November 10th

EVENTS

911 – Conrad I elecect German King
1444 – Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats crusaders
1526 – John I Zapolyai of Transsylvania chosen as king of Hungary
1544 – Antwerps painter John Matsys banished
1567 – Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots
1584 – Willem Louis of Nassau appointed viceroy of Friesland
1619 – René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his “Meditations on First Philosophy”
1630 – Failed palace revolution in France against Richelieu
1674 – Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1687 – Pope Innocent XI publishes decree Coelestis pastor
1697 – English parliament accept army reduction
1766 – The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen’s College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1775 – Congress forms US Marine Corps
1785 – Netherlands & France sign treaty
1793 – France ends forced worship of God
1801 – Kentucky outlaws dueling
1808 – Osage Treaty signed
Naturalist Charles Darwin

1834 – HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from Valparaiso
1836 – Louis Napoleon banished to America
1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
1864 – Kingston, GA burned during Sherman’s March to the Sea
1871 – Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, with the immortal words ‘Dr Livingstone, I presume?’
1878 – Aleksandr Ostrovsky’s “Bespridannitsa” premieres in Moscow
1883 – Toronto Argonauts defeat Ottawa FC 9-7, for 1st ORFU Championship
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler’s unveils the world’s first motorcycle
1891 – 1st Women’s Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
Physician and Explorer David Livingstone

1891 – Granville T Woods patents electric railway
1892 – 1st CRU championship game: Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal, 45-5
1894 – Fred Lugard signs accord with king Lafia “Absalamu” of Nikki
1898 – Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)
1905 – Sailors revolt in Kronstadt, Russia
1908 – 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis’ opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
1911 – Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corporation (for scholarly & charitable works)
1911 – Chinese Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath)
1917 – 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House
1917 – Faure’s 2nd Violo Sonate, premieres
1917 – New bolshevik government under Lenin suspends freedom of press (temporary) during October Revolution
German Emperor and King of Prussia Wilhelm II

1918 – German Emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherlands
1918 – Independence of Poland proclaimed by Józef Pilsudski
1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, NS received a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, ON and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
1919 – 1st observance of National Book Week
1919 – American Legion’s 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
1920 – George Bernard Shaw’s “Heartbreak House” premieres in NYC
1923 – German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany
1924 – Dion O’Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio’s gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
1926 – Bradman plays his 1st State selection trial He only made 37
Cricket Legend Donald Bradman

1926 – Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou)
1926 – Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA
1928 – Emperor Hirohito’s official coronation as Emperor of Japan
1931 – 4th Academy Awards – “Cimarron”, Lionel Barrymore & Marie Dressler win
1933 – Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic
1937 – Brazilian dictator Getulio Vargas proclaims “Estado novo”
1938 – 8.3 earthquake shakes East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska
1938 – Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
1940 – Pittsburgh & Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game
1940 – Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
1942 – Philip Barry’s “Without Love” premieres in NYC
1942 – US troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey, Morocco
1942 – US-British troops occupies Oran, Algeria
Animator Walt Disney

1944 – German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany
1944 – US 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery
1944 – Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
1945 – “Are You with It?” opens at Century Theater NYC for 264 performances
1945 – College football’s #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
1945 – General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
1945 – Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, celebrated as Heroes’ Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1946 – Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election
1950 – After 9 years, Cleve Indians fire manager Lou Boudreau
1950 – Clifford Odet’s “Country Girl” premieres in NYC
1950 – Jacobo Arbenz Guzman elected president of Guatemala
Author and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner

1950 – Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner
1951 – 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance
1951 – 13th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Maryland beats Navy 40-21 in Baltimore
1952 – Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN
1953 – Giants end their tour of Japan (players got $331 of $3,000 promised)

United States Marines raise the U.S. flag atop
Mount Suribachi, during the Battle of Iwo Jima

