -American lawyer and businessman
1929 - [[Anne Rogers Clark]] -American dog breeder and trainer (d. 2006)
1929 - [[Babrak Karmal]] -Afghan politician (d. 1996)
1930 - [[W. Wallace Cleland]] -American biochemist and educator (d. 2013)
1930 - [[Vic Tayback]] -American actor (d. 1990)
1931 - [[E. L. Doctorow]] -American author, playwright, and academic (d. 2015)
1931 - [[Juan Goytisolo]] -Spanish poet and author
1931 - [[P. J. Kavanagh]] -English poet and author (d. 2015)
1931 - [[Dickie Moore (ice hockey)|Dickie Moore]] -Canadian ice hockey player
1932 - [[Stuart A. Rice]] -American chemist and academic
1933 - [[Leszek Drogosz]] -Polish boxer and actor (d. 2012)
1933 - [[Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov]] -Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2003)
1933 - [[Ian McColl, Baron McColl of Dulwich]] -English surgeon and academic
1933 - [[Emil Steinberger (actor)|Emil Steinberger]] -Swiss actor, director, and screenwriter
1933 - [[Fred L. Turner]] -American businessman (d. 2013)
1934 - [[Harry M. Miller]] -Australian publicist
1934 - [[Sylvia Syms]] -English actress
1934 - [[John Wieners]] -American poet and actor (d. 2002)
1935 - [[Joseph Rotman]] -Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2015)
1935 - [[Nino Tempo]] -American singer and actor
1936 - [[Rubén Amaro, Sr.]] -Mexican baseball player and scout
1936 - [[Darlene Hard]] -American tennis player and coach
1936 - [[Julio María Sanguinetti]] -Uruguayan journalist, lawyer, and politician; 29th President of Uruguay|Constitutional President of Uruguay
1936 - [[Nida Blanca]] -Filipino actress (d. 2001)
1937 - [[Paolo Conte]] -Italian singer-songwriter and pianist
1937 - [[Ludvík Daněk]] -Czech discus thrower (d. 1998)
1937 - [[Lou Holtz]] -American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1937 - [[Doris Troy]] -American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
1938 - [[Adriano Celentano]] -Italian singer-songwriter, actor, and director
1938 - [[Adrienne Clarke]] -Australian botanist and academic
1938 - [[Mario Rodríguez Cobos]] -Argentinian philosopher and author (d. 2010)
1938 - [[William E. Connolly]] -American political scientist, theorist, and academic
1939 - [[Georgios Babiniotis]] -Greek linguist and philologist
1939 - [[Murray Rose]] -Australian swimmer and sportscaster (d. 2012)
1940 - [[Penny Lernoux]] -American journalist and author (d. 1989)
1940 - [[Van McCoy]] -American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1979)
1943 - [[Hak Ja Han]] -Korean wife of Sun Myung Moon
1943 - [[Terry Venables]] -English footballer and manager
1944 - [[Bonnie Franklin]] -American actress and singer (d. 2013)
1944 - [[Rolf M. Zinkernagel]] -Swiss immunologist and academic; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize laureate
1945 - [[Allen Appel]] -American author, illustrator, and photographer
1945 - [[Barry John]] -Welsh rugby player
1945 - [[Barry Lopez]] -American environmentalist and author
1946 - [[Syd Barrett]] -English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006)
1947 - [[Sandy Denny]] -English singer-songwriter (d. 1978)
1947 - [[Ian Millar]] -Canadian horse rider
1948 - [[Guy Gardner (astronaut)|Guy Gardner]] -American colonel and astronaut
1949 - [[Mike Boit]] -Kenyan runner and academic
1949 - [[Carolyn D. Wright]] -American poet and academic
1950 - [[Louis Freeh]] -American lawyer and jurist; 10th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1951 - [[Don Gullett]] -American baseball player and coach
1951 - [[Kim Wilson]] -American singer-songwriter and harmonica player
1952 - [[Frank Sivero]] -Italian-American actor
1952 - [[Moondog Spot]] -American wrestler (d. 2003)
1953 - [[Malcolm Young]] -Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1953 - [[Jon Eberson]] -Norwegian guitarist and orchestra leader (Jazzpunkensemblet)
