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This Day in History for 23rd July


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Actor Woody Harrelson (1961)                     White House Intern                                  Harry Potter Actor
                                                                Monica Lewinsky (1973)                            Daniel Radcliffe (1989)


645 - Yazid I, Sixth caliph of Islam (d. 683)
1301 - Duke Otto of Austria (d. 1339)
1339 - Louis I, Duke of Anjou/King of Naples (Battle at Poitiers)
1401 - Francesco Sfoza, soldier
1503 - Anna Jagello, Queen of the Romans (d. 1547)
1659 - Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer
1705 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (d. 1752)
1734 - Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini, opera composer [or Jun 14 1730]
1735 - Johannes Herbst, composer
1769 - Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer
1773 - Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer
1775 - Francois-Eugene Vidocq, British police detective
1775 - Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)
1777 - Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
1793 - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer
1796 - Franz Adolf Berwald, Sweden, composer
1803 - Johann Vesque von Puttlingen, composer
1806 - Eduard Marxsen, composer
1816 - Charlotte Sanders Cushman, US, actress (Lady MacBeth)
1822 - Darius Nash Couch, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1823 - Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, English poet
1824 - Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1906
1825 - Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor
1827 - Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway)
1828 - Jonathan Hutchinson, surgeon/scientist
1834 - James "Cardinal" Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore
1838 - Edouard [Judas] Colonne, composer/violinist
1841 - Edward John Armstrong, poet
1849 - Geza Zichy, composer
1851 - Charles Bannerman, Aussie cricket batsman (1st centurion)
1853 - William H Gillette, actor (Sherlock Holmes on stage)
1856 - Arthur H Bird, composer
1856 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindi leader
1857 - French [M J Francois] Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years)
1861 - Alexander W F Idenburg, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1909-16)
1864 - Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (d. 1903)
1865 - Friedrich Aereboe, landhuishoudkundige
1865 - Max Heindel, Danish Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (d. 1919)
1866 - Francesco Cilea, composer
1876 - William Gillies Whittaker, composer
1883 - Alan Francis Brooke, 1st viscount Alanbrooke fieldmarshal [or Jul 4]
1884 - Albert Warner, US producer (Warner Bros)
1884 - Apolinary Szeluto, composer
1884 - Emil Jannings, Germany, actor (Faust, Passion, Blue Angel)
1886 - Arthur Whitten Brown, aviator
1886 - John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist
1886 - Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, writer/diplomat
1886 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
1888 - Raymond Chandler, Chic, mystery writer (Farewell My Lovely)
1888 - Gluyas Williams, SF, cartoonist (Fellows Citizen)
1888 - Milan Stoyadinovich, Serbia, fascist Yugoslavia PM (1935-39)
1891 - Maurus H Hulsman, Dutch priest/editor (Amigoe di Curacao)
1892 - Haile Selassie, [Ras Tafari Makonnen], emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74)
1892 - Petros John Petridis, composer
1893 - Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic)
1894 - Arthur Treacher, Brighton England, announcer (Merv Griffin Show)
1895 - Florence Vidor, [Arto], Houston Texas, actress (Jack Knife Man)
1895 - Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
1898 - Mervyn "Red" Dutton, Manitoba, 2nd NHL pres (1943-46)
1898 - Jacob Marschak, American economist (d. 1977)
1899 - Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany
1901 - Hank Worden, American actor and rodeo cowboy (d. 1992)
1902 - Walter Burle Marx, composer
1904 - Adone Zecchi, composer
1905 - Erich Itor Kahn, composer
1906 - Clancy Cooper, actress (Enchanted Forest, Girls in Chains)
1906 - Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist
1906 - Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (d. 1931)
1907 - Elspeth Josceline Huxley, English author
1908 - Karl Swenson, Bkln NY, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie)
1910 - Pimen, [Sergei Irzjekov], patriarch Russian-Orthodox Cathederal
1912 - Michael Wilding, England, actor (Courtney Affair, World of Suzie Wong)
1913 - Coral Browne, Melbourne Aust, actress (Margaret-Time Express)
1913 - Michael Foot, MP
1914 - Alastair Down, CEO (Burmah Oil)
1916 - Ben Weber, St Louis Missouri, composer (Thorne Music Award-1965)
1916 - Ronald Ridout, school textbook author
1917 - Charles Kerruish, president (Tyndwald Isle of Man)
1917 - John Stokes, MP
1917 - Kurt Kreuger, St Moritz Switz, actor (Fear, Unfaithfully Yours)
1918 - Bueno de Mesquita Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1918 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1919 - [Harold] Pee Wee Reese, Hall of Fame shortstop (Dodgers)
1920 - Malcolm Hughes, artist
1920 - Marcel Maeyer, [de Maeyer], Belgian sculptor/graphic artist
1920 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (d. 1999)
1921 - Calvert DeForest, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Larry "Bud" Melman)
1921 - David Lawmn, CEO (Prestige Group)
1921 - Harry Hookway, pro-chancellor (Loughborough University)
1921 - Heinz Bennent, Aachen Germany, Actor (Possession)
1921 - Jerome Rosen, composer
1921 - Peter Twiss, test pilot
1922 - Moses Rosen, chief Rabbi of Romania
1923 - Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (d. 1997)
1923 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (d. 1958)
1923 - Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (d. 2001)
1924 - Betsy Haworth, deacon/minister
1924 - Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (d. 2005)
1925 - Donna Anderson, Akiak AK, actress (On the Beach
1925 - Gloria De Haven, LA, actress (Bog, Yellow Cab Man, Irene-Nakia)
1925 - Pierre Baugniet, Belgium, pairs ice skater (Olympic-gold-1948)
1926 - Ludvik Vaculik, writer
1927 - Al[fred] A McCandless, (Rep-R-CA, 1983- )
1927 - Elliot McKay See Jr, Dallas Texas, astronaut
1928 - Leon Fleisher, SF California, pianist/conductor (Annapolis Symph 1973-77)
1928 - Hubert Selby Jr., American author (d. 2004)
1929 - Andrew Rutherford, warden (Goldsmith's College)
1931 - Jan Torell, Limhamm Sweden, director (New Land, Emigrants)
1931 - Richard Searby, deputy-chairman (News Corp Ltd-Australia)
1931 - Viktor Korchnoi, chess champ
1931 - Te Atairangi Kaahu, Māori Queen (d. 2006)
1931 - Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter
1932 - Alistair Graham, headmaster (Mill Hill School)
1933 - Bert Convy, St Louis Mo, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw)
1933 - Richard Rogers, English architect
1934 - Nicholas Barrington, high commissioner (Pakistan)
1935 - Cleveland Dunkin, rocker (Penguins)
1935 - Hein Heinsen, Danish artist
1936 - Anthony M Kennedy, California, 106th Supreme Court justice (1988- )
1936 - Don Drysdale [Donald Scott], Van Nuys, California, American MLB player (LA Dodgers-Cy
           Young 1962)
1937 - Dave Webster, Led his football team to a National Championship in 1958
1937 - Bruce Surtees, Los Angeles, California, cinematographer (Dirty Harry, Lenny), (d. 2012)
1938 - Ronny Cox, Cloudcroft Mass, actor (St Elsewhere)
1938 - Götz George, German actor
1940 - Don Imus, radio disc jockey (WNBC)
1940 - Gary Stites, rock vocalist (Lonely For You)
1941 - Richie Evans, 9 time NASCAR Modified Champion (died at Martinsville in 1985)
1942 - John de Hont, Dutch guitarist (ZZ & Masks)
1942 - Madeline Bell, US singer (Black Nativity)
1942 - Myra Hindley, English murderer (d. 2002)
1942 - Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian politician
1943 - Tony Joe White, rocker
1943 - Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d. 2007)
1944 - Dino Danelli, Jersey City NJ, rock drummer (Fotomaker, Young Rascals)
1944 - Judith A Bosch, Dutch radio/TV-hostess (Tweekamp, Zeskamp)
1945 - Harold W Hennep, Arubians/Dutch dancer/actor (Plus Echo)
1946 - Andy MacKay, London, rock sax/oboe (Roxy Music-Dance Away)
1946 - Keith Ferguson, blues guy (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1947 - David Essex, [Cook], London, rock vocalist/actor (That'll be the Day)
1947 - Spencer Christian, weatherman (Good Morning America)
1947 - Torsten Palm, Swedish racing driver
1948 - John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
1949 - Clive Rice, South African cricket all-rounder (WSC 1978-79, ODI 1991)
1950 - Alan Turner, Aussie cricket left-handed opener (World Cup ton 1975)
1950 - Belinda J Montgomery, Winnipeg, actress (Man From Atlantis)
1950 - Blair Thornton, rock guitarist (Bachman-Turner-Overdrive)
1950 - Ian Thomas, rocker
1950 - Kaity Tong, news anchor (WABC-TV NYC)
1950 - Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born American judge
1951 - Edie McClurg, Kansas City MO, actress (Cinderella-1985, Hogan Family)
1951 - Terry Davis, NYC, actress (Stacey Winthrop-Another World)
1952 - Janis Siegel, NYC, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction)
1952 - Paul Hibbert, cricketer (one Test Aust v India 1977, scored 13 & 2)
1953 - Graham Gooch, cricketer (prolific England opener & captain)
1955 - Marisa DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
1957 - Harry Stefanki, Mento Park Cal, tennis star
1957 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004)
1958 - Kenneth J Green, Danbury CT, PGA golfer (1985 Buick Open)
1958 - Lydia Cornell, El Paso Tx, actress (Sara Rush-Too Close for Comfort)
1959 - Nancy Savoca, American filmmaker
1960 - Al Perez, American professional wrestler
1961 - Antoine Carr, NBA forward/center (Utah Jazz)
1961 - Martin Gore, rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough)
1961 - Woody Harrelson, Midland Tx, actor (Woody Boyd-Cheers)
1961 - André Ducharme, Canadian (Québécois) humorist (Rock et Belles Oreilles) and author
1962 - Eriq La Salle, Hartford CT, actor (Dr Peter Benton-ER)
1962 - Terry-Jo Myers, Ft Myers FL, LPGA golfer (1988 Mayflower Classic)
1963 - Siobodan Zivojinovic, Yugoslavia, tennis star
1964 - Greg Best, Lynchburg VA, Equestrian athlete (Olympic-silver-88, 92)
1964 - Ed Forchion, American marijuana activist
1965 - Brett Faryniarz, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1965 - Slash, [Saul Hudson], London England, rock guitarist & songwriter (Guns N' Roses-Sweet
           Child o' Mine)
1966 - Micheal Williams, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1967 - Nicole Jagerman, Netherlands, tennis star
1967 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
1968 - Amy Fruwirth, Cypress CA, LPGA golfer (1995 McCall's LPGA-4th)
1968 - Beth Ehlers, Queens NY, actress (Harley Cooper-Guiding Light, Hunger)
1968 - Christopher "Chris" Kerber, Collingswood NJ, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Douglas Craft, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 - Elden Campbell, NBA forward/center (LA Lakers)
1968 - Gary Payton, NBA guard (Seattle Supersonics)
1968 - Stefan Figliuzzi, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1968 - Stephane Seymour, model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover-1988)
1968 - Nick Menza, American musician, drummer
1969 - Andrew Cassels, Bramalea, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)
1969 - Dimitri Khristich, Kiev Ukr, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1969 - Fernanda Ribeiro, Portugal, 10k runner (Olympics-gold-96)
1969 - Reyhan Agaoglu, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Sam Waters, Camp Springs Md, singer (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up)
1970 - Charisma Carpenter, American actress
1970 - Thea Dorn, German writer
1971 - Aimee Rinehart, Miss Missouri USA (1996)
1971 - Alison Krauss, Decatur Ill, country singer (2 Highways)
1971 - Dalvin DeGrate, American singer
1971 - Christopher Lee, Singaporean actor and model
1972 - Marlon Wayans, comedian (Wayans Bros, In Living Color)
1972 - Oscar McBride, NFL tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 - Seth Dittman, NFL offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colt, London Monarchs)
1972 - Trisha Fallon, Australian basketball forward (Olympics-bronze-96)
1973 - Darvin Ham, NBA forward (Wash Wizards)
1973 - Kyle Walters, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1973 - Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player
1973 - Omar Epps, American actor
1973 - Francis Healy, Scottish rock musician (Travis)
1973 - Monica Lewinsky, San Francisco California, American White House intern (improper relationship
           with Bill Clinton)
1973 - Himesh Reshammiya, Indian Bollywood composer, singer and actor.
1974 - Maurice Greene, KC Kansas, 100m runner
1974 - Tara Williams, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury)
1974 - Terry Glenn, American football player
1974 - Sonny Siaki, Samoan-born professional wrestler
1974 - Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian cyclist
1974 - Kathryn Hahn, American actress
1975 - Seong Hyeon-ah, South Korean actress
1975 - Surya Sivakumar, Tamil actor
1976 - Inger Lise Ebeltoft, Miss Universe-Norway (1996)
1976 - Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
1976 - Jonathan Gallant, Canadian musician (Billy Talent)
1977 - Neicer Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer
1977 - Scott Clemmensen, American ice hockey player
1978 - Stuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer
1978 - Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer
1979 - Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
1979 - Perro Aguayo, Jr., Mexican professional wrestler
1979 - Richard Sims, Zimbabwean cricketer
1980 - Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny's Child)
1981 - Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41)
1981 - Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
1982 - Schottzie Schott, dog mascot of Cincinnati Reds
1982 - Gerald Wallace, American basketball player
1983 - Andrew Eiden, American actor
1983 - Bec Hewitt, Australian actress
1983 - Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
1984 - Brandon Roy, American professional basketball player
1985 - Luis Ángel Landín, Mexican footballer
1985 - Matthew Murphy, English musician (The Wombats)
1986 - Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
1986 - Nelson Philippe, French racing driver
1986 - Reece Ritchie, English actor
1988 - Pippa Bennett-Warner, English actress
1989 - Daniel Radcliffe, London, actor (Harry Pottter in the Harry Potter series of movies)
1996 - Rachel G. Fox, American actress