1954 – Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
1954 – Lt Col John Stapp travels 632 mph in a rocket sled
1955 – “Vamp” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 60 performances
1956 – Gene de Paul/John Meyer’s musical “Li’l Abner” premieres in NYC
1957 – NFL record crowd (102,368), ’49ers vs Rams in LA
1957 – Cleveland Browns’ Don Paul sets club record for longest fumble return with a 89-yard run (and TD), beating Pittsburgh 24-0
1958 – Bertolt Brecht’s play ” The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” premieres in Stuttgart, West Germany
1958 – WUFT TV channel 5 in Gainesville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 – Corinne Rottschaeffer of the Netherlands elected Miss World
1962 – “Nowhere to Go, But Up” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 9 perfs
Ice Hockey Legend Gordie Howe

1963 – Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545
1963 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open
1964 – “Something More!” opens at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC for 15 perfs
1964 – Braves sign a 25-year lease to play in the new Atlanta stadium
1965 – Manneke Piss statue stolen in Brussels
1966 – Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier (Taoiseach)
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon
1967 – KXNE TV channel 19 in Norfolk, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 – Judy Rankin wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1968 – Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight
1968 – Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed
1969 – “Sesame Street” premieres on PBS TV
1970 – “2 by 2” opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 343 performances
1970 – Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1970 – R Rodgers/M Charnins musical “Two by Two” premieres in NYC
1971 – Joe Torre wins NL MVP, Vida Blue wins AL MVP
1971 – US table tennis team arrived in China
1974 – 2nd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets even series at 1 with 26-20 OT win
1974 – Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0
1975 – Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
1975 – PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC
1975 – Royals release slugger Harmon Killebrew, ending his 22-year career
1975 – UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism
1976 – Utah Supreme Court approves execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
1977 – Amsterdam: Red Army Faction terrorists Gert Schneider/Christof Wackernagel arrested
1977 – Major Indoor Soccer League officially organized (NYC)
Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat

1978 – Israel’s top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1978 – Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 – Yanks trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath & Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison & Griffin
1979 – Train detrailment in Mississauga, Ontario; a 106 car train derails causing the evacuation of 200,000 people
1980 – Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays $12.55 fare
1980 – Poland acknowledges Solidarity union
1980 – Iraq captures southern port of Khorramshahr
1981 – “Oh, Brother!” opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 3 performances
1981 – Ernest Thompson’s “West Side Waltz” premieres in NYC
1982 – IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankrupcy
1982 – Susan Cooper/Hume Cronyn’s “Foxfire” premieres in NYC
1982 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened
WBC Heavyweight Champion Larry Holmes

1983 – “Amen Corner” opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 83 performances
1983 – Federal government shut down
1984 – Australia all out for 76 v West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21
1984 – Miami Hurricanes blows 31-0 lead in 3rd quarter lose to Md 42-40
1984 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Chief’s Crown, Eillo, Lashkari, Outstandingly, Princess Rooney, Royal Heroine, Wild Again at Hollywood
1985 – Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1986 – Bangladeshi Constitution restored
1987 – Steve Bedrosian edges Rick Sutcliffe 57-55 to win NL Cy Young Award
1988 – China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938
1988 – MLB All-Star team beats Japan 3-1 in Tokyo (Game 5 of 7)
1988 – NY’s MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes
1988 – Orel Hershiser (23-8) is a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young Award
1989 – Bulgarian party president Todor Zjikov resigns
1989 – Germans begin demolishing Berlin Wall
1989 – Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped
1990 – Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)
Actor Macaulay Culkin

1990 – John Hughes’ film “Home Alone” directed by Chris Columbus and starringMacaulay Culkin premieres in Chicago
1991 – Bernie Kosar ends NFL record of 308 passes without an interception
1991 – Browns set club record for largest lead blown (led 23-0), Phila 32-30
1991 – Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1991 – Martina Navratilova ties Chris Evert, 157 pro tennis tournament wins
1991 – Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game
1991 – South Africa’s 1st cricket international since 1970 – one-day v India
1993 – “Joseph & the Amazing” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 223 perfs
1993 – Slovakian government of Vladimír Mečiar forms
1995 – In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces.
Tennis Player Martina Navratilova

