octobre 15 — Ce Jour-là dans l'Histoire
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Événements
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1066
Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England, but is never crowned. He reigns until 10 December 1066.
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1211
Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.
Battle of the Rhyndacus (1211) · Latin emperor · Henry of Flanders · Nicaean emperor · Theodore I Laskaris
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1529
The Siege of Vienna ends as the Austrians rout the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
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1582
Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
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1764
Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Edward Gibbon · Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus · The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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1783
The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon (tethered) makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
Montgolfier brothers · Hot air balloon · Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
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1793
Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.
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1815
Emperor Napoleon I begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
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1863
American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
American Civil War · H. L. Hunley (submarine) · Submarine · Horace Lawson Hunley
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1864
American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.
Battle of Glasgow, Missouri · Glasgow, Missouri · Confederate States of America
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1878
The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
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1888
The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
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1894
The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
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1904
The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
Baltic Fleet · Reval · Estonia · Lüshunkou · Russo-Japanese War
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1910
Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
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1917
World War I: At Vincennes outside Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.
World War I · Vincennes · Mata Hari · Firing squad · Espionage
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1923
The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
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1928
The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
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1932
Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
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1934
The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
Jiangxi Soviet · Chiang Kai-shek · National Revolutionary Army · Ruijin · Communist Party of China
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1939
The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
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1940
The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.
President of the Generalitat of Catalonia · Catalonia · Lluís Companys
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1944
The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary.
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1945
World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
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1951
Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first three oral contraceptives.
Luis E. Miramontes · Norethisterone · Progestin · Combined oral contraceptive pill
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1951
The first episode of I Love Lucy, an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, airs on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).
I Love Lucy · Sitcom · Lucille Ball · Desi Arnaz · Vivian Vance
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1953
British nuclear test Totem 1 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
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1954
Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto. As a Category 4 upon landfall, it is the strongest storm on record to strike as far north as North Carolina.
Hurricane Hazel · Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale · North Carolina
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1956
Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.
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1965
Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war rally in Manhattan including a public burning of a draft card; the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
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1966
The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
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1969
Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington D.C. and across the US. Over two million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in Washington D.C..
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1970
Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
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1979
Black Monday in Malta. The building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party.
Black Monday (Malta) · Malta · Eddie Fenech Adami · Nationalist Party (Malta) · Malta Labour Party
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1989
Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
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1990
Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
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1991
The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
Oh-My-God particle · Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray · Particle accelerator · University of Utah · High Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector
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1995
Marco Campos is killed in an accident in an International Formula 3000 race at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours circuit, making him the only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series.
Marco Campos · International Formula 3000 · Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours
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1997
The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), 50 years and one day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere.
Land speed record · Andy Green · ThrustSSC · Chuck Yeager · Sound barrier
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1997
The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
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2001
NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
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2003
China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
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2005
A riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested.
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2006
Kiholo Bay earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
2006 Kiholo Bay earthquake · Landslide · Power outage · Honolulu International Airport
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2007
Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
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2008
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst day in the Dow's history based on a percentage drop.
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2011
The 2011 Global Protests occur.
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2013
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes the Philippines, resulting in more than 215 deaths.
