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This Day in History for 6th December


Famous Birthdays

                                   
The Gray Ghost                                           Poet Joyce Kilmer (1886)                       Occultist and Author
John Singleton Mosby (1833)                                                                                   Dion Fortune (1890)


Actress Agnes Moorehead (1900)


846 - Hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam (d. 874)
1285 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312)
1421 - Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)
1478 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529)
1550 - Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer
1586 - Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670)
1608 - George Monck/Monk, English general/gov of Scotland
1637 - Sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714)
1640 - Claude Fleury, French historian (d. 1723)
1642 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703)
1685 - Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France (d. 1712)
1721 - James Elphinston, British philologist (d. 1809)
1721 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794)
1731 - S von Laroche, writer
1732 - Warren Hastings, England, 1st governor-General of India (1773-84)
1743 - Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer
1752 - Gabriel Duvall, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1844)
1768 - Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer
1775 - Nicolas Isouard, composer
1776 - Paul Friedrich Struck, composer
1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
1792 - Abraham J van de Aa, lexicographer (Biographic Dictionary)
1792 - King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849)
1805 - Adolf Reubke, German organ builder (d. 1875)
1805 - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861)
1806 - Louis-Gilbert Duprez, composer
1808 - Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author (Future)
1808 - Johann Christian Gebauer, composer
1809 - Stephen Thomas, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1812 - Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (d. 1884)
1816 - Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1822 - John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US
1823 - Friedrich Max Müller, German orientalist (d. 1900)
1831 - Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1833 - John Singleton Mosby, Powhatan County, Virginia, lawyer/Col (Confederate Army), (d. 1916)
1841 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (d. 1870)
1843 - Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher
1846 - Henryk Jarecki, composer
1849 - August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1853 - Haraprasad Shastri, Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali
           literature (d. 1931)
1863 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist (d. 1914)
1864 - William S. Hart, American actor, silent Westerns (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds)
1872 - Mikulas Moyzes, composer
1875 - Evelyn Underhill, British poet (d. 1941)
1876 - Fred Duesenberg, German-born automobile pioneer (d. 1932)
1884 - Rose Schneiderman, NY state dept of labor sect (1937-44)
1885 - Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (The General)
1886 - Joyce Kilmer, New Brunswick, New Jersey, poet (Trees), (d. 1918)
1887 - Joseph Lamb, composer
1887 - Lynn Fontanne, Woodford England, Bdwy actress (Dulcy, Arms & the Man)
1888 - Will Hay, English comedian and actor (d. 1949)
1890 - Dion Fortune, British occultist (d. 1946)
1890 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (d. 1951)
1890 - Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer (d. 1955)
1892 - F Osbert S Sitwell, London, poet/writer (Out of the Flame)
1892 - Lina Carstens, Wiesbaden Germany, actress (Homeland, Broken Jug)
1893 - Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960)
1896 - Arnold Foster, composer
1896 - George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
1896 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm)
1897 - John Axel Fernstrom, composer
1897 - O W Cisek, writer
1898 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, photo journalist
1898 - Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, sociologist/economist (Nobel 1974)
1898 - Herman Shumlin, actor (Watch on the Rhine)
1899 - Harry Buller Siege Willis, son of South Africa boer in Ladysmith
1899 - Nikolai Batalov, Moscow Russia, actor (Mother)
1900 - Agnes Moorehead, Clinton, Massachusetts, American actress (Endora-Bewitched)
1902 - Virgilio Mortari, composer
1903 - Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1904 - Eve Denise Curie, French pianist/author/daughter of Madame Curie
1905 - James J. Braddock, American boxer (d. 1974)
1906 - Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician
1908 - Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2003)
1909 - Alan McGilvray, cricketer (20 games for NSW mid 1930's) and commentator (ABC)
1909 - Kenneth Watkins, woodland conservationist
1911 - Alfred James Broomhall, Methodist missionary
1913 - Eleanor Holm, NYC, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)
1914 - Cyril Washbrook, cricketer (stalwart Lancs & England opener)
1916 - Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (d. 1986)
1917 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977)
1917 - Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (d. 2008)
1918 - Granville James Leveson Gower, land owner
1918 - Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor (Endoscope)
1918 - Peter A Juten, office clerk/resistance fighter
1918 - Willem Oosterheers, resistance fighter
1919 - Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (d. 1983)
1919 - Jimmy Bivins [James], Cleveland, Ohio, Hall of Fame heavyweight boxer, (d. 2012)
1920 - Dave Brubeck, Concord CA, jazz pianist/composer (Gates of Justice), (d. 2012)
1920 - George Porter, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1921 - Otto Graham, AAFC/NFL QB (Cleveland Browns)
1921 - Piero Piccioni, Italian musician and composer (d. 2004)
1922 - John Henry Cound Brunt, English soldier, Victoria Cross holder (d. 1944)
1924 - Wally Cox, Detroit, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares)
1925 - Andy Robustelli, NFL defensive end (LA Rams, NY Giants)
1926 - Martti Katajisto, Parkano Finland, actor (Mar Oksalla Ylimmaellae)
1927 - Jacques Bondon, composer
1928 - Bert Geoffrey Achong, inventor (electron microscopist)
1928 - Bobby Van, American singer (d. 1980)
1929 - King Moody, NYC, actor (Shtarker-Get Smart)
1929 - Mark Kopytman, composer
1929 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor
1929 - Frank Springer, American comics artist
1929 - Alain Tanner, Swiss filmmaker
1931 - Zeki Müren, Turkish actor, singer, and composer (d. 1996)
1933 - Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki, composer
1933 - Jim Pothecary, cricketer (South African pace bowler on 1960 England tour)
1934 - Nick Bockwinkel, wrestler (WCW/AWA)
1935 - Jean Lapointe, Quebec comedian, singer and senator
1936 - Kenneth Copeland, American televangelist
1936 - David Ossman, Santa Monica, California, American writer and comedian (The Firesign Theatre)
1937 - Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer (d. 2006)
1938 - Patrick Bauchau, Belgian actor
1939 - Tomés Svoboda, Paris France, Czech composer (Etude)
1940 - Steve Alaimo, Rochester NY, rocker (Mashed Potatoes)
1940 - Lawrence Bergman, Quebec politician
1941 - Helen Cornelius, Hannibal Mo, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1941 - John Nelson, San Jose Costa Rica, conductor (Les Troyens of Berlioz)
1941 - Richard Speck, mass murderer (killed 8 student nurses in 1966)
1942 - Peter Handke, Austrian writer
1943 - Mike Smith, London England, rocker/pianist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1944 - Jonathan King, rocker
1945 - James Naughton, Middleton CT, actor (Stranger is Watching)
1945 - Larry Bowa, 2nd baseman (Phillies)
1945 - Dan Harrington, American poker player
1945 - Shekhar Kapur, Indian filmmaker
1946 - Frank Hayes, cricketer (106* England v WI on debut 1973)
1947 - Miroslav Vitous, rocker
1947 - Lawrence Cannon, Canadian politician
1948 - Don Nickles, (Sen-R-Okla)
1948 - JoBeth Williams, Houston Texas, actress (Kramer vs Kramer, Poltergeist)
1948 - Jonathan King, London, singer (Everyone's Gone to the Moon)
1948 - Marius Mueller-Westernhagen, Duesseldorf Germany, rocker (Stinker)
1949 - Peter Willey, cricketer (England batsman late 70's early 80's)
1949 - Linda Creed, American songwriter (d. 1986)
1949 - Doug Marlette, American editorial cartoonist (d. 2007)
1950 - Daniel Sahuleka, Moluks/Dutch singer/guitarist (Viva la Libertad)
1950 - Joe Hisaishi, Japanese composer
1951 - Gerry Francis, English footballer and manager
1952 - Ric Charlesworth, cricketer (WA opener, Aust hockey capt)/MP (Labour)
1952 - Terence Knox, Richland Wash, actor (Peter-St Elsewhere) [or 2/16/50]
1952 - Craig Newmark, American founder of craigslist
1953 - Gina Hecht, Houston Texas, actress (Melanie-Hizzoner, Mork & Mindy)
1953 - Kin Shriner, Indiana, actor (Scott-General Hospital, Rituals)
1953 - Thomas Hulce, Plymouth Mi, actor (Amadeus, Equus, Echo Park)
1953 - Wil Shriner, NYC/Indiana, talk show host (Wil Shriner Show)
1953 - Gary Ward, American baseball player
1954 - Chris Stamey, rocker
1954 - Miles Chapin, NYC, actor (French Postcards, Get Crazy, Funhouse)
1955 - Bill Lloyd, Bowling Green Ky, singer (Foster & Lloyd-Crazy Over You)
1955 - Malcolm Jarvis, cricket lefty paceman (Zimbabwe's 1st Test side)
1955 - Rick Buckler, [Paul Richard Buckler], rock drummer (Jam)
1955 - Steven Wright, droll comedian (Steven Wright Live)
1955 - Tish Hinojosa, San Antonia Tx, country singer (Something in the Rain)
1956 - Peter Buck, US pop guitarist (REM-Murmur)
1956 - Randy Rhoads, rocker
1957 - Luis Mariano Delis Fournier, Cuba, discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1980)
1958 - Nick Park, British filmmaker and animator
1959 - Satoru Iwata, president and CEO of Nintendo
1960 - Jasmina Perazic Gipe, WNBA guard/forward (NY Liberty)
1961 - David Lovering, American drummer (Pixies)
1962 - Ben Watt, rocker (Everything but the Girls-Sir Idlewood)
1962 - Janine Turner, Lincoln Neb, actress (Maggie-Northern Exposure)
1964 - Will Johnson, CFL defensive end (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1965 - Teri Hatcher, Sunnyvale California, actress (Lois & Clark)
1965 - Gordon Durie, Scottish footballer
1966 - Natascha Badmann, Swiss triathlete
1967 - Kevin Appier, Lancaster CA, pitcher (KC Royals)
1967 - Spanky Marcus, Hollywood California, actor (Jimmy Joe-Mary Hartman)
1967 - Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer
1969 - Elmore Spencer, NBA center (Portland Trail Blazers)
1969 - Greg Knox, CFL safety (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 - Todd Black, Kenton Ohio, 800m runner
1969 - Wayne Smith - Motorcycle racer
1970 - Eric Mahlum, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 - Isabelle Arnould, Belgian swimmer
1970 - Ulf Ekberg, Swedish musician (Ace of Base)
1971 - Ainsley Robinson, Oshawa Ontario, 62 kg Greco Roman wrestler (Oly-96)
1971 - David Defiagbon, Sapele Nigeria, Canadian boxer (Olympics-silver-96)
1971 - Matt Maloney, NBA guard (Houston Rockets)
1971 - Richard Krajicek, Neth, tennis star (Wimbledon-1996)
1971 - Rika Hiraki, Beirut Lebanon, tennis star (1992 Japan doubles)
1971 - Thomas Bailey, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1971 - Naozumi Takahashi, Japanese seiyuu
1971 - José Contreras, Cuban baseball player
1972 - Brendan Garard, Australian field hockey halfback (Olympics-96)
1972 - Gary Bandy, NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - James Logan, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Mike Gruttadauri, corner (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Tim Kohn, guard/tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1974 - Arjan Ebbinge, soccer player (FC Groningen)
1975 - Natalie Titcume, Australian softball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 - Noel Clarke, English actor and writer
1976 - Alicia Machado, Venezuela, Miss Universe (1996)
1976 - Lindsay Price, Arcadia CA, actress (Bold & Beautiful, All My Children)
1976 - Colleen Haskell, American television personality
1977 - Kevin Cash, American baseball player
1977 - Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer
1977 - Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer
1978 - K. D. Aubert, American actress
1978 - Chris Basak, American baseball player
1978 - Darrell Jackson, American football player
1979 - Tim Cahill, Australian footballer
1980 - Steve Lovell, British footballer
1980 - Ehren Wassermann, American baseball player
1982 - Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist and 2007 Tour de France winner
1982 - Ryan Carnes, American actor
1982 - Sean Ervine, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 - Robbie Gould, American football player
1985 - Dulce María, Mexican actress and singer
1985 - Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian Cricketer
1986 - Matt Niskanen, American National Hockey League Player
1995 - Joy Gruttmann, German singer
2000 - Pablo Nicolás Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 6th December