1996 – 46th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Terry Labonte wins
1997 – “Jackie – An American Life” opens at Belasco Theater NYC
1997 – Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud & time served
1997 – Nanny Louise Woodward murder conviction downgraded to manslaughter
2001 – An agreement is reached at talks in Marrakech, Morocco, on rules for implementation of the Kyoto climate change treaty
2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj assassinated in Colombo.
2007 – ¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez.
2010 – 44th Country Music Association Award: Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton wins
2010 – Alan Menken, famous Disney composer, receives the 2,442nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Disney Composer Alan Menken

2012 – 20 Syrian troops are killed by suicide bombings in Daara
2012 – 27 people are killed and dozens injured in a prison conflict in Colombo, Sri Lanka
2012 – Israeli counter strike on Palestinian militants in Gaza kills 5 and injure 30
2012 – 17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey
2012 – The final US presidential election results are declared after Barack Obamawins Florida to defeate Mitt Romney 332-206 in Electoral College votes
2012 – 22nd College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 21-6 in Chestnut Hill
2013 – Spaniard Marc Márquez wins the 2013 MotoGP World Championship to become its youngest ever winner at 20
Actress Jennifer Lawrence

2014 – “The Hunger Games” Mockingjay – Part 1″ directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson premieres in London, UK
2014 – Ethel Kennedy is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
2084 – Transit of Earth as seen from Mars

BIRTHDAYS

745 – Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (d. 799)
1341 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)
1433 – Charles of Charolais, the Bold, Duke of Burgundy/polyglot
1467 – Charles of Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen [or Nov 9]
1480 – Bridget of York, English princess and nun (d. 1517)
1483 – Martin Luther, Founder of Protestantism, born in Eisleben Germany (d. 1546)
1565 – Robert Devereux 2nd Earl of Essex/cousin/lover of Elizabeth I
1565 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
1577 – Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], Dutch grand pensionary/poet (Houwelyck)
1620 – Ninon de l’Enclos, French courtesan and writer (d. 1705)
1636 – Francesco Passarini, composer
1668 – Francois Couperin, Paris France, composer/organist (Concerts Royaux)
1668 – Louis III, Prince of Condé (d. 1710)
1679 – Johann Christian Schieferdecker, composer
1683 – George II [August], king of England (1727-60)
Founder of Protestanism Martin Luther (1483)

1694 – Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer
1695 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
1697 – William Hogarth, England, satiric painter/engraver (Rake’s Progress)
1704 – Carlo Zuccari, composer
1710 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (d. 1792)
1719 – Georg Philipp Kress, composer
1730 – Oliver Goldsmith, Ireland, novelist/dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer) (d. 1774)
1735 – Granville Sharp, English abolishionist (d. 1813)
1759 – Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy) (d. 1805)
1772 – Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer
1786 – Carl Eberwein, composer
1793 – Jared Kirtland, US, physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries
1801 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (d. 1872)
1810 – George Jennings English sanitary engineer (d. 1882)
1811 – Louis Kufferath, composer
1819 – Cyrus West Field, financier/success of 1st transatlantic cable
1827 – Alfred Howe Terry, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1890)
1830 – Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)
1833 – Dobri Voynikov, composer
1834 – Jose Hernandez, Argentina poet (MartinFierro)
1834 – Wager Swayne, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1902)
1844 – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian (d. 1932)
4th Prime Minister of Canada John Thompson (1845)

