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This Day in History for 22nd August


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Composer Claude Debussy (1862)            Short Story Writer                           Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson
                                                                Dorothy Parker (1893)


Chinese Communist Party Leader
 Deng Xiaoping (1904)


1530 - Bartolomeo Spontone, composer
1601 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
1615 - Christopher Gibbons, composer
1624 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
1647 - Denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine)
1679 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
1681 - Pierre Danican Philidor, composer
1753 - Christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer
1760 - Leo XII, [Annibale Sermattei], Italy, Pope (1823-29)
1764 - Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
1766 - Joseph-Denis Doche, composer
1771 - Jan Joseph Rosler, composer
1771 - Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
1773 - Aimé Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858)
1779 - James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)
1788 - Thomas Tredgold, engineer/carpenter
1795 - Abraham Capadose, physician/missionary
1800 - William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
1800 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
1811 - William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
1822 - George Stoneman, US Union general-major/(Gov-California, 1883-87)
1822 - Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
1827 - Edouard Silas, composer
1827 - Josef Strauss, Austria, composer (Dorfschwalben aus Austria)
1827 - Joseph Anthony Mower, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1870
1827 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906)
1834 - Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
1836 - Archibald M Willard, US, artist (Spirit of '76)
1845 - William Lewis Douglas, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924)
1846 - B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norway, writer (Hellemyrsfolket)
1847 - Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, composer
1848 - Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929)
1852 - Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (Political Struggle in Italy)
1854 - Milan I, King of Serbia
1857 - Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
1860 - Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow Award)
1860 - Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 1917)
1862 - Claude Debussy, St Germain-en-Laye, composer (La Mer, Clair de lune), (d. 1918)
1865 - Piet A W Hopmans, bishop of Breda (Eucharistic Crusade)
1867 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
1873 - Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist
1873 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
1874 - Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer
1874 - Max Scheler, German philosopher (Vom Umsturz der Werte)
1880 - George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
1880 - Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
1882 - Harry Makepeace, cricketer (4 Tests for England v Australia 1920-21)
1888 - Violet Farebrother, Grimsby England, actress (Downhill, Easy Virtue)
1890 - Floyd Henri Allport, US psychologist/sociologist
1891 - Francis McDonald, Bowling Green Ky, actor (Will-Adv of Champion)
1891 - Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/US painter/cubist sculptor
1892 - Percy Fender, cricketer (legendary Surrey & England all-rounder)
1893 - Dorothy Parker, NJ, short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), (d. 1967)
1894 - Cecil Kellaway, South Africa, actor (Mr Earnshaw-Wuthering Heights)
1895 - Paul White, Bangor Maine, composer (Adante & Rondo for Cello)
1895 - Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966)
1897 - Bill Woodfull, cricketer (Australian captain in the Bodyline series)
1898 - Francine Larrimore, Verdun France, actress (John Meade's Woman)
1900 - Elizabeth Bergner, Vienna Austria, actress (Catherine the Great)
1900 - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, [Helene Bertha Amalie], Germany, film director (Triumph of the Will) and
           actress (Tiefland)
1902 - Roy Armstrong, English historian (History of Sussex)
1902 - Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
1903 - René Wellek, Vienna Austria, writer (Concepts of Criticism)
1904 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese party leader (1976-1983)
1905 - Wade Crosby, IA, actor (Sign of Wolf, Tales of Robin Hood)
1907 - Oliver F McGowan, Kipling AL, actor (Banning, Stagecoach)
1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, Chanteloup, France, photographer
1909 - Mel Hein, NFL center (NY Giants)
1909 - Sergius Kagen, composer
1909 - Stojan T Daskalov, Bulgaria, writer (A Farm)
1909 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1911 - Edith Atwater, Chic, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop)
1911 - Somerset de Chair, MP
1912 - Edith Porada, art historian/archaeologist
1913 - Robert Schollum, composer
1913 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
1915 - David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader (d. 2004)
1915 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
1915 - James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope (d. 2007)
1916 - John Slater, London England, actor (Deadlock, Cartel, Devil's Pass)
1917 - John Lee Hooker, Clarksdale Mississippi, blues guitarist (Boogie Chillen)
1918 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
1919 - Earl Cathcart, British major-general
1919 - Leo Pliatzky, senior civil servant
1920 - Anthony Tuke, CEO (Savoy Hotel Groups)
1920 - Denton Cooley, Houston, heart surgeon (1st artifical heart transplant)
1920 - Pierre A Lauffer, Antillian poet (Patria)
1920 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury, Ill, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451), (d. 2012)
1920 - W Schnurre, writer
1921 - James Menter, principal (Queen Mary College)
1922 - Micheline Presle, Paris, actress (Nea, Donkey Skin)
1923 - Gerald Long, journalist/CEO (Reuters)
1924 - Andrzej Markowski, composer
1924 - James Kirkwood, LA CA, actor/writer (Hired Wife)
1924 - Peter Allsop, publisher
1925 - Honor Blackman, Plaistow, London, English actress (Goldfinger, The Avengers)
1926 - Bob Flannigan, rocker (Four Freshmen)
1926 - Marc Bohan, dress designer
1927 - Aleksandar Obradovic, composer
1928 - John Lupton, Highland Park Ill, actor (Tom-Broken Arrow)
1928 - Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate
1929 - Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British (Lab) spokesperson on Home Affairs
1929 - Harry McPherson, Tyler, Texas, presidential counsel (Lyndon Johnson) and lobbyist, (d. 2012)
1930 - Gilmar, Brazilian football player
1932 - Gerald P Carr, Denver Colorado, Col USMC/astronaut (Skylab 4)
1932 - Theoni Vachliotis aldredge, award winning costume designer
1933 - Irmtraud Morgner, writer
1933 - Sylva Koscina, Zagreb Yugo, actress (Jessica, Hercules)
1934 - Diana Sands, NYC, actress (Raisin in the Sun, Doctor's Wife)
1934 - H Norman Schwarzkopf, Trenton NJ, 4-star Army general (Gulf War), (d. 2012)
1934 - John M Chowning, composer
1934 - Margaret Douglas, chief political adviser (BBC)
1935 - Morton Dean, Fall River Mass, TV newscaster (CBS, ABC)
1935 - Richard W Howard, Oklahoma City Ok, 400m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1935 - E. Annie Proulx, American author
1936 - Anne Downey, British circuit judge
1936 - Lex P Humphries, drummer
1937 - Donald MacLeary, dancer
1937 - Max Hebditch, director (Museum of London)
1938 - Dale Hawkins, music writer (Suzy Q)
1938 - Paul Maguire, American football commentator
1939 - Candido Lima, composer
1939 - Carl Yastrzemski, NY, Boston Red Sox great (1967 AL MVP, Hall of Fame)
1939 - Fred Milano, Bronx NY, rocker (Dion & The Belmonts) [or 8/26/40]
1939 - Valerie Harper, Suffern, New York, American actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda)
1940 - Antony Crosthwaite-Eyre, English publisher/multi-millionaire
1940 - David Vance, horse trainer
1940 - George Reinholt, Phila, actor (Steve-Another World, One Life to Live)
1940 - John Banham, director-general (CBI)
1941 - Bill Parcells, NFL coach (NY Giants, NY Jets, NE Patriots)
1941 - Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
1942 - Kathy Lennon, Santa Monica California, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1942 - Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993)
1943 - Alun Michael, MP (Labour)
1943 - Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist
1944 - Henk Veldhoen, biochemist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1945 - Derek Fatchett, MP (Labour)
1945 - James G Richardson, Gainesville Fla, actor (Tim Cassidy-Sierra)
1945 - Ron Dante, Staten Island NY, rock vocalist (Archies-Sugar, Sugar)
1945 - Steve Kroft, Kokomo Ind, co-editor (60 Minutes)
1945 - Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
1946 - Felix Meurders, Dutch radio host
1947 - Bud Cramer, (Rep-D-Alabama)
1947 - Cindy Williams, Van Nuys California, actress (Shirley- Laverne & Shirley)
1947 - Donna Godchaux, rocker (Grateful Dead)
1948 - Rob Buckman, British broadcaster/actor (Pink Medicine Show)
1948 - Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
1949 - Diana Nyad, swimmer (1st to swim Bahamas to Fla-1979)
1949 - Doug Bair, baseball player
1949 - Þórarinn Eldjárn, Icelandic writer
1949 - Alfred Musema, Rwandan genocidaire
1950 - Teresa Davis, rocker
1950 - Ray Burris, baseball player
1950 - I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, White House Chief of Staff
1951 - Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
1952 - Peter Laughner, American musician (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
1953 - Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager
1954 - John Colwell, Kingston Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1978 Simon Fraser)
1955 - Will Shetterly, writer
1955 - Chiranjeevi, Telugu film actor
1956 - Jeff Lloyd, jockey
1956 - Paul Molitor, St Paul MN, infielder (Mn Twins, 1993 World Series MVP)
1956 - Peter Taylor, cricketer (Australian off-spinner 1987-92)
1957 - Holly Dunn, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Daddy's Hands)
1957 - Randy Romero, Garden City NY, jockey (Breeder's Cup 1987-89)
1957 - Steve Davis, snooker player
1958 - Elhadjdia Ba, Dakar Senegal, hurdler (Olympic-silver-1988)
1958 - Ian Mitchell, Edinburgh, rocker (Bay City Rollers)
1958 - Colm Feore, American actor
1958 - Lane Huffman, American professional wrestler
1958 - Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
1959 - Denise Curry, Daivs California, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 - Juan Croucier, heavy metal rocker (Ratt-Round & Round)
1959 - Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
1961 - Debbi Peterson, Los Angeles California, rock drummer (Bangles-Eternal Flame)
1961 - Jay Ashton, rocker (Gene Loves Jezebel)
1961 - John Kidd, NFL punter (Miami Dolphins)
1961 - Roland Orzabal, rock vocalist (Tears for Fears-Shout, Head over Heels)
1962 - Gene Craig Sauers, Savannah GA, PGA golfer (1986 Bank of Boston)
1962 - James Debarge, Grand Rapids Mi, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Debarge)
1962 - Marie Laurie Mahabir, Guadeloupe, North American Bodybuilding Champ (1985-87)
1963 - Lily Yip, Canton China, US table tennis player (Olympics-92, 96)
1963 - Terry Catledge, NBA star (Orlando Magic)
1963 - Thomas Ansberry, Okinawa Japan, US 10K runner
1963 - Tori Amos, [Myra Ellen Amos], NC, pianist/vocalist (Under The Pink,)
1964 - Dean Evason, Flin Flon, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
1964 - Mats Wilander, Vaxjo Sweden, tennis star (1988-US, Aust, French)
1965 - Patricia Hy-Boulais, Cambodia, tennis star (1994 Auckland doubles)
1965 - Tom Gibis, American voice actor
1966 - Mark Michaels, heavy metal guitarist (Teach Yourself Rhythm Guitar)
1966 - Rob Witschge, Dutch soccer star (Ajax/Feyenoord)
1966 - GZA, American rapper
1967 - Curt Bourque, jockey
1967 - Layne Staley, US rock singer/guitarist (Alice in Chains-Dirt), (d. 2002)
1967 - Wale', Lagos Nigeria, model
1967 - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor
1967 - Ant, American comedian
1967 - Ty Burrell, American actor
1967 - Alfred Gough, American screenwriter
1967 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
1968 - Henrik Holm, Sweden, tennis star
1968 - Horst Skoff, Austria, tennis star
1968 - Michael Curry, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks)
1968 - Paul Ereng, Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1968 - Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
1968 - Casper Christensen, Danish comedian
1968 - Rich Lowry, American magazine editor
1968 - Alexander Mostovoi, Russian footballer
1969 - Hipolito Pichardo, Esperanza Dom Rep, pitcher (KC Royals)
1969 - Maurice Graef, soccer player (VVW, Roda JC)
1970 - Jean-Michel Bombardier, Brantford Ont Canada, ice pairs (1995, 96 Can)
1970 - Charlie Connelly, English writer
1970 - Giada De Laurentiis, Italian/American chef and television host
1971 - Bernard Carter, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Jaguars, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Richard Armitage, English actor
1971 - Rick Yune, American actor
1972 - Marliece Andrada, Manteca California, playmate (March 1998)
1972 - Stephen Boyd, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Max Wilson, Brazilian racing driver
1973 - Jennifer Makris, Miss USA-New Jersey (1997, top 10)
1973 - Kristen Wiig, American comedian
1973 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1974 - Brimstone, American professional wrestler
1974 - Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
1974 - Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarist
1975 - Charles C Smith, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1975 - Mbali Gasa, Miss South Africa Universe (1997)
1975 - Robert Enes, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1975 - Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
1975 - Sheree Murphy, British actress
1975 - Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
1976 - Jim Weaver, Northridge California, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Lia Victoria Borrero, Miss Panama Universe (1997)
1977 - Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
1978 - Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1979 - Brandon Quintin Adams, American actor
1980 - Roland Benschneider, German footballer
1980 - Christi Shake, American model and actress
1980 - Nicolas Macrozonaris, French-Canadian track-and-field athlete
1981 - Alex Holmes, American football player
1983 - Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
1983 - Laura Breckenridge, American actress
1984 - Lee Camp, English footballer
1986 - Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 22nd August