Famous Deaths

Blues Musician Lead Belly (1949)


343 - Saint Nicholas
1185 - Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85), dies at 76
1352 - Clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52), dies
1531 - John Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded
1550 - Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies at 48
1562 - Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter/architect, dies
1598 - Elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78
1618 - Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)
1640 - Matthijs Elsevier, Flemish/Dutch book publisher/merchant, dies at 75
1651 - Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poetess, dies at 68
1658 - Gracian, writer, dies
1716 - Benedictus Buns, Dutch Carmelite and composer (b. 1642)
1718 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674)
1746 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)
1771 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)
1779 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
1788 - Jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714)
1793 - Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, beheaded
1799 - Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71
1834 - Jonas Daniel Meyer, Dutch lawyer, dies at 54
1855 - William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (b. 1789)
1865 - Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies at 56
1867 - Giovanni Pacini, composer, dies at 71
1867 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician (b. 1794)
1868 - August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
1869 - Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54
1873 - Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadaver), dies at 24
1879 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814)
1882 - A Trollope, writer, dies
1882 - Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)
1889 - Jefferson Davis, Pres of Confederate States (1861-5), dies at 81
1889 - Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter, dies at 48
1892 - E Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at 75
1903 - Frederick Grant Gleason, composer, dies at 54
1914 - Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 47
1920 - Karel Kovarovic, composer, dies at 57
1924 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)
1925 - Dat So la Lee "Dabuda" or Louise Keyser, Native American (Washoe) basket weaver dies aged
           about 96
1926 - Claude [Oscar] Monet, French painter (impressionist), dies at 86
1933 - Auguste Chapuis, composer, dies at 75
1934 - Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1863)
1940 - Charlie Hime, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1895), dies
1943 - Firmin Baes, Flemish painter, dies at 69
1943 - Hermann Lohr, composer, dies at 72
1946 - Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer, dies at 63
1949 - Lead Belly, [Huddie William Ledbetter], blues singer, dies at 64
1951 - J Edward Bromberg, dies at 47
1951 - Harold Ross, American magazine editor (b. 1892)
1953 - Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), dies at 48
1955 - Honus Wagner, baseball player (b. 1874)
1956 - Dr. Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar, Indian Minister of Law and architect of The Constitution of India
          (b. 1891)
1958 - Erwin Bodky, composer, dies at 62
1959 - Len Doyle, actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), dies at 66
1961 - Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (b. 1925)
1963 - Jozef Goossenaerts, Flem philologist (Language Boundary), dies at 81
1964 - Consuelo Vanderbilt (b. 1877)
1965 - Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar, dies at 90
1966 - Hermann Heiss, composer, dies at 68
1970 - Thomas S Power, USAF-gen (Raid on Tokyo-March 1945), dies at 65
1971 - Hugo Godron, composer, dies at 71
1971 - Jan Altink, Dutch painter/co-founder (Plough), dies at 86
1972 - Janet Munro, actress (Crawling Eye, Swiss Family Robinson), dies at 38
1973 - Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer, dies at 94
1973 - Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies at 81
1976 - João Goulart, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
1983 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
1984 - Ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love), dies at 90
1985 - Burleigh Grimes, US baseball pitcher, dies at 92
1985 - Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie), dies at 68
1986 - Malik Oussekine, Algerian/French student, killed by police at 22
1987 - James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies
1988 - Bill Harris, US guitarist (Clovers-Love Potion No 9), dies at 63
1988 - Roy Orbison, singer (Pretty Woman), dies of massive heart attack at 52
1989 - Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry), dies at 86
1989 - John Paine, actor (Miracle on 34th St), dies at 77
1989 - Sammy Fain, composer, dies at 87
1989 - John Payne, American movie actor (b. 1912)
1990 - Tunku Abdul Rahman, PM of Malaysia (1957-70), dies
1991 - Ann Sorg Coston, actress (Anna-Aldrich Family), dies at 62
1991 - Headman Tshabalala, South Afr singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), dies
1992 - Hank Worden, actor (Red River), dies of natural causes at 91
1992 - Percy Herbert, actor (Capt Apache), dies of heart attack at 72
1993 - Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon), dies of prostate cancer at 85
1993 - Prof Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80
1993 - Rita Macedo, actress (Divinas Palabras), dies of heart attack at 65
1993 - Rouaz Lakhdar, Algerian supreme court justice, murdered
1994 - AJ Bronkhorst, vicar/theologist (Reform The Netherlands), dies at 80
1994 - Alan Owen, English screenplay/actor (Hard Day's Night), dies at 69
1994 - Gian Maria Volonte, actresss (Fistful of Dollars), dies at 61
1995 - Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian, dies at 67
1995 - James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, journalist, dies at 86
1995 - John Trevor Key, photographer, dies at 48
1995 - Kathleen Harrison, actress (Fast Lady, Big Money), dies at 103
1995 - Leslie Wilkinson, journalist, dies at 97
1995 - [Schaff] Claire Polin, composer, dies at 69
1996 - Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant, dies at 83
1996 - [Alvin] Pete Rozelle, commissioner (NFL), dies at 70
1997 - Alan Mouncer, film director/producer, dies at 68
1997 - Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer, dies at 91
1997 - Eliot Daniel, composer (I Love Lucy theme), dies at 89
2000 - Werner Klemperer, German-born actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman & winner of numerous Whitbread and America's Cup
           sailing contests, killed by pirates on the Amazon River at age 53
2001 - Charles McClendon, Hall of Fame college football coach (b. 1923)
2002 - Philip Berrigan, American civil rights activist (b. 1923)
2003 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (b. 1918)
2003 - Jerry Tuite, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2003 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (b. 1909)
2004 - Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (b. 1921)
2005 - Charly Gaul, Luxembourg cyclist (b. 1932)
2005 - Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
2005 - Danny Williams, South African-born singer (b. 1942)
2006 - John Feeney, Documentary film-director (b. 1922)
2007 - Katy French, Irish Supermodel and Socialite (b. 1983)
2010 - Mark Dailey, Canadian television journalist and announcer (b. 1953)

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This Day in History for 7th December


Historical Events

                                   
Outlaw Jesse James                                Baseball Player Ted Williams                       General Secretary of the
                                                                                                                   Communist Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                                                                                      Mikhail Gorbachev


Radio shock jock Howard Stern


43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC), Roman orator and politician assassinated.
185 - Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52)
1354 - Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty
1696 - Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull.
1724 - Tumult of Thorn - religious unrest was followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens
           and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
1741 - Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia
1783 - Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London
1783 - William Pitt Jr (24) becomes British Premier
1787 - Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
1808 - James Madison elected 4th US President and George Clinton Vice-President
1835 - German railway Neurenberg-Furth opens
1836 - Martin Van Buren elected 8th president
1842 - NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
1862 - Battle of Hartsville, TN
1862 - Battle of Prairie Grove, AR
1864 - Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek/Cypress Swamp, Georgia
1868 - Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1
1872 - HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½ year world oceanographic cruise
1875 - Natives Sons of the West organized
1876 - NY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked
1877 - Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
1885 - 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes
1889 - Gilbert & Sullivans "Gondoliers" premieres in London
1891 - 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
1895 - Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies
1900 - Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black
           body emission.
1907 - Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring
1909 - Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite)
1911 - Leslie J Stuarts musical "Betsy" premieres in NYC
1911 - Natl Hockey Association forms with New Westminster, Vancouver & Victoria
1912 - Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt
1916 - British government of David Lloyd George forms
1916 - David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM
1917 - US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
1920 - NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81
1920 - USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
1921 - KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions
1924 - German election (Social Democrats win, Nazis & Communists lose)
1925 - Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th St NYC
1925 - Noel Coward's "Easy Virtue" premieres in NYC
1926 - Gas refrigerator patented
1929 - Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 mins
1929 - Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament
1930 - 13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing
1931 - Bradman scores 219 NSW v South Africa, 234 mins, 15 fours
1932 - 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY
1934 - Wiley Post discovers jet stream
1935 - CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ham Tigers, 18-12 at Hamilton
1937 - Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work
1937 - Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
1937 - Russian chess player Alekhine recaptures world title from Max Euwe
1938 - Philip Barry's "Here Come the Clowns" premieres in NYC
1938 - W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St Louis Post-Dispatch by radio
1939 - Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1939 - William Walton's violinist concert premieres in Cleveland
1940 - 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 2): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 12-5
1940 - North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor
1940 - The first prototype Fairey Barracuda flew
1941 - Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon
1941 - Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu
1941 - German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends
1941 - Japanese attack on the US at Pearl Harbour Naval Base, Hawaii
1941 - Nacht & Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps
1941 - 1st Japanese midget submarine (No. 20) attacked by a US ship (USS Ward)
1943 - Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US
1944 - Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago
1944 - General Radescu forms Romanian government
1945 - Microwave oven patented
1946 - Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
1949 - 15th Heisman Trophy Award: Leon Hart, Notre Dame (E)
1949 - Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
1952 - KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast
1953 - Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires
1953 - WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, NC (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Japanese government of Joshida resigns
1954 - KCTS TV channel 9 in Seattle, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel
1957 - Tony Kubek of the Yanks selected as AL Rookie of the Year
1958 - Romulo Betancourt elected pres of Venezuela
1959 - "Saratoga" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
1960 - Ivory Coast claims independence from France
1962 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans
1963 - Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game.
1964 - George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs
1965 - Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications
           that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
1966 - A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.
1967 - "How Now, Dow Jones" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 220 perfs
1967 - Otis Redding records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"
1968 - M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923
1968 - Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
1968 - Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823
1970 - Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma
1970 - West Germany & Poland normalize relations
1971 - "Wild & Wonderful" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
1971 - Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life"
1972 - Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission, launched
1972 - Philippine's 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant
1973 - Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies
1973 - Phillies sell infielder-outfielder Cesar Tovar to the Texas Rangers
1973 - Wings release "Band on the Run"
1975 - 10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres
1975 - Archbishop Makarios returns Cyprus
1975 - Indonesian army occupies East Timor
1975 - Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament
1976 - UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 yr term
1977 - Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0
1978 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick
1981 - Spain becomes a member of the NATO
1982 - Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building
1982 - In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in
           the US.
1983 - 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93
1983 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 - Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide)
1985 - 51st Heisman Trophy Award: Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB)
1985 - Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1986 - Juli Inkster/Tom Purtzer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1986 - Pres Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti
1987 - 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots)
1987 - Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting
1987 - Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank
1988 - 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia (>25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)
1988 - Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
1988 - NY Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach
1988 - Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract
1989 - C Coleman & D Zippel's musical "City of Angels" premieres in NYC
1990 - Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam Hussein's decision to free hostages
1990 - Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
1991 - A J Kitt, US, wins World Skiing Cup
1992 - Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
1993 - Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast
1993 - Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery
1993 - The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and
           injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
1994 - 5th Billboard Music Awards
1994 - Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide
1995 - NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12
1995 - US space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands
1997 - Amy Fruhwirth & Clarence Rose win LPGA J C Penney Classic
1999 - The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of copyright
           infringement.
2003 - The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian
           Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
2005 - Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a
           bomb, is shot and killed by a team of US federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
2006 - A tornado struck Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging around 150
           properties.
2007 - The Hebei Spirit oil spill began in South Korea after a crane barge being towed by tug collided
           with the very large crude carrier, Hebei Spirit.