1845 – John Thompson, Halifax Nova Scotia, (C) 4th PM of Canada (1892-94)
1846 – Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer
1846 – Paul Kuczynski, composer
1855 – Josiah Royce, US, philosopher (conception of God)
1861 – Robert T A Innes, Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri)
1864 – Alexandre Levy, composer
1868 – Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1957)
1871 – Winston Churchill, US, author (Crisis, Crossing)
1873 – Henri Rabnaud, Paris France, composer (Le Premer Glaire)
1875 – Maude Eburne, Canada, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman)
1879 – Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, US, poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven)
1879 – Patrick Pearse, Irish political activist (d. 1916)
1880 – Aart A van Schelven, Dutch church historian (Willem of Orange)
1880 – Jacob Epstein, sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel)
1882 – Max Mell, Austria officer/literary (Donauweibchen)
1883 – Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann, composer
1884 – Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet/author (Bird Phoenix)
1885 – Esther Dale, Beaufort SC, actress (Unfinished Business)
1887 – Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Erziehung vor Verdun)
1888 – Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder
1888 – Hugh Wakefield, Wanstead England, actress (Blithe Spirit)
1889 – Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca), born in London, England
1891 – Carl Stalling, American film composer (d. 1972)
1893 – John P. Marquand, American writer (d. 1960)
1895 – John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer (Northrop Air)
1896 – Jimmie Dykes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
1902 – Antonio Maria Valencia, composer
1902 – Murk Ozinga, Dutch building historian (Monuments of Curacao)
1904 – Steven Geray, Uzhored Czechoslovakia, actor (French Line)
1906 – Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1945)
Singer Jane Froman (1907)

1907 – Jane Froman, St Louis Mo, singer (Jane Froman’s USA Canteen), (d. 1980)
1907 – John Moore, English author (d. 1967)
1908 – Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
1909 – Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
1911 – Harry Andrews, Kent England, actor (Equus, Man of La Mancha)
1912 – Salvador Contreras, composer
1913 – Alvaro Cunhal, Portuguese communist
1913 – Arthur Mullard, comedian
1913 – Thelma Hulbert, painter
1916 – Billy May, Pitts Pa, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show)
1916 – Guido Turchi, Rome Italy, composer (Invettiva)
1918 – Ernst Fischer, German chemist (Nobel 1973)
1918 – Jack McCoy, Akron Ohio, TV host (Live Like a Millionaire)
1918 – Martin Hanley, cricketer (took 1-88 with off-spin in Test for S Afr)
1918 – Oda Blinder, [Yolanda Corsen], Antillean poetess (Doorstep)
1919 – Clyde “Bulldog” Turner, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
1919 – Moise Tshombe, pres of Katanga, then premier of the Congo (Zaire)
1919 – Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian inventor (AK-47), (d. 2013)
1919 – François Périer, French actor (d. 2002)
1920 – Tod Andrews, American actor (From Hell it Came, Outrage), born in NYC, New York (d. 1972)
1920 – Rafael del Pino, Spanish entrepreneur
1924 – Russell Johnson, actor, (professor-Gilligan’s Island)
1925 – Richard Burton, stage and screen actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf), born in Pontrhydyfen, South Wales
1927 – Jacob Pleydell-Bouvery 8th earl of Radnor/art collector
1928 – Ennio Morricone, Rome Italy, composer/musician
1928 – Norma Crane, NY, actress (Tea & Sympathy, Fiddler on the Roof)
1928 – William Staveley, British admiral
1929 – Marilyn Bergman, American composer and songwriter
1929 – Ninón Sevilla, Cuban-Mexican actress (Aventurera, Víctimas del Pecado), born in Havana, Cuba (d. 2015)
1930 – Clarence M Pendleton Jr, chairman of US comm on Civil Rights (1981-88)
1930 – Gene Conley, MLB player/NBA player
1930 – Toma Prosev, composer
1932 – Roy Scheider, actor (Jaws, The French Connection, Marathon Man, Paper Lion) (d. 2008)
1932 – Don Henderson, English actor (d. 1997)
1933 – Seymour Nurse, cricketer (prolific WI batsman, 258 v NZ 1969)
1933 – Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
1934 – Lucien Bianchi, Belgian auto racer
1934 – Norm Cash, Eldorado Texas, 1st baseman (Detroit Tigers)
1935 – Pippa Scott, actress (Virginian, Mr Lucky), born in Los Angeles, California
1935 – Ronald Ellwin Evans, St Francis Ks, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 17)
1935 – Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist
1935 – Bernard Babior, American biochemist
1937 – Albert Hall, Boothton Alabama, actor (Trouble in Mind, Ryan’s 4)
1938 – H J de Royen, director (Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra)
1939 – Tommy “Bubba” Facenda, rocker
1939 – Russell Means, Native American activist, (d. 2012)
1940 – Screaming Lord Sutch, rocker
1941 – John Geoghegan, Silver Star recipient (d. 1965)
1941 – Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
1942 – Michel Tabachnik, Swiss composer/conductor
Economist Robert F. Engle(1942)