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This Day in History for 23rd July


Famous Deaths

                 
US President                                           Singer Amy Winehouse (2011) 
Ulysses S. Grant (1885)


945 - Richarius, bishop of Luik (922-45), dies
1227 - Qiu Chuji, Chinese Taoist (b. 1148)
1373 - Birgitta van Sweden, Swedish saint, dies
1403 - Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], killed in battle at 39
1403 - Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (b. 1343)
1531 - Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers
1568 - Don Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip II, dies at about 23
1581 - Georges Lalaing, viceroy of Friesland, dies
1584 - John Day, English printer (b. 1522)
1645 - Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov, dies
1685 - Pietro Reggio, composer, dies at 53
1690 - Richard Gibson, minature painter, dies
1692 - Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
1727 - Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
1757 - Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (La Silvia), dies at 71
1764 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (b. 1703)
1773 - George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)
1781 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1793 - Thomas Mckean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 72
1803 - Arthur Wolfe, 1st viscount Kilwarden/Chief Justice of Ireld, murdered
1816 - Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68
1829 - Wojciech Boguslawski, composer, dies at 72
1840 - Frantisek Max Knize, composer, dies at 55
1844 - Christian Gobrecht, 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office
1853 - Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (b. 1798)
1866 - Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer, dies at 83
1875 - Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63
1878 - Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer, dies at 70
1878 - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (b. 1804)
1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US pres, dies in Mount McGregor NY, at 63
1904 - John Simon, public health pioneer, dies
1905 - Jean-Jacques, painter, dies
1909 - Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65
1909 - Zygmunt Noskowski, composer, dies at 63
1916 - William Ramsey, chemist, dies
1920 - Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (b. 1835)
1924 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850)
1927 - Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman, dies at 74
1930 - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer/airplane builder, dies at 52
1932 - Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (b. 1884)
1933 - Max Schillings, German composer/conductor (Mona Lisa), dies at 65
1942 - Andrew Ducat, cricketer (England 1921), dies whilst batting at 56
1942 - Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32
1942 - Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
1943 - Emanuel Querido, publisher (Sobibor), dies
1943 - Meijer de Hond, [Emanuel Querido], rabbi (Sobibor), dies
1944 - Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp
1944 - Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed
1944 - Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian (Der Anarchismus), dies at 79
1946 - James Maxton, politician, dies
1948 - D[avid] W[ark] Griffith, US director/producer, dies
1951 - Henri Philippe Pétain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime), dies
1951 - Robert Joseph Flaherty, documentary film maker, dies
1955 - Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Un soir de joie), dies at 55
1955 - Cordell Hull, statesman, dies
1955 - Harry Haden, actor (Harry-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 73
1957 - G Tomasi di Lampedusa, writer, dies at 61
1961 - Esther Dale, actress (Birdie-Ma & Pa Kettle), dies after surgery at 75
1964 - Jan PML de Vries, Dutch germanist/folklorist, dies at 74
1966 - Donald Novis, singer/actor (Pajama Game), dies at 60
1966 - Douglass Montgomery, actor (Forbidden, Daybreak), dies at 56
1966 - [Edward] Montgomery Clift, actor (From Here to Eternity), dies at 45
1968 - Don Lillis, NFL president (NY Jets)
1968 - Henry Hallett Dale, physiologist, dies
1969 - Deli Floyd, writer, dies
1971 - Van Heflin, actor (Great Adventure), dies at 60
1973 - Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot, dies at 82
1973 - Marius-Francois Gaillard, composer, dies at 72
1974 - Mary Forbes, actress (Nun-Les Miserables, Ivy), dies at 90
1976 - Wilhelmina Von Bremen, 4X100 relay sprinter (Oly-gold-32), dies at 64
1977 - René de Vos, Dutch actor/composer (Jij Bent Mijn Leven), dies at 79
1979 - Keith Godchaux, rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at 31
1979 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (b. 1898)
1980 - Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
1980 - Mollie Steimer, anarchist agitator and American political prisoner (b. 1897)
1982 - Vic Morrow, actor (Cimmaron), killed during "Twilight Zone" at 53
1982 - Betty Parsons, American artist and art dealer (b. 1900)
1983 - Georges Auric, French composer (It Always Rains on Sunday), dies at 84
1984 - Lloyd Gough, actor (Black Bart, Tolsa), dies of aortic aneurism at 77
1985 - Kay Kyser, bandleader (Kay Kyser's Kollege), dies at 79
1985 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
1986 - Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, composer, dies at 73
1988 - Jahangir Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for India 1932-36), dies
1989 - Donald Barthelme, American author (b. 1931)
1990 - Georges Flamant, actor (La Chienne), dies in Paris at 86
1990 - Joe Turner, jazz pianist, dies of cardiac arrest at 82
1990 - Robert Sommer, singer, dies of liver failure at 42
1990 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (b. 1899)
1992 - Arletty, French actress (Hotel, Longest Day), dies at 94
1992 - Maxine Audley, Brit actress (Vikings, Our Man in Havana), dies at 69
1993 - James Jordan, father of NBA star Michael Jordan, found dead near McColl SC
1994 - Aad Ivens, Dutch checkers player, dies at 80
1994 - Hans J Salter, Aust/US composer (Deanna-Durbin musicals), dies at 98
1994 - Henry William Collins, artist, dies at 84
1995 - Bob Rundick, poet/DJ, dies at 52
1995 - Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 80
1996 - Aliki Vougiouklaki, actress (Madalena), dies at 63
1996 - Jessica Lucy Mitford, author, dies at 78
1996 - John Corner, scientist, dies at 80
1997 - Andrew Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versage), commits suicide
1997 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
1999 - King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
2001 - Eudora Welty, American author (b. 1909)
2002 - Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)
2002 - William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (b. 1933)
2002 - Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (b. 1929)
2003 - James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) (b. 1962)
2004 - Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932)
2004 - Carlos Paredes, Portuguese musician and composer (b. 1925)
2004 - Piero Piccioni, Italian musician, conductor and composer (b. 1921)
2004 - Serge Reggiani, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
2005 - Ted Greene, American jazz guitarist and teacher (b. 1946)
2006 - Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1927)
2007 - Tor Kamata, American/Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1937)
2007 - Ron Miller, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1933)
2007 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
2008 - Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1924)
2010 - Daniel Schorr, American journalist (b. 1916)
2011 - Amy Winehouse, British singer songwriter, dies from a drug overdose at 27
2012 - Sally Kristen Ride, American astronaut, dies from pancreatic cancer at 61

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This Day in History for 24th July


Historical Events

                                   
First US President                                    US President & General                                  Last Tsar of Russia
George Washington                                 Andrew Jackson                                      Nicholas II Aleksandrovitch

                                   
US Secretary of State                               Irish Poet and Playwright                          American Baseball Player
Frank Kellogg                                          Brendan Behan                                                   Roger Maris

                                   
French President                                  Heavyweight Boxing Champion                    New York Yankees Owner
Charles de Gaulle                                            Muhammad Ali                                       George Steinbrenner