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This Day in History for 7th December


Famous Weddings

1646 - Princess Louise Henriette (19) of Nassau marries Frederick Henry Elector of Brandenburg
1996 - Former Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker (71) weds retired Kansas GOP Senator
           Nancy Kassebaum (64) in Washington, D.C.
2003 - Multi-awarded singer Mary J. Blige (32) weds record producer Kendu Isaacs in Bergen County,
           New Jersey

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This Day in History for 7th December


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Wax Museum Creator                                  Linguist & Author                            NBA Legend Larry Bird (1956)
Madame Tussaud (1761)                           Noam Chomsky (1928)


521 - Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)
903 - Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986)
967 - Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic
1302 - Azzone Visconti lord of Milan (d. 1339)
1545 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary I of Scotland (d. 1567)
1557 - Girolamo Trombeti, composer
1561 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)
1598 - Giovanni Bernini, Naples, Kingdom of Naples, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy), (d.
           1680)
1604 - Ambrosius Reiner, composer
1637 - Barnardo Pasquini, composer
1648 - Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer
1670 - John Aislabie, English director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742)
1731 - Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter
1751 - Jurrian F de Frederici, governor-General (Suriname)
1754 - Jack Jouett, American patriot
1761 - Madame [Marie Grosholtz] Tussaud, Strasbourg, France, created wax museum, (d. 1850)
1764 - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (d. 1841)
1772 - Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer
1784 - Allan Cunningham, British poet (d. 1842)
1801 - Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Austrian actor (Judith und Holofernes)
1803 - Maria Josepha of Saxony, queen consort of Spain (d. 1829)
1808 - Hugh McCulloch, US Secy of Treasury
1810 - Theodor Schwann, German co-originator of cell theory
1810 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (d. 1894)
1823 - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (Tensor of Kronecker)
1830 - Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician/minister of Education
1835 - Dom Joseph Pothier, French monk/musicologist
1839 - Redvers H Buller, English general/large landowner: Natal
1840 - Hermann Goetz, composer
1842 - Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist (schedelmetingen)
1847 - James Deacon White, Canton NY, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi)
1847 - Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader
1857 - Nicola van Westerhout, composer
1860 - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
1862 - Paul Adam, French writer (La Bataille d'Uhde)
1863 - John Ebenezer West, composer
1863 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer/fascist (Cavalleria Rusticana)
1863 - Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (Forest King)
1863 - Felix Calonder, Scuol, Swiss politician (Free Democratic Party)
1872 - Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens)
1873 - Willa Cather, US, author (My Antonia)
1876 - Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv)
1878 - Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair)
1879 - Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite)
1882 - Warren Bardsley, cricketer (great NSW & Aussie opening bat 1909-26)
1887 - Ernst Toch, Vienna Austria, composer (Melodie Lehre)
1888 - Hamilton Fish, US congress leader/isolationist
1888 - Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish (male) writer (House of Children)
1888 - Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st pres of American Newspaper Guild
1889 - Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer
1891 - Fay Bainter, Los Angeles California, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair)
1892 - Nora Nicholson, Leamington England, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow)
1894 - Stuart Davis, US painter
1895 - Jack Pennick, Portland OR, actor (Lady From Louisiana)
1896 - Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer
1901 - A F [Tony] Pugsley, British rear-admiral (Walcheren attack (1944))
1902 - J G Navle, cricketer (India's 1st Test wicket-keeper)
1903 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987)
1904 - Konstantin Sokolsky, Russian singer (d. 1991)
1905 - Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/US astronomer (moons of Uranus, Neptune)
1906 - George Richard James, saxophonist
1908 - Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist
1908 - John H Doeg, tennis champ (US Open-1930)
1909 - Jacob Kainen, artist/curator
1910 - Edmundo Ros, English orchestra leader
1910 - Richard Franko Goldman, composer
1910 - Rod Cameron, Calgary Alberta, actor (City Detective, State Trooper)
1910 - Louis Prima, New Orleans Luisiana, American musician (That Old Black Magic)
1912 - Daniel Jones, composer
1914 - Winston Place, cricketer (England opener in West Indies 1948)
1915 - Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass], US, sci-fi author (Ginger Star)
1915 - Eli Wallach, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Magnificent 7, Misfits, People Next Door)
1916 - Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (d. 1988)
1918 - Jorunn Vidar, composer
1919 - Ellen Stewart, actress/founder (La Mama Theatre Group)
1920 - Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist, (d. 2012)
1920 - Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and writer (d. 2002)
1921 - Arne Dorumsgaard, composer
1921 - Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader
1923 - Ted Knight, Terryville, Connecticut, American actor (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort)
1924 - John Love, Zimbabwean Formula One driver (d. 2005)
1924 - Mário Soares, President of Portugal
1925 - Hernando da Silva Ramos, Brazilian racing driver
1926 - Victor Kermit Kiam II, CEO (Remington shavers)/NFL owner (Patriots)
1926 - Wolfgang Ludewig, composer
1927 - Vlastimir Pericic, composer
1927 - Helen Watts, British contralto
1928 - Noam Chomsky, linguist (founded transformational grammar)
1928 - Raymond Henry Charles Warren, composer
1930 - Richard Felciano, composer
1930 - Hal Smith, American baseball player
1932 - Ellen Burstyn, Detroit, actress (Exorcist, Alice Doesn't Live Here)
1932 - Geoff Lawson, Australian cricket player
1932 - Gerard van den Berg, Dutch TV host (Like Father, Like Son)
1932 - Paul Caponigro, American photographer
1935 - Jean-Claude Casadesus, composer
1936 - Martha Layne Collins, Baghdad Ky, (Gov-D-Ky)
1937 - Thad Cochran, (Sen-R-Miss)
1940 - Kumar Shahani, writer/director (Kasbam Tarang, Maya Darpan)
1940 - Stan Boardman, English comedian
1942 - Harry Chapin, NYC, American rock vocalist (Taxi, Cat's in the Cradle)
1942 - Jonathan D Kramer, composer
1943 - Göran Lennmarker, Swedish politician
1943 - Bernard C. Parks, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
1944 - Jamiel Chagra, American drug trafficker
1944 - Daniel Chorzempa, American organist
1945 - Marion Rung, Finnish singer
1947 - Johnny Bench, baseball catcher (Reds)
1947 - Mino Reitano, Italian entertainer
1947 - Peter de Jong, Dutch actor (Maxi-Mini & Maxi)
1947 - Vincent Baggetta, Paterson NJ, actor (Lou-Chicago Story)
1947 - Tony Thomas, American TV and film producer
1948 - Gary Morris, Fort Worth Tx, country singer/actor (Colbys)
1948 - Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina (Baterina No Habataki)
1948 - Mads Vinding, Danish bassist
1949 - Tom Waits, California, rocker/song writer (Blue Valentine)
1951 - Henk Temming, Dutch vocalist/keyboardist (Good Cause)
1952 - Georges Corraface, Greek actor, president of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival
1952 - Susan Collins, American politician, junior senator from Maine
1953 - Bertin Osborne, Italian entertainer
1954 - Gianfranco Jannuzzo, Italian entertainer
1954 - Julie Halston, actress (Juror, Drunks, Addams Family Values)
1954 - Mike Nolan, rocker
1954 - Mark Hofmann, American forger and bomber
1955 - Priscilla Barnes, Ft Dix NJ, actress (License to Kill, 3s Company)
1955 - John Watkins, Australian politician
1956 - Larry Bird, West Baden, Indiana, NBA star (Boston Celtics, 12-time NBA All Star)
1957 - Geoff "Henry" Lawson, cricketer (Australian fast bowler 1980-89)
1957 - Rohan Jayasekera, cricketer (one Test Sri Lanka v Pakistan 1982)
1957 - Tom Winsor, British lawyer and economic regulator
1958 - Edd Hall, TV announcer (Jay Leno's Tonight Show)
1958 - Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1959 - Salim Yousuf, cricketer (Pakistani wicket-keeper in 32 Tests 1986-90)
1960 - Craig Scanlon, English guitarist (The Fall)
1961 - Mary Beth Evans, Pasadena CA, actress (Katherine Ashton-Gen Hospital)
1961 - Lisa Fischer, American R&B singer
1962 - Grecia Colmenares, Italian entertainer
1963 - Barbara Weathers, vocalist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1963 - Kristi Albers, El Paso TX, LPGA golfer (1993 Sprint Classic)
1963 - Theo Snelders, former Dutch footballer
1964 - Duncan Miller, rocker (Blue Mercedes-Rich & Famous)
1964 - Mike Nolan, rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
1964 - Peter Laviolette, Norwood Mass, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1964 - Roberta Close, Brazilian model
1964 - Tadao Uematsu, Japanese racing driver
1965 - Peter Draisaitl, Karvina CZE, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1965 - Colin Hendry, Scottish footballer
1966 - C Thomas Howell, Los Angeles California, actor (Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man)
1966 - Shinichi Itoh, Japanese motorcycle racer
1967 - Tino Martinez, Tampa FL, 1st baseman (Seattle Mariner, NY Yankees)
1967 - Vaclav Chalupa, Czechoslovakia, rower (Henley Royal Regatta 1989)
1968 - Cammy Myler, Plattsburgh NY, luger (Olympics-1994)
1968 - Keith Goganious, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 - Melissa Iverson, Anoka Minn, rower (Olympics-96)
1968 - Ricky Ervins, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1968 - Tom Myslinski, NFL guard (Jacksonville Jaguars, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Mark Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1969 - Sabine Hack, West Germany, tennis star
1970 - Courtney Browne, cricketer (West Indies Test wicket-keeper 1995)
1970 - Ed Robinson, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Rob Olson, Victoria BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Newlands Open)
1971 - Ben Atkins, NYC, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1971 - Mauricio Hadad, Cali Colombia, tennis star (1995 Bermuda)
1971 - Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess player
1972 - Bobby Schoonens, soccer player (RKC)
1972 - Clay Shiver, corner (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Jordi Buritlo, Spain, tennis star
1972 - Kevin Dogins, corner (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1972 - Sunny, [Tamara Fytch], WWF model
1972 - Hermann Maier, Austrian skier
1972 - Tammy Lynn Sytch, American professional wrestler
1973 - Mark Hartsell, WLAF QB (Scotland Claymores)
1973 - Rea Marie Bavilla, Miss USA-Alaska (1997)
1973 - Terrell Owens, wide reciever (San Francisco 49ers)
1974 - Alex Radutescu, Romania, tennis star
1974 - Annette Salmeen, 200m butterfly/800m freestyle relay (Olympics-96)
1974 - Nicole Appleton, Canadian-born singer
1974 - Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist
1975 - Nikola Wapzarow, writer
1975 - Jamie Clapham, English footballer
1976 - Alan Faneca, American football player
1976 - Brent Johnson, Canadian football player
1976 - Georges Laraque, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Vanessa Lorenzo, Spanish fashion model
1977 - Fernando Vargas, Oxnard Ca, welterweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1977 - Francesca Lubiani, Bologna Italy, tennis star (Futures-Amadora-POR)
1977 - Dominic Howard, English drummer (Muse)
1978 - Shiri Appleby, American actress
1978 - Frankie J, Mexican-born American singer
1978 - Chad Dukes, Radio Personality
1979 - Lampros Choutos, Greek footballer
1979 - Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress
1979 - Derek Ramsay, Filipino actor and model
1979 - Sara Bareilles, American singer
1979 - Jennifer Carpenter, American actress
1980 - John Terry, English footballer
1983 - Fausto Carmona, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Robert Kubica, the first Polish Formula One racing driver
1984 - Luca Rigoni, Italian footballer
1984 - Aaron Gray, American basketball player
1987 - Aaron Carter, American singer and actor
1987 - Baran Kosari, Iranian actress
1988 - Emily Browning, Australian actress
1988 - Asia Ray Smith, American actress
1989 - Nicholas Hoult, English actor
2003 - Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands

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This Day in History for 7th December


Famous Deaths

                                   
Political Cartoonist                              Cartoonist Rube Goldberg (1970)                  Actor Harry Morgan (2011)
 Thomas Nast (1902)


283 - Catholic Pope Saint Eutychian
983 - Otto II the Red, German king/emperor (973-83), dies at about 28
1254 - Innocent IV, [Sinibaldo dei Fieschi], Pope (1243-54), dies
1279 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226)
1295 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1243)
1383 - Wenceslaus, duke of Brabant, dies
1498 - Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist
1649 - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606)
1672 - Richard Bellingham, English-born Massachusetts colonial magistrate (b. 1592)
1683 - John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653)
1723 - Jan Santini Aichel, Bohemian architect (b. 1677)
1725 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (b. 1661)
1775 - Charles Saunders, British admiral
1793 - Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780)
1811 - Ignaz Spangler, composer, dies at 54
1815 - Michel Ney, French marshal (Waterloo), murdered at 46
1817 - William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame, dies at 63
1823 - Johann Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 79
1826 - John Flaxman, Engl sculptor (tombs at St Paul's Cathedral), dies at 71
1829 - Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer, dies at 45
1834 - Ludwig Schuncke, composer, dies at 23
1839 - Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer, dies at 69
1841 - Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer, dies at 83
1842 - Thomas Hamilton, Scottish writer (b. 1789)
1860 - Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet, dies at 43
1862 - Sylvester Churchill, US Union brig-general, dies
1867 - Rudolf Viole, composer, dies at 42
1874 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (b. 1815)
1881 - Julius FA Bahnsen, Ger philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51
1894 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89
1899 - Antoni Katski, composer, dies at 82
1902 - Thomas Nast, US political cartoonist, dies aged 62
1906 - Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)
1912 - George Darwin, theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies
1913 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX
           (b. 1828)
1917 - Leon Minkus, composer, dies at 91
1938 - Harry Moses, cricketer (6 Tests for Australia 1887-95), dies
1941 - Cecil Forsyth, composer, dies at 71
1941 - Iida, Japanese pilot/lt, dies in battle at 28
1941 - Notable casualties of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 - Mervyn S. Bennion, United States Navy Captain, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese
           attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1887)
1941 - Herbert C. Jones, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on
           Pearl Harbor (b. 1918)
1941 - Thomas J. Reeves, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on
           Pearl Harbor (b. 1895)
1941 - Franklin Van Valkenburgh, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese
           attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1888)
1943 - John Bouber, [Blom], actor/author (Bluejackets), dies at 22
1946 - Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (b. 1871)
1947 - Nicholas M. Butler, American university president, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
1947 - Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (b. 1866)
1948 - Godfrey Turner, composer, dies at 35
1956 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (b. 1887)
1960 - Clara Haskil, Swiss pianist (b. 1895)
1962 - Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (Wagner), dies at 67
1967 - House Peters, silent film actor (Kansas Territory), dies at 87
1969 - Eric Portman, actor (Naked Edge), dies from heart ailment at 66
1969 - Hugh Williams, actor (Human Monster), dies after surgery at 65
1969 - Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1970 - Rube Goldberg, US cartoonist (Mike & Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87
1970 - Romaine Brooks (born Beatrice Romaine Goddard), American painter dies aged 96
1971 - Milton Rosmer, director (Murder in the Red Barn), dies at 90
1972 - Adrian J Zoetmulder, author (God's Hour), dies at 91
1975 - Hardie Albright, actress (Silver Streak, Scarlet Letter), dies at 71
1975 - Thornton N Wilder, US writer (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 78
1977 - Paul Gibb, cricketer (England batsman, 8 Tests), dies
1978 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (b. 1886)
1979 - Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies
1979 - Mari Andriessen, sculptor (Docker), Amsterdam, dies at 82
1979 - Nicolas Born, writer, dies at 41
1979 - Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran's nephew, murdered in Paris
1980 - Darby Crash, rocker, dies at 22
1982 - Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st US prisoner to be executed by lethal
           injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas
1983 - Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA
1983 - Fanny Cano, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
1984 - Jeanne Cagney, actress (Quicksand, Kentucky Rifle), dies at 65
1984 - Lee Roy Yarbrough, American race car (Nascar) driver (b. 1938)
1985 - Potter Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice (1958-81), dies in NH at 70
1985 - Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus), dies at 90
1988 - Andrei P Ershov, Russian computer pioneer, dies
1988 - Christopher Connelly, actor (Liar's Moon, Hawmps), dies at 47
1988 - Peter Langan, Irish restaurateur (Langans London), dies in fire
1989 - William Calhoun, professional wrestler (b. 1934)
1990 - Delecta "Dee" Clark, US singer (Raindrops), dies at 52
1990 - Horst Bienek, writer, dies at 60
1990 - Joan Bennett, US actress (House Across the Bay), dies at 80
1990 - Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (b. 1904)
1991 - Michael Taylor, Male Model (b. 1913)
1992 - Maurice Coutinho, writer/translator (Silent Struggle), dies at 79
1992 - Ruth Corbett Thom, dies after long illness at 78
1992 - Vincent Gardenia, actor (Moonstruck, LA Law), dies at 71
1993 - Félix Houphouet-Boigny, pres of Ivory Coast (1960-93), dies at 88
1993 - Janet Margolin, actress (David & Lisa), dies of ovarian cancer at 50
1994 - Elga Andersen, German/French model/actress (Global Affair), dies at 58
1994 - J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)
1995 - Larry Bartlett, photographer, dies at 42
1995 - Tom Burns, editor, dies at 89
1996 - Eugene Izzi, mystery writer, hangs himself at 43
1996 - Jose Donoso, writer, dies at 72
1997 - Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer dies at 54 from a suspected heart attack
1998 - John Addison, British composer (b. 1920)
2000 - Vladimir Gotovac, Croatian poet and politician (b. 1930)
2001 - Charles McClendon, LSU Tigers head football coach (b. 1923)
2003 - Carl F. H. Henry American theologian and publisher (b. 1913)
2003 - Azie Taylor Morton, Treasurer of the United States (b. 1936)
2004 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (b. 1914)
2004 - Jerry Scoggins, American singer (b. 1913)
2004 - Jay Van Andel, co-founder and former chairman of Amway (b. 1924)
2005 - Bud Carson, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
2005 - Lucy d'Abreu, was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from April 2004 until her
           death (b. 1892)
2005 - Rigoberto Alpizar, airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming
           he had placed a bomb aboard (b. 1961)
2006 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador (b. 1926)
2006 - Jay McShann, American musician (b. 1910)
2008 - Marky Cielo, Filipino and Igorot dancer and actor (b. 1988)
2008 - Dennis Yost, American vocalist, dies at 65
2009 - Mark Ritts, American actor (b. 1946)
2010 - Elizabeth Edwards, American lawyer and wife of John Edwards (b. 1949)
2010 - Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor (b. 1928)
2011 - Harry Morgan, American actor (Colonel Potter-M*A*S*H) dies at 96

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 8th December


Historical Events

                                   
US President Abraham Lincoln                Baseball Legend Connie Mack                Novelist Agatha Christie

                                   
American Baseball Player               US President & Actor Ronald Reagan           Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry
Roger Maris 