1942 – Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel laureate
1942 – Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss Federal Councilor
1943 – Saxby Chambliss, American politician
1943 – George Sauer, Jr., Sheboygan, Wisconsin, AFL player (New York Jets), (d. 2013)
1944 – Dave Loggins, singer (Please come to Boston)
1944 – Tim Rice, Amersham, England, lyricist (Chess Moves, 1 Night in Bangkok)
1944 – Silvestre Reyes, American politician
1945 – Donna Fargo, NC, country singer (Happiest Girl in Whole USA)
1946 – Alaina Reed, Springfield Ohio, actress (Rose Lee Holloway-227)
1946 – Bill Bryson, Evanston Ill, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1946 – David Stockman, Reagan’s ex-budget director
1947 – Bechir Gemayel, pres Lebanon (8/23-9/14, 1982)
1947 – Greg Lake, rock vocalist/bassist (King Crimson, ELP)
Lyricist Tim Rice (1944)

1948 – Mario Viegas, actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy, Funeral of Patrao)
1948 – Aaron Brown, American broadcast journalist
1948 – Hugh Moffatt, American songwriter
1949 – Ann Reinking, dancer/actress (All the Jazz, Micki & Maude), born in Seattle, Washington
1950 – Jack Scalia, American actor (Berrengers, Hollywood Beat), born in Brooklyn, New York
1950 – Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (d. 2005)
1951 – Morris Hatalsky, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE White Rose-2nd), born in San Diego, California
1952 – Pat Severs, Camden SC, country singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake)
1952 – Gerry DiNardo, American football coach
1954 – Mario Cipollina, California, rock bassist (Huey Lewis & The News)
1955 – Jack Clark, Penns, all star outfielder (Giants, Cards, Yanks, Padres)
1955 – James Chapman, American novelist
1955 – Roland Emmerich, German film producer and director
1956 – Matt Craven, Port Colborne Ontario, actor (Juror, Killer, K2)
1956 – Sinbad, comedian/actor (Different World, At the Apollo)
1956 – Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian entrepreneur and activist
1957 – Chris Joyce, rocker (Simply Red)
1957 – Jodi Anderson, US long jump champ (1978-81), born in Chicago, Illinois
1958 – George Lowe, American voice actor
1958 – Massimo Morsello, Italian singer
1958 – Brooks Williams, American musician
1958 – Stephen Herek, American film director
1959 – Frank Maudsley, rock bassist/vocalist (Flock Of Seagulls)
1959 – MacKenzie Phillips, Alexandria Va, actress (Julie-1 Day at a Time)
1959 – Linda Cohn, American sports reporter
1960 – Lee Cross Rinker, Stuart FL, PGA golfer (1995 Greater Milwaukee-6th)
1960 – Neil Gaiman, English writer
1960 – Dan Hawkins, American college football coach
1961 – Junior, [Norman Giscombe], R&B singer (Mama used to Say)
1961 – Ramona Pagel, shot putter, born in Los Angeles, California
1961 – Rudolf Grimm, Austrian physics professor
1961 – John Walton, English darts player
1962 – Cathy Boswell, Joliet Ill, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 – Michael Anthony Powell, long jumper (world record 1991, Olympic-silver-88, 92), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1963 – Hugh Bonneville, English actor
1964 – Jushin Liger, [Keiichi Yamada], wrestler (WCW/NJPW)
1964 – Keith Lockhart, Whittier CA, infielder (KC Royals)
1964 – Kenny Rogers, Savannah GA, pitcher (Texas Rangers, NY Yankees)
1964 – Tish Certo, Niagara Falls NY, LPGA golfer (1981 Erie County (NY Champ)
1964 – Magnús Scheving, Icelandic athlete
1965 – Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish race car driver
1965 – Jamie Dixon, American basketball coach