1954 - [[Yuji Horii]] -Japanese video game designer, created ''Dragon Quest''
1954 - [[Anthony Minghella]] -English director and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1954 - [[Karen Moras]] -Australian swimmer and coach
1954 - [[Trudie Styler]] -English actress and producer
1955 - [[Ajayi Agbebaku]] -Nigerian triple jumper
1955 - [[Rowan Atkinson]] -English actor, producer, and screenwriter
1955 - [[Richard Corbett]] -English politician
1955 - [[Alex Forsyth (ice hockey)|Alex Forsyth]] -American ice hockey player
1955 - [[Susan B. Horwitz]] -American computer scientist and academic (d. 2014)
1956 - [[Angus Deayton]] -English actor and screenwriter
1956 - [[Elizabeth Strout]] -American author and academic
1956 - [[Justin Welby]] -English archbishop
1956 - [[Clive Woodward]] -English rugby player and coach
1957 - [[Michael Foale]] -English-American astrophysicist and astronaut
1957 - [[Nancy Lopez]] -American golfer and sportscaster
1958 - [[Themos Anastasiadis]] -Greek journalist and economist
1958 - [[Scott Bryce]] -American actor, director, and producer
1958 - [[Margus Hanson]] -Estonian politician, 23rd Minister of Defence (Estonia)|Estonian Minister of Defence
1958 - [[Mohsen Rastani]] -Iranian photographer
1959 - [[Kapil Dev]] -Indian cricketer and coach
1959 - [[Kathy Sledge]] -American singer (Sister Sledge)
1960 - [[Paul Azinger]] -American golfer and sportscaster
1960 - [[Kari Jalonen]] -Finnish ice hockey player and coach
1960 - [[Nigella Lawson]] -English chef and author
1960 - [[Howie Long]] -American football player and actor
1961 - [[Georges Jobé]] -Belgian motocross racer (d. 2012)
1962 - [[Michael Houser]] -American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Widespread Panic and Brute (band)|Brute) (d. 2002)
1962 - [[Kevin Rosier]] -American mixed martial artist and boxer (d. 2015)
1962 - [[Vangelis Vlachos]] -Greek footballer and manager
1963 - [[Norm Charlton]] -American baseball player and coach
1963 - [[Tony Halme]] -Finnish wrestler, actor, and politician (d. 2010)
1963 - [[Paul Kipkoech]] -Kenyan runner (d. 1995)
1963 - [[Tina Landon]] -Mexican-American dancer and choreographer
1963 - [[Ian Lavery]] -English miner and politician
1964 - [[Konnan]] -Cuban-American wrestler and sportscaster
1964 - [[Yuri (Mexican singer)|Yuri]] -Mexican singer and actress
1964 - [[Denise Borino-Quinn]] -American actress (d. 2010)
1964 - [[Charles Haley]] -American football player and coach
1964 - [[Henry Maske]] -German boxer and actor
1964 - [[Jacqueline Moore]] -American wrestler and manager
1964 - [[Richard Nerurkar]] -English runner
1964 - [[Mark O'Toole (musician)|Mark O'Toole]] -English bass player
1964 - [[Rafael Vidal]] -Venezuelan swimmer and sportscaster (d. 2005)
1965 - [[Muhammed al-Ahari]] -American author and scholar
1965 - [[Bjørn Lomborg]] -Danish author and academic
1965 - [[Murray McLachlan (musician)|Murray McLachlan]] -British concert pianist
1965 - [[Christine Wachtel]] -German runner
1966 - [[Ipče Ahmedovski]] -Macedonian singer (d. 1994)
1966 - [[Fernando Carrillo]] -Venezuelan actor
1966 - [[Sharon Cuneta]] -Filipino singer and actress
1966 - [[A. R. Rahman]] -Indian singer-songwriter and producer
1967 - [[Kim Atienza]] -Filipino host
1968 - [[John Singleton]] -American director, producer, and screenwriter
1969 - [[Norman Reedus]] -American model and actor
1970 - [[José Carabalí]] -Venezuelan runner
1970 - [[Julie Chen]] -American journalist and producer
1970 - [[Gabrielle Reece]] -American volleyball player, sportscaster, and actress
1971 - [[Karin Slaughter]] -American author
1971 - [[Irwin Thomas]] -Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 - [[Nek]] -Italian singer-songwriter
1973 - [[Scott Ferguson]] -Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1973 - [[Vasso Karantasiou]] -Greek volleyball player
1974 - [[Daniel Cordone]] -Argentinian footballer