1326 - Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi
1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room, the second public library of Europe.
1659 - Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez is founded by Fray García de San Francisco.
1710 - Battle of Brihuega in the War of the Spanish Succession: British General James Stanhope
           captured by French & Spanish forces
1710 - Battle at Brihuega: English Gen Stanhope captured
1776 - George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ
1777 - Capt Cook leaves Society Islands
1792 - 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
1794 - 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published
1813 - Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres
1846 - Hector Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust" premieres
1849 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller" premieres in Naples
1852 - Gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten" premieres in Breslau
1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin
1857 - 1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY"
1863 - 2,500 reported killed as result of fire at Jesuit Church of La Compana Santiago Chile
1863 - Abraham Lincoln's Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of South
1864 - Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum")
1869 - 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
1869 - Timothy Eaton founds T. Eaton Co. Limited in Toronto, Canada.
1874 - Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas
1875 - Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty" premieres in St Petersburg
1876 - Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years
1880 - 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South-Africa
1881 - Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
1886 - American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL
           president
1895 - Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out
1896 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)
1899 - Natal: British fall/burst out belegerd Ladysmith
1902 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
1907 - King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
1909 - Bird banding society found
1913 - Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF
1914 - British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island
1914 - Connie Mack sells Eddie Collins to the White Sox
1914 - Irving Berlin's musical "Watch your Step" premieres in NYC
1915 - Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E premieres
1921 - Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty
1923 - German-US friendship treaty signed
1923 - Labour/Liberals win British parliament
1923 - Salary & price freeze in Germany
1926 - Disappearance of Agatha Christie
1930 - Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway NYC
1930 - Cole Porter's musical "NYCers" premieres in NYC
1931 - Coaxial cable patented
1934 - Friedrich Wolf's "Professor Mamlock" premieres in Zurich
1935 - The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto,
           beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto
           Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi.
1936 - Anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua
1936 - NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
1938 - Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa Calif
1938 - LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
1940 - 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
1941 - Destruction Camp Chelmo opens
1941 - London: Dutch government declares war on Japan
1941 - Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo
1941 - SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM
1941 - US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II
1941 - President Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing
           of Pearl Harbour
1942 - 8th Heisman Trophy Award: Frank Sinkwich, Georgia (HB)
1943 - John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle" premieres in NYC
1946 - Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
1947 - "Caribbean Carnival" opens at International Theater NYC for 11 perfs
1948 - "Marinka" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 168 performances
1948 - 14th Heisman Trophy Award: Doak Walker, SMU (HB)
1948 - Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
1949 - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 740 perfs
1949 - Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
1949 - Jule Styne's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" premieres in NYC
1951 - "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 267 perfs
1951 - AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule & lifting its ban
           on lights for Sunday games
1952 - 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
1952 - French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
1952 - Isaak Ben-Zwi elected pres of Israel
1953 - 19th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lattner, Notre Dame (HB)
1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the Atoms for Peace speech.
1954 - Maxwell Anderson's "Bad Seed," premieres in NYC
1954 - WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - 21st Heisman Trophy Award: Howard Cassady, Ohio State (HB)
1955 - Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award
1955 - Turkish government of Menderes forms
1956 - 16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia
1956 - 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
1956 - Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks
1959 - Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta
1959 - President Eisenhower watches Pakistan v Aust Test Cricket at Karachi
1960 - Expansion LA Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium
1961 - Antwerp Belgium diocese forms
1961 - Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
1961 - South Africa v NZ, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow & Peter Pollock
1961 - Wilt Chamberlain scores the 2nd highest total in the NBA - 78
1962 - "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes at Shubert NYC after 300 perfs
1962 - 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
1962 - Failed coup in Brunei
1962 - Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)
1963 - "Girl Who Came to Supper" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 112 perfs
1963 - Mickey Wright/Dave Ragan Jr wins LPGA Haig & Haig Scotch Mixed Golf
1963 - 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only
           case of lightning caused crash, 81 die
1963 - Pan Am Flight 214 crashes outside Elkton, Maryland with a loss of 81 people.
1965 - Abe Burrows' "Cactus Flower" premieres in NYC
1965 - Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of USSR
1965 - Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council
1966 - A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith
1966 - US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
1967 - Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
1967 - NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals
1969 - Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed
1969 - Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
1972 - United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
1973 - "Seesaw" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 296 performances
1973 - 39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB)
1974 - Greek monarchy rejected by referendum
1974 - Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
1974 - Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1974 - Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
1975 - "Raisin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 847 performances
1976 - UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - 43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB)
1977 - Portugal's premier Soares resigns
1978 - Commencement of the 1st day/night WSC cricket supertest at VFL Park
1980 - "Bravo" network premieres on cable TV
1981 - France performs nuclear test
1982 - "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" opens at Ambassador NYC for 6 perfs
1982 - Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
1982 - Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents
1982 - Norman Mayer holds Washington Monument hostage, demanding an end to nuclear weapons.
           Is killed by police after 10 hrs (he had no explosives)
1983 - 9th Space Shuttle Mission, Columbia 6, lands at Edwards AFB
1983 - Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of SF Zen Center
1984 - 73rd Australian Men Tennis: Mats Wilander beats K Curren (67 64 76 62)
1984 - Europe & 64 developing countries sign Lome III treaty
1984 - Ringo Starr appears on Saturday Night Live
1985 - 60th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (62 46 62)
1985 - Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (NY Jet record) to Wesley Walker
1985 - Laurie Rinker/Larry Rinker wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1986 - House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
1987 - Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes 1st goalie to actually score a goal
1987 - Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1987 - Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
1987 - US President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium
           range nuclear missiles
1987 - The Alianza Lima air disaster.
1988 - Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers & sink Bucks, 113-109
1989 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1990 - Galileo Earth-1 Flyby
1990 - Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1991 - "Homecoming" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 49 performances
1991 - "Nick & Nora" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 9 performances
1991 - Kris Tschetter/Billy Andrade wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1991 - Russia, Belorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
1991 - The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
1992 - Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
1992 - NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May 1993
1993 - 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria
1993 - 4th Billboard Music Awards
1993 - Dow-Jones hits record 3734.53
1993 - Storm hits West Europe, 11 killed in England
1994 - "What's Wrong With this Picture?" opens at Circle in Sq NYC for 12 per
1994 - Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges
1994 - Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed
1996 - "God Said, Ha!" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 22 performances
1996 - Donna Andrews & Mike Hulbert win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1997 - 8th Billboard Music Awards: LeAnn Rimes & Spice Girls win
1998 - Tadjena massacre: 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
2002 - The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and
           declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba Day" - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the
           Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.
2004 - The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community
           of Nations.
2005 - Ante Gotovina, Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las
           Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.
2008 - Kirsty Williams elected as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. The first female leader of a
           political party in Wales.
2009 - Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq kill 127 and injure 448.
2010 - With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held
           company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
2012 - UN climate conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020

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This Day in History for 8th December


Famous Weddings

2007 - "Happy Days" actor and legendary bachelor Scott Baio (46) weds longtime girlfriend Renee
           Sloan at a luxury high-rise in Los Angeles
2007 - Backstreet Boys member Howie Dorough (34) weds longtime girlfriend Leigh Boniello at St.
           James Cathedral in Orlando, Florida

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This Day in History for 8th December


Famous Divorces

2010 - "Heart" rock singer Nancy Wilson (56) divorces "Almost Famous" and "Elizabethtown" director
           Cameron Crowe (53) due to irreconcilable differences after 24 years of marriage

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This Day in History for 8th December


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Queen of Scotland                                     Painter Diego Rivera (1886)                Comedian Sam Kinison (1953)
Mary Stuart (1542)

                 
Singer-Songwriter                                   Rapper & Singer Nicki Minaj (1982) 
Sinead O'Connor (1966) 