Famous Deaths

                 
Irish Nationalist Leader                     Kenyan Prime Minister and President
Michael Collins (1922)                                Jomo Kenyatta (1978) 


408 - Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), dies at 48
634 - Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam, dies
1155 - Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139)
1188 - Ferdinand II, King of Leon (b. 1137)
1241 - Gregory IX, [Ugolino di Segni], Italian Pope, dies
1280 - Nicholas III, [Giovanni Gaetano Orsini], Italian Pope (1277-80), dies
1286 - Erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered
1304 - John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
1350 - Philips VI, of Valois, King of France (1328-50), dies
1358 - Isabella, Queen of England (b. circa 1295)
1367 - Egidius AC Albornor, Spanish archbishop of Toledo, dies at about 57
1485 - Richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle at 32
1532 - William Warham, English archbishop of Canterbury (1502-32), dies at 82
1553 - John Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded
1572 - Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
1584 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577)
1599 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. c. 1553)
1607 - Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
1609 - Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
1652 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
1680 - Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony (1656-80), dies at 67
1701 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
1711 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
1752 - William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
1755 - Caspar Burman, historian/mayor (Utrecht), dies
1773 - George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)
1793 - Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France, dies at 80
1797 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
1801 - Pieter G van Overstraten, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 46
1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
1818 - Warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85
1828 - Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (phrenology), dies at 70
1831 - John White, composer, dies at 52
1850 - Nikolaus Lenau, writer, dies at 48
1861 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
1862 - Henry Bohlen, German/US brig-general (Union), dies in battle at 51
1866 - George Shillibeer, pioneer of London's 1st bus service, dies
1874 - Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet, dies
1879 - Friedrich August Kummer, composer, dies at 82
1886 - Jose da Silva Mendes Leal, Portuguese author (Indiana), dies at 67
1889 - John Sanger, circus entrepreneur, dies
1890 - Vasile Alecsandri, Romania poet/Foreign minister, dies at 69
1891 - Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
1893 - Ernst II, duke of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer, dies at 75
1901 - Gunnar Wennerberg, composer, dies at 83
1903 - Robert A T G C Salisbury, British premier (1885..1902), dies at 73
1910 - George Palmer, cricketer (17 Tests for Aust 1880-86, 78 wickets), dies
1914 - Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle
1914 - Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle
1914 - Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi Italian religious figure
1918 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
1920 - Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (Gustavus Vasa), dies at 60
1922 - Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush
1926 - Charles William Eliot, American University president (Harvard, 1869-1909), dies at 92
1929 - Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I), dies at 74
1933 - Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses), dies at 62
1936 - Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue), dies at 99
1937 - David C Salas, Antillian writer (Josephina), dies
1940 - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851)
1942 - Henry Eichheim, composer, dies at 72
1942 - Mikhailmichel Fokine, Russian ballet dancer/choreographer, dies
1944 - Raymond Aimos, actor (Golem, Mayerling, La Bandera), dies at 55
1950 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
1951 - J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1884)
1953 - Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
1958 - Roger Martin du Gard, novelist/playwright, dies
1960 - Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (b. 1898)
1963 - William Richard Morris, 1st viscount Nuffield motor manufacturer, dies
1965 - Henriette de Vreker-Verschuur, actress (Revolt in Mental Home), dies
1965 - Ellen Church, American airline stewardess (b. 1904)
1966 - Apolinary Szeluto, composer, dies at 82
1967 - Tom Conway, actor (Mrs Minerva), dies of liver ailment at 63
1967 - Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
1970 - Richard Frank Donovan, composer, dies at 78
1970 - Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
1973 - Louise Huff, actress (Sea Waif, Caprice, Disraeli), dies at 77
1974 - Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66
1976 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, pres of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73
1976 - Oskar Brusewitz, East German vicar, sets self on fire
1976 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
1977 - Sebastian Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair), dies at 59
1978 - Ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78
1978 - Jomo Kenyatta, 1st premier of Kenya (1963-78), dies at 83
1979 - Henry Beernink, politician, dies at 69
1979 - James T Farrell, US writer (French Girls are Vicious), dies
1980 - James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)
1980 - Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (b. 1891)
1984 - Charles Whittenberg, composer, dies at 57
1985 - Ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quickie of 30's), dies
1989 - Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
1990 - Merlin Marston, actor (Blue Sky), dies of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 45
1991 - Boris Pugo, USSR minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide
1991 - Colleen Dewhurst, actress (Murphy Brown), dies of cancer at 67
1993 - Don Getz, US filmer (Playpoint)
1993 - Kasdi Merbah, PM of Algeria (1988-89), assassinated
1994 - Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine), dies at 80
1994 - Tom Quirke, journalist, dies at 42
1995 - Jose Antonio Giron de Velasco, politician, dies at 83
1996 - David Donaldson, painter, dies at 80
1996 - Robert Lewis Campbell Lorimer, publisher, dies at 77
1996 - William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist, dies at 87
1997 - Mary Louise Smith, chairman (Rep), dies at 82
2003 - Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skating trainer (b. 1914)
2003 - Generosa Ammon, American widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
2003 - Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
2004 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
2004 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian television and movie director (b. 1920)
2004 - Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (b. 1922)
2005 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
2006 - Bruce Gary, American rock drummer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
2008 - Gladys Powers, Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1899)
2009 - Elmer Kelton, American Western novelist (b. 1926)
2010 - Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav football player (b. 1923)
2011 - Jack Layton, Canadian politician (b. 1950)
2011 - Jerry Leiber, American songwriter (b. 1933)
2011 - Nick Ashford, American songwriter (b. 1942)
2012 - Nina Bawden, English author, dies at 87

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 23rd August


Historical Events

                                   
Scottish Patriot William Wallace             Soviet Union Premier                     Soldier, author, journalist, politician
                                                                       Joseph Stalin                                          Winston Churchill

                                   
President and Dictator of Brazil          Baseball Player Roberto Clemente            Baseball Player Hank Greenberg
Getulio Vargas

                 
Heavyweight Boxing Champion              Islamic Militant & Terrorist
Mike Tyson                                                    Osama bin Laden


79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
406 - Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians
476 - Odoacer proclaimed King of of Italy, 1st barbarian King of Italy
1046 - King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese
1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
1328 - Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers
1328 - King Philip VI of France, crowned
1441 - Holland & Hanzesteden sign cease fire treaty
1514 - Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over
           the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.
1541 - French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1542 - Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code
1553 - Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor
1555 - Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
1566 - Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam
1566 - Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights
1582 - French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders
1595 - Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
1614 - University of Groningen opens
1617 - 1st one-way streets open (London)
1708 - Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1711 - Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St Lawrence
1784 - Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state & name it Franklin; a year
           later the Continental Congress rejects it
1796 - African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated
1799 - Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
1813 - Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French
1821 - Mexico declares independence
1838 - Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
1839 - British capture Hong Kong from China
1850 - 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
1862 - Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (2 Federal regiments)
1864 - Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama
1866 - Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
1869 - 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
1872 - 1st Japanese coml ship visits SF, carrying tea
1873 - Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens
1879 - Governor-general Charles Gordon of Sudan returns to Cairo
1883 - Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks & & passballs count as errors
           prior to 1888)
1889 - 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF)
1896 - First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of
           Manila.
1898 - 18th US Mens Tennis: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight Davis (36 62 62 61)
1900 - National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
1903 - 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
1904 - Automobile tire chain patented
1906 - Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Wash Senators
1906 - Cuba's 1st president Tomés Estrada Palma asks for US intervention
1907 - Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits NY Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game
1910 - Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh
1911 - British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with
           Germany
1914 - -24] German troops plunder Belgium
1914 - Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten
1914 - Gen von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium
1914 - Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
1915 - Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
1916 - Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
1917 - Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
1919 - "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
1920 - M R Rinehart & A Hopwood's "Bat," premieres in NYC
1923 - Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De
           Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1924 - Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
1926 - 40th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (46 64 97)
1929 - Arabs attack Jews in Israel
1930 - 44th US Womens Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (61 64)
1931 - 45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen B Whitingstall (64 61)
1931 - Count Gyula Károlyi becomes premier of Hungary
1931 - Phila A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight
1933 - 1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton & Laurie Raiteri in London
1936 - 17 year old Bob Feller's 1st game, he strikes out 15 St Louis Browns
1938 - England score 7-903 decl v Australia Hutton 364
1939 - John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats
1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: East Europe divided between Hitler & Stalin
1939 - USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact
1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided)
1940 - German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London
1940 - Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer
1942 - 1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal
1942 - Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
1942 - British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
1942 - Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY-Wash
           game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief
1942 - World War II: The last cavalry charge in history takes place at Izbushensky.
1943 - Red army recaptures Charkow
1943 - World War II: Kharkov liberated.
1944 - 94.5°F (34.7°C) in De Bilt Netherlands & 101.5°F (38.6°C) in Warnsvelt
1944 - Allied troops capture Marseilles France
1944 - General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris
1944 - General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley/Eisenhower
1944 - King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies & dismissed the pro-
           Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu
1944 - Romania liberated from Nazi occupation
1944 - Sammellager Drancy freed
1944 - US 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine
1944 - US B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
1944 - World War II: Marseille liberated.
1946 - 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380)
1946 - Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of
           Schleswig-Holstein.
1947 - Pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert
1948 - Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine
1948 - World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
1950 - Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12)
1950 - West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation
1952 - Arab League security pact goes into effect
1952 - Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman complete his at bat, he strikes
           out & is also ejected for arguing
1953 - Braves Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan
1953 - Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
1953 - Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
1953 - KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3")
1953 - USSR performs nuclear test
1954 - President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily
1954 - First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1955 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - China PR resumes fire on Quemoi & Matsoe
1958 - Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
1958 - Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's
           bombardment of Quemoy.
1959 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
1960 - World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
1961 - Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi
1961 - East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West & East Berlin
1961 - US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
1962 - 1st Europe-US live TV program (via Telstar)
1963 - Beatles release "She Loves You" in UK
1963 - Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament
1964 - St Louis Cards are 11 games back in NL, & win World Series
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
1968 - Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily
1968 - Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
1969 - Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno
1969 - France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st
           American to win cycling race title since 1912)
1970 - Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1970 - Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
1971 - WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 - Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimous-1 vote
           went to NBC newsman David Brinkley)
1972 - Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, & Alex Johnson) to homer into
           Comiskey Park's center field bleachers
1973 - Intelsat communications satellite launched
1974 - John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC
1974 - Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan v England at The Cricket Oval
1975 - Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
1975 - Communists take over Laos
1975 - Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile
1975 - Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack
1975 - Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1976 - Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die
1977 - 1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
1977 - Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in German DR
1978 - Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar
1979 - Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC
1979 - Iran army opens offensive against Kurds
1979 - UN's Vienna office opens
1980 - Charlie Finley sells A's for $127M to Haas (owners of Levi Strauss)
1981 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
1982 - Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
1982 - Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
1985 - South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested
1985 - West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR
1985 - Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a
           college football analyst for betting on games
1986 - "Rags" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 performances
1986 - Vrijkomend vulkaangas kills 1500 people in Nyos-more, Cameroon
1987 - 15-years old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion
1987 - Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1987 - Violent rainfall/floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s
1988 - Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
1989 - LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR)
1989 - Lewis/Everett/Burrell/Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38)
1990 - Armenia declares independence
1990 - East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3
1990 - US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
1992 - Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
1992 - Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to
           record 40 saves in 4 different seasons
1993 - NY Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
1993 - Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game
1995 - Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 38th consecutive save
1995 - Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant
1996 - Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans
           occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2000 - A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2000 - Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. This essentially
           deprecated the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the
           BA Convention were also signatories to Berne.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becomes a category 5 hurricane
2005 - TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near Pucallpa, Peru, killing 41.
2006 - Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor
           Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
2010 - Manila hostage crisis, which occurred at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, where a dismissed
           police officer took hostage a tour bus full of Chinese nationals.
2011 - Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces
           take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War.
2011 - 5.8 earthquake occurrs in Mineral, Virginia felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as
           Atlanta, Georgia
2012 - Four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air ballooning accident in Slovenia
2012 - At least 30 are killed as a result of monsoon rain in Rajasthan, India