1966 – Vanessa Angel, actress (Weird Science, Kingpin), born in London, England
1966 – Kyle Kopp, San Bernardino Ca, water polo 2m offense (Olympics-96)
1966 – Bill DeMott, American professional wrestler
1967 – Donya Fiorentino, US model
1967 – Jed Roberts, CFL defensive tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
1967 – Michael Jai White, American actor
1968 – Calvin Tiggle, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1968 – Jeffrey Kooistra, soccer player (SC Heerenveen/NEC)
1968 – Lissa Maria Sneck, ice hockey goalie (Finland, Oly-98)
1968 – Lonnie Marts, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs, Tennessee Oilers)
1968 – Steve Brookstein, English X Factor winner
1969 – Arjan van der Laan, Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1969 – Dan Farthing, CFL slot back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1969 – Ed Ward, Edmonton, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1969 – Rod Milstead, NFL guard (SF 49ers)
1969 – Faustino Asprilla, Colombian footballer
1969 – Ellen Pompeo, American actress (Grey’s Anatomy), born in Everett, Massachusetts
1969 – Jens Lehmann, German footballer
1970 – Trent Dimas, NM, gymnast (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1970 – Warren G, American rapper
1970 – Freddy Loix, Belgian rally driver
1971 – Butch Huskey, Anadarko OK, infielder (NY Mets)
1971 – Heather Williams, Miss USA-Oregon (1997)
1971 – Jennifer McFalls, US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 – Kate Slatter, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 – Carol Anne Becker, Miss Universe-South Africa (1996)
1972 – Dick Kooijman, Dutch soccer player (Heracles, FC Groningen, Az)
1972 – Isaac Bruce, NFL wide receiver (St Louis Rams)
1972 – Shawn Green, Des Plaines IL, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1972 – Virag Csurgo, Siofok Hungary, tennis star (1993 Futures-Freeport)
1973 – Cale Hulse, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1973 – Darius Holland, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl 31)
1973 – John Solomon, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 – Khiry Abdul Samad, rocker (Boys-Dial My Heart, Lucky Charm), born in Los Angeles, California
1973 – Zahid Fazal, Pakistani cricket batsman (occasional Tests since 1992)
1973 – Patrik Berger, Czech footballer
1974 – Niko Hurme, Finnish musician
1975 – Jim Adkins, American musician
1976 – Steffen Iversen, Norwegian footballer
1976 – Shefki Kuqi, Finnish footballer
1977 – Stephanie Berger, Miss Universe-Switzerland (1996)
1977 – Brittany Murphy, American actress
1977 – Matt Cepicky, American baseball player
1977 – Josh Barnett, American Mixed Martial Artist
1978 – Eve, American rapper
1979 – Chris Joannou, Australian musician
1980 – Calvin Chen, One of the four members of the Taiwanese boy band, Fei Lun Hai/Fahrenhiet
1980 – Troy Bell, American basketball player
1980 – Donté Stallworth, American football player
1981 – Tony Blanco, American baseball player
1981 – Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2004)
1981 – Alison Waite, American model and Playboy Playmate
1982 – Clayton Fortune, English footballer
1982 – Heather Matarazzo, American actress
1983 – Miranda Lambert, American singer
1983 – Craig Smith, American basketball player
1984 – Kendrick Perkins, American basketball player
1985 – David Lee Rohr Jr, transplant donor
1985 – Giovonnie Samuels, American television actress
1985 – Ricki-Lee Coulter, Australian singer
1986 – Josh Peck, American actor
1987 – Jessica Tovey, Australian actress
1988 – Chisaki Hama, former Japanese actress and model
1991 – Inseong Cho, South Korean actor

