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Events
- 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster (January 1648) signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
- 1649 - King Charles I of England is beheaded.
- 1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is formally executed - after having been dead for two years.
- 1790 - The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
- 1806 - The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
- 1820 - Edward Bransfield lands on the Antarctica.
- 1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales was opened. The bridge was not the first suspension bridge, but was so much larger than anything previously built that it is considered the world's first modern suspension bridge.
- 1835 - In the first assassination attempt against a President, a mentally ill man named Richard Lawrence attempts to assassination President of the United States Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol. Both of Lawrence's pistols misfire, and Jackson proceeds to beat his would-be assassin with his cane.
- 1841 - A fire destroys two-thirds of the then villa (now city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
- 1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California.
- 1862 - The first United States ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
- 1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt,32nd President Of The United States,is born.
- 1889 - Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austria-Hungary crown, was found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in The Mayerling Incident .
- 1900 - United Kingdom forces fighting Boers in South Africa ask for reinforcements.
- 1911 - The destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first fixed-wing aircraft rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
- 1911 - The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
- 1913 - House of Lords rejects Irish Government Bill 1893.
- 1925 - Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
- 1930 - the world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR
- 1933 - Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
- 1943 - World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. U.S. cruiser Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedo bombers.
- 1943 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: Germany Gestapo commence mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp were ordered to undress and were shot with machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7.000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv.
- 1944 - World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
- 1945 - The KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000 people.
- 1945 - World War II: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
- 1945 - World War II: Hitler gives his last ever public address; the Radio address on the 12th anniversary of coming to power. (A subsequent address on 24 February was not read by Hitler.)
- 1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
- 1962 - Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1964 - Ranger program: Ranger 6 launched.
- 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks in South Vietnam. Although an overall defeat for the Viet Cong, media coverage of the offensive would turn American public opinion against the war.
- 1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
- 1972 - Bloody Sunday (1972): United Kingdom The Parachute Regiment kill fourteen Roman Catholic civil rights /anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
- 1972 - Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1975 - First Faroe Islands stamp issued.
- 1979 - Varig Boeing_707 freighter, flown by the same commander of Varig Flight 820, disappears over the ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
- 1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner."
- 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
- 1994 - Péter Lékó becomes the youngest grand master in chess.
- 1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
- 1996 - Suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed while in line for his unemployment benefit.
- 1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
- 2000 - Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
- 2003 - Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.
- 2007 - Microsoft releases its next operating system, Windows Vista, and Microsoft Office 2007.
Births
- 133 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
- 1505 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (d. 1585)
- 1563 - Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
- 1615 - Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler (d. 1675)
- 1661 - Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)
- 1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
- 1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773)
- 1720 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)
- 1754 - John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
- 1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
- 1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
- 1832 - Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
- 1841 - Félix Faure, 6th President of France of the French Third Republic (d. 1899)
- 1859 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
- 1861 - Charles Martin Loeffler, German-born composer (d. 1935)
- 1878 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
- 1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
- 1889 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937)
- 1894 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
- 1899 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)
- 1901 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
- 1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (d. 1983)
- 1910 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
- 1911 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989)
- 1912 - Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
- 1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)
- 1914 - John Ireland (actor), Canadian actor (d. 1992)
- 1914 - David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
- 1915 - Joachim Peiper, German military leader (d. 1976)
- 1915 - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)
- 1917 - Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver
- 1918 - David Opatoshu, American television actor (d. 1996)
- 1919 - Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
- 1920 - Delbert Mann, American film director
- 1920 - Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
- 1921 - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
- 1922 - Dick Martin (comedian), American comedian
- 1924 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
- 1925 - Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist
- 1925 - Dorothy Malone, American actress
- 1927 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
- 1928 - Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
- 1929 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (d. 1996)
- 1930 - Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
- 1930 - Gene Hackman, American actor
- 1930 - Magnus Malan, South African politician
- 1931 - Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
- 1931 - Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author
- 1931 - John Crosbie, Canadian politician
- 1932 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
- 1933 - Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (d. 2006)
- 1935 - Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (d. 1984)
- 1936 - Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
- 1936 - F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
- 1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
- 1937 - Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
- 1938 - Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan
- 1941 - Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
- 1941 - Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
- 1941 - Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
- 1942 - Marty Balin, American musician
- 1943 - Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager
- 1945 - Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
- 1947 - Les Barker, English poet
- 1947 - Steve Marriott, English musician (The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
- 1948 - Nick Broomfield, English film- and documentary-maker
- 1949 - Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1951 - Phil Collins, English musician
- 1951 - Charles S. Dutton, American actor
- 1951 - Bobby Stokes, English former footballer
- 1952 - Doug Falconer (football player), Canadian football player
- 1955 - Judith Tarr, American author
- 1955 - Curtis Strange, American golfer
- 1956 - Jeremy Gittins, English actor
- 1956 - Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver
- 1957 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
- 1958 - Brett Butler (comedian), American actress and comedian
- 1959 - Jody Watley, American singer
- 1962 - King Abdullah II of Jordan
