November 8th

EVENTS

392 – Roman Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion, state religion
911 – Duke Koenraad I chosen German king
1322 – Pope John XXII names John van Diest, bishop of Utrecht
1494 – Uprising against Piero de’ Medici in Florence Italy
1519 – 1st meeting of Moctezuma II & Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico
1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.
1575 – French Roman Catholics & Huguenots signs treaty
1576 – Eighty Years’ War: Pacification of Ghent – 17 Dutch provinces sign anti-Spanish covenant
1598 – Spanish troops under Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem
1602 – The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened
1620 – Battle of White Mountain, Prague
1627 – English fleet under George Villiers leaves Île de Ré
1658 – Battle of the Sound: Swedish fleet beats Dutch during 2nd Northern War
1701 – William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges
1731 – In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st US library
United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin

1734 – Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons Lodge in Netherlands
1789 – Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky)
1833 – Train derails at Hightstown NJ; 2 die
1837 – Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women
1838 – Victor Hugo’s “Ruy Blas” premieres in Paris
1842 – Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889)
1861 – Battle of Mount Ivy, KY
1861 – US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
1864 – Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as American President
1870 – Democratic governor elected in Tennessee
1880 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made US debut at NY’s Booth Theater
1883 – English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage)
1884 – German government recognizes King Leopold II’s Congo Free State
US President Abraham Lincoln

1889 – Montana admitted as 41st state of the Union
1892 – Grover Cleveland (D) elected 24th US President
1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen observes X-rays for the first time during an experiment at Würzburg University, Germany
1900 – Theodore Dreiser’s novel “Sister Carrie” is published
1901 – Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
1904 – American President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)
1904 – Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell receives the first U.S. patent for a separable electric attachment plug
1907 – In a landmark decision for Australia, the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration rules that the Sunshine Harvester Work must pay ‘fair and reasonable wages’
26th US President Theodore Roosevelt

1910 – 1st Washington State election in which women could vote
1910 – For the first time since 1894, the US elects a Democratic Congress, including the first socialist ever to sit in Congress, Victor L Berger of Milwaukee
1910 – William H. Frost receives the first U.S. patent for an electrical insect destroyer
1915 – An Austrian-Hungarian submarine torpedos and sinks the Italian liner ‘Ancona’ without warning; over 200 lives lost
1917 – People’s Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin during October Revolution
1917 – Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants
1918 – Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs
1920 – Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn
1920 – Baseball meeting to depose Ban Johnson is set for Nov 12th
1923 – Hitler stages unsuccessful “Beer Hall Putsch” in Muenchen (Munich)
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

1924 – Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt
1924 – Fortune Theatre opens in London
1926 – George Gershwin’s musical “Oh, Kay” premieres in NYC
1928 – George & Ira Gershwin’s musical “Treasure Girl” premieres in NYC
1929 – Jean Giraudoux’ “Amphitryon ’38” premieres in Paris
1930 – Friedrich Wolf’s “Die Matrosen von Cattaro” premieres in Berlin
1932 – “Make Mine Music” debuts
1932 – Franklin Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd President for 1st time
1933 – FDR creates Civil Works Administration
1934 – Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president
1935 – “Mutiny on the Bounty” directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1936)
1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (“The Eternal Jew”) opens in Munich.
1938 – 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila
Actor Clark Gable

1938 – A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris.
1939 – Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich
1939 – H Lindsay & R Crouse’ “Life with Father” premieres in NYC
1940 – RAF bombs Munich
1941 – The Albanian Communist Party is founded.
1942 – 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
1942 – Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall
1942 – Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa
1942 – Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US
1943 – France arrests government of Lebanon after they abolish the French mandate
34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

1944 – 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor
1944 – Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders
1945 – “Girl from Nantucket” opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 12 performances
1945 – Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550
1946 – Jean-Paul Sartre’s “La Putain Respecteuse” premieres in Paris
1947 – Bradman scores his 99th 1st-class cricket century, 100 SA v Victoria
1949 – “All The King’s Men” based on Robert Penn Warren’s Pulizer winning novel, directed by Robert Rossen and starring Broderick Crawford premieres in New York (Best Picture 1950)
1950 – 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War
1950 – Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo wins AL Rookie of Year
1950 – Walt Dropo of Boston Red Sox selected AL Rookie of Year
1951 – NY Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards
1953 – Salazar’s party wins all parliamentary seats in Portugal
MLB Catcher and Manager Yogi Berra