Surface wave magnitude · 2013 Bohol earthquake · Philippines
Naissances Célèbres
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99 BC
Lucretius, Roman poet and philosopher (d. 55 BCE)
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70 BC
Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
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1218
Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (d. 1265)
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1265
Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (d. 1307)
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1440
Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, German noble (d. 1483)
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1471
Konrad Mutian, German epigrammatist and academic (d. 1526)
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1542
Akbar, Mughal emperor (d. 1605)
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1561
Richard Field, English cathedral dean (d. 1616)
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1564
Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1613)
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1599
Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor and regent of Amsterdam (d. 1664)
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1608
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (d. 1647)
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1622
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (d. 1686)
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1686
Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet and playwright (d. 1758)
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1701
Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns (d. 1771)
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1711
Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (d. 1741)
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1762
Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer and educator (d. 1820)
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1767
Gabriel Richard, French-born American Roman Catholic priest, missionary, educator, and politician (d. 1832)
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1784
Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician, Governor-General of Algeria (d. 1849)
Thomas Robert Bugeaud · List of rulers of Algeria before independence
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1785
José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and politician (d. 1821)
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1789
William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (d. 1847)
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1814
Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, poet, and painter (d. 1841)
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1816
John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1891)
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1818
Alexander Dreyschock, Czech pianist and composer (d. 1869)
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1825
Marie of Prussia (d. 1889)
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1829
Asaph Hall, American astronomer and academic (d. 1907)
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1833
John Alexander MacPherson, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Victoria (d. 1894)
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1836
James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (d. 1902)
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1840
Honoré Mercier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (d. 1894)
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1844
Friedrich Nietzsche, German composer, poet, and philosopher (d. 1900)
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1858
John L. Sullivan, American boxer, actor, and journalist (d. 1918)
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1865
Charles W. Clark, American singer and educator (d. 1925)
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1872
Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian educator and politician, 3rd President of Austria (d. 1956)
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1872
August Nilsson, Swedish pole vaulter, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (d. 1921)
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1874
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1899)
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1878
Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France (d. 1966)
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1879
Jane Darwell, American actress (d. 1967)
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1881
P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (d. 1975)
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1882
Charley O'Leary, American baseball player and coach (d. 1941)
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1884
Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (d. 1910)
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1887
Frederick Fleet, English sailor (d. 1965)
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1888
S. S. Van Dine, American author and critic (d. 1939)
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1890
Álvaro de Campos, Portuguese poet and engineer (d. 1935)
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1893
Carol II of Romania (d. 1953)
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1894
Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1965)
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1897
Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (d. 1960)
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1899
Adolf Brudes, Polish-German race car driver (d. 1986)
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1900
Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1987)
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1901
Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Spanish playwright and novelist (d. 1952)
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1905
C. P. Snow, English chemist and author (d. 1980)
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1906
Hiram Fong, American soldier and politician (d. 2004)
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1906
Alicia Patterson, American journalist and publisher, co-founded Newsday (d. 1963)
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1906
Victoria Spivey, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1976)
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1907
Varian Fry, American journalist and author (d. 1967)
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1908
Herman Chittison, American pianist (d. 1967)
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1908
John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, 7th United States Ambassador to India (d. 2006)
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1909
Jesse L. Greenstein, American astronomer and academic (d. 2002)
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1909
Robert Trout, American journalist (d. 2000)
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1910
Edwin O. Reischauer, Japanese-American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (d. 1990)
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1912
Nellie Lutcher, American singer and pianist (d. 2007)
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1913
Wolfgang Lüth, German commander (d. 1945)
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1914
Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (d. 2007)
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1916
Al Killian, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 2007)
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1916
George Turner, Australian author and critic (d. 1997)
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1917
Jan Miner, American actress (d. 2004)
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1917
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian and critic (d. 2007)
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1917
Paul Tanner, American trombonist and educator (d. 2013)
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1919
Malcolm Ross, American captain, balloonist, and physicist (d. 1985)
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1919
Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (d. 1995)
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1920
Chris Economaki, American sportscaster and actor (d. 2012)
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1920
Patricia Jessel, Hong Kong-English actress (d. 1968)
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1920
Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter (d. 1999)
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1920
Henri Verneuil, Turkish-French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
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1921
Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian-Israeli table tennis player (d. 2006)
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1922
Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese author
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1922
Preben Munthe, Norwegian economist and politician, State Conciliator of Norway (d. 2013)
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1922
William Y. Thompson, American historian and author (d. 2013)
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1923
Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (d. 1985)