Professional Road Cyclist and
Testicular Cancer Survivor
Lance Armstrong


1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1148 - Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1411 - Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
1487 - Citizens of Leeuwarden Neth rebel against ban on foreign beer
1534 - Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France
1567 - Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate & 1-year-old James VI becomes King of Scots
1577 - Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur
1577 - Treason of Don Juan in Brussels
1581 - States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange
1651 - Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va
1673 - Edmund Halley enters The Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
1683 - 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord
1692 - French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein)
1701 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft Pontchartrain, which later becomes the
           city of Detroit
1704 - English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
1712 - Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII
1758 - George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess
1783 - Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
1793 - France passes 1st copyright law
1799 - William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York
1823 - Slavery is abolished in Chile.
1824 - Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for
           Andrew Jackson
1832 - Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using
           Wyoming's South Pass.
1833 - HMS Beagle departs Maldonado Uruguay
1847 - Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT
1847 - Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, NYC
1851 - Window tax abolished in Britain
1861 - Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)VA - CS Gen Wise retreats
1863 - Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia
1864 - Battle of Winchester, VA US1200 CS600
1866 - Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union
1870 - 1st trans-US rail service begins
1877 - 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers
1883 - Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt
1886 - China takes British protectorate of Burma
1893 - For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern
           seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago
1900 - Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed
1901 - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement
           from a bank.
1902 - Trumper a century before lunch 4th Test Cricket v England
1905 - Treaty of Bjorko: Emperor Wilhelm II/Tsar Nicholas II
1908 - John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record)
1909 - Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates
1910 - Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull
1911 - Hiram Bingham discovers Lost City of the Incas
1911 - Cleve's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss'
           family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3
1915 - Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die
1919 - Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)
1921 - Belgium's Leon Scieur wins Tour de France
1923 - Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne
1925 - Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs
1927 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1929 - NY to SF foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
1929 - Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
1931 - George Gunn gets 183 & son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings
1931 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6)
1931 - A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
1933 - German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe
1933 - #1726 Hoffmeister, #2136 Jugta, #2158, #3957 Sugie & #4589 McDowell
1934 - 1st ptarmigan hatched & reared in captivity, Ithaca, NY
1935 - 1st greeting telegram sent in Britain
1935 - The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
1936 - 118°F (48°C), Minden, Nebraska (state record)
1936 - 121°F (49°C), near Alton, Kansas (state record)
1936 - Gen Mola & Cabanellas form Spanish anti-government
1937 - Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
1938 - Instant coffee invented
1940 - 1st illegal "Newsletter of Pieter It Hen" publishes in Netherlands
1940 - Linthorst Homan, de Quay & Einthoven forms Dutch Union
1941 - FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
1941 - Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz Lithuania
1941 - Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game
1942 - Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army," premieres in NYC
1943 - RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)
1944 - 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions
1944 - Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
1944 - US troops land on Tinian
1945 - US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam
1946 - 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash
1946 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1948 - 4 Duluth Minn Dukes (St Louis Cards Class C farm team) die in crash
1948 - Soviets blockades Berlin from west
1949 - Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5
1950 - V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
1952 - 112°F (44°C), Louisville, Georgia (state record)
1952 - Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6)
1952 - Pres Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1953 - KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Ali Sastroamidjojo of government resigns in Indonesia
1955 - Betty Jameson/Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1956 - Brendan Behan's "Quare Fellow," premieres in London
1956 - Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City
1957 - KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - 14 people named 1st life peers in UK
1958 - Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again
1958 - Test Cricket debuts against NZ for Dexter, Illingworth & Subba Row
1959 - 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
1959 - VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"
1960 - 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron
1961 - Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
1961 - Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show
1961 - Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader
1963 - 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1963 - Dutch government of Marijnen forms
1964 - -27) race riot in Rochester, New York, 4 killed
1965 - "Flora, the Red Menace" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1965 - Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"
1965 - Casey Stengel resigns as manager of NY Mets
1965 - Rock group "Animals" 1st time on British charts
1966 - 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron
1966 - Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open
1967 - 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colo
1967 - Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana
1967 - Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!'
1967 - Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City
1967 - Norway requests European Common Market membership
1967 - Race riots in Cambridge Maryland
1967 - Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game
1968 - Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances
1969 - Apollo 11 returns to Earth
1969 - Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game
1969 - Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal
1970 - Intl Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule
1970 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 - Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16
1972 - Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
1973 - 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC
1973 - All star MVP: Bobby Bonds (SF Giants)
1974 - Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
1975 - Apollo 18 returns to Earth
1976 - John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes
1977 - 32nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1977 - Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881
1977 - Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring
           33 consecutive batsmen
1978 - "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premieres in NYC
1978 - Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe
1978 - Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games
1978 - Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one"
           comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson
1979 - Pres Carter names Paul Volcker, pres of Federal Reserves
1979 - Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR
1981 - Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran
1982 - "Best Little Whorehouse in Tx" closes at E O'Neill NYC after 63 perfs
1982 - KHJ (LA) & KFRC (SF) become 2nd & 3rd stereo AM stations
1982 - Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
1983 - "Mame" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances
1983 - 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switz (2-1)
1983 - Lauren Howe wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1983 - Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
1983 - Pine Tar Game: Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned)
1983 - Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
1985 - Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
1986 - SF Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage
1987 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
1987 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1988 - 43rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann
1988 - US & Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 - Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America
1990 - Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus
1990 - US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its
           border with Kuwait
1991 - Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign
1991 - U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
1992 - Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3/1/93)
1992 - Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die
1993 - Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
1994 - 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1994 - 49th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1994 - Asociación de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms
1994 - Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India
1994 - Miguel Indurain wins Tour de France
1998 - Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two
           police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as
           Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power
           through democratic election to a different office.
2002 - James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420
           to 1.
2005 - Lance Armstrong retires after winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France victory
2007 - Libya frees all six of the Medics in the HIV trial in Libya.
2012 - John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills
2012 - Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in Sverdlovsk, Russia

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This Day in History for 24th July


Famous Weddings

1554 - Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem
1993 - Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown
1993 - Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32)
2004 - "The Calling" singer Alex Band (23) weds "Cleopatra 2525" actress Jennifer Sky (27) in West
           Palm Beach, Florida
2004 - Former MSNBC news anchor Ashleigh Banfield (36) weds real estate financier Howard Gould
          (31) in Kenora, Ontario
2010 - "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" actress and a well-known model Cynthia Bailey weds
           entrepreneur Peter Thomas at Fernback Museum of Natural History in Atlanta

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 24th July


Famous Birthdays

                               
Historical Novelist                                    Recording Artist
Alexandre Dumas (1802)                           Jennifer Lopez (1969)