1954 – AL approves Philadelphia A’s move to Kansas City
1956 – UN demands USSR leave Hungary
1957 – Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958 – “Maria Golovin” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 5 performances
1958 – 15th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 40-14 in Baltimore
1959 – KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1959 – Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba’s Nes Destour party wins every seat
1960 – JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) to become 35th US president
1961 – Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn
1962 – Canada’s government orders the nickel changed back to round shape
1964 – IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion
1964 – KUPK TV channel 13 in Garden City, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
LPGA Golfer Mickey Wright

1964 – Orioles Frank Robinson unanimous choice as AL MVP
1965 – “Days of Our Lives” premieres on TV
1965 – British Indian Ocean Territory formed
1966 – Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st African American popularly elected to the US Senate
1966 – Frank Robinson selected AL MVP
1966 – Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California
1966 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger
1967 – 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester)
1967 – Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London
1967 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 – Londonderry Corporation agreed to a Nationalist request to introduce a points system in the allocation of public sector housing, North Ireland
36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson

1970 – Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal
1970 – 5th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats Great Britain 12-7
1973 – Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai
1974 – British Lord (‘Lucky’) Lucan disappears
1974 – Ted Bundy victim Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1975 – Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1976 – A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek Archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
1977 – Ed Koch is elected Mayor of New York (his 1st term)
1978 – Tom Stoppard’s “Night & Day” premieres in London
1979 – Bernard Slade’s “Romantic Comedy” premieres in NYC
Playwright Tom Stoppard

1979 – ABC broadcasts “Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage” with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to “Nightline”)
1979 – The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed.
1980 – Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn
1981 – Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election
1981 – Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1983 – Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky
1983 – STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad
1983 – W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia
1984 – 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test
1984 – Anna Fisher becomes 1st “mom” to go into orbit
1984 – STS 51-A mission launches
1985 – Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-B mission
LPGA Golfer Patty Sheehan

1986 – “Song & Dance” closes at Royale Theater NYC after 474 performances
1987 – Australia beat England by 7 runs to win cricket World Cup
1987 – IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, North Ireland, 11 killed
1987 – Yuko Moriguchi wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1988 – 900 die as earthquake hits China
1988 – Arco Arena in Sacramento CA opens, Sac Kings lose to Seattle, 97-75
1988 – George W H Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for presidency
1988 – Rafael Fernandez Colón elected as president of Puerto Rico
1989 – Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year
1989 – Douglas Wilder elected 1st African American governor (D-Virginia)
1989 – Hong Kong’s MTR Lam Tin Station comes into service.
1990 – “6 Degrees of Separation” opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 496 perfs
1990 – 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian gulf
Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry

1990 – Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with LA Dodgers
1990 – Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World
1990 – Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula
1990 – Unconfirmed rumors emerge that Bush might announce an airlift of supplies to US embassy in Kuwait, which could ultimately trigger a military clash
1991 – Carol Burnette Show premieres on CBS-TV
1991 – Paul Coffey sets NHL defensman soring mark with 311th goal
1992 – “Solitary Confinement” opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 25 perfs
1992 – 300,000 demonstrate against racism in Berlin
1992 – Betsy King wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1992 – 43rd Formula One WDC: Nigel Mansell wins by 52 points
1994 – Cleveland Cavaliers 1st game at Gund Arena, lose to Hous Rockets, 100-98
1994 – Haitian government of Smarck Michel forms
1997 – Tampa Bay Devil Rays name their 1st manager Larry Rothschild
LPGA Golfer Betsy King

1997 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World, Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away
1999 – “The World is Not Enough” 19th James Bond film starring Pierce Brosnan, Robert Carlyle and Denise Richards premieres in Los Angeles
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcingSaddam Hussein to disarm or face “serious consequences”.
2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2008 – 18th College Football Holy War: Boston College beats Notre Dame 17-0 in Chestnut Hill
2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