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This Day in History for 23rd August


Famous Weddings

1942 - "King Kong" actress Fay Wray (34) weds screenwriter and playwright Robert Riskin (45)
1962 - Musician and member of the Beatles, John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell
1989 - "The Cars" lead singer and guitarist Ric Ocasek (40) weds model Paulina Porizkova (24)
2000 - "7th Heaven" actor Ed Begley Jr. (51) weds actress Rachelle Carson (40) in Las Vegas
2003 - "The Hours" actress Julianne Moore (42) weds "The Myth of Fingerprints" director Bart
           Freundlich (33) in New York
2005 - Olympic gold medalist swimmer Pieter van den Hoogenband (27) weds fellow Olympic swimmer
           Minouche Smit at Henkenshage Castle in Sint-Oedenrode, North Brabant, The Netherlands
2010 - Spanish singer Julio Iglesias (66) weds Dutch model Miranda Rijnsburger (44) at Virgen del
           Carmen Church in Marbella, Spain

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This Day in History for 23rd August


Famous Divorces

2010 - Former Swedish model Elin Nordegren (30) divorces professional golfer Tiger Woods (34) after 6
           years of marriage

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This Day in History for 23rd August


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Actress Vera Miles (1930)                        Actress Barbara Eden (1934)                     Rocker Keith Moon (1946)

                                   
Actor River Phoenix (1970)                     NBA Guard Kobe Bryant (1978)


686 - Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne (d. 741)
1486 - Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat
1524 - Francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat (Anti-Tribonien)
1593 - Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Pianto d'Italia)
1623 - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (d. 1675)
1724 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
1727 - Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer
1740 - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia 1740-41)
1741 - Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)
1751 - Louis-Francois Beffara, lexicographer
1754 - Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France (1774-93) eventually guillotined
1769 - Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832)
1773 - Jakob F Fries, German philosopher
1783 - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
1805 - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893)
1809 - Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (Trip to H Land)
1814 - James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of
           Baltimore (d. 1877)
1818 - Rufus Ingalls, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1893
1829 - Moritz B Cantor, German math historian
1832 - Alexander Chambers, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1836 - Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of the Belgians (d. 1902)
1843 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (d. 1932)
1846 - Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)
1847 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
1849 - William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)
1852 - Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d. 1883)
1852 - Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia. (d. 1913)
1854 - Moritz Moszkowski, composer
1864 - Eleftherios K Venizalos, premier of Greece (1910-15, 28-32)
1867 - Marcel Schwob, Frans writer/journalist (Le Croisade des Enfants)
1869 - Edgar Lee Masters, poet/novelist (Spoon River Anthology)
1869 - James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, SF mayor (1912-31), MUNI backer
1875 - William Eccles, English radio pioneer (d. 1966)
1875 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist (d. 1946)
1879 - Alfreds Kalnins, composer
1880 - Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932)
1881 - Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist
1883 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (d. 1953)
1884 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
1884 - Ogden L. Mills, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1927-1932 (d. 1937)
1885 - Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist
1886 - Gottfried Rudinger, composer
1887 - Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor/playwright (Fatherland)
1889 - A Lichtenstein, writer
1893 - Roy Agnew, composer
1894 - Gareth Hughes, Llanelly Wales, actor (Midnight Girl)
1900 - Ernst Krenek, Vienna Austria, composer (Johnny Spielt Auf)
1900 - Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978)
1901 - Cecil Rolph Hewitt, journalist/policeman
1901 - John Sherman Cooper, (Sen-Ky)
1903 - Mauritius van Haegendoren, Flemish historian/senator
1903 - William Primrose, Glasgow Scot, violist (Method for Violin & Viola)
1905 - Leonard Constant Lambert, London England, composer (King Pest)
1908 - Arthur Adamov, Kislovodsk Russia, playwright (Paolo Paoli)
1908 - Ben Barnett, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (1938 England tour)
1908 - Cornelis van Dis, Dutch MP
1908 - Hannah Frank, Scottish Artist and Sculptor
1909 - Syd Buller, England First Class Cricketer and English test umpire (d. 1970)
1910 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
1911 - Albert Alberts, writer/journalist (French battle)
1911 - Birger Ruud, Norway, 90m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1932, 36)
1911 - Carl Dolmetsch, director (Haslemere Festival)
1911 - Elizabeth "Betty" Robinson, US 100m sprinter (Olympic-gold-1928)
1912 - Gene Kelly, Pitts, dancer/actor (An American in Paris, Going My Way)
1912 - Jara Ribnikar, writer
1912 - Lord Kissin, president (GPG)
1913 - Bob Crosby, Spokane Wa, Bing's brother, orchestra leader (Bob Crosby Show)
1913 - Luis-Felipe Ramon y Rivera, composer
1913 - Stanley Kitchen, British chartered accountant
1917 - Tex Williams, American singer (d. 1985)
1918 - Guus [August CM] Hermus, Dutch actor (Jantjes, Soldaat van Oranje)
1919 - James Quinn, film producer/actor (Joey, Hammett, Overlord)
1919 - Robert Crichton-Brown, CEO (Rothmans International)
1920 - Aart Verstegen, ballet dancers/choreographer (Jolly Joker's Last Joke)
1921 - Sam Cook, cricketer (England slow left-armer in only Test)
1921 - Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner
1922 - Brian Young, Chairman (Christian Aid)
1922 - Jack Boddy, British trade union leader
1922 - George Kell, baseball player
1922 - Jean Darling, American child actress
1922 - Pierre Gauvreau, Quebec painter, television writer and producer
1923 - Humphrey Fisher, TV producer
1923 - Kenneth Rickards, cricketer (WI batsman two Tests 104 runs)
1923 - Richard Adler, composer/songwriter (Damn Yankees, Pajama Game)
1923 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, Munich Ger, conductor (Vienna Symph 1960-70)
1923 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)
1924 - Denis Sargan, econometrician
1924 - Edvard Fliflet Braein, composer
1924 - Ephraim Kishon, writer
1924 - Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of President Suharto of Indonesia
1925 - Sulkhan Fyodorovich Tsintsadze, composer
1925 - Wlodzimierz Kotonski, composer
1926 - Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist, (d. 2006)
1927 - Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
1927 - Houari Boumedienne, president of Algeria (1965-78)
1927 - John Hoskyns, director-general (Institute of Directors)
1927 - Martial Solal, composer
1928 - Gerd Natschinski, composer
1928 - Marian Seldes, American actress
1929 - Peter Thompson, golfer
1930 - Andy Ireland, (Rep-R-FL, 1977- )
1930 - Jack Bannister, cricketer (Warwickshire stalwart)/commentator (BBC)
1930 - John Fairclough, British scientific adviser
1930 - Michel Rocard, Courbevoie France, Prime Minister of France
1930 - Vera Miles, [Ralston], Boise City ID, actress (Psycho)
1931 - Richard Vincent, British chief of Defense
1932 - Mark Russell, Buffalo NY, political satirist/pianist (Real People)
1932 - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (d. 1978)
1933 - Manfred Donike, chemist drug test pioneer
1933 - Pete Wilson, (Sen-R-CA, 1983-88/Gov-R-Ca 1991- )
1933 - Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1934 - Barbara Eden, [Huffman], Tucson Az, actress (Dream of Jeannie)
1934 - Christian "Sonny" Jurgensen, NFL QB (Eagles, Redskins)
1934 - Lojze Lebic, composer
1934 - Sonny Jurgensen, NFL quarterback (Wash Redskins)/sportscaster
1935 - Brendan Jackson, British air marshal
1935 - Loren Rush, composer
1935 - Roy Strong, writer/art historian/director (Victoria & Albert Museum)
1936 - Rudy Lewis, rocker (Drifters)
1936 - Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001)
1938 - Roger Greenaway, composer
1938 - Ronny Cox, actor/singer (Robocop, Dr John Gideon-St Elsewhere)
1939 - Charles Wardle, MP/under sect of state British home office
1939 - Ronald [Ronny] A Casseres, minister of Dutch Antilles
1940 - Lee Majors, Wyandotte, actor ($6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy)
1940 - Richard Sanders, Harrisburg Pa, actor (Les-WKRP, Spencer, Berrengers)
1940 - Tony Bill, SD Cal, actor (What Really Happened to the Class of '65)
1941 - Gloria Ehret, LPGA golfer
1942 - Nancy Richey Gunther, San Ant Tx, tennis player (US Doubles 1965, 66)
1942 - Patricia McBride, Teaneck, NJ, ballerina (NYC Ballet Co)
1943 - Bobby Diamond, Los Angeles California, actor (Duncan Gillis-Dobie Gillis)
1943 - Dale Campbell-Savours, MP (Lab)
1943 - Peter Lilley, MP/sect of state for British social security
1943 - Nelson DeMille, American novelist
1944 - Antonia Novello, 14th US Surgeon General (1990-92)
1944 - Lena Tabori, Stockholm Sweden, model/daughter of Viveca Lindfors
1945 - Rayfield Wright, American football player
1946 - Keith Moon, English rock drummer (Who-I'm A Boy)
1947 - Rex Allen Jr, Chicago, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1947 - Terje Rypdal, composer
1947 - Willy Russell, author/playwright (Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita)
1947 - David Robb, British actor
1948 - Ernst Jansz, Dutch keyboardist/singer (Doe Maar)
1948 - Ron Blomberg, 1st baseman (NY Yankees)/1st designated hitter
1948 - Andrei Pleşu, Romanian writer, essayist
1948 - Daniel Ruettiger "Rudy", University of Notre Dame football legend
1949 - Christopher Blake, actor (Alexa)
1949 - Geoff Capes, shot putter
1949 - John Bauldie, music journalist/dylanologist
1949 - Norah Ellen O'Neill, airline pilot (Flying Tigers)
1949 - Pieter J Biesheuvel, lawyer/Dutch MP (CDA)
1949 - Rick Springfield, Australia, (General Hospital, Jessie's Girl)
1949 - Shelley Long, Fort Wayne Indiana, actress (Diane-Cheers, Money Pit)
1949 - Woody Paul, [Paul Chrisman], Nashville, singer (Riders in the Sky)
1949 - Katiana Balanika, Greek actress and singer
1951 - Barbra Mizrahie, LPGA golfer
1951 - Jimi Jamison, rocker (Survivor)
1951 - Mark Hudson, Portland Ore, comedian (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)
1951 - Queen Noor, of Jordan
1951 - Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
1952 - Cathy St George, Norfolk Va, playmate (Aug, 1982)
1952 - Dalton Reed, singer
1952 - Mac Cone, Memphis Tenn, Canadian equestrian jumper (Olympics-96)
1952 - Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician
1953 - Bobby Gubby, rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
1953 - Klaus-Dietrich Flade, German FR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-14)
1956 - David A Wolf, Indianapolis Ind, MD/astronaut (STS 58, sk: 89/91)
1956 - Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991)
1956 - Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician
1956 - Skipp Sudduth, American actor
1957 - Tasos Mitropoulos, Greek footballer and politician
1958 - Julio Franco, Atlanta Braves, oldest regular position player in MLB history
1959 - George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player
1960 - Helen Rees, director (Design Museum)
1960 - Rodney Alan Greenblat, American graphic artist
1960 - Chris Potter, Canadian actor
1961 - Julio Franco, Sp de Macrois Dom Rep, infielder (Cleveland Indians)
1961 - Dean DeLeo, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots)
1962 - Glenn Healy, Pickering, NHL goalie (NY Rangers)
1962 - Kyle Clifton, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1962 - Martin Cauchon, Canadian politician
1963 - Blaine Schmidt, CFL offensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1963 - Richard Illingworth, cricketer (England slow-left-armer 1991- )
1964 - Cam Emerson, Hamilton Ont, Canadian golfer (1989 Canadian Long Drive)
1964 - Johan Bruyneel, Belgian cyclist
1964 - Kong Hee, Singaporean, Founder and Senior Pastor of the City Harvest movement in Asia
1964 - Yoshikazu Taru, Japanese professional wrestler
1965 - Anne Minter, Austratia, tennis star
1965 - Roger Avary, Canadian-born screenwriter, director, and producer
1966 - Laura Richmond, Fort Dix NJ, playmate (Sep, 1988)
1966 - Rhonda Cator, Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1966 - Rik Smits, NBA center (Indiana Pacers)
1967 - Karen Noble, Morristown NJ, LPGA golfer (1995 Dinah Shore-32nd)
1967 - Markus Ketterer, Helsinki FIN, hockey goalie (Team Finland)
1967 - Nancy Jane Cox, Campbellsville Kentucky, Miss Kentucky-America-1991
1968 - Christian Dean DiMarco, Huntington NY, PGA golfer (1994 Deposit-3rd)
1968 - Cortez Kennedy, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1968 - Scott Kowalkowski, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Amanda Hope, Austin Texas, playmate (Jul, 1992)
1969 - Clayton Holmes, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1969 - Keith Tyson, English artist
1969 - Jeremy Schaap, American sportswriter
1970 - Andrew Henry, CFL safety (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1970 - Fabian Wilnis, Dutch soccer player (NAC, De Graafschap)
1970 - LaMark Carter, Shreveport Louisiana, triple jumper
1970 - River Phoenix, Madras Oregon, actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me)
1970 - Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
1970 - Lawrence Frank, American head coach
1970 - Brad Mehldau, American pianist
1971 - Hugh Douglas, NFL defensive end (NY Jets)
1971 - Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer
1972 - Anthony Calvillo, CFL quarterback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - Sheldon Benoit, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1972 - Tony Carter, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1972 - Martin Grainger, English footballer
1972 - Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player
1973 - James Roe, wide receiver (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 - Jason Clemett, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1973 - Casey Blake, American baseball player
1973 - Malaika Arora Khan, Indian actress and model
1974 - Paula Gaye Montgomery, Cabot Ark, Miss America (Arkansas-3rd-1996)
1974 - Ray Park, Scottish actor
1974 - Shifty, American musician (Crazy Town)
1974 - Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner
1974 - Christian Beranek, American graphic novelist and actor
1975 - Joe Andruzzi, NFL guard (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1975 - Eliza Carthy, English singer and fiddler
1976 - Kate Sobrero, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1976 - Linette Smith, Miss Universe-British Virgin Islands (1996)
1976 - Scott Caan, American actor
1977 - Nicole Bobeck, Chic, figure skater (US Champ 1995)
1977 - Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer
1978 - Kobe Bryant, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1978 - Julian Casablancas, American musician
1979 - Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer
1979 - Ritchie Neville, British musician
1980 - Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player
1980 - Rex Grossman, American football player
1981 - Stephan Loboué, Ivorian footballer
1981 - Carlos Cuéllar, Spanish footballer
1981 - Ozzy Lusth, American Survivor contestant
1982 - Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
1982 - YTCracker, American musician
1982 - Scott Palguta, professional soccer player
1983 - Sun Ming Ming, Chinese basketball player
1984 - Glen Johnson, English footballer
1986 - Neil Cicierega, American cartoonist and musician
1986 - Josh Morris, Australian rugby league player for St. George Illawarra Dragons
1986 - Brett Morris, Australian rugby league player for St. George Illawarra Dragons
1987 - Nikki Gil, Filipina actress, host and singer
1988 - Daniel Schwaab, German footballer