1380 - Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint
1660 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (d. 1718)
1686 - Benedetto Marcello, composer [or Aug 9]
1720 - Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik
1725 - John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)
1738 - Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart)
1757 - Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825)
1759 - Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21)
1783 - Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, political and military leader (freed 6 Latin American
           republics from Spanish rule), (d. 1830)
1786 - Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
1794 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (d. 1865)
1796 - Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman
1796 - John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, (Sen-Del)/US Sec of State (1849-50)
1798 - John Adams Dix, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
1802 - Alexandre Dumas, Aisne France, author (3 Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo), (d. 1870)
1802 - Ira Aldridge, African American stage actor
1803 - Alexander Jackson Davis, US, architect (gothic revivalist)
1815 - Antoine T D'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) [or Jan 3, 1810]
1817 - Adolf WAKF, grand duke of Luxembourg (1890-1905)
1818 - Felix Godefroid, composer
1821 - William Poole, American gang member (New York City's Bowery Boys) (d. 1855)
1826 - Francisco S Lopez, [Tiran], president of Paraguay (1862-70)
1826 - Ivan Bloch, Polish military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902)
1827 - Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1912
1832 - Johann Christoph Lauterbach, violinist
1841 - Raimundo Madrazo y Garretta, painter
1851 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1856 - Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1857 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917)
1858 - Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920)
1860 - Alfons Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939)
1862 - Johan A de Sleeve, [Adwaita], philosopher/classical/poet (Brahman)
1864 - Frank Wedekind, German playwright (The "Lulu" plays)
1864 - Michel Gaston Carraud, composer
1867 - Fred Tate, cricketer (father of Maurice, 1 Test, Eng v Aus 1902)
1867 - Frederic Benson, novelist
1867 - Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (d. the same day 1908)
1870 - Fred Law Olmsted Jr, Staten Island NY, landscape architect
1874 - Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and writer (d. 1917)
1877 - Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1954)
1878 - Lord Dunsany, [Edward JMD Plunkett], Irish sci-fi writer (Time & Gods)
1880 - Ernest Bloch, Geneva Switzerland, composer (MacBeth)
1880 - Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
1884 - Abraham Rutgers, Dutch governor (Suriname, 1928-33)
1885 - Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer
1886 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japan, writer (Snow Dusting)
1888 - Arthur Richardson, Australian cricket batsman (20's)
1894 - Walter Schulthess, composer
1896 - Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom)
1897 - Elmar Berkovich, Hungarian/Dutch designer (Eindhoven Theatre)
1897 - Karl von Mechow, German writer (Auf Dem Wege, Vorsommer)
1897 - Amelia Earhart, US aviator (1st woman to solo Atlantic)
1898 - Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter
1899 - Chief Dan George, actor (Little Big Man)
1900 - Zelda Fitzgerald, 1st wife of F Scott
1902 - Hans Chemin-Petit, composer
1902 - Nora Swinburne, England, actress (Quo Vardis, Dinner at Ritz, River)
1903 - Robert Mills Delaney, composer
1904 - James R Killian Jr, MIT pres (1948-59)
1904 - Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (d. 1991)
1907 - Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario
1908 - Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (d. 1985)
1910 - Edward Ford, registrat Order of Merit
1910 - Harry Horner, stage/Film Designer
1913 - George H Brown, film producer
1913 - Johnny McAfee, Dallas Tx, singer (Sammy Kaye Show)
1914 - David Miles Bensuan-Butt, economist
1914 - Edwin Mirvish, owner (Old Vic)
1914 - Frank Silvera, Kingston Jamaica, actor (High Chaparral)
1914 - Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto)
1914 - Riccardo Malipiero, composer
1914 - Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac-Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers)
1915 - Frank Thistlethwaite, vice chancellor (University of East Anglia)
1915 - Enrique Fernando, Philippino jurist (d. 2004)
1916 - Bob Eberly, Mechanicsville NY, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band)
1916 - John D MacDonald, novelist (Deep Blue Goodbye)
1917 - John Hillaby, writer/traveller
1917 - Robert Farnon, composer/conductor/arranger
1917 - Simon Slattvik, Norway, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
1917 - Jack Moroney, Australian cricketer (d. 1999)
1918 - Ruggiero Ricci, SF California, composer/violinist (Paganini), (d. 2012)
1919 - Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice (d. 1999)
1919 - Ferdinand Kübler, Swiss cyclist
1920 - Alexander H Cohen, NYC, Broadway producer (Beyond the Fringe)
1920 - Bella Abzug, (Rep-D-NY, 1970-74)
1921 - Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2008)
1922 - Charles Mathias Jr, (Sen-R-MD, 1969-86)
1922 - Leo Kraft, composer
1922 - Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer
1924 - David Loram, British vice-admiral (Supreme Allied Commander)
1924 - Glenn Loren Glasow, composer
1924 - Janine Charrat, French ballerina/choreographer
1924 - Lord Digby, lord-lt for Dorset
1925 - Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (Gran Sol, Caballo the Pica)
1926 - Hans-Gunther Winkler, Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1926 - James Hele, high master (St Paul's School)
1927 - James J Howard, (Rep-D-NJ, 1965- )
1927 - Wilfred Josephs, composer
1929 - Alfred Binns, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper (1953-56)
1929 - Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist
1929 - Peter Yates, director (Breaking Away, Bullitt)
1930 - Boris Nikolayevich Belousov, cosmonaut
1930 - Charles Hambro, English banker/multi-millionaire/CEO (Hambros)
1930 - Jacqueline Brookes, Montclair NJ, actress (Jack & Mike, Another World)
1931 - Ermanno Olmi, Italian director
1931 - Éric Tabarly, French sailor (d. 1998)
1932 - William D Ruckelshaus, headed Environmental Protection Agency
1933 - John Aniston, Crete, actor (Search for Tomorrow, Day of our Lives)
1933 - Doug Sanders, American golfer
1934 - Jimmy Holiday, US singer (How Can I Forget)
1934 - Thomas Ambler, CEO (Texaco)
1934 - Willie Davis, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay)
1934 - Sante Kimes, American convicted con artist and murderess
1935 - George Varnals, South African cricket batsman (England 1964-65)
1935 - Les Reed, songwriter (Heroin)
1935 - Pat Oliphant, Australia, cartoonist (7 Pres: The Art of Oliphant)
1935 - Trevor Chinn, CEO (Lex)
1936 - Mark Goddard, Lowell Mass, actor (Don West-Lost in Space)
1936 - Ruth Buzzi, Westerly RI, comedienne (Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl)
1937 - Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education
1937 - Barry Lloyd Vercoe, composer
1937 - Quinlan Terry, architect
1938 - Colin Southgate, CEO (Thorn EMI)
1938 - John Sparling, NZ cricket all-rounder (11 Tests 1958-64)
1938 - Mike Mainieri, rocker
1938 - Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist
1939 - Barry [Norman] Malzberg, sci-fi author (Revelations, Beyond Apollo)
1939 - Bob Lilly, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1939 - Walter Bellamy, New Bern NC, NBA center (Knicks/Olympic-gold-1960)
1940 - Carroll A Campbell Jr, (Rep-R-SC, 1979-86)
1940 - Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
1940 - Dan Hedaya, American actor
1941 - Barbara Love, rocker
1942 - Chris Sarandon, WV, actor (Child's Play, Dog Day Afternoon, Lipstick)
1942 - Heinz Burt, Hargin Germany, rock bassist (Tornados)
1943 - Henk Vos, chemical analyst/Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
1943 - Jim McCarty, rocker (Yardbirds)
1943 - Lyudmila Bragina, USSR, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1944 - Barbara Thompson, jazz musician/composer/bandleader
1944 - Jim Armstrong, rock guitarist (Them)
1945 - Azim Premji, Indian businessman
1946 - William "Junior" Campbell, singer/guitarist (Marmalade)
1947 - Geoffrey McQueen, TV Writer
1947 - M Jacques Fouroux, rugby player
1947 - Michael Coveney, drama critic
1947 - Neil McIntosh, CEO (VSO, Center for British Teaching)
1947 - Peter Serkin, NYC, pianist (Tashi)
1947 - Robert Hays, Bethesda Md, actor (Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous)
1947 - Zaheer Abbas, cricketer (probably Pakistan's finest batsman ever)
1949 - Marjanne Sint, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 - Michael Richards, Los Angeles California, comedian (Fridays, Kramer-Seinfeld)
1950 - Dan Hedaya, actor (Cheers, Marvin's Room, Clueless)
1950 - Goutam Ghose, director (Patang, Voyage Beyond, Paar)
1950 - Sam Behrens, actor (Jake Meyer-General Hospital, Sunset Beach, LA Law)
1951 - Chris Smith, MP (Labour)
1951 - Lynda Carter, Phoenix Az, Miss USA (1973)/actress (Wonder Woman)
1952 - Vin Weber, (Rep-R-MN, 1981- )
1952 - Gus Van Sant, American film director
1953 - Jon Faddis, jazz trumpeter
1953 - Julian Brazier, MP
1953 - Steve Grogan, NFL QB (New England Patriots)
1953 - Claire McCaskill, American politician, junior senator from Missouri
1954 - Philippe Alliot, race driver (grand prix)
1955 - Lubov Odinokova, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1956 - Charles Crist, Governor of Florida
1957 - Dorothy Mays, Baltimore MD, playmate (Jul, 1979)
1957 - Pam Tillis, Plant City Fla, country singer (Melancholy Child)
1957 - Robbie Grey, rocker
1958 - Mick Karn, rocker
1958 - Pam Tills, Country music artist
1959 - Brian Fogt, Dayton OH, Nike golfer (1992 Ft Wayne Open-7th)
1959 - Edward Liddie, Union Ga, Judo fighter (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1961 - Kerry Dixon, English footballer
1962 - Kevin Butler, NFL kicker (Chic Bears)
1963 - Julie Krone, Benton Harbor Mich, jockey (1st female to win Belmont-93)
1963 - Karl Malone, Summeerfield LA, NBA forward (Utah, Oly-2 gold-92, 96)
1963 - Paul Geary, Boston Mass, heavy metal drummer (Extreme-More Than Words)
1964 - Barry Bonds, Riverside CA, left fielder (Pirates, SF Giants, 3X MVP)
1964 - Erminia Russo, Kelowna BC, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1964 - Teri Schroeder, Newport Beach Ca, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13-1993)
1964 - Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese author
1965 - Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player (Olympics-1984, 88, 92, 96)
1965 - Brian Blades, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1965 - Joe Oliver, Memphis TN, catcher (Cin Reds)
1965 - Kadeem Hardison, New York, American actor (A Different World, The Sixth Man)
1965 - Doug Liman, American film director
1966 - Martin Keown, English footballer
1967 - Jasper Teule, Dutch rock singer/bassist (Pilgrims-Once to Everything)
1968 - John P Navin Jr, Phila, actor (Joey Elliot-Jennifer Slept Here)
1968 - Mark Gunn, NFL defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1968 - Laura Leighton [Miller], Iowa City, Iowa, American actress (Melrose Place, Pretty Little Liars)
1968 - Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress
1968 - Colleen Doran, American comic book writer and artist
1968 - Malcolm Ingram, Canadian director
1969 - Chris King, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1969 - Rick Fox, NBA guard/forward (LA Lakers, Boston Celtics)
1969 - Steve Jennings, Wash DC, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1969 - Jennifer Lopez, Bronx New York, actress and pop singer (Selena)
1970 - Blaine Bishop, NFL safety (Houston Oilers)
1970 - Gerald Ressman, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1970 - Philip Sykes, Tacoma Wash, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1970 - Stephanie Adams, NJ, playmate (Nov, 1992)
1971 - Dino Baggio, Italian footballer
1971 - John Partridge, English singer
1972 - Kaiō Hiroyuki, Japanese sumo wrestler
1972 - Rev. Jen Miller, American performance artist
1973 - Tasha Ebanks, Miss Universe-Cayman Islands (1996)
1974 - Steve Bornhoeft, LaGrange Ill, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1975 - Gloria Pizzichini, Italy, tennis star
1975 - Eric Szmanda, American actor
1975 - Torrie Wilson, American wrestler
1976 - Anita Nall, US, breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-gold-1992)
1976 - Chris[tian] Patrick Raymond Ahrens, Whitefish Bay Wis, rower (Oly-96)
1976 - Scott Logan, Brisbane QLD Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese Formula One driver
1976 - Nate Bump, American baseball player
1977 - Arnold Bruggink, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
1977 - Lee EunHee, Miss Korea Universe (1997)
1977 - Danny Dyer, English actor and television presenter
1977 - Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player
1979 - Valerio Scassellati, Italian racing driver
1979 - Rose Byrne, Australian actress
1979 - Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress
1979 - Stat Quo, American rapper
1979 - Anne-Gaëlle Sidot, French tennis player
1979 - José Valverde, American baseball player
1980 - Wilfred Bungei, Kenyan middle-distance runner
1981 - Summer Glau, American actress
1982 - Anna Paquin, oscar winning actress (Piano)
1982 - Elise Crombez, Belgian model
1982 - Thiago Medeiros, Brazilian racing driver
1983 - Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer
1984 - John Dhani Lennevald, Swedish singer (A-Teens)
1985 - Patrice Bergeron, Canadian hockey player
1986 - Andrei Lutai, Russian figure skater
1986 - Megan Park, Canadian actress
1987 - Mara Wilson, actress (Mrs Doubtfire)
1988 - Luke Mitchell, Scottish murderer
1990 - Evan James Springsteen, Los Angeles California, rocker Bruce Springsteen's son
1990 - Daveigh Chase, American actress
1993 - Arissa Seagal, daughter of Kelly LeBrock & Steven Seagal
1998 - Bindi Irwin, Australian entertainer; daughter of Steve Irwin

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This Day in History for 24th July


Famous Deaths

             
Actor and Comedian
Peter Sellers (1980)


1115 - Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)
1240 - Konrad von Thüringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
1345 - Jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered
1568 - Prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545)
1594 - John Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1544)
1652 - Johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32
1712 - Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies
1739 - Benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday
1756 - George Vertue, engraver, dies
1758 - John Dyer, poet, dies
1768 - Nathanial Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)
1809 - Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer, dies at 74
1812 - Joseph Schuster, composer, dies at 63
1819 - Sophie Gail, composer, dies at 43
1826 - Jacob Kimball, composer, dies at 65
1831 - Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, dies at 41
1837 - Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter
1842 - John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies
1846 - Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81
1846 - Louis Napoleon, French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67
1862 - Martin Van Buren, 8th pres (1837-41), dies in Kinderhook NY at 79
1865 - Johan Filip von Schantz, composer, dies at 30
1868 - George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies
1876 - Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66
1883 - Matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls
1900 - Ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59
1908 - Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (b. the same day 1867)
1910 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)
1927 - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
1931 - Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75
1933 - Max von Schillings, composer, dies at 65
1936 - James Philip Dunn, composer, dies at 52
1944 - Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49
1947 - Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72
1954 - Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
1957 - Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers & Thieves), dies at 72
1960 - Carl Deis, composer, dies at 77
1960 - Hans Albers, German actor (Blue Angel), dies at 68
1962 - Victor Moore, comedian, dies of heart attack at 86
1964 - Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies
1965 - Constance Bennett, actress (Madame X, Topper), dies at 59
1965 - Irene Browne, actress (Peg O' My Heart), dies of cancer at 69
1966 - Tony Lema, US golfer, dies at 32
1967 - Little Billy Rhodes, dies of stroke at 72
1969 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64
1970 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897)
1971 - Alan Rawsthorne, composer, dies at 66
1972 - Bobby Ramirez, drummer (White Trash), killed at 23 in bar brawl
1973 - Mary Frasca, singer/actress, dies in NYC
1974 - Chris Chubbock, newscaster, shoots self on air
1974 - Ernest Milton, actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl), dies at 84
1974 - James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82
1979 - Archie Duncan, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65
1980 - Peter Sellers, actor (Pink Panther, Mouse that Roared), dies at 54
1980 - Uttam Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1926)
1986 - Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87
1986 - Laurie Nash, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1932-36), dies
1989 - Ernest Morrison, actor (Peggy Does Her Darndest), dies
1990 - Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54
1991 - Freddie Brown, cricketer (English Test captain 1950-51), dies
1991 - Isaac B Singer, Polish/US writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87
1991 - Karl Ellis, dies at 41
1992 - Arlette-Leonie Arletty, dies at 94
1992 - Khaled Mahmoud Saeed, asst to Palestine terrorist Abu Nidal, murdered
1992 - Lillian Oppenheimer, orgamist, dies of a heart attack at 93
1992 - Sam Berger, Canadian football owner (b. 1900)
1993 - Ben[jamin S] Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter, dies
1993 - Francis Bouygues, French entrepreneur/billionaire, dies at 70
1993 - Lonnie D'Orsa, dies at 96
1993 - Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (b. 1957)
1994 - Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress, dies at 82
1994 - Wangila Napunyi, welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1988), dies at 26
1995 - Don Richard Carpenter, novelist, dies at 64
1995 - Jeremiah Jerry Patrick Lordam, songwriter/compser, dies at 61
1995 - Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher, dies at 94
1995 - Werner Grusch, film director, dies at 51
1996 - "Jock" John Wallace, soccer player/manager, dies at 60
1996 - Howard Vernon, actor (Faceless, Delicatessen), dies at 82
1996 - Jock Wallace, football player/manager, dies at 60
1996 - Virginia Christine, actress (Mrs Olson), dies at 76
1997 - Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies
1997 - William J Brennan, supreme court justice (1956-90), dies at 91
2000 - Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (b. 1925)
2001 - Georges Dor, Canadian author, composer, singer and playwright (b. 1931)
2005 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (b. 1912)
2007 - Albert Ellis, American psychologist (b. 1913)
2007 - Chaney Kley, American Actor (b. 1972)
2008 - Norman Dello Joio, American composer (b. 1913)
2009 - E. Lynn Harris, American Author (b. 1955)
2010 - Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (b. 1949)
2011 - Frank Dietrich, German politician (b. 1966)
2012 - Chad Everett, American actor, dies from lung cancer at 75
2012 - Sherman Hemsley, American Actor, dies from natural causes at 74
2012 - John Atta Mills, Ghanaian President, dies at 68
2012 - Robert Ledley, American physiologist, biophysicist, and radiologist, dies at 86