WEDDINGS

1926 – Belgium crown prince Leopold weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden
1963 – Actress Doris Roberts (33) weds novelist William Goyen (48)
1965 – Neth 2nd Chamber accept marriage of Princess Beatrice & Claus von Amsberg
1973 – Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully (45) weds Sandra Hunt
1977 – Actor Bryan Cranston (21) weds writer Mickey Middleton
2001 – “Four Weddings and A Funeral” actress Andie MacDowell (43) weds businessman Rhett Hartzog (42) at Central United Methodist Church in Asheville, North Carolina
Actor Bryan Cranston(1977)

2006 – “The Grudge” actor Jason Behr (32) weds actress KaDee Strickland (30) in Ojai, California
2007 – Former “E.R.” actress Julianna Margulies (41) weds lawyer Keith Lieberthal in Lenox, Massachusetts
2012 – Actor Ben Hollingsworth (28) weds lingerie designer Nila Myers in Malibu

DIVORCES

1975 – Journalist Ben Bradlee (54) divorces Antoinette Pinchot after 19 years of marriage

DEATHS

461 – St. Leo I, the Great, Italian Pope (440-61), dies in office
627 – Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
901 – Adelaide of Paris, Queen of Western Francia
1241 – Celestine IV, [Goffredo Castiglioni], Pope (1241, 16 days), dies
1285 – Pedro III, king of Aragon, dies
1299 – Jan I, count of Holland/Zeeland (1295-99), dies at 15
1444 – Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary, dies in battle at 20
1549 – Paul III, [Alessandro Farnese], Italian Pope (1534-49), dies at 81
1556 – Richard Chancellor, English explorer, dies in shipwreck off Scotland
1596 – Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
1617 – Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
1624 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)
1644 – Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (b. 1579)
1665 – Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer, dies at 36
1670 – Geory Horn, [Hornius], theologist/historian, dies at about 50
1673 – Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki, king of Poland (16..-73), dies
1727 – Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
1728 – Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admirals (b. 1661)
1772 – Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
1777 – Cornstalk, Shawnee chief
1779 – Joseph Hewes, US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 49
1808 – Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
1821 – Andreas J Romberg, German violinist/composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54
1848 – Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (b. 1786)
1865 – Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty
Poet Arthur Rimbaud(1891)

1891 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet/arms merchant (Saison en Enfer), dies of a bone cancer at 37
1909 – Ludvig Schytte, composer, dies at 61
1909 – Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
1909 – George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
1912 – Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
1936 – Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
1937 – Nikolai Batalov, actor (Mother), dies at 37
1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and the first President of Republic of Turkey (b. 1881)
1948 – Julius Curtius, German foreign minister (1929- ), dies at 71
1954 – Hussein Fatemi, Iran Foreign minister, executed
1956 – Harry Ford Sinclair, founder of Sinclair Oil, dies at 80
Founder of Sinclair Oil Harry Ford Sinclair (1956)

1959 – Lupino Lane, actress (Deputy Drummer), dies at 67
1960 – Isadore Freed, composer, dies at 60
1963 – Otto Flake, writer, dies
1964 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor (b. 1910)
1968 – Gerald Mohr, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue), dies at 54
1970 – Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79
1971 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, US author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62
1972 – Charlie Hallows, cricketer (1000 runs-May 1928, 2 Tests for Eng), dies
1973 – Stringbean, country singer/comedian/banjoist (Hee Haw), dies at 58
1975 – Ernest M. McSorley, American ship captain (b. 1912)
1978 – Linda Scott, actress (Escape from Hell Island), dies at 28
1978 – Theo Lingen, actor (Grosse Gluck), dies at 75
1979 – Friedrich Thorberg, writer, dies at 71
1981 – Abel Gance, french movie director (J’accuse), dies at 92
1982 – Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53
Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev (1982)