- 1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau, American convicted statutory rape
- 1965 - Julie McCullough, American Playboy model and actress
- 1966 - Danielle Goyette, Quebec female ice hockey player
- 1968 - Trevor Dunn, American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs 3)
- 1968 - Prince Felipe of Spain
- 1969 - Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV show star
- 1971 - Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player
- 1972 - Lupillo Rivera, Mexican singer
- 1972 - Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 - Jalen Rose, American basketball player
- 1974 - Christian Bale, English actor
- 1974 - Olivia Colman, English actress
- 1974 - Jemima Khan, British socialite
- 1975 - Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
- 1975 - Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
- 1976 - Andy Milonakis, American comedian
- 1978 - John Patterson (baseball), American baseball player
- 1980 - Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
- 1980 - Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
- 1980 - Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor
- 1981 - Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
- 1981 - Peter Crouch, English footballer
- 1981 - Josh Kelley, American musician
- 1981 - Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver
- 1982 - Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player
- 1984 - Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player
- 1985 - Aaadietya Pandey, Youngest Astrologer - Numerologist
- 1986 - Sam Duckworth, British singer-songwriter known as Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
- 1987 - Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler
- 1988 - Rob Pinkston, American actor
- 1989 - Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
- 1990 - Jake Thomas, American actor
- 1992 - Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor
- 2005 - Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II, of Jordan
Deaths
- 1030 - William V of Aquitaine (b. 969)
- 1181 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
- 1384 - Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
- 1574 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
- 1606 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
- 1649 - King Charles I of England (executed) (b. 1600)
- 1836 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
- 1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
- 1867 - Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
- 1869 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
- 1889 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (b. 1858)
- 1926 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
- 1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1867)
- 1934 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
- 1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1869)
- 1948 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)
- 1951 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875)
- 1958 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
- 1958 - Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b. 1888)
- 1962 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
- 1963 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
- 1969 - Georges Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
- 1980 - Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
- 1982 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
- 1991 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1908)
- 1991 - John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1994 - Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
- 1995 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)
- 1997 - Nicholas Mallett, TV director
- 1998 - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b. 1927)
- 1999 - Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1999 - Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (b. 1909)
- 2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
- 2001 - Joseph Ransohoff, the father of modern neurosurgery (b. 1915)
- 2005 - Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
- 2005 - Wes Wehmiller, American musician (b. 1971)
- 2006 - Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
- 2007 - Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor, artistic director of the Greek National Theater (b. 1934)
- 2007 - Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
Holidays and religious observances
- Martyr Day, India - India. Also called Sarvodaya Day.
Liturgical observances
References
External links
- BBC: On This Day
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- On this day in Canada
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Events
- 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster (January 1648) signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
- 1649 - King Charles I of England is beheaded.
- 1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is formally executed - after having been dead for two years.
- 1790 - The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
- 1806 - The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
- 1820 - Edward Bransfield lands on the Antarctica.
- 1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales was opened. The bridge was not the first suspension bridge, but was so much larger than anything previously built that it is considered the world's first modern suspension bridge.
- 1835 - In the first assassination attempt against a President, a mentally ill man named Richard Lawrence attempts to assassination President of the United States Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol. Both of Lawrence's pistols misfire, and Jackson proceeds to beat his would-be assassin with his cane.
- 1841 - A fire destroys two-thirds of the then villa (now city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
- 1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California.
- 1862 - The first United States ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
- 1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt,32nd President Of The United States,is born.
- 1889 - Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austria-Hungary crown, was found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in The Mayerling Incident .
- 1900 - United Kingdom forces fighting Boers in South Africa ask for reinforcements.
- 1911 - The destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first fixed-wing aircraft rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
- 1911 - The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
- 1913 - House of Lords rejects Irish Government Bill 1893.
- 1925 - Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
- 1930 - the world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR
- 1933 - Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
- 1943 - World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. U.S. cruiser Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedo bombers.
- 1943 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: Germany Gestapo commence mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp were ordered to undress and were shot with machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7.000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv.
- 1944 - World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
- 1945 - The KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000 people.
- 1945 - World War II: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
- 1945 - World War II: Hitler gives his last ever public address; the Radio address on the 12th anniversary of coming to power. (A subsequent address on 24 February was not read by Hitler.)
- 1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
- 1962 - Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1964 - Ranger program: Ranger 6 launched.
- 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks in South Vietnam. Although an overall defeat for the Viet Cong, media coverage of the offensive would turn American public opinion against the war.
- 1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
- 1972 - Bloody Sunday (1972): United Kingdom The Parachute Regiment kill fourteen Roman Catholic civil rights /anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
- 1972 - Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1975 - First Faroe Islands stamp issued.
- 1979 - Varig Boeing_707 freighter, flown by the same commander of Varig Flight 820, disappears over the ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
- 1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner."
- 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
- 1994 - Péter Lékó becomes the youngest grand master in chess.
- 1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
- 1996 - Suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed while in line for his unemployment benefit.
- 1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
- 2000 - Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
- 2003 - Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.
- 2007 - Microsoft releases its next operating system, Windows Vista, and Microsoft Office 2007.