1974 - [[Paul Grant (basketball)|Paul Grant]] -American basketball player and coach
1974 - [[Shelbee Myne]] -American pornographic actress
1975 - [[Yukana]] -Japanese voice actress and singer
1975 - [[Nicole DeHuff]] -American actress (d. 2005)
1975 - [[James Farrior]] -American football player
1975 - [[Jason King (radio)|Jason King]] -English radio and television host
1976 - [[Johnny Yong Bosch]] -American actor and martial artist
1976 - [[Danny Pintauro]] -American actor
1976 - [[Daniel Tynell]] -Swedish skier
1976 - [[Lu Yi (actor)|Lu Yi]] -Chinese actor and singer
1976 - [[Richard Zedník]] -Slovak ice hockey player
1977 - [[Defconn]] -South Korean singer and television presenter
1977 - [[Marc Johnson (skateboarder)|Marc Johnson]] -American skateboarder
1978 - [[Nikki Einfeld]] -Canadian soprano
1978 - [[Casey Fossum]] -American baseball player
1978 - [[Bubba Franks]] -American football player
1978 - [[Tara Spencer-Nairn]] -Canadian actress
1979 - [[Camila Grey]] -American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980 - [[Steed Malbranque]] -French footballer
1980 - [[Sam Sallon]] -English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980 - [[Apostolia Zoi]] -Greek singer
1980 - [[Pascual Romero]] -American musician and producer
1981 - [[Mike Jones (rapper)|Mike Jones]] -American rapper and actor
1981 - [[Rinko Kikuchi]] -Japanese actress and director
1981 - [[Jérémie Renier]] -Belgian-French actor
1981 - [[Asante Samuel]] -American football player
1982 - [[Gilbert Arenas]] -American basketball player
1982 - [[Brian Bass]] -American baseball player
1982 - [[Tiffany Pollard]] -American actress
1982 - [[Eddie Redmayne]] -English actor and singer
1983 - [[Adam Burish]] -American ice hockey player
1983 - [[Mithra Jin]] -South Korean rapper (Epik High)
1983 - [[Natali Thanou]] -Serbian-Greek model and singer
1984 - [[Kate McKinnon]] -American actress
1985 - [[Ben Haenow]] -English singer
1985 - [[Inge Vermeulen]] -Brazilian-Dutch field hockey player (d. 2015)
1986 - [[Paul McShane (footballer)|Paul McShane]] -Irish footballer
1986 - [[Petter Northug]] -Norwegian skier
1986 - [[Irina Shayk]] -Russian-American model and actress
1986 - [[Benjamin Simm]] -German rugby player
1986 - [[Mike Teel]] -American football player
1986 - [[Alex Turner (musician)|Alex Turner]] -English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1987 - [[Gemma Gibbons]] -English-Scottish martial artist
1987 - [[Bongani Khumalo]] -South African footballer
1987 - [[Zhang Lin (swimmer)|Zhang Lin]] -Chinese swimmer
1988 - [[Mikael Daez]] -Filipino model and actor
1989 - [[Andy Carroll]] -English footballer
1989 - [[James Durbin (singer)|James Durbin]] -American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1989 - [[Max Pirkis]] -English actor and producer
1989 - [[Arisa Sugi]] -Japanese actress
1993 - [[Lil Reese]] -American rapper
1994 - [[Jameis Winston]] -American football player
1996 - [[Kishan Shrikanth]] -Indian actor and director
1998 - [[Yuuka Yano]] -Japanese actress

History of Deaths
429 - [[Honoratus]] -French archbishop and saint (b. 350)
664 - [['Amr ibn al-'As]] -Arabian general and politician, List of governors of Islamic Egypt|Governor of Egypt (b. 583)
786 - [[Abo of Tiflis]] -Iraqi martyr and saint (b. 756)
884 - [[Hasan ibn Zayd]] -Tabaristan ruler
1088 - [[Berengar of Tours]] -French scholar and theologian (b. 999)
1275 - [[Raymond of Penyafort]] -Catalan archbishop and saint (b. 1175)
1387 - [[Peter IV of Aragon]] -(b. 1319)
1481 - [[Ahmed Khan bin Küchük]] -Mongolian ruler
1537 - [[Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence]] -(b. 1510)
1537 - [[Baldassare Peruzzi]] -Italian architect and painter, designed the Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne (b. 1481)
1616 - [[Philip Henslowe]] -English businessman (b. 1550)
1646 - [[Elias Holl]] -German architect, designed the Augsburg Town Hall (b. 1573)