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This Day in History for 23rd August


Famous Deaths

                 
Scottish Patriot                                                        Silent Film Star   
William Wallace (1305)                                 Rudolph Valentino (1926)


93 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)
634 - Aboe Bekr Abd Allah, [al-Siddik], friend/successor of Mohammed and Caliph, dies
1106 - Magnus, Duke of Saxony
1176 - Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)
1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled & beheaded at Smithfield London
1328 - Nicolaas Zannekin, leader of rebel Flemish farmers, dies in battle
1387 - King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)
1507 - Jean Molinet, Burgundy historian (Chroniques), dies at about 72
1519 - Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot
1540 - Guillaume Budé, French scholar
1591 - Luis de Leon, scholar/poet, dies
1618 - Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Moortje), dies at 33
1628 - George Viliers, 1st duke of Buckingham, assassinated by Felton at 36
1652 - John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
1668 - Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (Amsterdam townhall), dies
1706 - Colonel Edward Nott, Esq., British Crown Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
1723 - Antoine Mouque, composer, dies at 64
1723 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639)
1777 - Giuseppe Sellitto, composer, dies at 77
1802 - Corona Elizabeth Wilhelmine Schroter, composer, dies at 51
1806 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, Fren physicist (coulometrie), dies at 70
1813 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
1819 - Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday
1825 - Amos Bull, composer, dies at 81
1831 - August WA Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal, dies at 70
1839 - Charles Philippe Lafont, composer, dies at 57
1853 - Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (b. 1806)
1867 - Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
1878 - Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer, dies at 77
1892 - Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
1898 - Joseph Robinson, composer, dies at 82
1903 - Paul J C Gabriel, Dutch water colors painter/etcher, dies at 75
1914 - Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, executed by German troops at 3 weeks
1914 - George A Pogson, British consul in Puerto Rico, dies
1926 - Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), dies in NY at 31
1927 - Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass
1929 - Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
1933 - Adolph Loos, Austrian architect, dies at 62
1937 - Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel, composer, dies at 68
1939 - Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48
1941 - Jack O'Connor, cricketer (four Tests for Aust 1908-09, 13 wkts), dies
1943 - Johann P Zilcher, German composer, dies at 88
1944 - Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer, dies at 63
1955 - Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)
1956 - ... Kennedy, daughter of future Pres Kennedy, dies same day
1958 - Martin du Gard, writer, dies
1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies at 65
1962 - Hoot Gibson, silent screen cowboy actor (Last Outlaw), dies at 70
1962 - Irving Fine, composer (Toccata), dies at 47
1962 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885)
1963 - Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (b. 1900)
1965 - John Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer, dies at 67
1966 - Francis Xavier Bushman, actor (Ben-Hur), dies at 83
1967 - Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)
1970 - Nel Rose, dancer, dies at 55
1971 - Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer, dies at 58
1971 - Oliver F McGowan, actor (Banning, Stagecoach), dies at 64
1971 - The original Shamu, Sea World orca
1972 - Balis Dvarionas, composer, dies at 68
1974 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)
1975 - Hank Patterson, actor (Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 87
1977 - Sebastian Cabot, actor (Giles French-Family Affair), dies at 59
1979 - Mian Mohammad Saeed, cricketer (1st Pakistan capt 1948-49), dies
1979 - Richard Hearne, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower), dies at 70
1980 - Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77
1982 - Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies at 85
1982 - Stanford Moore, US biochemist (Nobel 1977), dies
1986 - Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis), dies at 80
1987 - Siegfried Borris, composer, dies at 80
1987 - Didier Pironi, French racing car driver (b. 1952)
1989 - Helen le Clerq, Dutch dancer, dies
1989 - R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry), dies of a heart attack at 61
1989 - Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black
1989 - Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (b. 1944)
1990 - David Rose, composer (Holiday for Strings, Stripper), dies at 80
1991 - Florence B Seibert, bio-chemist (TB), dies at 93
1992 - Malcolm Atterbury, actor (7 Days in May, Wild River), dies at 85
1992 - Virginia Sale-Wren, entertainer, dies of heart failure at 92
1992 - Wayne McLaren, Marlboro Man, dies of lung cancer at 51
1993 - Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys), dies at 80
1993 - Edwina Lewis, actress (Boy Who Cried Bitch), dies of heart attack 42
1993 - Victorine Hefting, historian/wife of Bert Baker, dies at 88
1994 - Henri Rousselot, admiral, dies at 82
1994 - Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70
1994 - Rabah Stambouli, Algerian sociologist/politician, murdered at 65
1994 - Richard Jock Kinneir, graphic designer, dies at 77
1995 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, photojournalist, dies at 96
1995 - Arthur Holt, politician, dies at 81
1995 - Dwayne Rudolph Goettel, musician, dies at 31
1995 - Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist, dies at 66
1995 - James Pilditch, designer, dies at 66
1995 - Johnny Carey, soccer star, dies at 76
1995 - Vincent Gordon Lindsay White, tycoon, dies at 72
1997 - Eric Gairy, first PM of Grenada (1974-79), dies at 75
1999 - Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b.1926)
1999 - James White, Northern Irish writer (b. 1928)
2000 - John Anthony Kaiser, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1932)
2001 - Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
2001 - Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
2002 - Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2003 - Jack Dyer, Australian rules footballer (b. 1913)
2003 - John Geoghan, American Catholic priest (b. 1935)
2003 - Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
2005 - Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)
2005 - Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (b. 1973)
2006 - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1928)
2007 - Robert Symonds, American actor (b. 1926)
2008 - John Russell, British-born American art critic and author
2012 - Steve Van Buren, American Hall of Fame NFL halfback, dies from pneumonia at 91
2012 - Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer, dies from prostate cancer and chronic obstructive
           pulmonary disease at 78