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1923
Antonio Fontán, Spanish journalist and politician (d. 2010)
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1923
Eugene Patterson, American journalist and activist (d. 2013)
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1923
Lindsay Thompson, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Victoria (d. 2008)
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1924
Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian author and educator
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1924
Lee Iacocca, American businessman and author
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1924
Warren Miller, American director and screenwriter
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1925
Mickey Baker, American-French guitarist (d. 2012)
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1925
Aurora Bautista, Spanish actress (d. 2012)
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1925
Tony Hart, English painter and television host (d. 2009)
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1926
James E. Akins, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (d. 2010)
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1926
Agustín García Calvo, Spanish philosopher and poet (d. 2012)
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1926
Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher (d. 1984)
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1926
Ed McBain, American author and screenwriter (d. 2005)
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1926
Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000)
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1926
Karl Richter, German organist and conductor (d. 1981)
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1927
B. S. Abdur Rahman, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2015)
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1929
Will Insley, American painter and architect (d. 2011)
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1930
FM-2030, Belgian-Iranian basketball player, philosopher and diplomat (d. 2000)
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1931
Freddy Cole, American singer and pianist
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1931
Gail Harris, American baseball player and coach (d. 2012)
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1931
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India (d. 2015)
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1931
Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark, English academic and politician
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1932
Jaan Rääts, Estonian guitarist and composer
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1933
Nicky Barnes, American drug lord
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1934
Alan Elsdon, English trumpet player (d. 2016)
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1934
N. Ramani, Indian flute player (d. 2015)
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1935
Barry McGuire, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1935
Dick McTaggart, Scottish boxer
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1935
Bobby Morrow, American sprinter
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1935
Willie O'Ree, Canadian ice hockey player
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1936
Michel Aumont, French actor
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1936
Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell, South African-English businessman
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1937
Linda Lavin, American actress and singer
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1938
Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1993)
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1938
Brice Marden, American painter
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1938
Robert Ward, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2008)
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1940
Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player and coach
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1940
Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
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1941
Roy Masters, Australian rugby league coach, journalist, and author
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1942
Hilo Chen, Taiwanese-American painter
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1942
Harold W. Gehman, Jr., American admiral
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1942
Don Stevenson, American singer-songwriter and drummer
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1943
Penny Marshall, American actress, director, and producer
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1944
Sali Berisha, Albanian cardiologist and politician, 2nd President of Albania
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1944
A. Chandranehru, Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician (d. 2005)
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1944
Haim Saban, Egyptian-American businessman, co-founded Saban Entertainment
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1944
David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Prize laureate
David Trimble · First Minister of Northern Ireland · Nobel Peace Prize
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1945
Steve Camacho, Guyanese cricketer (d. 2015)
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1945
Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Spanish cardinal
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1945
Dave Hill, English actor
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1945
Neophyte of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch
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1945
Jim Palmer, American baseball player and sportscaster
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1946
Victor Banerjee, Indian actor and director
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1946
Richard Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and pianist
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1946
Palle Danielsson, Swedish bassist and composer
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1946
Stewart Stevenson, Scottish engineer and politician, Minister for Environment and Climate Change
Stewart Stevenson · Minister for Environment and Climate Change
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1947
Hümeyra, Turkish singer-songwriter and actress
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1947
Jaroslav Erno Šedivý, Czech drummer
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1948
Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (d. 2016)
Renato Corona · Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
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1948
Chris de Burgh, Argentinian singer-songwriter and pianist
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1949
Laurie McBain, American author
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1949
Prannoy Roy, Indian journalist, economist, and broadcaster, founded NDTV
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1950
Candida Royalle, American porn actress, director, and producer (d. 2015)
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1951
Atoy Co, Filipino basketball player, coach, and actor
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1951
Peter Richardson, English actor, director, and screenwriter
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1951
Roscoe Tanner, American tennis player
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1951
Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess player
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1951
A. F. Th. van der Heijden, Dutch author
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1953
Betsy Clifford, Canadian skier
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1953
Tito Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1953
Larry Miller, American actor and screenwriter
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1953
Peter Phillips, English conductor and musicologist
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1953
Walter Jon Williams, American author
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1954
Peter Bakowski, Australian poet and educator
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1954
Steve Bracks, Australian politician, 44th Premier of Victoria
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1954
Jere Burns, American actor
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1954
Princess Friederike of Hanover
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1954
Julia Yeomans, English physicist and academic
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1955
Kulbir Bhaura, Indian field hockey player
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1955
Emma Chichester Clark, English author and illustrator
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1957
Michael Caton-Jones, Scottish actor, director, and producer
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1957
Mira Nair, Indian-American actress, director, and producer
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1957
Stacy Peralta, American skateboarder, director, producer, and businessman, co-founded Powell Peralta
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1958
Stephen Clarke, English-French journalist and author
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1959
Sarah, Duchess of York