1689 - [[Seth Ward (bishop of Salisbury)|Seth Ward]] -English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617)
1693 - [[Mehmed IV]] -Ottoman sultan (b. 1642)
1711 - [[Philips van Almonde]] -Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
1718 - [[Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina]] -Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1664)
1725 - [[Chikamatsu Monzaemon]] -Japanese playwright (b. 1653)
1731 - [[Étienne François Geoffroy]] -French physician and chemist (b. 1672)
1734 - [[John Dennis (dramatist)|John Dennis]] -English playwright and critic (b. 1657)
1813 - [[Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers]] -French general (b. 1764)
1829 - [[Josef Dobrovský]] -Czech philologist and historian (b. 1753)
1831 - [[Rodolphe Kreutzer]] -French violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1766)
1840 - [[Frances Burney]] -English author and playwright (b. 1752)
1847 - [[Tyagaraja]] -Indian composer (b. 1767)
1852 - [[Louis Braille]] -French educator, invented braille (b. 1809)
1855 - [[Giacomo Beltrami]] -Italian jurist, explorer, and author (b. 1779)
1882 - [[Richard Henry Dana, Jr.]] -American lawyer and politician (b. 1815)
1884 - [[Gregor Mendel]] -Czech geneticist and botanist (b. 1822)
1885 - [[Bharatendu Harishchandra]] -Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1850)
1885 - [[Peter Christen Asbjørnsen]] -Norwegian author and scholar (b. 1812)
1896 - [[Thomas W. Knox]] -American journalist and author (b. 1835)
1905 - [[George Van Cleaf]] -American water polo player (b. 1880)
1913 - [[Frederick Hitch]] -English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1856)
1918 - [[Georg Cantor]] -German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845)
1919 - [[Max Heindel]] -Danish-American astrologer and mystic (b. 1865)
1919 - [[Theodore Roosevelt]] -American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
1921 - [[Devil Anse Hatfield]] -American Guerrilla warfare|guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
1922 - [[Jakob Rosanes]] -Ukrainian-German mathematician and chess player (b. 1842)
1928 - [[Alvin Kraenzlein]] -American hurdler and long jumper (b. 1876)
1933 - [[Vladimir de Pachmann]] -Ukrainian-German pianist (b. 1848)
1934 - [[Herbert Chapman]] -English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
1937 - [[André Bessette]] -Canadian saint (b. 1845)
1941 - [[Charley O'Leary]] -American baseball player and coach (b. 1882)
1942 - [[Emma Calvé]] -French soprano (b. 1858)
1942 - [[Henri de Baillet-Latour]] -Belgian 3rd President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1876)
1944 - [[Ida Tarbell]] -American journalist, author, and educator (b. 1857)
1944 - [[Jacques Rosenbaum]] -Estonian-German architect (b. 1878)
1945 - [[Edith Frank]] -German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank (b. 1900)
1945 - [[Vladimir Vernadsky]] -Russian mineralogist and chemist (b. 1863)
1949 - [[Victor Fleming]] -American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1883)
1952 - [[Sofoklis Dousmanis]] -Greek admiral (b. 1868)
1966 - [[Jean Lurçat]] -French painter (b. 1892)
1972 - [[Chen Yi (general)|Chen Yi]] -Chinese general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (b. 1901)
1974 - [[David Alfaro Siqueiros]] -Mexican painter (b. 1896)
1978 - [[Burt Munro]] -New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
1980 - [[Georgeanna Tillman]] -American singer (The Marvelettes) (b. 1944)
1980 - [[Raymond Mays]] -English race car driver (b. 1899)
1981 - [[A. J. Cronin]] -Scottish physician and author (b. 1896)
1984 - [[Ernest Laszlo]] -Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1898)
1990 - [[Ian Charleson]] -Scottish actor (b. 1949)
1990 - [[Pavel Cherenkov]] -Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1991 - [[Ahmed Adnan Saygun]] -Turkish composer and musicologist (b. 1907)