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Historical Events

                                   
English Philosopher                                  Naturalist Charles Darwin                     Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe
and Founder of Pennsylvania
William Penn

                                   
32nd US President                                   Baseball Player Ted Williams                 Baseball Player and Manager
Franklin D. Roosevelt                                                                                             Leo Durocher

 
Golfer Greg Norman


49 BC - Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the
            Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio
            commits suicide to avoid capture.
79 - Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die
410 - Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
1215 - Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid
1217 - Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France
1349 - 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz
1349 - Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1391 - Jews of Palma Majorca massacred
1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
1511 - Alfonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca.
1516 - Battle at Aleppo: Turks beat Syria
1542 - Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns to Spain
1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later
           spreads to the French provinces
1608 - 1st English convoy lands at Surat India
1654 - Louis II Condé disbands ends of Atrecht
1658 - Battle at Grevelingen: English fleet beats Spanish
1662 - Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer
1682 - Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1690 - Job Charnock founds Calcutta India
1704 - Sea battle at Malaga
1751 - Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
1787 - Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526
1814 - British forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks
1816 - The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
1820 - Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth
           Century.
1826 - Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens
1828 - Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea
1831 - John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle
1833 - HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina
1847 - Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre"
1853 - 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs NY)
1854 - National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
1857 - The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.
1858 - Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
1869 - Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron
1870 - The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
1876 - Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed
1891 - Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
1893 - Tornado destroys coast of Savannah & Charleston, about 1000 die
1904 - 24th US Mens Tennis: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (108 64 97)
1904 - Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
1905 - Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings
1906 - Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1908 - NY Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at
           Madison Square Garden
1909 - Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
1911 - Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal
1912 - NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US olympians
1912 - District Alaska becomes an organized incorporated territory of the United States
1912 - US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition government
1914 - Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops
1914 - German troops occupy Namur Belgium
1914 - Jerome Kern & Michael E Rourles musical premieres in NYC
1918 - Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
1918 - Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players
1919 - Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning
1921 - Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey & Greece
1921 - British airship R-38 crashes in Humber, 44 die
1922 - 1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams)
1923 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2)
1925 - 39th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats K McKane (36 60 62)
1929 - 43rd US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (64 62)
1929 - Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
1929 - Turkey & Persia signs friendship treaty
1931 - France & USSR sign neutrality/no attack treaty
1932 - 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
1936 - Australian Antarctic Territory created
1936 - FDR gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists & communists
1937 - Republican offensive near Belchite Spain
1937 - In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie
           following the Santoña Agreement.
1938 - England beat Australia by an innings & 579 runs at The Oval
1938 - Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia
           in an Alabama-Florida League game
1939 - Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs London
1940 - Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams pitches the last 2 innings in a 12-1 loss to Detroit Tigers,
           Williams allows 3 hits & 1 run
1942 - Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands
1942 - Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - Phila A's drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game
1944 - Gen LeClercs troops open assault on Paris
1945 - Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy & strike out 12
1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect
1950 - 1st US Negro delegate to UN appointed-ES Sampson
1950 - Edith Sampson named 1st black US delegate to UN
1950 - Operation Magic Carpet concludes transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews
1951 - Bill Veeck's "Fans Managers' Night," Browns defeat A's 5-3; Browns coaches hold up placards
           for fans to vote on
1954 - Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism
1954 - Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party
1954 - International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China
1954 - William Heatherton's "Reluctant Debutante," premieres in London
1956 - 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
1957 - British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea
1958 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1958 - Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0) (WR)
1959 - England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India
1959 - Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st
           Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
1960 - -127°F (-88°C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
1960 - 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
1961 - Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms
1961 - Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe
           fits...)
1962 - Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in
           the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
1963 - John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17'
1964 - 2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 6-4
1966 - USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
1967 - Liberian flag designed
1968 - France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament
1969 - Peru nationalizes US oil interests
1970 - Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
1971 - India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms
1972 - 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 2-1
1972 - Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 v Australia
1972 - Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame
1973 - Garry Sobers scores 26th & last Test Cricket ton 150 v Eng Lord's
1973 - John Adams & his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleve Stadium
1974 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1975 - Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing
1975 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1975 - Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
1975 - SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0
1975 - Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup
1976 - Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 - Cars play concert in NY Central Park
1979 - NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
1979 - UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
1980 - Beth Daniel wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
1980 - Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch
1981 - American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
1981 - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder
1982 - KC's John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record
1983 - Cin Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745
1984 - Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver
1985 - STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
1986 - Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1987 - Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1989 - British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
1989 - Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
1989 - Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
1990 - 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
1990 - Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
1991 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1991 - Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
1991 - Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway
1991 - Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0
1991 - Ukraine declares independence from USSR
1992 - 1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1992 - Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings
1992 - Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
1992 - Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint
1992 - Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
1993 - Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
1993 - Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
1994 - Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66)
1994 - Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)
1994 - Israel & PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education,
           health, taxation, social welfare & tourism
1995 - Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island
1995 - Windows 95 debuts
1997 - 97th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel
1997 - Colleen Wakjer wins Star Bank LPGA Classic
1997 - Gordon Spence discovers 2^2976221 - 1 (36th known Mersenne prime)
1997 - Greg Norman wins World Series of Golf shooting 273
1997 - Mark Calcavecchia wins Greater Vancouver Golf Open shooting 265
1997 - Saint Luke's Senior Golf Classic
1998 - The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988
           Pan Am bombing.
1998 - First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
2000 - Argon fluorohydride, the first Argon compound ever known, is discovered at the University of
           Helsinki by Finnish scientists.
2001 - Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from
           Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.
2004 - 89 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International
           Airport, near Moscow. The explosions were caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female)
           from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
2006 - The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is
           considered a Dwarf Planet.
2012 - Monsoon rains and floods kill 26 people in Pakistan
2012 - Yangmingtan Bridge collapses in China killing three people
2012 - Both Apple and Samsung are found guilty of patent infringement in a South Korean court
2012 - A US jury in California finds that Samsung is guilty of patent infringement and awards over
           US$1 billion in damages to Apple

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Famous Weddings

1561 - Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon
1996 - Actress-model Vendela (30) weds Norwegian politician Olaf Thommessen (30) in Stockholm,
           Sweden
2002 - Journalist Bryant Gumbel weds model Hilary Quinlan at Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida

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Famous Divorces

2009 - American actor Eddie Cibrian (36) divorces TV personality Brandi Glanville (35) due to
           irreconcilable differences

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Writer                                                             Palestinian Leader                     Deaf Actress Marlee Matlin (1965)
Jorge Luis Borges (1899)                              Yasser Arafat (1933)


Actor Rupert Grint (1988)