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1959
Emeril Lagasse, American chef and author
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1959
Alex Paterson, English keyboard player
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1959
Todd Solondz, American actor, director, and screenwriter
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1961
Vyacheslav Butusov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1963
Stanley Menzo, Dutch footballer and manager
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1964
Roberto Vittori, Italian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
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1965
Nasser El Sonbaty, German bodybuilder and trainer (d. 2013)
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1966
Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer and manager
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1966
Bill Charlap, American pianist and composer
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1966
Ilse Huizinga, Dutch singer
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1966
Dave Stead, English drummer
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1967
Götz Otto, German actor and screenwriter
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1967
Dan Forest, American politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina
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1968
Didier Deschamps, French footballer and manager
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1968
Vanessa Marcil, American actress
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1968
Rod Wishart, Australian rugby league player
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1968
Trent Zimmerman, Australian politician
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1969
Vítor Baía, Portuguese footballer
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1969
Dominic West, English actor and director
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1970
Eric Benét, American musician
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1970
Ginuwine, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
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1971
Joey Abs, American wrestler
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1971
Andy Cole, English footballer and coach
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1971
Lauri Pilter, Estonian author and translator
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1972
Fred Hoiberg, American basketball player and coach
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1972
Matt Keeslar, American actor
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1972
Michél Mazingu-Dinzey, German-Congolese footballer and manager
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1973
Maria Hjorth, Swedish golfer
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1974
Ömer Çatkıç, Turkish footballer
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1974
Bianca Rinaldi, Brazilian actress
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1975
Alessandro Doga, Italian footballer
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1975
Glen Little, English footballer and manager
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1976
Christian Allen, American video game designer
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1976
Manuel Dallan, Italian rugby player
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1977
Masato Kawabata, Japanese race car driver
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1977
David Trezeguet, French footballer
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1977
Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer
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1978
Devon Gummersall, American actor, director, and screenwriter
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1978
Takeshi Morishima, Japanese wrestler
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1979
Blue Adams, American football player and coach
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1979
Bohemia, Pakistani-American rapper and producer
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1979
Jekaterina Golovatenko, Estonian figure skater
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1979
Paul Robinson, English footballer
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1979
Jaci Velasquez, American singer-songwriter and actress
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1979
Māris Verpakovskis, Latvian footballer
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1980
Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
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1980
Siiri Nordin, Finnish singer-songwriter
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1981
Keyshia Cole, American singer-songwriter and producer
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1981
Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
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1981
Radoslav Židek, Slovak snowboarder
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1982
Paulini, Fijian-Australian singer
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1982
Sachiko Yamada, Japanese swimmer
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1983
Bruno Senna, Brazilian race car driver
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1983
Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer
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1984
Izale McLeod, English footballer
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1984
Johan Voskamp, Dutch footballer
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1984
Jessie Ware, English singer-songwriter
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1985
Arron Afflalo, American basketball player
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1985
Walter Alberto López, Uruguayan footballer
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1985
Marcos Martínez, Spanish race car driver
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1986
Lee Donghae, South Korean singer-songwriter
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1986
Carlo Janka, Swiss skier
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1987
Jesse Levine, Canadian-American tennis player
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1987
Chantal Strand, Canadian voice actress and singer
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1987
Ott Tänak, Estonian race car driver
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1988
Lassy Mbouity, Congolese writer and politician
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1988
Mesut Özil, German footballer
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1989
Blaine Gabbert, American football player
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1989
Leandro Antonio Martínez, Argentinian-Italian footballer
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1990
Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
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1994
Stephen Arthurworrey, English footballer
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1995
Jakob Pöltl, Austrian basketball player
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1996
Zelo, South Korean rapper and dancer
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1996
Charly Musonda, Belgian footballer
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1999
Bailee Madison, American actress
Décès Célèbres
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412
Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria
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892
Al-Mu'tamid, Muslim caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate
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898
Lambert of Italy (b. 880)
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912
Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Spanish emir (b. 844)
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925
Rhazes, Persian polymath (b. 864)
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961
Abd-al-Rahman III, caliph of Córdoba
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1002
Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
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1080
Rudolf of Rheinfelden (b. 1025)
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1173
Petronilla of Aragon (b. 1135)
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1326
Walter de Stapledon, English bishop and politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1261)
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1385
Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
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1389
Pope Urban VI (b. 1318)
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1496
Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (b. 1443)
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1564
Andreas Vesalius, Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author (b. 1514)
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1622
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (d. 1686)
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1674
Robert Herrick, English poet (b. 1591)
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1684
Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (b. 1626)
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1690
Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter and illustrator (b. 1622)
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1715
Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1675)
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1788
Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)
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1810
Alfred Moore, American captain and judge (b. 1755)
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1811
Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (b. 1735)
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1817
Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (b. 1746)
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1819
Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1744)
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1820
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (b. 1771)
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1837
Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (b. 1760)
Ivan Dmitriev · List of Ministers of Justice of Imperial Russia
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1891
Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English author and songwriter (b. 1837)
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1900
Zdeněk Fibich, Czech pianist and composer (b. 1850)
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1910
Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (b. 1886)
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1917
Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)
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1918
Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru and saint (b. 1838)
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1930
Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (b. 1866)
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1934
Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (b. 1860)
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1940
Lluís Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (b. 1882)
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1945
Pierre Laval, French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (b. 1883)
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1946
Hermann Göring, German general and politician (b. 1893)
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1948
Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
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1955
Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
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1958
Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1907)
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1958
Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (b. 1908)
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1959
Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (b. 1909)
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1959
Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1880)
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1960
Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (b. 1890)
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1961
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (b. 1896)
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1963
Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (b. 1908)
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1964
Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (b. 1891)
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1965
Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
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1966
Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1876)
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1968
Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
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1976
Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1902)
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1978
W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (b. 1918)
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1980
Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
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1980
Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)
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1981
Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver (b. 1907)
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1983
Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
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1987
Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)
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1987
Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (b. 1908)
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1988
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English pianist, composer, and critic (b. 1892)
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1990
Delphine Seyrig, French actress and director (b. 1932)
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1993
Aydın Sayılı, Turkish historian and academic (b. 1913)
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1994
Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic (b. 1934)
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1995
Bengt Åkerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1967)
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1995
Marco Campos, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1976)
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1999
Josef Locke, British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor (b. 1917)
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2000
Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
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2000
Vincent Canby, American journalist and critic (b. 1924)
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2003
Ben Metcalfe, Canadian journalist and activist (b. 1919)
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2005
Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977)
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2005
Matti Wuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (b. 1945)
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2007
Piet Boukema, Dutch jurist and politician (b. 1933)
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2008
Edie Adams, American actress and singer (b. 1927)
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2008
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (b. 1914)
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2008
Jack Narz, American game show host and announcer (b. 1922)
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2009
Heinz Versteeg, Dutch-German footballer (b. 1939)
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2010
Richard C. Miller, American photographer (b. 1912)
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2010
Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and activist (b. 1926)
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2010
Johnny Sheffield, American actor (b. 1931)
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2011
Betty Driver, English actress, singer, and author (b. 1920)
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2012
Claude Cheysson, French lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1920)
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2012
Erol Günaydın, Turkish actor and screenwriter (b. 1933)
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2012
Maria Petrou, Greek-English computer scientist and academic (b. 1953)
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2012
Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1922)
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2012
Pat Ward, American lawyer and politician (b. 1957)
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2013
Donald Bailey, American drummer (b. 1933)
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2013
Nevill Drury, English-Australian journalist and publisher (b. 1947)
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2013
Cancio Garcia, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1937)
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2013
Gloria Lynne, American singer (b. 1931)
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2013
Rudy Minarcin, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)
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2013
Hans Riegel, German businessman (b. 1923)
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2014
Giovanni Reale, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1931)
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2014
Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic designer (b. 1929)
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2014
Robert Tiernan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
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2014
Nobby Wirkowski, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926)
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2015
Sergei Filippenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1971)
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2015
Nate Huffman, American basketball player (b. 1975)
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2015
Neill Sheridan, American baseball player (b. 1921)
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2015
Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian businessman and diplomat (b. 1934)
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2015
Tyrone Young, American football player (b. 1960)
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2017
Chinggoy Alonzo, Filipino theater, movie & television actor (b. 1950)