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This Day in History for 25th July


Historical Events

                                   
King of Great Britain                               Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini                  Comedian Jerry Lewis
James I Stuart 

                                   
US President                                           Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan                  Comedienne and Actress
John F. Kennedy                                                                                                    Roseanne Barr


Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby


306 - Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
841 - Battle at Fontenay: Louis & Charles beat their brother Lotharius I
864 - The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
1139 - Count Alfonso I of Portugal proclaimed King
1215 - Frederick II (20) crowned king of the Romans
1261 - Constantinople recaptured by Nicaean forces under Alexios Strategopoulos for Emperor
           Michael VIII, re-establishing Byzantine Empire.
1360 - Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1511 - Portugese assault on city Malakka attack
1519 - San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba
1521 - About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent
1536 - Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the City of Santiago de Cali.
1538 - The City of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given
           the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
1547 - Henry II of France is crowned.
1564 - Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand I as Holy Roman Emperor
1567 - Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas,
           the capital city of Venezuela.
1570 - Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army
1585 - Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics
1593 - France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic faith
1603 - James VI of Scotland is crowned the first king of Great Britain.
1652 - Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1670 - Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
1670 - Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes gov-gen of Southern Neth
1689 - France declares war on England
1693 - Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo,
           Nuevo León, México.
1722 - The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border.
1729 - North Carolina becomes a royal colony
1758 - Seven Years' War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all
           French warships are destroyed or taken.
1759 - British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)
1775 - Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
1792 - Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion"
1792 - The Brunswick Manifesto issued to population of Paris promising vengeance if French Royal
           Family harmed.
1795 - The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
1797 - Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt
           of Tenerife (Spain).
1799 - French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir
1814 - Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British
1814 - George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive
1822 - Gen Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico
1824 - Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
1832 - 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies
1835 - Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine
1837 - The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William
           Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in
           London.
1848 - 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian
1850 - Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
1853 - Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
1860 - 1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yales)
1861 - Washington DC - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to
           preserve union & uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery
1861 - Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, NM Terr - Rebels attack Union troops
1863 - Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia
1866 - 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office
1866 - David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral of US Navy
1866 - US Grant named 1st general of Army
1868 - US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)
1871 - Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
1897 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful
           stories.
1898 - 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
1900 - Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match
1902 - James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1903 - Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
1907 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
1908 - Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key
           ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for
           manufacturing it.
1909 - France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across Engl Channel
1912 - Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
1913 - Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game
1913 - Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies
1914 - Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"
1914 - Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69
1916 - Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks
1917 - Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure
           (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1918 - Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif
1918 - Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed)
1920 - Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win
1922 - AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN)
1923 - German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1
1930 - Phila Athletics triple steal in 1st & 4th innings vs Cleveland
1933 - 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
1934 - Failed nazi coup in Austria
1936 - 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx
1938 - Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
1938 - Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet)
1939 - 5th & last Dutch government of Colijn, forms
1939 - NY Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win
1940 - John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi R
1941 - FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
1941 - Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory)
1942 - German troops occupy Rostov
1942 - German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
1943 - 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
1943 - Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
1943 - Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl
1943 - RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam
1944 - -26] Japanse banzai-attack on Guam
1944 - 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
1944 - Allied jailbreak at St-Lo (behind German lines)
1944 - US troop march into Guam
1944 - USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-Lo
1944 - World War II: Operation Spring - one of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 
           18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed.
1946 - 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
1946 - US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)
1946 - At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as
           a comedy team.
1947 - US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense
1947 - US Department of Army created
1949 - St Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Bkln 14-1
1952 - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)
1952 - Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth
1953 - NYC transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens
1954 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open
1956 - 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston
1956 - Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm
1956 - Jordan attacks UN Palestine force
1957 - Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1957 - Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England v WI Headingley
1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
1959 - SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
1960 - Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
1961 - Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a doubleheader
1961 - In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
1962 - House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex
1963 - Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
1963 - US, Russia & England sign nuclear Test ban treaty
1964 - "Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 338 performances
1964 - Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks
1964 - Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford
1964 - Race riot in Rochester NY
1965 - Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament
1966 - Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone
1966 - Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..."
1966 - Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River
1966 - Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
1966 - Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1967 - Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
1968 - Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth
1969 - 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Fillmore East, NY)
1969 - 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
1969 - Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick
           car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
1970 - "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1
1971 - Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open
1972 - 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad
1972 - All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cin Reds)
1972 - US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment
1973 - George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album
1973 - USSR launches Mars 5
1975 - "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres
1976 - Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01)
1976 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1978 - Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
1978 - Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
1978 - Cin Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games
1978 - John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
1978 - The Cerro Maravilla Incident occurs.
1978 - Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
1979 - 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record)
1980 - Train crash at Winsum, 9 die
1980 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
1982 - 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)
1982 - 37th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson
1982 - France performs nuclear Test
1983 - 1st non-human primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
1983 - Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
1984 - Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
1985 - Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
1985 - Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.32)
1985 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - Uganda suspends constitution following coup
1986 - Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
1987 - Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt
1987 - USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
1988 - Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA
1988 - Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France
1989 - Brandi Sherwood, of Idaho, crowned 7th Miss Teen USA
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Princess Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
1990 - KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle
1990 - Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)
1990 - Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Cincinnati Reds-San Diego Padres game
1990 - US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
1990 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1991 - Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles)
1991 - Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' HR in Yankee Stadium
1991 - Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned
           he tested positive for steroid use
1992 - 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain
1992 - Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Mudd
1993 - 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1993 - 48th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten
1993 - Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
1993 - Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France
1993 - The St James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
1994 - Jordan & Israeli end 46 year state of war (Wash DC)
1995 - A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train
           network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
1996 - Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs United States
1997 - Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby
1997 - Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian
1997 - Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas
1997 - QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs
1997 - Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling
1997 - Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in NYC
1997 - K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly called
           "untouchable"— to hold this office.
1999 - 54th US Women's Open Golf Championship
2000 - Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after
           takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
2007 - Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president
2012 - The 2012 Summer Olympics begin
2012 - Ivica Dačić is sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia
2012 - Italy's credit rating is downgraded to CCC+ by Egan-Jones

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This Day in History for 25th July


Famous Weddings

1993 - Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44)
2009 - "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" actor Marc Blucas (37) weds journalist Ryan Haddon (38) in Erie,
           Pennsylvania

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Famous Divorces

2012 - Actress Sunny Mabrey (36) divorces "Brotherhood" actor Ethan Embry (34) due to irreconcilable
          differences after almost 7 years marriage

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Actor Woody Strode (1914)                    Actress Estelle Getty (1923)                  Murder Victim Emmett Till (1941)

                     
NFL Running Back                                    Actor Matt LeBlanc (1967)                 
Walter Payton (1954)