2013 – 11 people are killed in a car park bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia
2013 – At least 6,000 people are killed after Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm recorded at landfall, makes landfall in the Philippines
2013 – 27th Soul Train Music Awards: Miguel, Tamar Braxton win
2014 – Protests across New Zealand against the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
2014 – Mikhail Gorbachev warns that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War
2014 – US President Obama authorises deployment of 1500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants

BIRTHDAYS

30 – Nerva, Narni, Roman Emperor (96-98)
1342 – Julian of Norwich, English saint (d. 1416)
1431 – vlad III the Impaler, Wallachian prince (d. 1476)
1491 – Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544)
1572 – Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia
1590 – Francesco Gonzaga, composer
1592 – Domenico Mazzocchi, composer
1622 – Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist pastor (Lambs’ War)
1622 – Karl X Gustaf, King of Sweden (1654-60)
1647 – Pierre Bayle, French/Neth theologist/philosopher/writer
1656 – Edmund Halley, English astronomer (comet of Halley) [OS=Oct 29]
1657 – Thomas Bullis Jr., English composer (d. 1712)
1693 – Leonhard Trautsch, composer
1706 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
1710 – Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
1715 – Elisabeth C van Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederik II “the Great”
1723 – John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786)
1760 – Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, South Neth earl/general
Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler (1431)

1768 – Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, (d. 1840)
1770 – Friedrich Witt, composer
1777 – Désirée Clary, queen of Sweden (d. 1860)
1785 – Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer
1814 – Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet (Skanderbeku)
1817 – Claudius Wistar Sears, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1891)
1817 – Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter
1829 – Samuel Wylie Crawford, Bvt Major General (Union Army), (d. 1892)
1830 – Oliver Otis Howard, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1909)
1831 – Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English statesman and Viceroy of India (1876-1880)
1836 – Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
1847 – Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author (Dracula)
1847 – Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
Novelist Bram Stoker(1847)

1848 – Gottlob Frege, Germany, mathematician/logician (Begriffsschrift)
1849 – Edward Julius Biedermann, composer
1850 – Karel Komzák II, Viennese composer, born in Prague (d. 1905)
1854 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
1863 – René [Raphael] Viviani, French historian/social premier (1914-15)
1866 – Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)
1867 – Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer
1868 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
1876 – Frank L Gillespie, Ark, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company
1878 – Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor, world champion cyclist (1899)
1879 – King Baggot I, St Louis MO, director (Tumbleweeds)
1881 – Frank Speck, American Anthropologist (Algonquin Tribes and Eastern Woodland Native Americans), born in Brooklyn, New York
1881 – Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Paris, French Engineer and aviation pioneer who contributed to early heavier-than-air flight in Europe
1882 – Lazare Saminsky, composer
1883 – Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, composer (Farewell My Youth) (d. 1953), born in London, England
1883 – Ethel Clayton, MO, actress (Hotel Continental)
1884 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922)
1885 – Hans Cloos, German geologist (d. 1951)
1885 – Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946)
1885 – Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (d. 1966)
1887 – Yury Alexandrovich Shaporin, composer
1888 – David Monrad Johansen, composer
1893 – John Miljan, Lead City SD, actor (Possessed, Final Extra, Susan Lenox)
1893 – Clarence Williams, American composer (d. 1965)
1893 – Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941)
1895 – Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer
1895 – Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965)
1896 – Bucky Harris, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
Journalist, Socialist and Catholic Convert Dorothy Day (1897)

1897 – Dorothy Day, American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1980)
1898 – Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
1900 – Georges Lonque, composer
1900 – Margaret Mitchell, author (Gone With the Wind), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1949)
1900 – Mihailo Vukdragovic, composer
1900 – Albert F. Frey-Wyssling, Küssnacht, Swiss Botanist and pioneer of submicroscopic morphology and the discipline of molecular biology
1901 – Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romania party leader/president
1901 – Szymon Laks, composer
1902 – Mihail A Suslov, Soviet-party ideologist [NS=Nov 22]
1902 – Walerian Josef Gniot, composer
1904 – Cedric Belfrage English-born writer (d. 1990)
1905 – Richard Nicholson, musician
Author Margaret Mitchell(1900)