1113 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, France, conquered Normandy (d. 1151)
1198 - King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
1210 - Floris IV, Count of Holland
1358 - King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
1393 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)
1420 - Albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt)
1531 - Ercole Bottrigari, composer
1552 - Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
1579 - John Amner, composer
1580 - John Taylor, English poet (d. 1654)
1591 - Robert Herrick, England, poet (Gather ye rosebuds) (baptized)
1635 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
1669 - Alessandro Marcello, composer
1683 - Meinrad Spiess, composer
1694 - Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25]
1707 - Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Evangelical Revivalist (d. 1791)
1712 - Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer
1725 - Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer
1733 - David Traugott Nicolai, composer
1750 - Letizia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1836)
1758 - Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1794)
1759 - William Wilberforce, British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the
           slave trade
1772 - William I Frederick, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and King of the Netherlands (1814-40)
1787 - James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)
1808 - Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1808 - Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1816 - Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables
1817 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian poet, writer and playwright (d. 1875)
1820 - Jacopo Tomadini, composer
1821 - Emmanuele Muzio, composer
1827 - Walter Husted Stevens, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
1828 - George Hume "Maryland" Steuart, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1837 - Theodore Dubois, composer
1839 - Eduard Napravnik, composer
1842 - Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market)
1845 - James C. Calhoun, American soldier, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876)
1851 - Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer (d. 1924)
1852 - Deacon White, American baseball player (d. 1919)
1854 - Nikolay Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer
1856 - Felix Mottl, composer
1863 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (d. 1918)
1865 - Ferdinand I VAM, king of Romania
1872 - Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review)
1879 - Rentaro Taki, composer
1880 - Miles W L Killearn of Killearn, Scotish baron/diplomat
1886 - William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty ships
1887 - Harry Hooper, American baseball player (d. 1974)
1889 - Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congo prophet
1890 - Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaii, swimmer (Olympics-3 gold/2 silver-12, 20, 24)
1890 - Franz Philipp, composer
1890 - Jean Rhys, British writer (d. 1979)
1891 - Alexander Mikhaylovich Dzegelyonok, composer
1891 - Germaine Loosveldt, Flemish actress (Kniertje in On hope)
1894 - Jean Rhys, [Ella Williams], Dominica, writer (Voyage in the Dark)
1895 - Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (d. 1970)
1896 - Phil Baker, Phila, comedian (Who's Whose)
1897 - Fred Rose, American songwriter and publishing executive (d. 1954)
1898 - Albert Claude, Belgium, biologist/physician (Nobel 1974)
1898 - Malcolm Cowley, Belsano Penn, author (Flowering of New England)
1898 - Marie J Hugenholtz, [Doctor Grandi], surgeon on Curacao
1899 - Johan J Fabricius, Dutch novelist (Island of Demons)
1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, writer of fiction, essays (Labyrinths)
1899 - Ruth Schaumann, German painter/writer (Rose, Black King)
1900 - Preston Foster, Ocean City NJ, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger)
1902 - Fernand Braudel, French historian (Civililization & Capitalism)
1902 - Carlo Gambino, Sicilian-born American mafioso (d. 1976)
1903 - Karl Hanke, Nazi official (d. 1945)
1904 - Rod Redwing, NY, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory)
1905 - Donald Douglas, Scotland, actor (I Love You Again)
1905 - Arthur Crudup, American singer and guitarist (d. 1974)
1905 - Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
1909 - Ronnie Grieveson, South African cricket keeper/batsman (2 Tests v Eng 1939)
1910 - Bernhard Heiden, composer
1911 - Karl AF Schiller, West German economist/SPD-minister
1912 - Durward Kirby, Indianapolis Ind, TV announcer (Garry Moore Show)
1913 - Dorothy Comingore, [Linda Winters], LA CA, actress (Citizen Kane)
1915 - Alice B[radley] Sheldon, US, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful)
1915 - Wynonie Harris, rocker
1915 - James Tiptree, Jr., American writer (d. 1987)
1915 - Ronald Ibbs, Irish actor (No Hiding Place, The Saint) (d. 1990)
1916 - Anita V Figueredo, physician/humanitarian
1916 - Peter Crichton Kirkpatrick, oarsman
1916 - Léo Ferré, French composer and singer (d. 1993)
1916 - Hal Smith, American actor (d. 1994)
1917 - Dennis James, Jersey City NJ, wrestling announcer/TV host (PDQ)
1918 - Ray McIntire, chemical engineer
1918 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (d. 2004)
1919 - "Drs P" [Heinz H Polzer], Swiss/Dutch songwriter/singer
1919 - Nils Viggo Bentzon, composer
1919 - Enrique Llanes, Mexican professional wrestler (d. 2004)
1921 - Sam Tingle, Zimbabwean racing driver
1922 - René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (d. 1987)
1922 - Howard Zinn, American historian and activist
1923 - Helena Carter, [Helen Rickerts], US model/actress (River Lady)
1923 - Arthur Jensen, American psychologist, (d. 2012)
1924 - Louis Teicher, pianist (Ferante & Teicher-Exodus)
1926 - Nancy Spero, Cleveland USA, American feminist artist
1927 - Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist
1927 - William V Shannon, journalist/ambassador to Ireland (1977-81)
1927 - David Ireland, Australian author
1927 - Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
1929 - William Winfield, rocker (Harptones)
1932 - Richard Graham Meale, composer
1932 - Robert D. Hales, LDS apostle
1933 - Yasser Arafat, Paris France, PLO-leader (Achille Lauro, Nobel 1994)
1934 - Kenny Baker, actor (R2D2-Star Wars)
1934 - Roger Donald Dickerson, composer
1936 - William J Coyne, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania, 1981- )
1936 - A. S. Byatt, English novelist
1936 - Kenny Guinn, American Governor, Nevada
1937 - Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian politician (d. 1998)
1938 - David Freiberg, Boston MA, rock bassist (Quicksilver Messenger)
1938 - Mason Williams, Abilene Tx, writer (Smother Brothers Hour)
1938 - Halldór Blöndal, Icelandic politician
1940 - Don Cormier Sr, horse trainer
1940 - Tony Secunda, rock band manager
1940 - Francine Lalonde, Quebec politician
1941 - Ernest Wright Jr, US rock vocalist (Imperials-So Much)
1942 - Joe Chambers, Los Angeles California, rock guitarist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
1942 - Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck, mathemetician/educator
1942 - Max Cleland, American politician
1942 - Howard Jacobson, British novelist and newspaper columnist
1943 - John Cipollina, SF Cal, rock guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1943 - Pini Zahavi, Israeli football agent
1944 - Gregory Bruce Jarvis, Detroit Mich, astronaut (STS 25)
1944 - Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
1944 - Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler
1945 - Ken Hensley, rock keyboardist (Blackfoot, Uriah Heep)
1945 - Malcolm "Mollie" Duncan, Scotland, saxophonist (Average White Band)
1945 - Vince McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter
1946 - Richard "Dick" N Richards, Key West, USN/astr (STS 28, 41, 50, 64)
1947 - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
1947 - Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
1947 - Vladimir Masorin, Russian admiral
1948 - Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
1948 - Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of Republic of Korea Air Force
1949 - Anna Lee Fisher, St Albans NY, MD/astronaut (STS 51-A)
1949 - Joe Regalbuto, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Knots Landing, Frank-Murphy Brown)
1949 - Stephen Harrison Paulus, composer
1949 - Charles Rocket, American actor (d. 2005)
1950 - Frank Murray, Australian field hockey national coach (Oly-sil-92, 96)
1950 - Tim White, American anthropologist
1951 - Jimmy Farrar, Jacksonville Fl, rock vocalist (Molly Hatchet)
1951 - Orson Scott Card, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Ender's War)
1951 - Oscar Hijuelos, American author
1952 - Bob Corker, American politician
1952 - Mike Shanahan, American football coach
1953 - Ron Holloway, American tenor saxophonist
1954 - Alain Daigle, French Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Jeffrey Daniel, LA CA, rock vocalist (Shalamar)
1955 - Mike Huckabee, American politician, Governor/Presidential candidate
1956 - Gerry Cooney, heavyweight boxer (US Olympics team 1980)
1956 - John Culberson, American politician
1957 - Jeffrey Daniel, American dancer and singer (Shalamar)
1957 - Stephen Fry, English comedian and actor
1958 - Steve Guttenberg, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Police Academy, Short Circuit)
1958 - Tracy Harris, American artist
1958 - Chris Offutt, American author
1959 - Adrian Kuiper, cricketer (South African all-rounder)
1959 - Michel Valke, Dutch soccer player (Sparta, Dordrecht '90)
1960 - Cal Ripken, Havre de Grace Maryland, shortstop (Balt Orioles, game streak)
1960 - David Guillory, jockey
1960 - Franz Vienboeck, Austria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13)
1960 - Kris Monaghan, Spokane WA, golfer (1990 Red Robin Kyocera Inamori)
1960 - Steven W Lindsey, Arcadia California, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 87, sk:95)
1960 - Kim Christofte, Danish footballer
1960 - Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker
1961 - Colin Angus, Scottish pop musician (Shamen, Ebeneezer Goode)
1961 - Mark "Bedders" Bedfored, London, rock bassist (Madness)
1961 - Ingrid Berghmans, Belgian judoka
1961 - Jared Harris, English actor
1962 - Mary Ellen Weber, Cleveland Ohio, PhD/astronaut (STS 70)
1962 - David Koechner, American actor
1963 - John Bush, US heavy metal singer (Anthrax-Armed & Dangerous)
1963 - Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game director
1964 - Pebbles, rock vocalist (Girlfriend)
1964 - Salizhan Sharkirovich Sharipov, Kirhizia, astronaut (STS-89)
1964 - Dana Gould, American comedian and writer
1965 - Casey Lambert, jockey
1965 - Marlee Matlin, Morton Grove Illinois, deaf actress (Children of Lesser God-Acad Award)
1965 - Reggie Miller, Riverside California, NBA guard (Ind Pacers, Oly-gold-96)
1965 - Vince Alcalde, WLAF offensive assistant (Scottish Claymores)
1967 - Michael Thomas, English footballer
1968 - Andreas Kisser, Brazilian heavy metal guitarist (Sepultura)
1968 - Arnold Galesloot, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 - Benoit Brunet, Pointe Claire, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1968 - Tim Salmon, Long Beach CA, outfielder (California Angels)
1968 - Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Sandra Whyte, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1970 - Tugay Kerimoğlu, Turkish footballer
1970 - Dan Henderson, American Mixed martial artist
1971 - Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor
1972 - Chris Right, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 - Christian Ruud, Oslo Norway, tennis star (1989 Norwegian)
1972 - Ian Moran, Cleveland Ohio, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994, Pitts)
1972 - Kurt Miller, Tucson AZ, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1972 - Lee DeRamus, (NO Saints)
1973 - Andrew Brunette, Sudbury, NHL left wing (Washington Capitals)
1973 - Barret Oliver, actor (Never Ending Story, Secret Garden)
1973 - Dave Chappelle, American actor and Comedian
1973 - Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
1973 - Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor
1974 - Archie Amerson, CFL running back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1974 - Tony McCombs, linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Orla Fallon, Irish Vocalist for Celtic Woman
1975 - Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
1976 - Bjorn van der Doelen, Dutch soccer player (PSV)
1976 - Nordin Wooter, Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1977 - Per Gade, Danish footballer
1977 - Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer
1977 - Denílson, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Robert Enke, German footballer
1977 - John Green, American author/Nerdfighter
1978 - Melissa McElroy, Houston Texas, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1978 - Rafael Furcal, Dominican baseball player
1979 - Orlando Engelaar, Dutch International Footballer
1979 - Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer
1979 - Michael Redd, American basketball player
1980 - Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress
1981 - Jiro Wang Dong Cheng, Taiwanese singer, actor
1981 - Chad Michael Murray, American actor
1981 - Mercedes Scelba - Shorte, American model
1982 - Kim Kallstrom, Swedish footballer
1983 - Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player
1983 - Christopher Parker, British actor
1984 - Kyle Schmid, Canadian actor
1985 - Destiny Davis, American model and Playboy Playmate
1986 - Nick Adenhart, American baseball player
1987 - Anže Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player
1987 - Jon Scheyer, American basketball player
1988 - Rupert Grint, Hertfordshire England, English actor ( Harry Potter)
1995 - Runa Tsukishima, Japanese child model
2003 - Alexandre Coste, son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 24th August


Famous Deaths

                 
President and Dictator of Brazil            Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (1967)
Getulio Vargas (1954)


1103 - Magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies
1217 - Eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle
1313 - Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies
1371 - Eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated
1540 - Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)
1542 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)
1572 - Gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral and Huguenot leader, beheaded
1572 - Death of thousands of French Protestants by Roman Catholics in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, beginning in Paris
1572 - Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515)
1572 - Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier (bc. 1535)
1595 - Thomas Digges, English astronomer (Universe Infinite), dies
1647 - Nicholas Stone "Elder", English sculptor/architect, dies at about 61
1664 - Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (bc. 1610)
1666 - Francisco M the Melo, Portuguese author (Obras Morales), dies at 57
1679 - Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614)
1680 - Ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried
1680 - Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618)
1683 - John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
1712 - Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54
1724 - Andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75
1759 - Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44
1770 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies
1779 - Saint Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714)
1798 - Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709)
1801 - Jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68
1832 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
1833 - Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist, dies at 65
1840 - Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer, dies at 89
1841 - Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer, dies at 36
1841 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788)
1888 - Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics), dies
1889 - Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies
1895 - John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director, dies at 74
1906 - Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter, dies
1907 - Pieter Louis Tak, writer (Chronicle), dies at 58
1921 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
1923 - Kate Douglas Wiggin, author (US kindergarten movement), dies at 66
1939 - W H Moule, cricketer (Australia v England 1880)/High Court judge, dies
1940 - Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80
1943 - Ernst Ottwalt, writer, dies
1943 - Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist (b. 1909)
1950 - Ernst Wiechert, writer, dies at 63
1954 - Getulio D Vargas, President and dictator of Brazil: 1930-45, 51-54, suicide at 71
1956 - Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (b. 1898)
1957 - Albert Edward Sammons, composer, dies at 71
1958 - John G Strijdom, premier of South Africa (1954-58), dies at 65
1958 - Kenneth Leighton, composer, dies at 28
1958 - Leo Blech, composer, dies at 87
1958 - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (b. 1876)
1962 - Henry George Ley, composer, dies at 74
1964 - Maurice Schoemaker, composer, dies at 73
1967 - Amanda Randolph, actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
1967 - Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), dies at 85
1968 - Cyril Vincent, cricketer (84 wkts slow lefty for S Af 1927-35), dies
1972 - Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 59
1973 - Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family), dies at 76
1973 - Slava Vorlova, composer, dies at 79
1974 - Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (b. 1894)
1975 - Charles H Revson, US cosmetic magnate, dies at 69
1976 - Michael Dewar Head, composer, dies at 76
1977 - Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
1978 - Louis Prima, American singer, dies at 67
1979 - Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (b. 1912)
1979 - Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk and wonder-worker (b. 1898)
1980 - Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927)
1982 - Jack Siedle, cricketer (batted in 18 Tests for South Africa), dies
1983 - Jack Somack, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show), dies at 64
1983 - Shawn Lewis, 5th wife of Jerry Lee Lewis, dies of methadone OD
1985 - Paul Creston [Giuseppe/Joseph Guttoveggio], US composer, dies at 78
1987 - Bayard Rustin, US civil rights activist, dies at 77
1987 - Malcolm Kirk, English wrestler (b. 1936)
1988 - Leonard Frey, actor (Tattoo, Magic Christian), dies of AIDS at 49
1988 - Max Shulman, author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69
1990 - Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (b. 1941)
1990 - Gailli AbedElrhman, Sudanese writer (b. 1931)
1991 - Abel Kivlat, US 1500m runner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies at 99
1991 - Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Neth/Indon writer (Camp Diary), dies at 86
1991 - Bernard Castro, patented convertible couch, dies at 87
1991 - Mike Sokoll, cowboy actor, dies at 97
1992 - Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader/jurist (Constitution), dies at 74
1992 - Larrie Londin, jazz drummer, dies at 48
1993 - Professor D B Deodhar, cricketer (Ind non-Test bat o 30s), dies at 101
1994 - Jason McRoy, downhill MTB racer, dies at 23
1994 - Wijnanda MC "Nan" Aberson, friend of Gerard Van de Reve Sr, dies at 82
1995 - Erich Geiringer, general Practitioner campaigner, dies at 78
1995 - Gary Crosby, singer/actor (Operation Bikini, Mardi Gras), dies at 61
1996 - Ahmed Bahauddin, journalist, dies at 69
1996 - Emile Noel, international civil servant, dies at 73
1996 - John Christopherson, artist/collector, dies at 75
1996 - Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss, journalist/travel writer, dies at 42
1997 - Phillip Humphrey Vellacott, classicist, dies at 90
1998 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
1999 - Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (b. 1929)
2001 - Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
2002 - Nikolay Guryanov Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (b. 1909)
2003 - Sir Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer (b. 1910)
2004 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
2005 - Kaleth Morales, Colombian Vallenato singer (b. 1984)
2006 - Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (b. 1916)
2006 - Cristian Nemescu, Romanian film director (b.1979)
2007 - Andrée P. Boucher, Mayor of Quebec City (b. 1937)
2007 - Aaron Russo, American film producer and director (b.1943)
2010 - Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director (b. 1963)
2011 - Mike Flanagan, American baseball pitcher (b. 1951)
2012 - Pauli Ellefsen, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands, dies at 76