975 - Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg, German chronicler
1016 - Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058)
1109 - Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85)
1336 - Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
1404 - Philips van Saint-Pol, Duke of Brabant
1421 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
1517 - Jacques Peletier (du Mans), French poet/scientist
1562 - Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1575 - Christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer
1579 - Valerius Otto, composer
1626 - Geeraerdt Brandt, Dutch theologist/poet/historian
1654 - Agostino Steffani, composer
1657 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer
1658 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
1683 - Pieter Langendijk, painter/etcher/playwright (Wiskunstenaars)
1691 - Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini)
1715 - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of Real Poetry)
1750 - Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806)
1761 - Charlotte von Kalb, German writer
1772 - Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer
1775 - Anna Symmes Harrison, Ohio, 9th 1st lady (1841)
1778 - Heinrich Gebhard, composer
1780 - Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer
1786 - Giacomo Cordella, composer
1795 - James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army)
1797 - Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge (d. 1889)
1799 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
1804 - Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Education
1816 - Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition)
1822 - Schuyler Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1824 - Richard James Oglesby, Union (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1832 - Simon Hassler, composer
1839 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
1840 - Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution
1844 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
1848 - Arthur Earl Balfour, (C), British PM (1902-05) (Balfour Declaration)
1855 - Edward Solomon, composer
1860 - Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917)
1865 - Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist/educator (Contact with Plants)
1866 - Frederick Frost Blackman, English botanist
1867 - Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Ewige Hochzeit)
1867 - Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
1870 - Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch vicar (Young Flanders)
1870 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1882 - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (d. 1942)
1883 - Alfredo Casella, Turin Italy, composer (La Giara)
1884 - Davidson Black, Canada, doctor of anatomy (identified Peking Man)
1885 - Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Caranchos de la Florida)
1890 - Julian Rivero, SF CA, actor (Son of Oklahoma, Via Pony Express)
1890 - Tom O'Brien, San Diego CA, actor (Physical Evidence)
1893 - Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper, Danny Boy)
1895 - Yvonne Printemps, Ermont France, singer/actress (Le Duel)
1896 - Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander (Normandy)
1896 - Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967)
1897 - Hermann Ambrosius, composer
1899 - Arthur Lubin, film director
1899 - Ralph Dumke, Indiana, actor (Movieland Quiz)
1900 - Enrique Amorim, Uruguayan author (La victoria no viene sola)
1901 - Walter Breedveld/Reinier de Muntel, writer (Een ship vergaat)
1901 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
1902 - Eric Hoffer, longshoreman/author (True Believer)
1903 - Andre Fleury, composer
1905 - Elias Canetti, Bulgarian/British novelist (Life-Terms, Nobel 1981)
1905 - Lila Lee, Union City NJ, actress (Midnight Girl, Blood & Sand)
1905 - Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
1907 - Jack Gilford, NYC, actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2)
1907 - Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
1908 - Joseph Mitchell, writer
1908 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
1908 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003)
1913 - John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man)
1914 - Woody Strode, actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante, Scream)
1915 - David Napley, solicitor
1916 - Ko van Dijk Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P)
1916 - Lucien Saulnier, Quebec politician (d. 1989)
1917 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1990)
1918 - Nan Grey, [Eschal Miller], actress (3 Grief Girl, Dracula's Daughters)
1918 - Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
1919 - Hubert Booi, Bonairian poet (Golgotha/Muchila)
1920 - Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
1921 - John Christopherson, artist/collector
1923 - Estelle Getty, New York City, New York, American actress (Golden Girls, The Golden Palace)
1923 - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
1924 - Frank Church, (Sen-D-Id, 1957-81)
1925 - Alistair Taylor, cricketer (one Test as opening bat for S Afr 1956)
1925 - Jerry Paris, SF California, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1926 - Teodor Grigoriu, composer
1926 - Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
1927 - Midge Decter, St Paul Minn, anti woman's lib (Liberated Woman...)
1927 - Stanley Dancer, harness racer (4 Hambletonians, 3 Trot Triple Crown)
1927 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003)
1927 - Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000)
1928 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
1928 - Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
1929 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
1929 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian hockey player (d. 1995)
1930 - Maureen Forrester, Montreal Canada, contralto (Ressurection Symphony)
1930 - Murray Chapple, cricketer (NZ Test batsman through the 1950's)
1930 - Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990)
1930 - Annie Ross, British jazz singer
1931 - Cornelis P van Dijk, Dutch minister of the Interior
1932 - Gibson N Kente, composer
1932 - Paul Joseph Weitz, Erie Pennsylvania, astronaut (Skylab 2, STS 6)
1934 - Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter
1935 - Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi businessman/billionaire/arms dealer
1935 - Barbara Harris, [Sandra Mankwitz], actress (Plaza Suite, Family Plot)
1935 - Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1935 - Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader
1936 - Gerry Ashmore, British racing driver
1936 - Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect
1937 - Colin Renfrew, English archeologist
1939 - Richard Akre Trythall, composer
1940 - John Pennel, pole vaulter (James E Sullivan Award-1963)
1941 - Nate Thurmond, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1941 - Raul Ruiz, Puerto Mott Chile, actor (Lexot, Capitolo 66)
1941 - Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer
1941 - Emmett Till, American lynching victim (d. 1955)
1942 - Felix Ph Ingold, writer
1943 - Janet Margolin, NYC, actress (Take the Money & Run, David & Lisa)
1943 - Jim McCarty, Liverpool, rock drummer (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
1943 - Roy Acuff Jr, rocker
1944 - Helga I "Mijanou" van Baarzel, Dutch actress (Klaverweide-Alicia)
1944 - Molly Bennett Aiken, founder (riding for the handicapped)
1944 - Tom Dawes, rocker
1945 - Donna Theodore, Broadway singer (Hollywood Talent Scouts)
1946 - John Gibson, American media host
1948 - Brian M[ichael] Stableford, UK, sci-fi author (Day of Wrath)
1948 - Steve Goodman, Chicago, singer/songwriter (Somebody Elses Trouble)
1950 - Mark Clarke, rocker (Uriah Heep)
1951 - Vanessa, [Conny Witteman], Dutch model/singer
1951 - Verdine White, US bassist (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1952 - "Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin, [Williams], NWA/WCW/AWA wrestler
1954 - Ken Greer, rock guitarist (Red Rider)
1954 - Lynn Frederick, Middlesex England, actress (Schizophrenia)
1954 - Walter Payton, Columbia Mississippi, NFL running back (Chicago Bears), (d. 1999)
1955 - Bantubonke Holomisa, minister of Defense of Transkei (1988- )
1955 - Iman, [Abdulmajid], Mogadishu Somalia, model/actress (Star Trek 6)
1955 - Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder
1957 - Bogdan Musiol, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1957 - Daniel W Bursch, Bristol PA, Lt Cmdr USN/Astronaut (STS 51, 68, 77)
1957 - Ray Billingsley, comic strip cartoonist (Curtis)
1957 - Roger Clinton, singer, President Clinton's half-brother
1958 - Henk Wanders, Dutch bassist (Frank Boeijen Group)
1958 - Thurston Moore, US guitarist/songwriter (Sonic Youth)
1960 - Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
1961 - Katherine Kelly Lang, Los Angeles California, actress (Brooke-Bold & Beautiful)
1961 - Bobbie Eakes, American actress
1962 - Doug Drabek, Victoria TX, pitcher (Houston Astros, NY Yankees)
1962 - Mike Buncic, Patterson NJ, discus thrower
1963 - Denis Coderre, French Canadian politician
1963 - Julian Hodgson, English chess player
1964 - Jose Bautista, Bani Dom Rep, pitcher (SF Giants)
1964 - Tony Granato, Downers Grove, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1965 - Illeana Douglas, Mass, actress (Picture Perfect, To Die For, Hacks)
1965 - Marty Brown, Owensboro Ky, country singer (Wildest Dreams)
1965 - Tom Dvorak, Braunschwieg GER, Canada equestrian dressage (Olympics-96)
1965 - Torey Lovullo, Santa Monica CA, infielder (Oakland A's)
1966 - Elke Jeinsen, Hanover Germany, playmate (May, 1993)
1966 - Maureen Herman, American bassist
1966 - Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer
1966 - Christine C. Quinn, American politician
1967 - Dave Jareckie, Mexico City Mexico, US biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1967 - Ed Sprague, Castro Valley CA, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1967 - Matt LeBlanc, Newton Massachusetts, actor (Joey Tribbiani-Friends)
1967 - Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress
1967 - Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee
1969 - Andrea Wieland, Atlanta GA, field hockey goaltender (Olympics-96)
1969 - Angela Melini, Saigon, Vietnam, playmate (Jun, 1992)
1969 - Jon Barry, NBA guard (LA Lakers, Golden State Warriors)
1969 - Kevin Smith, NFL tight end (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Trevor Peres, US, metal guitarist (Obituary-The End Complete)
1970 - Nicholas CEJ Windsor, son of English prince Edward, duke of Kent
1971 - Billy Wagner, Marion VA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1971 - Pedro Martinez, Manoguayabo Dom Rep, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1971 - Stacy Dawn Cenedese, Miss USA-Wyoming (1997)
1971 - Tracy Murray, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors, Wash Wizards)
1971 - Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter
1972 - Craig Howard, Redding California, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Rolex)
1972 - Kevin Roberts, cricketer (NSW middle-order batsman since 1994-95)
1973 - Dani Filth, British singer (Cradle of Filth)
1973 - David Denman, American actor
1973 - Kevin Phillips, English footballer
1973 - Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer
1974 - Lysa Jackson, Miss South Carolina USA (1996)
1974 - Todd Fuller, NBA center (SF Warriors)
1974 - Jay R Ferguson, Dallas, Texas, American actor (Evening Shade, Mad Men)
1974 - Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
1975 - Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer
1976 - Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet
1976 - Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 - Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
1978 - Caroline Nicole Brigman, Miss South Carolina Teen USA (1997)
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, Oldham England, world's 1st "test tube baby",,19820725::"Brad Renfro,
           actor (Client)
1978 - Gerard Warren, American football player
1978 - Louise Brown, Oldham, England, first test tube baby, (d. 2012)
1979 - Amy Adams, American singer
1979 - Allister Carter, English professional snooker player
1980 - Toni Vilander, Finnish racing driver
1980 - Diam's, French rapper
1980 - Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
1981 - Conor Casey, American soccer player
1981 - Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
1982 - Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)
1982 - Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer
1984 - Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
1985 - James Lafferty, American actor
1985 - Jasmine Lennard, English model
1985 - Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian race car driver
1987 - Michael Welch, American actor
1988 - Heather Marks, Canadian model
1988 - Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
1989 - Noel Callahan, Canadian actor

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th July


Famous Deaths

Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834)


306 - Gaius Flavius V Constantius, under-emperor of Rome 297-306, dies
1409 - King Martin I of Sicily
1471 - John Soreth, French general, dies
1492 - Innocent VII, [Giovanni B Cibo], Italian Pope (1484-92), dies
1539 - Lorenzo Campeggi(east), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat, dies at 65
1564 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1558-64), dies at 61
1570 - Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed
1580 - Baltazar Alvarez, Spanish jesuit/writer, dies at 47
1593 - Steven Haghen, navigator/governor of Ambon (1617-18), dies at 61
1616 - Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies
1624 - Steven van der Haghen, admiral/gov on Ambon 1617-8, dies at about 61
1643 - Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
1675 - Nicolas Saboly, composer, dies at 61
1676 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
1681 - Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
1721 - Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral of Zealand, dies at 66
1739 - Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogy/chronologist, dies at 73
1759 - Johann C Altnikol, German organist/klavecinist/composer, dies at 39
1759 - Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor, dies
1790 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
1790 - William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
1791 - Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
1794 - Andrea-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), dies
1804 - William Forsyth, English gardening expert (Forsythia), dies
1814 - Charles Dibdin, composer, dies at 69
1826 - Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer, hanged at 33 [OS Jul 13]
1826 - Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
1834 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, dies at 61
1842 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
1843 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
1853 - Joaquin Murieta, Mexican born Californian outlaw
1857 - Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54
1861 - Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)
1864 - Clement Hoffman Stevens, Us banker/inventor/Confederate brigadier general, dies at 42
1865 - "James Barry", military surgeon, first female Briton to become a qualified medical doctor
1866 - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies
1887 - John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
1911 - Filippo Capocci, composer, dies at 71
1912 - Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter, dies at 76
1918 - Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentine poet (Mexico, canto epico), dies
1918 - Franiska zu Reventlow, writer, dies at 47
1922 - Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer, dies at 75
1927 - Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies
1932 - Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (It Bolleken), dies [or 1936]
1934 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis
1934 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889)
1934 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
1944 - Lesley J McNair, US lt-general, killed by US bomb at St-Lo
1946 - Narziss Oh, German psychology, dies
1952 - Herbert Murrill, composer, dies at 43
1955 - Ilmari Hannikainen, composer, dies at 62
1955 - Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer, dies at 55
1958 - "Sensational" Sherri Martel, woman's wrestling champ (WWF)
1958 - Harry Warner, US movie pionier (Warner Bros), dies at 81
1959 - Isaac Halevi Herzog, chief rabbi of Israel (1936-59), dies at 71
1962 - Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (b. 1879)
1963 - Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
1966 - Frank O'Hara, writer, dies at 40
1966 - Montgomery Clift, movie actor (From Here to Eternity), dies
1967 - W Gombrowicz, writer, dies at 62
1969 - Douglas Stuart Moore, composer, dies at 75
1971 - Leroy Robertson, composer, dies at 74
1973 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
1974 - Walter Brennan, actor (Real McCoys), dies at 79
1980 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
1981 - Ian Martin, actor (Uncle Bill-O'Neills), dies at 69
1982 - Beene Dubbelboer, writer (Turfgasgenerator), dies at 76
1982 - Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valiant) (b. 1892)
1983 - Jerome Moross, US composer (Frankie & Johnny), dies at 69
1984 - Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1984 - Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
1986 - Theodore H "Ted" Lyons, pitcher (Chicago White Sox), dies at 85
1986 - Vincente Minnelli, director (Gigi, Goodbye Charlie), dies in LA at 76
1987 - Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce, dies of internal injuries
1989 - Steve Rubell, American night club owner (b. 1943)
1991 - Brian Haines, actor (Adv of Robin Hood, It), dies at 70
1991 - Kaganovitch, Russian minister of Transport for Stalin, dies
1991 - Toni Gerry, actress (Bullet for Joey, Lust for Life), dies at 61
1992 - Alfred Drake, Broadway actor (Oklahoma), dies of heart failure at 78
1992 - Hope Miller, actress (Bwana Devil), dies of breast cancer at 63
1993 - Nan Grey, actress (Invisible Man Returns), dies on 75th birthday
1994 - John M Dengler, jazz Bass Sax/Trumpet/Trombone, dies at 67
1995 - Charlie Rich, country singer (Lonely Weekends), dies at 62
1995 - Janice Elliott, novelist, dies at 63
1995 - Osvaldo Pugliese, musician/composer, dies at 89
1996 - Raymond O'Malley, teacher, dies at 87
1997 - Ben Hogan, golfer (Masters, Brit Open, US Open-1953), dies at 84
1997 - Dora Maar, Picasso model/companion, dies at 89
1997 - Margaret Farrer, midwife, dies at 83
1998 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
2002 - Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)
2003 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
2003 - Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
2003 - John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)
2005 - Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
2006 - Carl Brashear, first African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931)
2007 - Bernd Jakubowski, German goalkeeper (b. 1952)
2007 - Jesse Marunde, American strongman competitor (b. 1979)
2008 - Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known
           for his "Last Lecture" (b. 1960)
2008 - Tracy Hall, American inventor (b. 1919)
2008 - Jeff Fehring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1955)
2009 - Harry Patch, the last surviving soldier to have served in the Trenches in World War I, dies
           aged 111. (b. 1898)
2009 - Vernon Forrest, Professional boxer, 2-division world champion (b. 1971)
2009 - Alexis Cohen, American Idol contestant (unsuccessful), viral phenomenon (b. 1984)
2009 - Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter (b. 1958)
2010 - Redford White, Filipino comedian (b. 1955)
2011 - Mihalis Kakogiannis, Cypriot filmmaker (b. 1922)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 26th July