1907 – Otto Brenner, German worker’s union leader
1908 – Martha Gellhorn, American writer (d. 1998)
1909 – Alberto Erede, Italian conductor
1912 – Jean-Louis Martinet, composer
1912 – Joseph Fattorini, businessman
1913 – Robert Strauss, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey), born in NYC, New York
1913 – June Havoc, American actress
1914 – Lute T de Cock, student/resistance fighter
1914 – Norman Lloyd, Jersey City NJ, actor (Auschlander-St Elsewhere)
1916 – Frank McGuire, basketball coach (won 550 games in 30 college seasons)
1916 – June Havoc, actress (Willy, Panic, GE Theater), born in Seattle, Washington
1916 – Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade)
1918 – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer ( Palatino and Optima), born in Nuremberg (d. 2015)
1919 – P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (d. 2000)
1920 – Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
1920 – Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian cardinal
1921 – Douglas Townsend, composer
1921 – Gene Saks, NY, actor/director (One & Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave)
1921 – Jerome Hines, [Heinz], Hollywood California, basso (I am The Way)
1922 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (perform 1st heart transplant)
1922 – Esther Rolle, Pompano Beach Fla, actress (Florida-Good Times, Maude)
1922 – Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996)
1923 – Dmitri T Jazov, Russian minister of defense (1991 coup)
Engineer Jack Kilby (1923)

1923 – Jack Kilby, Jefferson City, Missouri, electrical engineer and Nobel laureate (handheld calculator, integrated circuit), (d. 2005)
1924 – Joe Flynn, Youngstown Ohio, actor (McHale’s Navy)
1927 – Patti Page, [Clara Ann Fowler], Claremont Ok, singer (Tennessee Waltz), (d. 2012)
1927 – Ken Dodd, English comedian
1929 – Trevor McMahon, NZ cricket wicketkeeper (v India & Pak 1955-56)
1929 – António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher
1929 – Bobby Bowden, American football coach
1930 – Bob Harris, actor (Jim-Troubleshooters), born in Long Beach, California
1930 – Edmund Happold, engineer
1931 – Morley Safer, Toronto California, TV newscaster (60 Minutes)
1932 – Richard E Lawyer, astronaut, born in Los Angeles, California
Singer Patti Page (1927)