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th August


Historical Events

                                   
Captain/Explorer James Cook                 Russian Tsar Peter the Great                    Middle/welterweight
                                                                                                                             championship boxer
                                                                                                                              Sugar Ray Robinson

                                   
Pop Star & Beatle                                              Singer Elton John                              Pop Star Madonna
Paul McCartney


Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper
Carl Lewis


325 - Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy
         Trinity
357 - Battle at Straatsburg: Julianus beats Alamannen, Chonodomarius caught
1212 - Children's cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa
1248 - The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the
           Archbishop of Utrecht.
1330 - AntiPope Nicolaas V overthrows himself
1425 - Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail
1485 - Battle at Bosworth Fields: Henry Tudor beats king Richard III
1499 - Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians
1537 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the
           second most senior, is formed.
1540 - Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River
1566 - Iconoclastic fury begins in Dutch province Utrecht
1580 - Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal
1609 - Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers
1628 - Assault on sultan of Mantarams of Batavia
1689 - Battle at Charleroi: Spanish & English armies chase French
1689 - Montreal taken by Iroquois
1698 - Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe
1704 - Battle at Malaga: French vs English & Dutch fleet
1718 - Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found
1768 - Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England on his 1st voyage onboard the
           Endeavour bound for the Pacific Ocean
1795 - Curacao slaves opponents returns to St Christopher
1802 - Toussaint L'Ouverture imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France
1804 - Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England)
1814 - British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books
1825 - Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
1829 - Pres Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses
1830 - Belgium revolts against Netherlands and begins The Belgian Revolution
1835 - NY Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel
1862 - Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
1864 - Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda
1864 - Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station
1875 - Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel (21h 45m)
1886 - 1st intl polo meet (US vs England)
1888 - 8th US Mens Tennis: Henry W Slocum Jr beats Howard A Taylor (64 61 60)
1890 - Would be start of Eng/Aust Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout
1894 - -26] Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed
1894 - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his
           findings in The Lancet.
1898 - 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Greece.
1904 - James J Jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1908 - Allen Winter wins US 1st $50,000 trotting race
1908 - National Association of Colored Nurses, forms
1910 - 30th US Mens Tennis: Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (61 57 60 68 61)
1910 - Yellow Cab is founded.
1912 - 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin
1912 - Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia
1912 - The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
1914 - -26] Belgian offensive at Antwerp
1914 - Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven Belgium
1914 - German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp Belgium, 10 die
1914 - German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan
1915 - Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
1916 - Dept of Interior forms National Park Service
1917 - 37th US Mens Tennis: R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (57 86 63 63)
1919 - 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
1920 - 1st US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey)
1920 - Russia suffers a decisive defeat in the battle of Warsaw against Poland
1921 - US signs peace treaty with Germany
1921 - Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record
1921 - The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
1922 - Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game
1924 - International maritime treaty drawn
1924 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn
1925 - Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY)
1925 - Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg
1926 - Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece
1928 - Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina & Winnipeg
1929 - Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
1932 - Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
1936 - 3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each
1937 - Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast
1940 - 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
1940 - Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union
1941 - English & Russian troops attack pro-German Iran
1941 - German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad
1942 - SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht Neth
1943 - 10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471)
1943 - German occupiers impose 72-hour work week
1943 - Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia
1943 - Red Army under Gen Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka
1943 - US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II
1944 - France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame
1944 - Gen De Gaulle returns to Paris/walks Champs Elysees Paris
1944 - Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday)
1944 - US 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes
1945 - Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine
1946 - 28th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Portland GC Portland Ore
1947 - Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 kph
1948 - Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's
1950 - Pres Harry Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike
1950 - Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title
1951 - Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game
1952 - Det Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0
1952 - Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
1954 - Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon (2:25:26.6) (260m)
1955 - Last Soviet forces leave Austria
1956 - To make room for Enos Slaughter, NY Yanks release Phil Rizzuto
1957 - Prince Suvanna Phuma forms government in LAOS, with Pathet Lao
1960 - 17th summer olympics opens in Rome
1960 - AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies
1960 - Demonstrations against premier Lumumba
1961 - Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ogden Ladies' Golf Open
1963 - Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds & given a 1 yr suspended license for speeding
1964 - Singapore limits imports from Neth due to Indonesian aggression
1967 - Beatles go to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1967 - Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1
1967 - Paraguay accepts its constitution
1967 - Train crash at Beesd, 2 die
1968 - Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win US singles championship
1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf
1968 - NY Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings & beats Tigers 6-5; he played right
           field in 2nd game & homered
1969 - Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo)
1970 - Elton John's 1st US appearance (Los Angeles)
1973 - Butch Trucks drummer of Allman Brothers, breaks leg in a car crash
1973 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 - Guitarist Henry McCullough quits Wings
1973 - Zambia adopts constitution
1974 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1974 - LA Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup
1976 - Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion
1976 - Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
1978 - Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike
1979 - "Madwoman of Central Park West" closes at 22 Steps NYC after 86 perfs
1979 - California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2
1979 - Somali adopts constitution
1980 - "42nd Street" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 3486 performances
1980 - Gower Champion's musical "42nd Street," premieres in NYC
1980 - Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs
1981 - Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09)
1981 - Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)
1983 - Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark
1983 - US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact
1984 - French airship capsizes
1984 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1985 - Met Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
1985 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1985 - STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
1986 - A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run
1987 - Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42
1987 - Madonna sings in Rotterdam
1988 - Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
1988 - Heavy fire destroys historic center of Lisbon
1988 - Iran & Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war
1988 - NASA launches space vehicle S-214
1989 - After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune & its moon
           Triton, sending back photographs of swamps
1989 - Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
1990 - Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8½")
1990 - UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq
1991 - "Getting Married" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 70 perfs
1991 - 43rd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Kirstie Alley & Patricia Wettig
1991 - 91st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mitch Voges
1991 - Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds
1991 - Cubs Doug Dascenzo commits his 1st career error after 242 games
1991 - Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.62)
1991 - Martha Nause wins LPGA Chicago Sun-Times Shoot-Out Golf Tournament
1991 - Norway & Denmark recognize independence of former USSR Baltic reps
1991 - Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53)
1991 - White-Russia declares it's independence
1991 - Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new
           operating system.
1992 - Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA
1995 - Andrew Symonds scores 254 Gloucs v Glam, world record 16 x 6
1995 - Indians' Jose Mesa fails in save attempt after 38th consecutive saves
1996 - 96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1996 - Laura Davies wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
1997 - Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
2003 - The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the
           Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
2012 - 330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war
2012 - 39 people are killed and 80 are injured after a gas leak in North Venezuelan refinery
2012 - 85,000 people are displaced by severe floods in Myanmar

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th August


Famous Weddings

1870 - German composer Richard Wagner (57) weds Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima Liszt (32) at a
           Protestant church in Lucerne, Switzerland
1885 - "Little House On The Prairie" author Laura Ingalls Wilder (18) weds Almonzo James Wilder
           (28)
1940 - 1st parachute wedding
1955 - "Dracula" actor Bela Lugosi (72) weds Hope Lininger (36)
1968 - "The Outlaw" actress Jane Russell (47) weds actor Roger Barrett (47) at the Community
           Presbyterian Church in Beverly Hills, California
2000 - "Star Trek: The Next Generation" actor Patrick Stewart (60) weds film producer Wendy Neuss
           (39) in Los Angeles
2001 - Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, eldest son of King Harald V & heir married commoner Mette-
           Marit Tjessem H
2002 - "Baywatch" actress Yasmine Bleeth (34) weds strip club owner Paul Cerrito at Bacara Resort
           and Spa in Santa Barbara, California
2007 - Dallas Stars hockey player Mike Modano (37) weds "Dancing with the Stars" season 3 alumna
           Willa Ford (26) in Athens, Texas

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th August


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Russian Tsar                                      Jazz Musician Oscar Peterson (1925)               Actor Sean Connery (1930)
 Ivan the Terrible (1530)


Film Director Tim Burton (1958)