Historical Events

                                   
British Army Officer                                Military and Political Leader                    Composer Richard Wagner
that Defeated the French in Canada         Simon Bolivar
James Wolfe

                                   
Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio                     Baseball Great Babe Ruth                           Dictator Fidel Castro


657 - Battle of Siffin.
811 - Battle at Pliska: Bulgarian under monarch Krum beat Byzantine
920 - Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
1267 - Inquistion forms in Rome under pope Clement IV
1309 - Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
1469 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Edgecote Moor - Pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl
           of Warwick against those of King Edward IV.
1497 - "Edward IV's son" Perkin Warbecks army lands in Cork
1499 - Alonso dhe Ojeda discovers Curacao Island
1519 - Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America
1524 - James V declared by Scottish Parliament fit to govern
1529 - Francisco Pizarro appointed governor of Peru
1576 - Muitende Spanish troops conquer Aalst
1579 - Francis Drake leaves SF to cross Pacific Ocean
1588 - John Hawkins becomes a knight
1656 - Rembrandt declares he is insolvent
1663 - France annexes Venaissin
1678 - England & Netherlands signs treaty: sending ultimatum to France
1757 - Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats duke of Cumberland
1758 - British battle fleet under gen James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg
1759 - French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY
1760 - Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz Silezie
1775 - United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin
1788 - NY becomes 11th state to ratify constitution
1790 - US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts
1803 - The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London.
1805 - Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die
1822 - Secret meeting of Simon Bolivar & Jose de San Martin
1826 - Vilnus Lithuanian riots cause death of many Jews
1832 - HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo
1835 - 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
1847 - Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society
1847 - Moses Garrish Farmer builds 1st miniature train for children to ride
1848 - 1st Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)
1858 - Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament
1863 - Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan & 364 troops surrender
1864 - -31] Riot at McCook's to Lovejoy Station GA, US600 CS---
1864 - -31] Riot at Stoneman's to Macon GA, US1000 CS---
1864 - Battle at Ezra Chapel (Church), Georgia [Hood's Third Sortie]
1865 - Patrick Francis Healy is 1st black awarded PhD (Louvain Belgium)
1866 - Canoe Club opens in England
1878 - In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last
           clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will
           be found later with a taunting poem inside.
1881 - French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax
1882 - Richard Wagner's opera "Parsifal," premieres in Beirut
1887 - 1st Esperanto book published
1891 - Henry James' "American," premieres in London
1891 - France annexes Tahiti.
1897 - 37.5 cm rainfall at Jewell, Maryland (state record)
1902 - Australia beat England by 3 runs at Old Trafford
1908 - Predecessor of the FBI is created by the Department of Justice
1908 - United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately
           staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
1914 - Austrian-Hungary condemns Serbian ultimatum
1914 - British Min of Navy Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain
1914 - German chief of staff/gen von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium
1915 - International School for Wijsbegeerte forms
1917 - J. Edgar Hoover gets job on ministry of Justice
1918 - Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites & 1 black killed)
1926 - National Bar Association incorporates
1926 - Philippines government asks US to plebiscite for independence
1928 - Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1928 - Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1
1933 - Joe Dimaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League
1936 - The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
1937 - End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
1938 - 1st radio broadcast of "Young Widder Brown" on NBC
1939 - Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRs
1941 - 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague
1941 - US embargo on oil-export to Japan
1942 - RAF bombs Hamburg
1942 - RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism
1943 - 120°F (49°C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record)
1943 - Otto Skorzeny's commando group arrives in Rome
1944 - Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
1944 - Russian troops arrive in Weichsel
1944 - US offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St Gilles
1944 - The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain.
1945 - After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes PM
1945 - Declaration of Potsdam: US/Brit/China demands Japanese surrender
1945 - Japanese government disregards US ultimatum
1945 - US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb
1945 - Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister
1946 - President Harry Truman orders desegregation of all US forces
1946 - Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport
1947 - Department of Defense forms
1947 - National Security Act establishes CIA
1948 - "Babe Ruth Story," premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance
1948 - 1st black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show
1948 - Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as a NY Giant
1948 - Pres Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment &
           opportunity" in armed forces
1949 - WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - Dodgers' Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits HRs twice in a game
1950 - KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites
1951 - Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
1952 - King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday]
1952 - Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer
1953 - Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba
1953 - Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime
1953 - Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on
           residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
1954 - WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - 37th PGA Championship: Doug Ford at Meadowbrook CC Detroit
1955 - Last day as Test Cricket umpire for Frank Chester
1955 - Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers
1956 - Egypt seizes Suez Canal
1957 - Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200
1957 - USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
1957 - Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated
1958 - Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1960 - Italian government of Fanfani forms
1962 - Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba
1962 - Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher
1963 - Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
1963 - US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1963 - The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
1964 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open
1964 - Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy
1964 - Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die
1964 - US union leader James Hoffa sentenced for fraud
1965 - Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
1966 - WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1966 - Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is
           not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
1967 - Twins beat Yanks 3-2 in 18
1969 - Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific
1970 - Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive HRs of Phillies Steve Carlton
1971 - Apollo 15 launched (Scott & Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon
1973 - Peter Shaffers "Equus," premieres in London
1974 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 - USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
1975 - Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
1977 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1978 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1978 - Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run
1979 - Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, TX (national record)
1981 - 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela
1981 - 36th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley
1981 - NY Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant
1982 - Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket
1982 - Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe
1983 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8
1983 - Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czech sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28)
1983 - Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io
1984 - Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single
1984 - Kuhn announces Vida Blue is suspended due to cocaine conviction
1984 - Pitcher Vida Blue suspended for rest of 1984 due to drug use
1986 - Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco
1987 - Catfish Hunter Billy Williams & Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball Hall of Fame
1987 - Stephen Roche wins Tour de France
1988 - Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies & NY Mets end
           that game at 2:13 AM
1990 - General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode
1990 - President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
1990 - US beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games
1991 - CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders
1991 - Expo's Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th
1991 - Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie
           theater
1992 - "Man of La Mancha" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 108 perfs
1992 - 47th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1992 - England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war
1992 - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for 23rd consecutive seasons
1993 - Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed
1993 - Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km
1994 - Cambodia's Red Khmer surprise attack on train, kills 13
1994 - Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed
1998 - 19th US Senior Golf Open ends at Riviera CC, Pacific Palisades, Calif
2005 - Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission - Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight
           mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
2005 - Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a
           halt for over 2 days.
2005 - Samir Geagea, the Lebanese Forces (LF) leader, is released after spending 11 years in a
           solitary confinement. His release came after the end of the Syrian occupation to Lebanon.
2012 - At least 200 people are killed in a day of violence in Syria
2012 - Insurgent attack kills 19 people and destroys a helicopter at Baqubah, Iraq
2012 - North Korea is hit by Tropical Storm Khanun, killing 88 people and leaving 60,000 people
           homeless

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 26th July


Famous Weddings

1942 - Science fiction author Isaac Asimov (22) weds Gertrude Blugerman in Brooklyn, New York
1969 - "The 5th Dimension" lead vocalist Marilyn McCoo (25) weds fellow bandmate Billy Davis, Jr.
            (31)
1992 - "Kiss" guitarist Paul Stanley weds model Pamela Bowen
2006 - "The Da Vinci Code" actor Jean Reno (58) weds Polish model Zofia Borucka (35) at the city
           hall in Baux-de-Provence
2008 - Actress Jennifer Siebel (34) weds San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (40) at her parents
           horse ranch in Stevensville, Montana
2012 - NBA guard Rafer Alston (36) weds "Basketball Wives" star Ashley Walker at Walt Disney
           World in Orlando, Florida

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 26th July


Famous Divorces

2006 - Former Baywatch actor David Hasselhoff (54) divorces actress and singer Pamela Bach (42) due
           to irreconcilable differences after 16 years of marriage

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 26th July


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Playwright                                       Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875)       Film Director Stanley Kubrick (1928)
George Bernard Shaw (1856)


Actress Sandra Bullock (1964)