65 BC - Horace, Venusia, Lucania, Roman Republian poet (Odes), (d. 8 BC)
1508 - Gemma Frisius, [Jemme Reinersz], Frisian geographer/astronomer
1542 - Mary Stuart, Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow, Queen of Scotland (1560-1587), (d. 1587)
1574 - Maria Anna of Bavaria, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1616)
1626 - Christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
1678 - Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (d. 1757)
1699 - Maria Josepha of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1757)
1704 - Anton de Haen, medical expert (Ratio Medendi)
1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765)
1715 - John Althuysen, Frisian vicar/poet (Frisianche rymlery)
1728 - Johann G von Zimmermann, Swiss author
1730 - John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English personal physician of Maria Theresia
1730 - Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch-born British physiologist and botanist (d. 1799)
1731 - Frantisek Xaver Dusek, composer
1737 - Robert Kimmerling, composer
1741 - Maximilian JLP Gardel, French dancer/choreographer (Menuet Reine)
1744 - Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer
1765 - Eli Whitney, inventor (Cotton Gin)
1789 - John Fawcett, composer
1795 - Jacques Francois Gallay, composer
1795 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (d. 1874)
1811 - Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer
1815 - Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1905)
1816 - August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born American financier (d. 1890)
1817 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (d. 1896)
1822 - Luther Prentice Bradley, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1826 - Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist
1828 - Clinton Bowen Fisk, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1828 - Robert Bullock, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
1832 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author "Pa Guds Veje" and Nobel laureate (d. 1910)
1861 - Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman)
1861 - William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine
1862 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's)
1865 - Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Taylor series)
1865 - Jean Sibelius, Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia)
1872 - J C Powys, writer
1874 - Ernst Moro, Austrian physician (d. 1951)
1877 - Paul Emile Ladmirault, composer
1881 - Padraic Colum, Irish poet/novelist/poet (Collected Poems)
1882 - Manuel Maria Ponce, Fresnillo Mexico, composer (Estrellita)
1886 - Diego Rivera, [Lenin of Mexico], Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, painter/wife of Frida Kahlo
           (En el Arsenal ), (d. 1957)
1887 - Vicente Emilio Sojo, composer
1888 - Fiske Kimball, US architect/art historian
1888 - Paul Cavanagh, Chislehurst England, actor (Tarzan & his Mate)
1888 - Vesey D'Davoren, character actor
1889 - W Hervey Allen, US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse)
1890 - Bohuslav Jan Martinu, Policka Czechoslovakia, composer (Hry o Marti)
1894 - James (Grover) Thurber, Columbus Ohio, humorist (Men, Women & Dogs)
1894 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (d. 1938)
1897 - Leslie Heward, composer
1899 - James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, pianist
1899 - John Qualen, Vancouver BC, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Searchers)
1899 - Sarah Williamson, US missionary in Liberia
1900 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (d. 1990)
1902 - Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (d. 1982)
1903 - Adele Simpson, NYC, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1946)
1903 - Cleo Brown, pianist
1903 - Irene Eisinger, singer
1903 - Kathleen (Kitty) Rosalind Muggeridge, author
1903 - Zoltan Szekely, composer
1904 - Wilmer L Allison Jr, tennis champ (US Open-1935)
1905 - Charles Cushing, composer
1905 - Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer
1905 - Frank Faylen, St Louis Mo, actor (Herbert Gillis-Dobie Gillis)
1905 - Julius Silverman, politician
1906 - Richard Llewellyn, Wales, novelist (How Green Was My Valley)
1907 - Tony Aubin, composer
1908 - John Volpe, (Gov-Mass)/US Secretary of Treasury (1969-73)
1911 - Lee J Cobb, NYC, actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront)
1911 - Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (d. 1992)
1912 - Jura Soyfer, writer
1913 - Delmore Schwartz, US, poet/short story writer/critic (Shenandoah)
1913 - Paul Félix, Flemish architect (Sun Song)
1915 - Denis Harding, soldier
1915 - George Scheuer, writer/journalist
1915 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
1916 - Dorothy Mae Ballard, labor union rep
1916 - Richard Fleischer, American film director (d. 2006)
1917 - Rufo I Wever, Aruban pianist/composer (Ca'i Organ)
1918 - Ian Johnson, cricketer (Australian Test captbetween Hassett & Craig)
1918 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004)
1919 - Hans-Dieter Hosalla, composer
1919 - Moyssey Samuilovich Vaynberg, composer
1919 - Peter Tali Coleman, American politician (d. 1997)
1920 - Emmanuel McDonald Bailey, Trinidad, 100m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1920 - Ron Gulliford, educationalist
1921 - Johnny Otis, California, R&B talent scout (Cold Shot, Cuttin' Up)
1921 - Terence Morgan, London England, actor (Adv of Sir Francis Drake)
1921 - Terence Weil, cellist/teacher
1922 - George Fullerton, cricketer (South African keeper-batsman 1947-51)
1922 - Jean Ritchie, rocker
1922 - John B McKay, US test pilot (X-15)
1922 - Lucian Freud, Berlin German, artist (Boy With a Rat)
1923 - Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-born American chemist
1925 - James E "Jimmy" Smith, US jazz/organist (Walk on the Wild Side)
1925 - Sammy Davis Jr, NYC, singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man)
1925 - Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (d. 2000)
1927 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10)
1927 - Ferdie Pacheco, the "Fight Doctor"
1928 - Ulric Neisser, Kiel, Germany, America psychologist (Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns, Bell
           Curve task force head), (d. 2012)
1929 - Goffredo Parise, writer
1930 - Alain Weber, composer
1930 - John Morressy, US, sci-fi author (Starbrat, Greymantle, Kingsbane)
1930 - Maximilian Schell, Austria, actor/director (Odessa File, Julia)
1930 - Julian Critchley, British politician (d. 2000)
1931 - Rudolf Komorous, composer
1933 - Flip Wilson, [Clerow], Jersey City NJ, comedian (Flip Wilson Show)
1935 - Dharmendra, Indian actor
1935 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player
1936 - Brad Jurjens, Estonia, director (The Bank Job)
1936 - David Carradine, Hollywood CA, actor (Kung Fu, Mean Streets, Kill Bill V.1 & 2)
1936 - Peter Parfitt, cricketer (fine England batsman of the 1960's)
1936 - W S "Buster" Farrer, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1962-64)
1937 - James MacArthur, Los Angeles California, actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0)
1937 - Jan van Houwelingen, Dutch undersecretary of Defense (CDA)
1937 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber and businessman (d. 2004)
1939 - James Galway, Belfast Ireland, flutist (18k gold flute, Royal Phil)
1939 - Jerry Butler, Sunflower Miss, rock vocalist (Never Give You Up)
1939 - Lynn Wilson, contractor/multi-millionaire
1940 - Graham Knight, rocker
1940 - Jenny Linden, English actress (Hedda, Dr Who & the Daleks)
1940 - Nick Nolte, actor (Teachers, 48 Hours, North Dallas 40)
1940 - Brant Alyea, American baseball player
1941 - Albert J Evenhuis, Dutch undersecretary of Economic (VVD)
1941 - Geoff Hurst, cricketer (Essex 1962, better known as soccer immortal)
1941 - Ed Brinkman, American baseball player
1941 - Randall "Duke" Cunningham, US Navy fighter pilot and Congressman
1942 - Bobby Elliot, rock drummer (Hollies)
1942 - Hemant Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974)
1942 - Mario Savio, activist
1943 - Mary Woronov, Brooklyn Hgts NY, actress (Eating Raoul, Terror Vision)
1943 - Michael Unger, English editor-in-chief (Evening News, Manchester)
1943 - Jim Morrison, American poet, singer (The Doors) (d. 1971)
1945 - John Banville, Irish novelist and journalist
1946 - Graham Knight, rocker (Marmalade)
1946 - John Rubinstein, Los Angeles California, actor/composer (Family, Boys from Brazil)
1946 - Sharmila Tagore, Indian Actress
1947 - Belinda Balaski, Inglewood CA, actor (Cannonball, Proud Men, Howling)
1947 - Frans Leijnse, Dutch politician (PvdA 2nd Chamber)
1947 - Geoff Daking, rocker
1947 - Gregg Allman, Nashville, guitarist/vocalist (Allman Brothers Band)
1947 - Thomas R. Cech, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1947 - Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Skolt Sámi writer
1949 - Mary Gordon, US, author
1949 - Ray Shulman, rocker
1949 - Robert Sternberg, Proposed the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
1950 - Rick Baker, Binghamton NY, special effects makeup artist (Exorcist)
1950 - Tim Foli, American baseball player
1950 - Dan Hartman, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, American musician (Edgar Winter Group)
1951 - Bill Bryson, American author
1951 - Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1952 - Richie Morales, drummer (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1952 - Khaw Boon Wan, Singapore Health Minister
1953 - Sam Kinison, Yakima, Washington, screaming comedian and actor (Back to School, Charlie
           Hoover)
1953 - Roy Firestone, Miami Beach, Florida, American sportscaster (Life's Most Embarrassing
           Moments)
1953 - Kim Basinger, American actress
1953 - Norman Finkelstein, American professor, activist
1954 - Harold Hongju Koh, Korean-American Dean of Yale Law School
1955 - Ian Greig, cricketer (brother of Tony Two Tests for England 1982)
1956 - Warren Cuccurullo, rock guitarist (Missing Persons)
1957 - Phll Collen, rocker
1958 - Billy Hufsey, actor (Christopher-Fame, Days of our Life)
1958 - Wayne Dickert, Chattanooga TN, slalom double canoe (Olympics-11th-96)
1958 - Bird McIntyre, Thai pop singer, musician
1959 - Mark Dickson, Tampa Fla, tennis star
1959 - Marty Raybon, Sanford Fla, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1959 - Paul Rutherford, vocalist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)
1960 - Lim Guan Eng, Secretary-General of the Malaysian Democratic Action Party (DAP)
1961 - Ann Coulter, American author, political commentator, and attorney
1961 - Mikey Robins, Australian comedian
1962 - Berry van Aerle, Dutch soccer star (PSV)
1962 - Stephen John Elkington, Inverell Australia, PGA golfer (1990 Kmart)
1962 - Marty Friedman, American guitarist
1963 - Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese professional wrestler
1964 - James Martinez, Santa Fe NM, rower (Olympics-1996)
1964 - Teri Hatcher, Sunnyvale CA, actress (Lois Lane-Lois & Clark)
1964 - James Blundell, Australian country singer
1964 - Sandy Burnett, English record producer
1965 - Greg Truitt, NFL safety/linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1965 - Teresa Weatherspoon, WNBA guard (NY Liberty)
1965 - Troy Sadowski, NFL tight end (Cin Bengals)
1965 - Carina Lau, Hong Kong actress
1966 - Douglas Allan Martin, Bluffton OH, PGA golfer (1995 Buick-2nd)
1966 - Joe Staysniak, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1966 - Matthew Laborteaux, Los Angeles California, actor (Albert-Little House on Prairie)
1966 - Sinéad O'Connor, Irish musician
1966 - Jeff Tremaine, American television and film director
1967 - Jeff George, NFL quarterback (Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders)
1967 - Marina Augusta Baker, Windsor England, playmate (Mar, 1987)
1967 - Ron George, linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1967 - Tony Mayberry, NFL center (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1967 - Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
1967 - Darren Sheridan, English footballer and manager
1968 - Bill Johnson, defensive tackle (St Louis Rams)
1968 - Mike Mussina, Williamsport PA, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1968 - Michael Cole, American professional wrestling commentator
1969 - Antoon Kuil, soccer player (Veendam, SC Heerenveen)
1969 - Bobby Phillips, WLAF running back (Minnesota Vikings, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Darrin Shannon, Barrie, NHL left wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1969 - Lisa Marie Munzert, New Castle Delaware, Miss Delaware-America (1991)
1969 - Victor Green, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Jets)
1969 - Steve Van Wormer, American actor
1971 - Garvin Alston, Mt Vernon NY, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1971 - James Stewart, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 - Marco Abreu, Angolan footballer
1972 - Frank Shamrock, American mixed martial artist
1973 - Mitch Jacoby, tight end (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Monty Montgomery, defensiveback (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 - Doron Bell Jr., Canadian actor
1973 - Corey Taylor, American singer (Slipknot, Stone Sour)
1974 - Paul Staight, Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1974 - Cristian Castro, Mexican singer
1974 - Nick Zinner, American guitarist (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
1975 - Kevin Harvick, American NASCAR driver
1976 - Naimee Coleman, Irish singer and songwriter
1976 - Reed Johnson, American baseball player
1976 - Dominic Monaghan, English actor
1977 - Elsa Benítez, Mexican supermodel
1977 - Sébastien Chabal, French rugby union footballer
1977 - Ryan Newman, American NASCAR driver
1978 - Kate Robinson, Peoria Ill, dance skater (& Kate Robinson)
1978 - Anwar Siraj, Ethiopian footballer
1978 - John Oster, Welsh footballer
1978 - Ian Somerhalder, American actor
1978 - Vernon Wells, American baseball player
1979 - Johan Forssell, Swedish politician
1979 - Christian Wilhelmsson, Swedish footballer
1979 - Daniel Fitzhenry, Australian rugby league footballer
1981 - Jeremy Accardo, American baseball player
1981 - Philip Rivers, American football player
1982 - Noelle Pikus-Pace, American skeleton racer
1982 - Dee Dee Trotter, American athlete
1982 - Hamit Altintop, German-born Turkish Football player (identical twin brother of Halil Altintop)
1982 - Halil Altintop, Turkish Football player (identical twin brother of Hamit Altintop)
1982 - Nicki Minaj, Saint James, Port of Spain, Trinidadian-born American rapper and singer (Super
           Bass, Starships)
1983 - Neel Jani, Swiss racing driver
1983 - Liu Song, Chinese snooker player
1984 - Greg Halford, English footballer
1984 - Badr Hari, Dutch kickboxer, Niall Brennan, Irish Legend.
1985 - Dwight Howard, American basketball player
1986 - Amir Khan, English boxer
1986 - Kate Voegele, American musician
1989 - Drew Doughty, Canadian hockey player
1993 - AnnaSophia Robb, American actress and singer

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This Day in History for 8th December


Famous Deaths

Musician and Beatle
John Lennon (1980)