1530 - Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], 1st tsar of Russia (1533-84)
1561 - Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (d. 1632)
1624 - François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (d. 1709)
1662 - John Leverett the Younger, American educator (d. 1724)
1664 - Johan van de Bergh, Leids regent
1718 - Johann Jacob Rowalt, composer
1724 - George Stubbs, England, animal painter (Horse Frightened by Lion)
1741 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian (d. 1792)
1744 - Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet
1758 - Franz Teyber, composer
1767 - Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
1775 - Charlotte J T, infant of Portugal (Court in Rio de Janeiro)
1786 - [Charles] Louis I, (Augustus), King of Bavaria (Lola Montez)
1788 - Cornelis J van Assen, Dutch jurist (Language of the Constitution)
1796 - James Lick, American land baron (d. 1876)
1803 - Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, the Duque de Caxias, Brazilian military leader
1811 - Joseph Dana Webster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1812 - Percival Drayton, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1865
1819 - Allan Pinkerton, founded Chicago detective agency
1823 - John Newton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1825 - Henry Warner Birge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1836 - Bret Harte, US, author (Outcasts of Poker Flat)
1841 - Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist (Nobel 1909)
1845 - Ludwig II, mad king of Bavaria (1864-86)
1846 - Louise J Gautier, French poetess
1851 - [Willem] Alexander KHF, prince of Orange/Netherlands
1860 - George Fawcett, US actor (Intolerance)
1867 - James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (d. 1951)
1868 - Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter
1877 - Joshua L Cowen, inventor (electric train)
1880 - Robert E Stolz, Austrian composer/conductor (...smaller guard)
1882 - Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician (d. 1966)
1887 - Olav Fartein Valen, composer
1891 - Alberto Savinio, [Andrea de Chirico], Italian writer/composer
1891 - Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer
1891 - Samuel Gardner, composer
1893 - Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (d. 1962)
1896 - Dick Ryan, CT, actor (For Heaven's Sake, Born to be Bad)
1897 - Jaroslav Ridky, composer
1898 - Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
1898 - Arthur Wood, England cricketer (d. 1973)
1900 - Mary Bruce, dance Teacher
1901 - Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director (Tivoli)
1902 - Stefan Wolpe, Berlin Germany, composer (Zeus & Elidco)
1903 - Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian/US psycho-analyst (Uses of Enchantment)
1903 - Arpad Elo, American chess writer (d. 1992)
1905 - Undine Smith Moore, composer
1905 - Faustina Kowalska, Polish mystic (d. 1938)
1906 - Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician (CDU)
1906 - Mollie Panter-Downes, writer
1906 - William J Brennan, Newark, supreme court justice (1957-90) [or 4/25]
1906 - Jim Smith, England cricketer (d. 1979)
1907 - Desmond Flower, publisher
1908 - Esther Waterhouse, doctor/methodist
1908 - Philip Coolidge, Concord MA, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler)
1909 - Arwel Hughes, composer
1909 - Michael Rennie, England, actor (Robe, Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still)
1910 - Ruby Keeler, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer (Dames, 42nd
           Street)
1910 - J B Charles, [Willem H Nagel], criminologist/writer
1910 - Pierre Musy, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1936)
1910 - Dorothea Tanning, Galesburg, Illinios, artist (Nachtmusik,1943, Night Shadow, 1945), (d.
           2012)
1911 - Jacopo Napoli, composer
1911 - Vo Nguyen Giap (Võ Nguyên Giáp), Vietnamese general and statesman
1912 - Erich Honecker, Germany, Pres (East Germany)
1913 - Walt Kelly, cartoonist, creator (Pogo)
1913 - Don DeFore, American actor (d. 1993)
1914 - Alexei Haieff, Blagovestchensk Siberia, composer (Princess Zondilda)
1915 - Walter Trampler, Munich Germany, violist (Beaux Arts Trio)
1916 - Erich Von Stroheim Jr, actor/director (Napoleon, Sunset Blvd)
1916 - Frederic Robbins, US bacteriologist
1916 - Van Johnson, Newport RI, actor (Brigadoon) always wore red socks
1916 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist; Nobel Prize laureate (d.
           2003)
1916 - Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator (d. 2000)
1917 - Don Defore, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (George-Hazel, Ozzie & Harriet)
1917 - Mel Ferrer, Elberon New Jersey, American actor (Longest Day, Eaten Alive, 5th Floor)
1918 - Leonard Bernstein, Lawrence MA, conductor/composer (West Side Story)
1918 - Richard Greene, Plymouth England, composer/actor (Adv of Robin Hood)
1919 - George C Wallace, Clio Ala, (gov-D-Ala)/pres candidate
1920 - Jef Diederen, Dutch painter
1921 - Brian Moore, Ireland, novelist (Catholics, Doctor's Wife)
1921 - Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
1922 - Ronnie Potsdammer, Dutch singer/song writer/programmer
1923 - Monty Hall, Winnipeg Canada, TV game show host (Lets Make a Deal)
1925 - Thea Astley, Australian writer, (d. 2004)
1925 - Oscar Peterson, Montreal Quebec, Canadian jazz pianist and composer
1927 - Althea Gibson, Silver SC, 1st black tennis champion in a major event
1928 - Karl Korte, composer
1928 - Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1930 - Ariana CE Amsberg, Dutch publicist/actress (Aside, Sekstant)
1930 - Page Johnson, WV, actress (Passages from Finnegan's Wake)
1930 - Sean Connery, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (James Bond)
1930 - Graham Jarvis, Toronto, Ontario, Canadian actor (Mary Hartman, Misery)
1930 - Bruce Allpress, New Zealand actor
1931 - Regis Philbin, Bronx, New York, American talk & game show host (Joey Bishop Show, Live
           with Regis & Kathie Lee)
1932 - Anatoli Yakovlevich Kartashov, Russia, cosmonaut
1933 - Tom Skerritt, Detroit Mich, actor (Ryan's Four, Alien, Big Bad Mama)
1933 - Wayne Shorter, rocker (Weather Report)
1934 - John Stears, Middlesex England, special effects expert (Dr No)
1934 - Valery F Bykovsky, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok V, Soyuz 22, 31/39)
1934 - Lise Bacon, French Canadian politician
1934 - Eddie Ilarde, Filipino disk jockey, television host, and Senator
1935 - David Canary, Elwood Ind, actor (Peyton Place, Candy-Bonanza)
1935 - Lones Wigger, Great Falls Mont, shooter (Oly-gold/silver-1964, 72)
1935 - Charles Wright, American poet
1938 - Frederick Forsyth, author (Day of the Jackal, Deceiver, Odessa File)
1938 - David Canary, American actor
1939 - John Badham, Luton England, director (Dracula, Short Circuit)
1939 - Liselot[te JM] Beekmeyer, actress (Issue Blum)
1940 - Jose Van Dam, Brussels Belgium, bass-baritone (Francois d'Assisif)
1941 - Shirley Carter Burden, patrician
1942 - Imogen Hassall, Surrey England, Countess of Cleavage (Carry on Lovng)
1942 - Margaret L Thompson Murdock, US, small bore rifle (Olympic-silver-76)
1942 - Nathen Deal, (Rep-D-Georgia)
1942 - Walter Williams, US, rock vocalist (O'Jays-Use to Be My Girl)
1944 - Anthony Heald, New Rochelle NY, actor (Orphans, Silence of Lambs)
1944 - Sherley Anne Williams, US literary (Dessa Rose)
1944 - Conrad Black, newspaper magnate
1946 - Larry LaRocco, (Rep-D-Idaho)
1946 - Rollie Fingers, relief pitcher (Oakland Athletics, MVP/Cy Young-1981)
1946 - Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and Children's Author
1946 - Charlie Sanders, American football player
1947 - Anne Archer, LA Cal, actress (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games)
1947 - Wim J van Gelder, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 - Gene Simmons, [Chaim Witz], Haifa Israel, rock guitarist (KISS-Beth)
1949 - John Savage, Old Bethpage NY, actor (Deer Hunter, Maria's Lovers)
1949 - Martin Amis, English novelist
1949 - Fariborz Lachini, Canadian-Iranian composer
1950 - Willy Deville, NYC, rock vocalist/guitarist (Mink Deville)
1950 - Charles Fambrough, American jazz musician
1951 - Rob Halford, heavy metal (Judas Priest-Got Another Thing) [or Oct 25]
1952 - Duleep Mendis, cricketer (big-hitting Sri Lankan batsman of 80's)
1952 - Geoff Downes, English keyboardist (Buggles, Yes, Asia)
1954 - Elvis Costello, [Declan Patrick McManus], Lon, rock vocalist (Allison)
1954 - Gilbert "Gibus" Duclos-Lassalle, French cyclist
1954 - Martin Jourard, keyboardist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1955 - Vijayakanth, Tamil actor and politician
1956 - Matt Aitken, rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
1956 - Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally driver (d.1986)
1957 - Sikander Bakht, cricketer (Pakistani change bowler late 70's)
1958 - Christian LeBlanc, NC, actor (Michael Baldwin-Young & Restless)
1958 - Saskia van Orly, Dutch singer (Tambourine)
1958 - Tim Burton, Burbank California, American film director (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands)
1960 - Ashley Crow, American actress
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, Flatwoods Ky, country singer (Achy Breaky Heart)
1961 - Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Manchester England, actress (Kill Me Again)
1962 - Dan Turk, NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
1962 - Mazzi Rawd, heavy metal rocker
1962 - Ron Heller, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1962 - Shahid Mahboob, cricketer (batted in one Test for Pakistan 1989)
1962 - Vivian Campbell, heavy metal rocker (White Snake-Here I Go Again)
1962 - David Packer, American actor
1963 - James Backhouse, British artist
1964 - Blair Underwood, Tacomma Wash, actor (Jonathan-LA Law, High Incident)
1964 - Morgan Englund, actor (Dylan Lewis-Guiding Light)
1964 - Timothy Nicholson, journalist
1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
1964 - Vassilios Kotronias, Greek chess grandmaster
1964 - Marti Noxon, American television writer and producer
1965 - Cornelius Bennett, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills)
1965 - Kathleen Horvath, Chicago Illinois, tennis player (French Open Jr 1980)
1965 - Nate Odomes, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1965 - Sanjeev Sharma, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1988-89)
1965 - Mia Zapata, American singer (The Gits) (d. 1993)
1966 - Albert Belle, Shreveport LA, outfielder (Indians, White Sox)
1966 - Derek Sherinian, American keyboardist
1966 - Robert Maschio, American Actor ("The Todd" in Scrubs)
1967 - Jeff Tweedy, American singer (Wilco)
1968 - Dave Thomas, NFL cornerback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 - Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer and composer
1968 - Stuart Murdoch, Scottish musician (Belle & Sebastian)
1968 - Takeshi Ueda, Japanese singer and composer
1968 - Spider One, American musician (Powerman 5000)
1969 - Catriona Matthew, Edinburgh Scotland, golfer (1995 British Open-12th)
1969 - Derek Fung, Hong Kong, Canadian Tour golfer
1969 - Elly Hakami, San Francisco CA, tennis star
1969 - Mike Gisler, corner (New England Patriots)
1969 - Mike Jones, NFL defensive end (NE Patriots)
1969 - Vivek Razdan, cricket pace bowler (Indian Test 1989-90)
1970 - Claudia Schiffer, Rheinbach Germany, super model (Elle, Rolling Stone)
1970 - Debbie Graham, Walnut Creek California, tennis star (1993 Taranto doubles)
1970 - Doug Glanville, Hackensack NJ, outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1970 - Katherine "Katie" Scanlon, Fairfield Ct, rower (Olympics-96)
1970 - Robert Horry, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Houston Rockets)
1970 - Ronald Waterreus, soccer player (Roda JC, PSV)
1970 - Jo Dee Messina, American country music singer
1971 - Makoto Kawahira, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1971 - Michael Chack, Toms River NJ, figure skater (1997 Pac Coast Sr champ)
1971 - Quintis "Chico" Ristie, Suriname radio host
1971 - Mike Lockwood, professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1971 - Thalia Sodi, Mexican actress and singer
1972 - Bryan Stoltenberg, corner (NY Giants)
1972 - Marlo Perry, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Marvin Harrison, wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 - Tony Dumas, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks)
1973 - Fatih Akin, Turkish-German film director
1974 - Chris Mantilla, West Palm Beach Fla, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Darren Benson, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 - Mike Jenkins, wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals)
1974 - Eric Millegan, American actor
1974 - Dave Luza, Dutch comedian
1975 - Molly Tuter, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury)
1975 - Petria Thomas, Lismore NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1975 - Jeremy Horn, American MMA Fighter
1976 - Philippe Comtois, Montreal Quebec, Canadian 3m springboard diver (Olympics-96)
1976 - Sam Mackinnon, Melbourne VIC Australia, basketball forward (Oly-96)
1976 - Sarah Nadeau, Portland Maine, Miss America-Maine (1997)
1976 - Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor
1977 - Sophie Cadieux, Quebec actress
1977 - Diego Corrales, American boxer (d. 2007)
1977 - Jonathan Togo, American actor
1978 - Kel Mitchell, American actor
1979 - Marlon Harewood, English footballer
1980 - Neal Musser, American baseball player
1981 - Rachel Bilson, American actress
1981 - Clare Oliver, Australian cancer activist (d. 2007)
1983 - James Righton, English musician (Klaxons)
1983 - James Rossiter, British racing driver
1983 - Janet Chow, Canadian/Chinese beauty pageant contestant
1987 - Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
1987 - Blake Lively, American actress
1987 - James Wesolowski, Australian footballer
1987 - Liu Yifei, Chinese actress and singer
1987 - Justin Upton, American baseball player
1988 - Angela Park, Brazilian/American golfer
1988 - Raymond Quinn, English singer
1992 - Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer
1994 - Josh Flitter, American actor
1997 - Holly Gibbs, English actress
1998 - China Anne McClain, American actress