1993 - [[Dizzy Gillespie]] -American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (b. 1917)
1993 - [[Richard Mortensen]] -Danish painter and educator (b. 1910)
1993 - [[Rudolf Nureyev]] -Russian-French dancer and choreographer (b. 1938)
1994 - [[Bill Clinton]] -(b. 1923)
1995 - [[Joe Slovo]] -Lithuanian-South African politician (b. 1926)
1997 - [[Catherine Scorsese]] -American actress (b. 1912)
1999 - [[Michel Petrucciani]] -French-American pianist (b. 1962)
2000 - [[Don Martin (cartoonist)|Don Martin]] -American cartoonist (b. 1931)
2003 - [[Hirini Melbourne]] -New Zealand singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1949)
2004 - [[Francesco Scavullo]] -American photographer (b. 1921)
2004 - [[Pierre Charles]] -Dominican politician, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)
2005 - [[Lois Hole]] -Canadian academic and politician, 15th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (b. 1929)
2005 - [[Louis Robichaud]] -Canadian lawyer and politician, 25th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1925)
2006 - [[Hugh Thompson, Jr.]] -American soldier and pilot (b. 1943)
2006 - [[Lou Rawls]] -American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1933)
2007 - [[Mario Danelo]] -American football player (b. 1985)
2007 - [[Roberta Wohlstetter]] -American political scientist, historian, and academic (b. 1912)
2007 - [[Sneaky Pete Kleinow]] -American guitarist and songwriter (The Flying Burrito Brothers) (b. 1934)
2008 - [[P. K. Sethi]] -Indian surgeon (b. 1927)
2009 - [[Cheryl Holdridge]] -American actress (b. 1944)
2009 - [[John Scott Martin]] -English actor (b. 1926)
2009 - [[Maria Dimitriadi]] -Greek singer (b. 1950)
2009 - [[Ron Asheton]] -American guitarist, songwriter, and actor (The Stooges, The New Order (band)|The New Order, New Race, and Destroy All Monsters (band)|Destroy All Monsters) (b. 1948)
2010 - [[James von Brunn]] -American murderer (b. 1920)
2011 - [[Uche Okafor]] -Nigerian footballer, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1967)
2012 - [[Bob Holness]] -South African-English radio and television host (b. 1928)
2012 - [[John Celardo]] -American illustrator (b. 1918)
2012 - [[Roger Boisjoly]] -American aerodynamicist and engineer (b. 1938)
2012 - [[Spike Pola]] -Australian footballer (b. 1914)
2012 - [[Sybil Plumlee]] -American police officer and educator (b. 1911)
2012 - [[Tom Ardolino]] -American drummer (NRBQ) (b. 1955)
2012 - [[W. Francis McBeth]] -American composer (b. 1933)
2013 - [[Bart Van den Bossche]] -Flemish singer and actor (b. 1964)
2013 - [[Cho Sung-min]] -South Korean baseball player (b. 1973)
2013 - [[Gerard Helders]] -Dutch jurist and politician (b. 1905)
2013 - [[John Ingram (politician)|John Ingram]] -American lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
2013 - [[Ruth Carter Stevenson]] -American art collector, founded the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (b. 1923)
2013 - [[Qazi Hussain Ahmad]] -Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1938)
2014 - [[Bob Bolen]] -American businessman and politician (b. 1926)
2014 - [[Julian Rotter]] -American psychologist and academic (b. 1916)
2014 - [[Larry D. Mann]] -Canadian-American actor (b. 1922)
2014 - [[Marina Ginestà]] -French soldier and photographer (b. 1919)
2014 - [[Mónica Spear]] -Venezuelan model and actress, Miss Venezuela 2004 (b. 1984)
2014 - [[Nelson Ned]] -Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
2015 - [[Arthur Jackson (sport shooter)|Arthur Jackson]] -American lieutenant and target shooter (b. 1918)
2015 - [[Basil John Mason]] -English meteorologist and academic (b. 1923)
2015 - [[Buffalo Tiger]] -American politician (b. 1920)
2015 - [[Lance Percival]] -English actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
2015 - [[Thunder Rumble]] -American race horse (b. 1989)