1932 – Stephane Audran, Versailles France, actress (Just Before Nightfall)
1932 – Ben[jamin William] Bova, US, sci-fi author (Exiled from Earth)
1934 – Roberta Hazard, USN Admiral
1935 – Alain Delon, France, actor (Honor Among Thieves, Return of Zorro)
1935 – Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop
1936 – Edward George Gibson, astronaut (Skylab 4), born in Buffalo, New York
1936 – Viscount Mountgarret, [Butler], English large landowner
1938 – John Asprey, British jeweler/multi-millionaire
1938 – Pleuni Touw, Dutch actress (Black Rider)
1938 – Pleuntje “Pleuni” Cordon, actress (Dear Guys)
1938 – Richard Stoker, composer
1938 – Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister (d. 2007)
1942 – Aleksandr Yakovlevich Kramarenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1942 – Angel Cordero Jr, jockey (won over 6,000 races) [or May 8]
1942 – Gerald Alston, US singer (Manhattans-Crazy)
1943 – Martin Peters, British soccer player
1944 – Bonnie Bramlett, rock vocalist (Delandy & Bonnie)
1944 – Rodney Desborough Slater, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band)
1945 – Arnold Rosner, composer
1945 – David Jessel, British TV-reporter
1945 – Judith Lang Zaimont, composer
1945 – Tony Mann, Aust cricket leggie (1977 century as nightwatchman v India)
1946 – Roy Wood, rock vocalist/cellist (ELO), born in Birmingham, England
1947 – Margaret Rhea Seddon, Murfreesboro Tenn, MD/astro (STS 51D, 40, SK:58)
1947 – Minnie Ripperton, singer (Loving You), born in Chicago, Illinois
1948 – Dale A Gardner, Fairmont Minn, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 8, STS 51A), (d. 2014)
1949 – Al Berger, rocker
1949 – Bonnie Raitt, Burbank CA, country singer (Green Light, The Glow)
1949 – Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice Presidenf of the US National Rifle Association, born in Schenectady, New York
1951 – Larry Burnette, rocker (Firefall)
1951 – Mary Hart, Sioux Falls SD, TV hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
1951 – Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general
1952 – Alfre Woodard, American actress (Primal Fear, Cross Creek), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1952 – Christie Ann Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner, CEO (Playboy)
1952 – Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist
1952 – Jerry Remy, American baseball player, color commentator
1952 – John Denny, American baseball player
1953 – John Musker, American animation director
1954 – Rickie Lee Jones, singer (Chuck E’s in Love), born in Chicago, Illinois
1954 – David Bret, Anglo-French biographer and broadcaster
1954 – Michael D. Brown, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency director
1954 – Kazuo Ishiguro, British author
1954 – Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
1956 – Beverly Klass, LPGA golfer
1956 – Randi Brooks, actress (Man With 2 Brains, Tightrope), born in NYC, New York
1956 – Richard Curtis, British screenwriter
1957 – Yohan Gunasekera, cricketer (2 Tests for Sri Lanka 1983)
1957 – Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
1957 – Alan Curbishley, English football manager
1958 – Terry Lee Miall, England, rock drummer (Adam & The Ants)
1958 – Don Byron, American clarinetist
1959 – Simon Davis, Victorian cricket pace bowler (Test v NZ 1986, no wkts)
1960 – Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor
1960 – Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor
1961 – Leif Garrett, Hollywood Cal, singer/actor (Devil x 5, 3 for the Road)
1962 – Ron Johnson, Australian baseball hitting coach (Olympics-1996)
1963 – Dwight Smith, Tallahassee FL, outfielder (Atlanta Braves)
1963 – Paul Butcher, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1964 – Chuck Cecil, NFL safety (Houston Oilers)
1965 – Bart Latuheru, soccer player (Vitesse)
1965 – Jeff Blauser, Los gatos CA, infielder (Atlanta Braves)
1965 – Mike Peluso, Pengilly Canada, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
1965 – Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter
1966 – Michael Soles, CFL fullback (Montreal Alouettes)
1966 – Ulrich Cruden, soccer player (NEC)
1966 – Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality
1967 – Courtney Thorne-Smith, actress (Day by Day, Lucas, Summer School)
1967 – Henry Rodriguez, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1967 – Jay Taylor, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1967 – Kim Dugger, Wichita Kansas, Miss Kansas-America (1991)
1967 – Mark Zollitsch, Orono Maine, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1967 – Rhonda Kottke, Minneapolis Minn, WPVA volleyballer
1968 – Jose Offerman, San Pedro de Macoris, infielder (KC Royals)
1968 – Keith Jones, Brantford, NHL right wing (Washington Capitals)
1968 – Michelle Kline, Circle Pines Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1968 – Parker Posey, Balt Md, actress (Tess Shelby-As the World Turns)
1968 – Zara Whites, Dutch actress
1968 – Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer
1969 – Devon McDonald, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 – Ricardo McDonald, NFL linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1969 – Roxana Zal, American actress
1970 – Qadry Ismail, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings, Miami Dolphins)
1970 – Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace
1970 – José Francisco Porras, Costa Rican footballer
1970 – Diana King, Jamaican singer
1971 – Anna Katrina Simcic, Christchurch NZ, backstroker (Olympics-96)
1971 – Twan Scheepers, soccer player (MVV)
1971 – Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director
1972 – Chris Fydler, Australian swimmer (Olympics-96), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1972 – Ken Blackman, NFL guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1972 – Gretchen Mol, American actress
1973 – Frantisek Kaberle, hockey defenseman (Team Czech Oly-gold-1998)
1973 – Nicole Teter, 800m runner, born in San Diego, California
1973 – Tara Johnson, Miss USA-Wisconsin (1997)
1973 – Vanesa Littlecrow, Puerto Rican cartoonist, dancer, writer and model
1974 – Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
1974 – Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
1975 – Brevin Knight, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1975 – Stephen Saber, drummer/songwriter
1975 – Tara Reid, American actress
1975 – José Pinto, Spanish footballer
1976 – Brett Lee, cricketer (brother of Shane, AIS representative)
1976 – Colin Strause, American director
1977 – Bucky Covington, American entertainer
1977 – Jully Black, Canadian R&B singer
1977 – Nick Punto, American baseball player
1978 – Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer
1978 – Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli, Brazilian footballer
1978 – Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer
1978 – Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
1978 – Maurice Evans, American basketball player
1979 – Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
1979 – Dania Ramírez, Dominican actress
1980 – Ana Vidovic, classical guitarist
1980 – Luis Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
1981 – Joe Cole, English footballer
1982 – Lynndie England, former U.S. Army reservist, associated with Abu Ghraib
1982 – Mika Kallio, Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer
1982 – Sam Sparro, Australian producer, songwriter, performer, former child actor
1983 – Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper
1983 – Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer
1983 – Kat Shoob, British television presenter
1985 – Jack Osbourne, English television star
1986 – Aaron H. Swartz, computer programmer and internet activist (Demand Progress), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2013)
1987 – Samantha Droke, American actress
2003 – Lady Louise Windsor, British royal