1030 - Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)
1467 - Ferdinand II, King of Naples
1678 - Joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor (1705-11)
1694 - Johann Samuel Endler, composer
1739 - George Clinton, NY, (D-R) 4th VP (1805-12)
1782 - John Field, Dublin Ireland, pianist/composer (Nocturnes)
1791 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM
1796 - George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes)
1799 - Isaac Babbitt, invented babbitt's metal for bearings
1801 - John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Comm (Union Navy), died in 1867
1802 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, London, poet/politician
1802 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
1805 - Constantine Brumidi, artist (Myrtle Murdock)
1820 - John Marshall Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1829 - August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94) (Nobel-1909)
1842 - Alfred Marshall, London, economist
1846 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880)
1855 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
1856 - George Bernard Shaw, Dublin Ireland, dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925), (d. 1950)
1858 - Tommy Garrett, cricketer (original Australian Test player)
1860 - Philippe J Bunau-Varilla, French engineer (Colombia-Panama)
1863 - Jazeps Witols, composer
1865 - Philipp Scheidemann, German Parliament (SPD)/mayor of Kassel
1866 - Francesco Cilea, composer
1872 - George Louis Beer, historian (authority on British colonies)
1874 - Serge Koussevitzky, Vishny-Volotchok, Russia conductor (Boston Symp)
1875 - Carl Gustav Jung, Switzerland, doctor (founded analytic psychology), (d. 1961)
1875 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
1876 - Ernest Schelling, Belvidere NJ, composer/conductor (Victory Ball)
1877 - Hubert Ahaus, missionary (Harvest Fields)
1880 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951)
1881 - Alexander J Kropholler, architect
1885 - Andre Maurois, Elbeuf, France, novelist/biographer
1886 - Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
1888 - M Jouhandeau, writer
1891 - Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian
1892 - Philipp Jarnach, composer
1892 - Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1966)
1893 - George Grosz, German painter (Gott mit uns)
1894 - Aldous L Huxley, Surrey England, author (Brave New World)
1894 - Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Henric van Veldeken)
1895 - Jerry Verno, London England, actor (River of Unrest, Sweeney Todd)
1895 - Robert Graves, London England, writer/poet (I Claudius) [or 6/26]
1895 - Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person (d. 1922)
1896 - Charles Butterworth, US, lawyer/actor (Mad Genius)
1896 - Evelyn Preer, US actress (Homesteader, Spider's Webs)
1896 - Henry Birkin, British racing driver (d. 1933)
1897 - Paul Gallico, NY, novelist
1899 - Carel C van Essen, Dutch archaeologist (Italian & Roman art)
1899 - Danton Walker, Mariette Ga, columnist (Broadway Spotlight)
1901 - John Bleifer, Zawiercie Poland, actor (Highway to Heaven)
1902 - Gracie Allen, SF California, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen)
1903 - Donald Voorhees, Allentown Pa, conductor (Bell Telephone Hour)
1904 - Jack Allan Westrup, composer
1906 - Armando Jose Fernandes, composer
1906 - Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence (d. 1943)
1907 - Gioconda de Vito, violinist
1907 - Istvan Pelle, Hungary, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1932)
1908 - Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile's last elected president (1970-73)
1909 - Gerardina I "Diny" van Amstel, Dutch actress (Dijntje & Trijntje)
1909 - Peter Thorneycroft, British politician (d. 1994)
1909 - Vivian Vance, Cherryvale Kansas, American actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy) (d. 1979)
1912 - Derek Riches, diplomat
1913 - Lou Salica, US, flyweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1914 - Ralph Hunsecker Blane, songwriter
1914 - Erskine Hawkins, American musician and bandleader (d. 1993)
1914 - Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1917 - Bertil Nordahl, Sweden, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1948)
1917 - Richard Desborough Burnell, England, double sculls (Olympic-gold-1948)
1918 - Marjorie Lord [Wollenberg], San Francisco, California, American actress (Make Room for
           Daddy, Sherlock Holmes in Washington)
1919 - James Lovelock, scientist
1919 - Kenneth Snowman, antiquarian
1919 - Virginia Gilmore, American actress (d. 1986)
1920 - Bob Waterfield, NFL QB (Rams)
1921 - Jean Shepherd, American writer (d. 1999)
1922 - Andrzej Koszewski, composer
1922 - Blake Edwards, OK, writer/director (10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany's)
1922 - Frank Price, CEO (British Waterways Board)
1922 - Jason Robards Jr, Chicago, actor (A Thousand Clowns, Any Wednesday)
1923 - Peter Carey, permanent secretary (DTI)
1923 - [James] Hoyt Wilhelm, knuckleball pitcher (Orioles)
1923 - Jan Berenstain, American author, (d. 2012)
1924 - Elias Motsoaledi, South African Umkhonto we Sizwe-commandant
1924 - John Kilgour, director of prison medical services (Home Office)
1924 - Louis Bellson, Rock Falls Ill, orchestra leader (Pearl Bailey Show)
1925 - Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (d. 2000)
1926 - Barbara Jefford, actress (Saint, Reunion, Ulysses)
1926 - Don Carter, bowling great (1st PBA president)
1926 - James Best [Jewel Franklin Guy], Powderly, Kentucky, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard,
           Sounder)
1926 - Ana María Matute, Spanish author
1927 - G S Ramchand, cricketer (valuable all-rounder in 33 Tests for India)
1927 - M H W Wells, CEO (Charterhouse Japhet)
1928 - Hans Haselbock, composer
1928 - Stanley Kubrick, Bronx NY, director (2001, Dr Strangelove, Lolita)
1928 - Tadeusz Baird, Polish composer (Giocosa)
1928 - Don Beauman, British racing driver (d. 1955)
1928 - Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (d. 1980)
1928 - Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician
1929 - Alexis Weissenberg, Sofia Bulgaria, pianist (Levintritt-1948)
1929 - Jean Shepherd, humorist (Playboy satire Award 1966, 1967, 1969)
1929 - Marc Lalonde, French Canadian politician
1930 - Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes
1931 - A M F (Sandy) Ross, managing-director (Mary Quant)
1931 - Takashi Ono, Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1933 - Lance Percival, actor/singer (Darling Lili, Our Miss Fred)
1934 - Anthony Gilbert, composer
1936 - Antonio Mastrogiovanni, composer
1936 - Kathryn Hays, NYC, actress (Kim Hughes-As the World Turns)
1936 - Mary Millar, English actress (d. 1998)
1938 - Keith Peters, physician
1938 - Peter Hall, diplomat
1938 - Bobby Hebb, Nashville Tn, country singer/songwriter (Sunny)
1938 - Darlene Love, American singer
1939 - J W Howard, Prime Minister of Australia
1940 - Brian Mawhinney, chairman (British Conservative Party)
1940 - Mary Jo Kopechne, Ted Kennedy's d(r)iving buddy
1940 - Dobie Gray, American singer (Drift Away)
1940 - Tolis Voskopoulos, Greek singer
1941 - Brenton Wood, Shreveport La, rocker (Gimme Little Sign)
1941 - Darlene Love, singer/actress (Lethal Weapon)
1942 - Dobie Gray, Brookshire Tx, singer (In Crowd)
1942 - Vladimír Mečiar, Slovak prime minister
1942 - Teddy Pilette, Belgian racing driver
1943 - Mick Jagger, English, rock vocalist (Rolling Stones)
1943 - Peter Hyams, director (2010, Capricorn 1, Relic, Timecop)
1943 - Roger Smalley, composer
1944 - Kiel Martin, Pitts Pa, actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues)
1944 - Micki J King, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1972)
1944 - Rimantas Antanas-Antonovich Stankiavichus, Russian cosmonaut
1945 - Linda Harrison, Berlin Md, actress (Bracken's World, Planet of Apes)
1945 - Helen Mirren [Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironoff], London, English actress (The Queen, The
           Madness of King George)
1946 - Anne Wright, Vice-Chancellor (Sunderland U)
1947 - Pauline Clare, Chief Constable (Lancashire)
1948 - Norair Nurikian, Bulgari, bantam weight (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)
1949 - Roger Taylor, British rock drummer (Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody)
1949 - William M Shepherd, Oak Ridge Tn, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 27, 41, 52)
1950 - Paul McHale, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
1950 - Susan George, London England, actress (Straw Dogs, Mandingo)
1950 - Nelinho, Brazilian footballer
1950 - Rich Vogler, American race car driver (d. 1990)
1951 - Robert Edwin Wadkins, Richmond VA, PGA golfer (1994 Kemper Open-2nd)
1951 - William Surles "Bill" McArthur Jr, NC, astro (STS 58, 74, sk: 92)
1952 - Ludmila Maslakova, USSR, relay runner (Olympic-silver-1980)
1952 - Scott David Cook, Glendale Ca, CEO (Intuit-Quicken)
1953 - Robert Phillips, classical guitarist
1954 - Lawrence Watt-Evans, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Sword of Bheleu)
1954 - Vitas Gerulaitis, Brooklyn NY, tennis star (Australia 1987)
1955 - Nicholas Walker, Bogota Col, actor (Capitol, Jimmy-General Hospital)
1956 - Dorothy Hamill, Riverside Ct, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 - Tommy Rich, American professional wrestler
1957 - Jeff Blatnick, Schenectady NY, wrestling (Oly-gold-1984)
1957 - Nana Visitor, [Tucker], actress (Deep Space 9)
1957 - Wayne Grady, Brisbane, Australia, PGA golfer (1990 PGA Champion)
1957 - Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor
1957 - Hart Hanson, American television writer and producer
1958 - Ramona Neubert, German DR, long jumper/pentathlete (Oly-4th-80)
1958 - Angela Hewitt, Canadian classical pianist
1959 - Kevin Spacey, South Orange NJ, actor (Dad, Henry & June, Darrow)
1959 - Rick Bragg, American writer
1960 - LaTaunya Pollard, East Chic Ind, (Olympics-1980, 84)
1960 - Mitch Kahn, San Clemente California, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1961 - Andy Connel, rocker (Swingout Sister-Swingout)
1961 - Gary Cherone, Boston, heavy metal vocalist (Extreme-More Than Words)
1961 - Terri Nunn, rock vocalist (Berlin-Takes My Breath Away)
1961 - Yolanda Chen, Moscow Russia, triple jumper (indoor record)
1961 - Dimitris Saravakos, Greek footballer
1961 - Keiko Matsui, Japanese musician and composer
1962 - Galina Chistyakova, Russian jumper (world record 1988)
1962 - Jody Reed, Tampa FL, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1963 - Andrew C Timmons, Scottsdale Az, guitarist (Danger Danger-Screw It)
1963 - Marianne Berglund, Sweden, cyclist (1983 Ruffles Tour of Texas)
1964 - Sandra Bullock, Wash DC, actress (Speed, Net, Love & War)
1964 - Anne Provoost, Belgian author (In the Shadow of the Ark)
1964 - Ralf Metzenmacher, German painter and designer
1964 - Danny Woodburn, American actor
1965 - Jeremy Piven, New York City, New York, American actor and producer (Entourage,
           Serendipity)
1965 - Jennifer Ashe, actress (As the World Turns)
1965 - Jim Lindberg, American musician (Pennywise)
1967 - David McKenzie, Footscray VIC, Australasia golfer
1967 - Anthony Durante, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1967 - Tim Schafer, American computer game designer
1968 - Mike Mohler, Dayton OH, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1969 - Greg Colbrunn, Fontana CA, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1969 - Jonty Rhodes, South African cricket batsman (brilliant fielder)
1969 - Marc Boutte, NFL defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1969 - Patrick Alfred Bates, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (1994 NIKE Dakota Open)
1970 - Kenny Wilhite, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 - Phil Alley, cricketer (NSW left-arm pace bowler)
1971 - Neus Avila, Lerida Spain, tennis star (Futures-Valencia-ESP 1995)
1971 - Reggie Carthon, CFL defensive back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 - Khaled Mahmud, Former Bangladeshi cricketer
1972 - Ryan Christopherson, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 - Sean Graham, CFL slot back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 - Tydus Winans, NFL/CFL wide receiver (Washington Redskins, Roughriders)
1973 - Jean Francois Bergeron, St Jerome Quebec, boxer (Olympics-96)
1973 - Peter Heijsteek, soccer player (DFC/Dordrecht '90)
1973 - Kate Beckinsale, British actress
1973 - Lenka Šarounová, Czech astronomer
1974 - Bubba Wells, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1974 - Dean Sturridge, English Footballer
1974 - Dan Konopka, American musician (OK Go)
1975 - Joe Smith, NBA forward (Golden State Warriors)
1976 - Brad Wilkins, American architect
1977 - Martin Laursen, Danish footballer
1977 - Rebecca St. James, Australian-born singer
1979 - Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Mageina Tovah, American actress
1979 - Erik Westrum, American ice hockey player
1980 - Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum 41)
1980 - Lee Dong-gun, South Korean actor
1981 - Abe Forsythe, Australian actor/director
1982 - Chez Starbuck, American actor
1983 - Roderick Strong, American professional wrestler
1983 - Delonte West, American basketball player
1984 - Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
1985 - Gaël Clichy, French footballer
1985 - Audrey De Montigny, Quebec singer
1987 - Miriam McDonald, Canadian actress
1993 - Taylor Momsen, American actress