Births
- 133 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
- 1505 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (d. 1585)
- 1563 - Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
- 1615 - Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler (d. 1675)
- 1661 - Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)
- 1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
- 1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773)
- 1720 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)
- 1754 - John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
- 1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
- 1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
- 1832 - Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
- 1841 - Félix Faure, 6th President of France of the French Third Republic (d. 1899)
- 1859 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
- 1861 - Charles Martin Loeffler, German-born composer (d. 1935)
- 1878 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
- 1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
- 1889 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937)
- 1894 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
- 1899 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)
- 1901 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
- 1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (d. 1983)
- 1910 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
- 1911 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989)
- 1912 - Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
- 1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)
- 1914 - John Ireland (actor), Canadian actor (d. 1992)
- 1914 - David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
- 1915 - Joachim Peiper, German military leader (d. 1976)
- 1915 - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)
- 1917 - Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver
- 1918 - David Opatoshu, American television actor (d. 1996)
- 1919 - Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
- 1920 - Delbert Mann, American film director
- 1920 - Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
- 1921 - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
- 1922 - Dick Martin (comedian), American comedian
- 1924 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
- 1925 - Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist
- 1925 - Dorothy Malone, American actress
- 1927 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
- 1928 - Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
- 1929 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (d. 1996)
- 1930 - Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
- 1930 - Gene Hackman, American actor
- 1930 - Magnus Malan, South African politician
- 1931 - Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
- 1931 - Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author
- 1931 - John Crosbie, Canadian politician
- 1932 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
- 1933 - Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (d. 2006)
- 1935 - Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (d. 1984)
- 1936 - Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
- 1936 - F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
- 1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
- 1937 - Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
- 1938 - Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan
- 1941 - Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
- 1941 - Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
- 1941 - Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
- 1942 - Marty Balin, American musician
- 1943 - Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager
- 1945 - Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
- 1947 - Les Barker, English poet
- 1947 - Steve Marriott, English musician (The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
- 1948 - Nick Broomfield, English film- and documentary-maker
- 1949 - Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1951 - Phil Collins, English musician
- 1951 - Charles S. Dutton, American actor
- 1951 - Bobby Stokes, English former footballer
- 1952 - Doug Falconer (football player), Canadian football player
- 1955 - Judith Tarr, American author
- 1955 - Curtis Strange, American golfer
- 1956 - Jeremy Gittins, English actor
- 1956 - Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver
- 1957 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
- 1958 - Brett Butler (comedian), American actress and comedian
- 1959 - Jody Watley, American singer
- 1962 - King Abdullah II of Jordan
- 1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau, American convicted statutory rape
- 1965 - Julie McCullough, American Playboy model and actress
- 1966 - Danielle Goyette, Quebec female ice hockey player
- 1968 - Trevor Dunn, American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs 3)
- 1968 - Prince Felipe of Spain
- 1969 - Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV show star
- 1971 - Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player
- 1972 - Lupillo Rivera, Mexican singer
- 1972 - Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 - Jalen Rose, American basketball player
- 1974 - Christian Bale, English actor
- 1974 - Olivia Colman, English actress
- 1974 - Jemima Khan, British socialite
- 1975 - Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
- 1975 - Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
- 1976 - Andy Milonakis, American comedian
- 1978 - John Patterson (baseball), American baseball player
- 1980 - Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
- 1980 - Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
- 1980 - Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor
- 1981 - Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
- 1981 - Peter Crouch, English footballer
- 1981 - Josh Kelley, American musician
- 1981 - Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver
- 1982 - Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player
- 1984 - Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player
- 1985 - Aaadietya Pandey, Youngest Astrologer - Numerologist
- 1986 - Sam Duckworth, British singer-songwriter known as Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
- 1987 - Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler
- 1988 - Rob Pinkston, American actor
- 1989 - Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
- 1990 - Jake Thomas, American actor
- 1992 - Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor
- 2005 - Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II, of Jordan
Deaths
- 1030 - William V of Aquitaine (b. 969)
- 1181 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
- 1384 - Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
- 1574 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
- 1606 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
- 1649 - King Charles I of England (executed) (b. 1600)
- 1836 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
- 1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
- 1867 - Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
- 1869 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
- 1889 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (b. 1858)
- 1926 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
- 1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1867)
- 1934 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
- 1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1869)
- 1948 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)
- 1951 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875)
- 1958 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
- 1958 - Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b. 1888)
- 1962 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
- 1963 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
- 1969 - Georges Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
- 1980 - Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
- 1982 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
- 1991 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1908)
- 1991 - John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1994 - Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
- 1995 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)
- 1997 - Nicholas Mallett, TV director
- 1998 - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b. 1927)
- 1999 - Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1999 - Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (b. 1909)
- 2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
- 2001 - Joseph Ransohoff, the father of modern neurosurgery (b. 1915)
- 2005 - Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
- 2005 - Wes Wehmiller, American musician (b. 1971)
- 2006 - Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
- 2007 - Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor, artistic director of the Greek National Theater (b. 1934)
- 2007 - Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
Holidays and religious observances
- Martyr Day, India - India. Also called Sarvodaya Day.
Liturgical observances
References
External links
- BBC: On This Day
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- On this day in Canada
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