WEDDINGS

1975 – NBA legend Larry Bird (18) weds highschool sweetheart Janet Condra
1985 – Author Ken Follett (36) weds politician Barbara Hubbard (42)
2006 – Malaysian actress Sazzy Falak (25) weds co-founder of LVG Consultants and LVG MoneySkool Nazril Idrus
2009 – “The Practice” actress Marla Sokoloff (29) weds composer Alec Puro (34) at Il Cielo restaurant

DIVORCES

1968 – Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from Beatle member John
1970 – “Easy Rider” director and actor Dennis Hopper (34) divorces singer Michelle Phillips (26) only 8 days after getting married

DEATHS

397 – Martin of Tours, [St Martin], bishop of Tours, dies
618 – St Deusdedit/Adeodatus I, Italian Pope (615-18), dies
955 – Pope Agapetus II
1171 – Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
1195 – Conrad of Hohenstaufen
1226 – Louis VIII, the Lion, King of France (1223-26), dies at 39
1228 – Dirk I, ruler of Heinsberg/Valkenburg, dies
1246 – Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180)
1308 – Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce), dies at 42
1494 – Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter, dies at about 56
1517 – Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, cardinal/Chancellor of Castilia, dies
1527 – Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
1578 – Johann Walter, composer, dies at 51
1590 – Joost Jansz Bilhamer, master builder/cartographer, dies at about 49
1595 – Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, dies at 69
1599 – Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
1600 – Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
1605 – Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
1638 – Johann H Alsted, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 50
1658 – Pieter Floriszoon, Dutch admiral, dies in naval Battle of the Sound at about 50
1658 – Witte de With, Dutch vice-admiral, dies in naval Battle of the Sound, at age 59
Poet John Milton (1674)

1674 – John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65
1694 – Ulrik Huber, Frisian lawyer/law historian/polemist, dies at 58
1719 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
1757 – Pierre Prowo, composer, dies at 60
1805 – Francois-Thomas de Baculard d’Arnaud, French writer, dies at 87
1811 – Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies, dies at 47
1817 – Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter of Napoleon, dies at 63
1830 – King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
1833 – Maximilian Stadler, composer, dies at 85
1858 – George Peacock, English Mathematician, dies at 67
1860 – Charles Fellows, English Archaeologist who discovered ruins of the cities of ancient Lycia and brought to Lycian marbles to England, dies
1873 – Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76
1880 – Jacob Edvard Gille, composer, dies at 66
1885 – Johannes Kneppelhout, [Klikspaan], Dutch humorist/author, dies at 71
1886 – Frederick J “Fred” Archer, English jockey, commits suicide at 29
Gunfighter in the American Old West Doc Holliday(1887)