644 - Omar I, 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered
899 - Arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France, dies
1292 - John Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62
1596 - Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico
1626 - John Davies, English poet (b. 1569)
1632 - Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561)
1643 - John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583)
1649 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613)
1652 - Adriaan W "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary, murdered at 35
1680 - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606)
1681 - Gerard Terborch, the Younger, Dutch painter/etcher, dies
1691 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615)
1695 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (b. 1625)
1709 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist, dies at 74
1722 - Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van Palts, German/French duchess, dies at 70
1744 - Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b.
           1717)
1745 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (b. 1683)
1746 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (b. 1693)
1756 - William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, British statesman and diplomat
1768 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1702)
1779 - Nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707)
1785 - Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer, dies at 68
1811 - Eliza Poe, English-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan
           Poe(b. 1787)
1830 - H Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63
1831 - James Hoban, architect who designed White House, dies
1859 - Thomas de Quincey, English author (b. 1785)
1864 - George Boole, British inventor of Boolean algebra (b. 1815)
1885 - William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1821)
1894 - Willem JF Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian, dies at 71
1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
1896 - Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel), dies at 75
1900 - Henry Russell, composer, dies at 87
1903 - Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83
1907 - Oscar II Frederick, King of Sweden (-1907)/Norway (-1905), dies
1914 - Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (b. 1861)
1917 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian writer (b. 1836)
1923 - Dom Joseph Pothier, French Benedictine/musicologist, dies at 88
1924 - Franz X Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha), dies at 74
1926 - Jan Six, Dutch art historian/collector, dies
1934 - Bernhard Seklas, composer, dies at 62
1938 - Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (b. 1896)
1939 - Ernest Schelling, composer, dies at 63
1940 - George Exton Lloyd, Anglican Bishop and theologian (b. 1861)
1952 - Charles Lightoller, English second officer on the Titanic (b. 1874)
1954 - Gladys George, actress (Roaring Twenties), dies at 50
1955 - Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist, dies at 69
1956 - Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer, dies at 76
1957 - Reginald Sheffield, actor (Second Chance), dies at 55
1958 - Tris Speaker, American baseball player (b. 1888)
1961 - William Beatton Moonie, composer, dies at 78
1963 - Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
1966 - Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (b. 1899)
1967 - Robert H Lawrence, USAF/astronaut, dies at 32
1967 - John Mills, Sr., American singer (Mills Brothers) (b. 1889)
1969 - Vincenzo Davico, composer, dies at 80
1970 - Christopher K Ingold, English chemist, dies at 77
1972 - George Collins, (Rep-Ill), dies at 47, in airplane crash
1975 - Gary Thain, New Zealand bassist (Uriah Heep) (b. 1948)
1978 - Golda Meir, Israel's PM (1969-74), dies in Jerusalem at 80
1980 - John Lennon, shot and killed in NY by Mark David Chapman at 40
1981 - Shakey, [Walter Horton], harmonicist (Everybody's Fishin'), dies at 64
1982 - Andre Kamperveen, Suriname minister, murdered
1982 - Bertus de Harder, Dutch soccer star (Bordeaux), dies
1982 - Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered
1982 - Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered
1982 - Frank Wijngaarde, Suriname journalist, murdered
1982 - Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney, murdered
1982 - John Baboeram, Suriname lawyer, murdered
1982 - Jozef Slagveer, Suriname journalist, murdered
1982 - Kenneth Goncalves, Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate, murdered
1982 - Leckie, Suriname scholar, murdered
1982 - Leslie Rahman, Suriname journalist, murdered
1982 - Marty Robbins, country singer, dies at 57
1982 - Shakey, [Walter Horton], rocker, dies at 72
1982 - Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant, murdered
1983 - Slim Pickins, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies after brain surgery at 64
1984 - Luther Adler, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist), dies at 81
1984 - Razzle, English Musician and drummer for Hanoi Rocks (b.1960)
1984 - Robert Jay Mathews, White Nationalist (b. 1953)
1988 - Anne Seymour, actress (Misty, Chevy Mystery Show), dies at 79
1988 - Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad, US singer (Persuasions-Good news), dies at 44
1989 - Hans Hartung, German/French painter, dies
1990 - Martin Ritt, US, director/actor (Norma Rae), dies at 70
1990 - Pony Sherrell Metcalf, NY, singer, dies of heart attack
1991 - Buck Clayton, US jazz trumpeter/orchestra leader, dies
1991 - Kimberly Bergalis, got AIDS from health care worker, dies at 23
1992 - William Shawn, US editor-in-chief (New Yorker, 1952-87), dies at 85
1993 - Andre Cerf, French actor/producer (Nana), dies at 93
1993 - Carlotta Monti, lover of WC Fields, dies at 86
1994 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazil composer (Girl From Ipanema), dies at 67
1994 - Israel Aaron Maisels, lawyer, dies at 89
1995 - Carl Marsden, bodyguard, dies at 36
1995 - Ernest LeRoy Boyer, educator, dies at 67
1995 - John Gillett, film researcher, dies at 70
1995 - Mikki Doyle, journalist, dies at 79
1996 - Howard E Rollins Jr, actor (Ed Harding-Another World), dies at 46
1996 - Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist, dies at 60
1997 - Bob Bell, clown (WGN's 1st Bozo), dies at 75
1997 - Leon Poliakov, historian, dies at 87
1999 - Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer (b. 1923)
2001 - Don Tennant, American advertising executive (b. 1922)
2003 - Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1919)
2004 - Dimebag Darrell, heavy metal guitarist in band Pantera is shot & killed while performing
           onstage in Columbus Ohio by crazed fan Nathan Gale
2005 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author (b. 1915)
2006 - Martha Tilton, American singer (b. 1915)
2006 - José Uribe, Dominican baseball player (b. 1959)
2007 - Gerardo García Pimentel, Mexican journalist
2008 - Kerryn McCann, Australian athlete (b. 1967)
2008 - Oliver Postgate, English animator, puppeteer and writer. (b. 1925)
2008 - Robert Prosky, American actor (b. 1930).
2009 - Luis Días, Dominican Composer (b. 1952).

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This Day in History for 9th December


Historical Events

                                   
Lexicographer Noah Webster                          Poet Alfred Tennyson                       Dictator of Nazi Germany
                                                                                                                                   Adolf Hitler

                                   
38th US President                                    NBA Legend Larry Bird                        44th US President Barack Obama
 Gerald Ford


536 - Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the
         city, returning the old capital to its empire.
656 - Battle of Kameel: Kalief Al ibn Abu Talib beats rebellion
1212 - Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
1315 - Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society)
1425 - Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven
1570 - Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein
1625 - Netherlands & England sign military treaty
1640 - Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original
           sin
1658 - Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India
1688 - King James II's wife & son flee England for France
1724 - Colley Cibber's "Caesar in Aegypt" premieres in London
1738 - Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1747 - England & Netherlands sign military treaty
1762 - British parliament accept Treaty of Paris
1783 - 1st execution at English Newgate Jail
1793 - Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
1805 - Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth
1824 - Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain
1842 - St M Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla" premieres in Petersburg
1851 - 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montreal)
1854 - Alfred Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published
1856 - The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
1861 - Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah)
1861 - American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the
           U.S. Congress.
1868 - 1st British government of Gladstone forms
1869 - Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
1875 - Massachusetts Rifle Association "America's Oldest Active Gun Club" is founded.
1878 - Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500
1883 - New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902)
1884 - Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
1889 - President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium
1894 - Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium
1897 - Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris.
1900 - Dutch Pres Paul Kruger & Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession
1902 - AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY
1903 - Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage
1905 - French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state
1905 - Richard Strauss' opera "Salome" premiers in Dresden
1905 - In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
1906 - NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate commission on the Congo
1907 - 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
1907 - Gustav Mahler departs Vienna
1909 - 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY)
1910 - French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir
1913 - Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris
1913 - John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League
1917 - British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem
1918 - French troops occupies Mainz
1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president
1924 - Dutch & Hungary trade treaty signed
1924 - Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president
1925 - AL extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 & raise to $40,000
1925 - Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000
1926 - USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs
1931 - Benn W Levy's "Springtime for Henry" premieres in NYC
1931 - Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
1931 - Spain becomes a republic
1931 - Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players & NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers
1933 - 21st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Sarnia Imperials, 4-3
1933 - Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard
1934 - NY Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship
1935 - Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder.
1936 - AL OKs night baseball for St Louis
1936 - Australia all out 58 v England, Bradman out for a duck
1939 - 27th Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 8-7
1939 - Russian air raid on Helsinki
1940 - British assault on Banghazi Libya
1940 - British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II
1940 - Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
1940 - South Australia all out for 47 v NSW, O'Reilly 5-11
1941 - 1st US WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines
1941 - 300 Montgomery, SF opens as new Bank of America HQ
1941 - 7th Heisman Trophy Award: Bruce Smith, Minnesota (HB)
1941 - China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy
1941 - Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"
1941 - Hitler orders US ships torpedoed
1948 - UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
1949 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Indonesian sovereignty
1949 - NFL merges Cleveland Browns, SF '49ers & Balt Colts from AAFC
1951 - Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg, W Germany
1953 - General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
1953 - Mont Canadiens (106) & Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty mins
1954 - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Swed Royal Music Acad
1957 - 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel
1958 - Robert H W Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch
           Society
1960 - 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV
1961 - "From the Second City" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1961 - "Let It Ride" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 68 perfs
1961 - SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel
1961 - Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania
1961 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY
1962 - "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
1962 - Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth
1963 - Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped
1963 - Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
1965 - "A Charlie Brown Christmas" premieres
1965 - Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles
1965 - Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium
1967 - Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
1967 - Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania
1968 - KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly
           demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
1970 - Dutch Antilles: government of Petronia falls
1971 - Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to Supreme Court
1973 - "Pajama Game" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 performances
1973 - Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak in NY, to become WWF champ
1973 - St Louis Cardinal Jim Bakken kicks 6 field goals vs Atlanta Falcons
1973 - Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland
1974 - Dow Jones index hits 570.01
1974 - Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ
1974 - Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail in Indiana
1975 - Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize
1975 - Pres Gerald Ford signs $2.3 Bn loan-authorization for NYC
1978 - Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
1978 - 1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does
1979 - Murle Breer/Dave Eichelberger wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1980 - 61°F in Boston at 1 AM
1981 - Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders
1982 - Mary-Beth & William Hurt divorce
1983 - Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free & that's easier
           than paying for it"
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - 59th Australian Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Sukova (67 61 63)
1984 - 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends
1984 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane
1984 - LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,003 yards
1984 - Vicki Alvarez/Mike McDonald wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1985 - 74th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Mats Wilander (64 63 63)
1985 - Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
1985 - Phoenix Arizona, gets 3" of snow
1987 - Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws
1987 - Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
1988 - NY Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for $500M
1988 - The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened.
1989 - "Les Miserables" opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne
1990 - Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship
1990 - Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80)
1990 - Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14
1990 - Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland
1990 - NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard
1991 - 2nd Billboard Music Awards
1992 - 3rd Billboard Music Awards
1992 - Cin Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks
1992 - Operation Restore Hope - US Marines land in Somalia
1992 - Sri Lanka's third-ever Test Cricket victory (v NZ by 9 wkts)
1992 - NJ Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, & white for the
           1992-93 season
1993 - "My Fair Lady" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 165 performances
1993 - Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
1994 - 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth
1994 - US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after comments about masturbation
1995 - 61st Heisman Trophy Award: Eddie George, Ohio State (RB)
2003 - A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
2006 - Moscow suffers its worst fire since 1977, killing 45 women in a drug rehabitational center.
2008 - The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of
           alleged crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by
           President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency..
2012 - 13 people are killed and 10 are injured after a bus rolls of a cliff and falls 100 meters in Taiwan
2012 - 6 people are killed and 41 are injured after a bus plunges 30 metres down a gorge in
           Guatemala
2012 - Incumbent Ghanaian president John Mahama wins the general election amidst allegations of
           fraud
2012 - The Social Liberal Union Party and Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta win by a landslide in
           the parliamentary elections
2012 - Juan Manuel Márquez knocks out Manny Pacquiao in round six for the WBO light welterweight
           title

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Famous Weddings

1967 - Lyndon B Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in the White House
1989 - "Baywatch" actor David Hasselhoff (37) weds actress Pamela Bach (26) at the Little Brown
            Church in Studio City, California
2005 - "Bourne" actor Matt Damon (35) weds Argentine-born Luciana Barrosa (29) at the Manhattan
            Marriage Bureau near New York City Hall
2006 - "The Office" actress Lucy Davis (33) weds actor Owain Yeoman (28) at St. Paul's Cathedral in
           London
2011 - "Nothing Compares 2 U" singer Sinead O'Connor (45) weds Irish therapist Barry Herridge (38)
           at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas

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Famous Divorces

1982 - Mary-Beth & William Hurt divorce

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Poet John Milton (1608)                          Actor Kirk Douglas (1916)                       Actress Judi Dench (1934)