1982 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Leader, General Secretary (1964-82), dies of a heart attack at 75
1984 – Sudie Bond, actress (Tomorrow), dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment
1984 – Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901)
1985 – Pelle Lindbergh, goalie (Phila Flyers), dies in drunk driving accident
1986 – King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (b. 1903)
1986 – Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)
1990 – Lisa Kirk, US Broadway-singer, dies
1990 – Ronnie Dyson, US singer (Salvation-I Don’t Wanna Cry), dies at 40
1990 – Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (b. 1914)
1991 – Alessandro Lessona, Minister of Ital Colonies (1931-38), dies
1991 – Franco Malfatti, president of Commission of Europe (1970-1972), dies
1991 – Tutte Lemkow, dancer/dir (Capt Paradise, I am a Camera), dies at 73
1991 – William Afflis, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1992 – Antoine C J Rottier, Dutch CEO (DSM), dies
1992 – Chuck Connors, US NBA/baseballer/actor (Boston Celtics), dies at 71
1993 – Wensley Pithey, actor (Oh What a Lovely War), dies at 79
1994 – Carmen McRae [Clark], US jazz singer/pianist, dies at about 73
1994 – Louis Nizer, lawyer, dies at 92
1995 – Boty Goodwin, artist, dies at 29
1995 – Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, writer/environmentalist, dies at 54
1995 – Margaret Annie Nan Macdonald, broadcaster, dies at 87
1996 – Beecher Moore, sailor, dies at 88
1996 – Hugo Buchthal, art historian, dies at 87
1996 – Marjorie Proops, problem page editor, dies at 85
1997 – William Alland, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 81
1997 – Tommy Tedesco, American musician (b. 1930)
1998 – Mary Millar, English actress (b. 1936)
2000 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
2001 – Ken Kesey, American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), dies at 66
2002 – Michel Boisrond, French film director (b. 1921)
2003 – Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (b. 1936)
2003 – Irv “Kup” Kupcinet, American columnist and television personality (b. 1912)
2004 – Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (b. 1907)
2006 – Diana Coupland, British comedy actress (b. 1932)
2006 – Gerald Levert, American singer (b. 1966)
2006 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
2006 – Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
2006 – Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
2007 – Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
2007 – Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. 1907)
Novelist Norman Mailer(2007)

2007 – Norman Mailer, American novelist, dies at 84
2008 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1932)
2009 – Gheorghe Dinica, Romanian actor (b. 1934)
2009 – Robert Enke, German football goalkeeper (b. 1977)
2009 – John Allen Muhammad, American spree killer (b. 1960)
2010 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919)
2010 – Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
2010 – Nicolo Rizzuto, Sicilian-born Canadian organized crime figure (b. 1924)
2011 – Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (b. 1944)
2011 – Peter J. Biondi, American state legislator (New Jersey) and former mayor (b. 1942)

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1969 Sesame Street debuts

• American Revolution

• 1775 Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps

• Automotive

• 1903 Mary Anderson patents windshield wiper

• Civil War

• 1865 Henry Wirz hanged

• Cold War

• 1982 Leonid Brezhnev dies

• Crime

• 1997 Judge reduces sentence in nanny murder case

• Disaster

• 1975 Cargo ship suddenly sinks in Lake Superior

• General Interest

• 1928 Hirohito crowned in Japan
• 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior
• 1995 Playwright and activist hanged in Nigeria

• Hollywood

• 1932 Roy Scheider, star of Jaws, is born

• Literary

• 1973 Slaughterhouse-Five is burned in North Dakota

• Music

• 1958 Future country legend Conway Twitty earns a #1 hit as a rock-and-roll idol

• Old West

• 1808 Osage Indians cede Missouri and Arkansas lands

• Presidential

• 2001 Bush addresses the United Nations regarding terrorism

• Sports

• 1984 Maryland gets a miracle in Miami

• Vietnam War

• 1964 McNamara says that U.S. has no plans to send combat troops to Vietnam
• 1970 No U.S. combat fatalities reported
• 1971 Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh airport

• World War I

• 1928 Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front

• World War II

• 1942 Germans take Vichy France