1887 – Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter, dies at 36
1890 – Caesar-Auguste Franck, Belgian organist/composer, dies at 67
1905 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
1908 – Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77
1908 – William Edward Ayrton, English Physicist and Inventor, dies at 60
1909 – Charles Bordes, composer, dies at 46
1909 – Eduard de Hartog, composer, dies at 80
1911 – Samuel Wilks, British Physician and founding father of clinical science, dies at 87
1917 – Colyn Blythe, cricketer (2509 F-C wickets), dies during WW I
1920 – Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR 1908-12), dies at 83
1920 – Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57
1921 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
1924 – Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer, dies at 64
1928 – Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Streets of sin), dies at 45
1933 – Mohammed Nadir Shah, king of Afghanistan, assassin by Abdul Khallig
1934 – Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
1934 – James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher and Psychologist, dies at 73
1937 – James Ramsay MacDonald, British PM (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71
1941 – Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83
1944 – Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies
1949 – Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian clergyman (b. 1874)
1952 – Claude Carter, cricketer (took 28 wkts 10 Tests for South Africa), dies
1953 – Iwan Bunin, writer, dies at 83
1953 – John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66
1959 – Frank Sherman Land, founder of DeMolay International (b. 1890)
1963 – Simon Jurovsky, composer, dies at 51
1965 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
1966 – Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist, dies at 75
1968 – Wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Peck’s Bad Girl), dies at 54
1969 – Kam Tong, actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Mr Garlund), dies at 62
1969 – Vesto Slipher, American Astronomer who provided the first evidence to support the expanding-universe theory
1970 – Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter, rocker, dies at 60
1977 – Bucky Harris, American baseball player (b. 1896)
1977 – Georg Wüst, German Oceanographer, dies at 87
1978 – Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84
1979 – Sydney Tafler, actor (Too Many Crooks), dies at 63
1979 – Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
Tennis Player Betty Nuthall(1983)

1983 – Betty Nuthall, English tennis player, dies at 72
1983 – Robert Agnew, director, dies at 84 of kidney failure
1983 – Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881)
1984 – Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer, dies at 81
1985 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)
1986 – Beatrice Kay, singer/actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Col), dies at 78
1986 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)
1989 – Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67
1990 – Anya Seton, US author, dies
1990 – Grampy Davis, dies of heart attack at 87
1991 – Christine Felsmann, dies
1991 – Frances Faye, singer/actress (Pretty Baby), dies after strokes
1991 – John Kirckpatrick, US musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), dies
1991 – Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45
1992 – Kees [Cornelis] Broekman, speed skater (Olympic-silver-1952), dies
1992 – Keith “Red” Mitchell, US/Swedish jazz bassist, dies
1993 – Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1994 – Marianne Straub, weaver, dies at 85
1994 – Michael O’Donoghue, American comedy writer (SNL), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 54
1995 – Country Dan Dick Montana McLain, singer, dies at 40
1995 – Neil Blaney, politician, dies at 73
1996 – Edward Albert Radice, economist, dies at 89
1996 – Peter Fowler, physicist, dies at 73
1998 – Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
1999 – Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941)
1999 – Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
2002 – Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (b. 1931)
2003 – Bob Grant, English actor (b. 1932)
2003 – C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920)
2003 – Guy Speranza, American singer, original Riot frontman (b. 1956)
2004 – Peter Mathers, English-born Australian novelist (b. 1931)
2005 – David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917)
2005 – Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
2006 – Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945)
2006 – Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist, dies at 65
2007 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (b. 1943)
2007 – Chad Varah, English founder of charity The Samaritans (b. 1911)
2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
2010 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (b. 1925)
2010 – Jack Levine, American painter (b. 1915)
2010 – Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (b. 1961)
2010 – Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official (b. 1950)
2011 – Heavy D, American hip-hop artist. (b. 1967)
2011 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist (b. 1922)
2012 – Lucille Bliss, American voice artist, dies from natural causes at 96
2014 – Don Paul, 89, American football player, dies at 89

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1895 German scientist discovers X-rays

• American Revolution

• 1775 Washington seeks to make militias into a military

• Automotive

• 1962 Sun sets on the Ford Rotunda

• Civil War

• 1864 Lincoln reelected

• Cold War

• 1960 John F. Kennedy elected president

• Crime

• 1974 Ted Bundy botches an abduction attempt

• Disaster

• 1994 Hurricane Gordon is born

• General Interest

• 1923 Beer Hall Putsch begins
• 1994 The Republican Revolution

• Hollywood

• 1847 Dracula creator Bram Stoker born

• Literary

• 1900 Margaret Mitchell is born

• Music

• 1994 Salvatore “Sonny” Bono is elected to the U.S. Congress

• Old West

• 1887 Doc Holliday dies of tuberculosis

• Presidential

• 1942 FDR broadcasts message to Vichy France leader Marshal Petain

• Sports

• 1951 Yogi Berra is the AL MVP

• Vietnam War

• 1965 Lawrence Joel earns Medal of Honor

• World War I

• 1917 New Russian leader Lenin calls for immediate armistice

• World War II

• 1939 Hitler survives assassination attempt