1392 - Peter, Prince/Regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa benfeitoria)
1447 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
1561 - Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony
1571 - Adrian A Metius, Dutch mathematician/fort architect
1579 - Martinus de Porres, Peruvian saint (patron of social justice) (d. 1639)
1581 - Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daughter of Willem of Orange
1594 - Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)
1608 - John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost), (d. 1674)
1610 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (d. 1680)
1652 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. 1723)
1667 - William Whiston, English mathematician (d. 1752)
1715 - Georg Gottfried Petri, composer
1717 - Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist (History of Ancient Art)
1728 - Pietro Alessandro Guglieli, composer
1742 - Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist (lemon acid)
1748 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
1751 - Maria Luisa of Parma, queen of Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
1754 - Etienne Ozi, composer
1787 - John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)
1791 - Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer
1796 - Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley, composer
1806 - Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (d. 1838)
1837 - Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915)
1842 - Pjotr A Kopotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist
1847 - George Grossmith, English actor/writer (d. 1912)
1848 - Joel Chandler Harris, US journalist (created Uncle Remus stories)
1850 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
1853 - Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, Rochester NY, pitcher (60-12 in 1884)
1854 - Pekka Hannikainen, composer
1859 - Algernon Ashton, composer
1862 - Karel Kovarovic, composer
1864 - Sidney Homer, composer
1868 - Fritz Haber, German phycist-chemist (Nobel 1919)
1871 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943)
1873 - Antoine Pompe, Belgian architect
1876 - Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)
1882 - Joaquín Turina, Seville Spain, composer (Rima)
1883 - Alexander Papagos, Greek fieldmarshal/supreme commander
1883 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (d. 1950)
1886 - Clarence Birdseye, frozen vegatable king (Birdseye)
1887 - Tim Moore, American actor and vaudevillian (d. 1958)
1889 - John P "Hannes" Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (Olympic gold 1912)
1891 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)
1894 - Eddie Dowling, Woonsocket RI, actor (Anywhere USA)
1895 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (d. 1936)
1897 - Hermione Gingold, London England, actress (Gigi, Music Man)
1898 - Emmett Kelly, Sedan KS, circus clown (Weary Willie)
1899 - Frans van Amelsvoort, Dutch choir conductor
1899 - Howard Freeman, Helena MT, actor (Double Dynamite)
1899 - Jean de Brunhoff, France, children's book author (Babar the Elephant)
1899 - Leonie Fuller Adams, US poetess (Those not elected)
1900 - Albert Weisbord, American labor organizer (d. 1977)
1901 - Carol Dempster, American actress (d. 1991)
1901 - Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938)
1901 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
1902 - Margaret Hamilton, Cleveland Ohio, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz)
1902 - Richard A Butler, England, Dutch min of Finance/Foreign affairs
1904 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist
1904 - Robert Livingston, American actor (d. 1988)
1905 - Dalton Trumbo, US, writer/film director (Johnny Got His Gun)
1906 - Freddy Martin, Cleve Oh, orchestra leader (started Merv Griffin)
1906 - Grace Murray Hopper, computer innovator
1906 - Greet Koeman, Dutch singer
1907 - Noel Walton Bott, engineer
1909 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr, NYC, actor (Ghost Story)
1910 - Dick Elffers, Dutch graphic artist/painter (Holland Festival)
1910 - Stephen Jurika Jr, US pilot/capt (WW II, Santa Cruz, Navy Cross)
1911 - Broderick Crawford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American actor (All the King's Men, Highway
           Patrol)
1911 - Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese educator (d. 2007)
1912 - Fred Engelen, Flemish actor/director [or Dec 12]
1912 - Thomas P "Tip" O'Neill, (Rep-D-Mass 1977-86)/Speaker of the House
1914 - Frances Reid, American actress
1915 - Colin McCool, cricketer (Australian leg-spin all rounder late 40s)
1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Jarotschin Germ, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier)
1915 - Herbert Huncke, writer
1916 - Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect/writer (Mozart biog)
1916 - Kirk Douglas, [Issur Danielovitch], Amsterdam, New York, American actor (Gunfight at OK
           Corral)
1917 - James Angleton, head of counterintelligence for the CIA (d. 1987)
1917 - James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1918 - Jerome Beatty Jr., American author
1919 - William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1920 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
1922 - Redd Foxx, St Louis Mo, comedian (Sandford & Son, Redd Foxx Show)
1925 - Dina Merrill, NYC, actress (Operation Petticoat, Butterfield 8 )
1926 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
1926 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995)
1927 - Pierre Henry, composer
1928 - Dick Van Patten, Queens NY, actor (Tom Bradford-8 is Enough)
1928 - André Milhoux, Belgian racing driver
1929 - Bob Hawke, cricketer (no relation to Lord 12th man for Oxford U 1954)
1929 - John Cassavetes, NYC, actor (Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby)
1929 - Michel Fano, composer
1929 - Robert J L Hawke, (Lab), PM Australia (1983-91)
1930 - Buck Henry, NYC, screenwriter/comedian (SNL, Get Smart)
1931 - William Reynolds, American actor
1931 - Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor
1932 - Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician
1933 - Milt Campbell, Plainfield NJ, hurdler/decathlete (Olympics-gold-56), (d. 2012)
1933 - Orville Moody, Chickasha OK, PGA golfer (1969 US Open)
1934 - Al Kaline, Baltimore Md, baseball outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1934 - Alan Ridout, composer
1934 - Judi Dench, York England, actress (Henry V, Wetherby)
1934 - Milton Gray Campbell, Plainfield NJ, decathelete (Olympic-gold-1956)
1934 - [Amos] Junior Wells, Memphis Tn, blues singer (In My Younger Days)
1935 - Dominico Tromp, Aruba, stage leader
1937 - Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
1938 - David Houston, rocker
1938 - Elizabeth H "Rina" Venter, South African minister of Health care
1938 - William Thomas McKinley, composer
1938 - [David] Deacon Jones, NFL defensive end (LA, SD, Washington), (d. 2013)
1939 - Patrician Stephens Due, Quincy, Florida, African-American civil rights activist (FAMU jail-in), (d.
           2012)
1940 - Sammy Strain, US singer (Imperials-Hurt So Bad)
1941 - Beau Bridges, Los Angeles California, actor (Hotel New Hampshire, 5th Musketeer)
1941 - Dan Hicks, American rocker
1942 - Dick Butkus, Chicago, NFL hall of fame linebacker (Bears)/sportscaster
1942 - Joe McGinniss, Rye NY, author (Selling of President 1968)
1942 - Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
1943 - Kenny Vance, rocker
1943 - Rick Danko, Canada, rocker (The Band-Islands, Stage Fright)
1944 - George Baker, [Hans Bouwens], Dutch vocalist (G B Selection)
1944 - Ki Longfellow, American novelist
1944 - Bob O'Connor, American politician
1945 - Michael Nouri, Wash DC, actor (Beacon Hill, Bay City Blues)
1945 - Matti Mäntylä, Finnish actor
1946 - Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician
1946 - Shatrughan Sinha, Indian actor
1947 - Tom Daschle, American politician
1947 - Jaak Jõerüüt, Soviet-born Estonian politician
1948 - Dennis Dunaway, rocker
1948 - Marleen Gorris, Dutch director (Mres Dalloway, Antonia, Last Island)
1948 - Ron Vawter, Latham NY, actor (Philadelphia, Empire City, Twister)
1949 - Thomas O Kite Jr, Austin TX, PGA golfer (1978 BC Open, Crosby 1983)
1949 - Nando Parrado, Uruguayan plane crash survivor
1950 - Joan Armatrading, St Kitts, singer (Back to the Night)
1952 - Michael Dorn, actor (Worf-Star Trek Next Generation)
1953 - John Malkovich, Christopher Ill, actor/director (Killing Fields)
1953 - World B Free, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors)
1954 - Herman Finkers, Dutch cabaret performer
1955 - Chamras Saewataporn, Thai composer and musician
1956 - Sylvia, Kokomo Indiana, country singer (Nobody)
1957 - Donny Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1958 - Nancy J Currie, Wilmington DE, Mjr Army/astronaut (STS 57, 70, sk: 88)
1958 - Rikk Agnew, American guitarist (The Adolescents)
1960 - Juan Samuel, San Pedro de Macoris, infielder (NY Yankees, Blue Jays)
1960 - Dobroslav Paraga,Croatian politician and editor
1960 - Terry Moran, American TV reporter
1961 - Christiane Jolissaint, Switzerland, tennis star
1961 - Ian Andrew Wright, Hamilton NZ, rower (Olympics-96)
1961 - Joe Lando, Los Angeles California, actor (Byron Sully-Dr Quinn)
1961 - David Anthony Higgins, American actor
1962 - Felicity Huffman, American actress
1963 - Barry Wilburn, NFL full safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1963 - Barbara Palacios, Carcas Venz, Miss Universe (1986)
1963 - Dave Hilton, Jr., Canadian boxer
1963 - Masako, Crown Princess of Japan
1964 - Petr Briza, Prague CZE, hockey goalie (Team Czech Rep)
1964 - Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein)
1965 - Brad Savage, Livdnia Mich, actor (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
1965 - Karla Nelson, Pine City Minn, Ms America (1993)
1965 - Joe Ausanio, American baseball player
1965 - Vecepia Towery, American Survivor contestant
1966 - Dana Murzyn, Calgary, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1966 - Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
1966 - Toby Huss, American actor
1967 - Caryn Kadavy, Erie Pa, figure skater
1967 - Cathy Mockett, Newport Beach CA, LPGA golfer (1995 Youngstown-7th)
1967 - Ray Agnew, NFL nose tackle (Carolina Panthers, NY Giants)
1967 - Jason Dozzell, English footballer
1968 - Bill Johnson, NFL defensive linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Brent Price, NBA guard (Houston Rockets, Washington Bullets)
1968 - Kurt Angle, Pittsburgh Pa, 220 lbs freestyle wrestler (Oly-gold-96)
1968 - Michael Foster, Richmond Va, drummer (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
1969 - Allison Smith, Bronx NY, actress (Jennie-Cagney & Lacey, Kate & Allie)
1969 - Greg[ory] Klingsporn, Morristown NJ, rower (Olympics-1996)
1969 - Ramon Garcia, Guanare Venezuela, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 - Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
1969 - Sebastian Spence, Canadian actor
1970 - Donald Douglas, WLAF safety (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Marlin Cannon, Dallas Texas, 200m/400m runner
1970 - Kara DioGuardi, American songwriter, record producer, and singer
1971 - Chris Boniol, NFL kicker (Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Clifton Abraham, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 - Petr Nedved, Libercec CZE, NHL center (Team Czech, Pitts Penguins)
1971 - Todd Van Poppel, Hinsdale IL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1972 - Fabrice Santoro, Tahiti, tennis star
1972 - Paul Greene, Australian 100m/200m/400m (Olympics-96)
1972 - Reiko Aylesworth, American actress
1972 - Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day)
1973 - Tony Batista, Puerto Plata Dom Rep, infielder (Oakland A's)
1974 - Canibus, American rapper
1974 - Wendy Dillinger, American female soccer player and coach
1975 - Joshua Rudoy, actor (Harry & Hendersons)
1975 - Stuart McRae, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 - Chris Booker, American baseball player
1977 - Saskia Garel, Canadian actress
1977 - Shayne Graham, American football player
1977 - Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter
1978 - Mandy James, Jacksonville Fla, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1978 - Jesse Metcalfe, American actor
1979 - Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer