June 18 — Ce Jour-là dans l'Histoire
386 entrées
Événements
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618
Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.
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656
Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate
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860
Byzantine-Rus' War: A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sails into the Bosphorus and starts pillaging the suburbs of the Byzantine capital Constantinople.
Siege of Constantinople (860) · Rus' Khaganate · Bosphorus · Byzantine Empire · Constantinople
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1053
Battle of Civitate: Three thousand horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX.
Battle of Civitate · Normans · Humphrey of Hauteville · Pope Leo IX
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1178
Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
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1264
The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
Parliament of Ireland · Castledermot · County Kildare · Legislature
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1429
French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
France in the Middle Ages · Joan of Arc · John Fastolf · Battle of Patay · Hundred Years' War
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1633
Charles I is crowned King of Scots at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
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1684
The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
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1757
Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
Battle of Kolín · Prussia · Frederick the Great · Count Leopold Joseph von Daun · Seven Years' War
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1778
American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia.
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1799
Action of 18 June 1799: A frigate squadron under Rear-admiral Perrée is captured by the British fleet under Lord Keith
Action of 18 June 1799 · Jean-Baptiste Perrée · George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith
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1812
The United States declaration of war upon the United Kingdom is signed by President James Madison.
United States declaration of war upon the United Kingdom · James Madison
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1815
Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
Napoleonic Wars · Battle of Waterloo · Napoleon · Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington · Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
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1830
French invasion of Algeria.
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1858
Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
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1859
First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
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1873
Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
Susan B. Anthony · United States presidential election, 1872
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1887
The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
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1900
Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
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1908
Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
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1908
The University of the Philippines is established.
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1923
Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
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1928
Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
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1930
Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
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1935
Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
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1940
Appeal of 18 June by Charles de Gaulle.
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1940
The "Finest Hour" speech is delivered by Winston Churchill.
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1945
William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
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1946
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa.
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1948
Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
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1953
The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
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1953
A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
United States Air Force · Douglas C-124 Globemaster II · Tachikawa air disaster · Tachikawa
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1954
Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
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1965
Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
Vietnam War · Boeing B-52 Stratofortress · National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam · Guerrilla warfare · South Vietnam
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1972
Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes two minutes after take off from London's Heathrow Airport.
British European Airways Flight 548 · British European Airways · Hawker Siddeley Trident · Heathrow Airport
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1979
SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
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1981
The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
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1982
Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.
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1983
Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
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1983
Mona Mahmudnizhad together with nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran over her religious beliefs.
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1984
A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-85 UK miners' strike.
Battle of Orgreave · South Yorkshire · UK miners' strike (1984-85)
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1994
The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack a crowded pub with assault rifles in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians are killed and five wounded. It was crowded with people watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
The Troubles · Ulster Volunteer Force · Loughinisland massacre · Loughinisland · Northern Ireland
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2006
The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
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2007
The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine firefighters.
Charleston Sofa Super Store fire · Charleston, South Carolina · Firefighter
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2009
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
Naissances Célèbres
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1269
Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (d. 1298)
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1318
Eleanor of Woodstock (d. 1355)
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1332
John V Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1391)
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1466
Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)
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1511
Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor, designed the Ponte Santa Trinita (d. 1592)
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1517
Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
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1521
Maria of Portugal, Duchess of Viseu (d. 1577)
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1667
Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
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1673
Antoni Lliteres Carrió, Spanish composer (d. 1747)
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1677
Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1726)
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1716
Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter and educator (d. 1809)
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1717
Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1757)
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1757
Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-French pianist and composer (d. 1831)
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1757
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentinian lawyer and politician 1st Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (d. 1833)
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas · Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata
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1769
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Irish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (d. 1822)
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh · Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
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1799
William Lassell, English astronomer and merchant (d. 1880)
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1812
Ivan Goncharov, Russian journalist and author (d. 1891)
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1815
Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (d. 1881)
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1816
Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte, French daughter of Napoleon (d. 1907)
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1816
Jung Bahadur Rana, Nepali ruler (d. 1877)
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1834
Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, French philosopher and academic (d. 1895)
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1839
William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (d. 1920)
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1845
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1922)
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran · Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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1850
Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (d. 1914)
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1854
E. W. Scripps, American publisher, founded the E. W. Scripps Company (d. 1926)
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1857
Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Folger Shakespeare Library (d. 1930)
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1858
Andrew Forsyth, Scottish-English mathematician and academic (d. 1942)
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1858
Hector Rason, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1927)
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1863
George Essex Evans, English-Australian poet and author (d. 1909)
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1868
Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary (d. 1957)
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1870
Édouard Le Roy, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1954)
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1877
James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (d. 1960)
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1881
Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1956)
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1882
Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian compositor and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1949)
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1884
Édouard Daladier, French captain and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1970)
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1886
George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (d. 1924)
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1886
Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (d. 1978)
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1887
Tancrède Labbé, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1956)
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1896
Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)
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1897
Martti Marttelin, Finnish runner (d. 1940)
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1900
Vlasta Vraz, Czech-American relief worker, editor, and fundraiser (d. 1989)
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1901
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
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1901
Llewellyn Rees, English actor (d. 1994)
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1902
Louis Alter, American musician (d. 1980)
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1902
Paavo Yrjölä, Finnish decathlete (d. 1980)
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1903
Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
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1903
Raymond Radiguet, French author and poet (d. 1923)
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1904
Keye Luke, Chinese-American actor (d. 1991)
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1904
Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d. 2003)
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1905
Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer and conductor (d. 1982)
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1907
Frithjof Schuon, Swiss-American metaphysicist, philosopher, and author (d. 1998)
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1908
Bud Collyer, American actor and game show host (d. 1969)
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1908
Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (d. 1997)
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1908
Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)
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1910
Dick Foran, American actor and singer (d. 1979)
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1910
Avon Long, American actor and singer (d. 1984)
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1910
Ray McKinley, American singer, drummer, and bandleader (d. 1995)
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1912
Glenn Morris, American decathlete (d. 1974)
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1913
Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian soldier and surgeon (d. 2005)
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1913
Sammy Cahn, American pianist and composer (d. 1993)
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1913
Sylvia Porter, American economist and journalist (d. 1991)
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1913
Françoise Loranger, Canadian playwright and producer (d. 1995)
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1913
Robert Mondavi, American winemaker and philanthropist (d. 2008)
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1913
Oswald Teichmüller, German mathematician (d. 1943)
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1914
E. G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
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1914
Efraín Huerta, Mexican poet (d.1982)
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1915
Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
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1915
Robert Kanigher, American author (d. 2002)
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1915
Alice T. Schafer, American mathematician (d. 2009)
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1916
Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia (d. 2005)
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1917
Richard Boone, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1981)
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1917
Jack Karnehm, English snooker player and sportscaster (d. 2002)
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1917
Erik Ortvad, Danish painter and illustrator (d. 2008)
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1918
Alf Francis, West Prussia-born, English motor racing mechanic and racing car constructor (d. 1983)
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1918
Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
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1918
Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
Franco Modigliani · Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
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1919
Jüri Järvet, Estonian actor and screenwriter (d. 1995)
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1920
Ian Carmichael, English actor and singer (d. 2010)
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1920
Lode Van Den Bergh, Belgian author and academic
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1922
Claude Helffer, French pianist and educator (d. 2004)
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1924
George Mikan, American basketball player and coach (d. 2005)
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1925
Robert Beadell, American composer and educator (d. 1994)
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1926
Philip B. Crosby, American businessman and author (d. 2001)
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1926
Allan Sandage, American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 2010)
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1926
Tom Wicker, American journalist and author (d. 2011)
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1927
Eva Bartok, Hungarian-English actress (d. 1998)
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1927
Paul Eddington, English actor (d. 1995)
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1928
Michael Blakemore, Australian actor, director, and screenwriter
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1928
David T. Lykken, American geneticist and academic (d. 2006)
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1929
Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
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1929
Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2015)
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1931
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazilian sociologist, academic, and politician, 34th President of Brazil
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1932
Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
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1932
Geoffrey Hill, English poet and academic (d. 2016)
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1933
Tommy Hunt, American singer
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1934
Brian Kenny, English general (d. 2017)
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1934
Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese author and illustrator (d. 2004)
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1936
Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (d. 1992)
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1936
Barack Obama Sr., Kenyan economist (d. 1982)
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1936
Ronald Venetiaan, Surinamese politician, 6th President of Suriname
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1937
Del Harris, American basketball player and coach
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1937
Jay Rockefeller, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of West Virginia
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1937
Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist and historian (d. 2006)
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1937
Vitaly Zholobov, Ukrainian colonel, engineer, and astronaut
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1938
Kevin Murray, Australian footballer and coach
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1939
Lou Brock, American baseball player and sportscaster
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1939
Jean-Claude Germain, Canadian historian, author, and journalist
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1939
Brooks Firestone, American businessman and politician
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1941
Paul Mayersberg, English director and screenwriter
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1941
Delia Smith, English chef and author
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1942
John Bellany, Scottish painter and academic (d. 2013)
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1942
Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
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1942
Pat Hutchins, English author and illustrator
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1942
Thabo Mbeki, South African politician, 23rd President of South Africa
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1942
Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1942
Richard Perry, American record producer
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1942
Carl Radle, American bass player and producer (d. 1980)
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1942
Nick Tate, Australian actor and director
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1942
Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
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1943
Barry Evans, English actor (d. 1997)
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1943
Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer, and actress
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1944
Bruce DuMont, American broadcaster and political analyst
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1944
Sandy Posey, American pop/country singer
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1946
Russell Ash, English journalist and author (d. 2010)
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1946
Bruiser Brody, American wrestler (d. 1988)
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1946
Fabio Capello, Italian footballer and manager
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1946
Maria Bethânia, Brazilian singer
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1947
Ivonne Coll, Puerto Rican-American model and actress, Miss Puerto Rico 1967
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1947
Bernard Giraudeau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
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1947
Linda Thorson, Canadian actress
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1948
Philip Jackson, English actor
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1948
Éva Marton, Hungarian soprano and actress
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1948
Sherry Turkle, American academic, psychologist, and sociologist
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1949
Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
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1949
Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Poland
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1949
Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 4th President of Poland (d. 2010)
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1949
Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican singer-songwriter (d. 1999)
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1950
Rod de'Ath, Welsh drummer and producer (d. 2014)
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1950
Annelie Ehrhardt, German hurdler
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1950
Mike Johanns, American lawyer and politician, 28th United States Secretary of Agriculture
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1950
Jackie Leven, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
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1951
Mohammed Al-Sager, Kuwaiti journalist and politician
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1951
Miriam Flynn, American actress and comedian
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1951
Ian Hargreaves, English-Welsh journalist and academic
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1951
Stephen Hopper, Australian botanist and academic
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1951
Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (d. 2014)
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1952
Tiiu Aro, Estonian physician and politician, Estonian Minister of Social Affairs
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1952
Denis Herron, Canadian ice hockey player
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1952
Carol Kane, American actress
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1952
Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
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1952
Lee Soo-man, South Korean singer and businessman, founded S.M. Entertainment
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1953
Peter Donohoe, English pianist and educator
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1955
Ed Fast, Canadian lawyer and politician
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1956
Brian Benben, American actor and producer
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1956
John Scott, English organist and conductor (d. 2015)
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1957
Miguel Ángel Lotina, Spanish footballer and manager
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1957
Richard Powers, American novelist
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1958
Peter Altmaier, German jurist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany
Peter Altmaier · Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany
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1958
Gary Martin, British voice actor and actor
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1959
Joe Ansolabehere, American animation screenwriter and producer
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1960
Barbara Broccoli, American director and producer
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1960
Steve Murphy, Canadian journalist
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1961
Oz Fox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
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1961
Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan-American baseball player
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1961
Angela Johnson, American novelist and poet
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1961
Alison Moyet, English singer-songwriter
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1962
Lisa Randall, American physicist and academic
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1963
Dizzy Reed, American keyboard player and songwriter
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1963
Bruce Smith, American football player
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1964
Uday Hussein, Iraqi commander (d. 2003)
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1964
Patti Webster, American publicist and author (d. 2013)
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1966
Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater, choreographer, and sportscaster
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1966
Troy Kemp, Bahamian high jumper
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1968
Frank Müller, German decathlete
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1969
Haki Doku, Albanian cyclist
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1969
Christopher Largen, American journalist and author (d. 2012)
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1970
Katie Derham, English journalist
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1970
Ivan Kozák, Slovak footballer
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1970
Greg Yaitanes, American director and producer
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1971
Kerry Butler, American actress and singer
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1971
Jason McAteer, English-Irish footballer and manager
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1971
Nathan Morris, American soul singer
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1972
Anu Tali, Estonian pianist and conductor
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1972
Wikus du Toit, South African actor, director, and composer
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1973
Julie Depardieu, French actress
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1973
Stephen Thomas Erlewine, American author and music critic
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1973
Ray LaMontagne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1973
Matt Parsons, Australian rugby league player
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1973
Gavin Wanganeen Australian footballer and coach
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1974
Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer and manager
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1974
Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer and coach (d. 2015)
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1975
Marie Gillain, Belgian actress
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1975
Aleksandrs Koļinko, Latvian footballer
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1975
Martin St. Louis, Canadian ice hockey player
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1976
Blake Shelton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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1978
Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
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1979
Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress and singer
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1979
Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
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1980
Antonio Gates, American football player
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1980
Sergey Kirdyapkin, Russian race walker
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1980
Craig Mottram, Australian runner
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1980
Colin Munroe, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
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1980
Antero Niittymäki, Finnish ice hockey player
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1980
Tara Platt, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
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1981
Clint Newton, American-Australian rugby league player
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1981
Marco Streller, Swiss footballer
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1982
Nadir Belhadj, French-Algerian footballer
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1982
Marco Borriello, Italian footballer
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1982
Nathan Cavaleri, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
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1983
Billy Slater, Australian rugby league player
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1983
Cameron Smith, Australian rugby league player
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1984
Nanyak Dala, Canadian rugby player
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1985
Chris Coghlan, American baseball player
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1985
Alex Hirsch, American animator and television producer
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1986
Edgars Eriņš, Latvian decathlete
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1986
Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
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1986
Richard Madden, Scottish actor
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1987
Omar Arellano, Mexican footballer
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1988
Elini Dimoutsos, Greek footballer
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1988
Josh Dun, American musician
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1989
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, French-born Gabonese footballer
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1989
Chris Harris Jr., American football player
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1989
Renee Olstead, American actress and singer
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1990
Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player
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1990
Sandra Izbașa, Romanian gymnast
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1990
Derek Stepan, American ice hockey player
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1990
Christian Taylor, American triple jumper
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1990
Mitsuki Tanimura, Japanese actress
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1994
Sean McMahon, Australian rugby player
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1994
Takeoff, American rapper
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1995
Maxim Kovtun, Russian figure skater
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1996
Alen Halilović, Croatian footballer
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1996
Niki Wories, Dutch figure skater
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1997
Katharina Hobgarski, German tennis player
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1997
Latrell Mitchell, Australian rugby league player
Décès Célèbres
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741
Leo III the Isaurian, Byzantine emperor (b. 685)
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908
Zhang Hao, guard commander during the Chinese Tang Dynasty
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1095
Sophia of Hungary (b. c. 1050)
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1164
Elisabeth of Schönau, German Benedictine visionary (b. c. 1129)
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1234
Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (b. 1218)
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1250
Theresa of Portugal, Queen of León
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1291
Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
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1333
Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1312)
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1464
Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1400)
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1588
Robert Crowley, English minister and poet (b. 1517)
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1629
Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch admiral (b. 1577)
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1650
Christoph Scheiner, German priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1575)
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1673
Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian nurse, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (b. 1606)
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1704
Tom Brown, English author and translator (b. 1662)
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1726
Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
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1742
John Aislabie, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1670)
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1749
Ambrose Philips, English poet and politician (b. 1674)
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1772
Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German jurist and scholar (b. 1706)
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1772
Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician and reformer (b. 1700)
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1788
Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)
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1794
François Buzot, French lawyer and politician (b. 1760)
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1794
James Murray, Scottish-English general and politician, 20th Governor of the Province of Quebec (b. 1721)
James Murray (British Army officer, born 1721) · List of Governors General of Canada
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1815
Thomas Picton, Welsh-English general and politician (b. 1758)
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1833
Robert Hett Chapman, American minister, missionary, and academic (b. 1771)
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1835
William Cobbett, English farmer and journalist (b. 1763)
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1860
Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, German army officer and writer (b. 1783)
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1866
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1864)
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1902
Samuel Butler, English novelist, satirist, and critic (b. 1835)
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1905
Carmine Crocco, Italian soldier (b. 1830)
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1916
Max Immelmann, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1890)
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1917
Titu Maiorescu, Romanian critic and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1840)
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1922
Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
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1928
Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer (b. 1872)
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1936
Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1868)
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1937
Gaston Doumergue, French politician, 13th President of France (b. 1863)
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1942
Arthur Pryor, American trombonist, bandleader, and politician (b. 1870)
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1943
Elias Degiannis, Greek commander (b. 1912)
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1945
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (b. 1886)
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1947
Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
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1948
Edward Brooker, English-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1891)
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1959
Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
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1963
Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (b. 1912)
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1964
Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter (b. 1890)
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1967
Geki, Italian race car driver (b. 1937)
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1967
Beat Fehr, Swiss race car driver (b. 1942)
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1971
Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
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1971
Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
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1974
Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and academic (b. 1896)
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1974
Georgy Zhukov, Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
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1975
Hugo Bergmann, German-Israeli philosopher and author (b. 1883)
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1978
Walter C. Alvarez, American physician and author (b. 1884)
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1980
Terence Fisher, English director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
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1980
André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
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1982
Djuna Barnes, American novelist, journalist, and playwright (b. 1892)
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1982
John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1912)
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1982
Curd Jürgens, German-Austrian actor and director (b. 1915)
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1984
Alan Berg, American lawyer and radio host (b. 1934)
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1985
Paul Colin, French illustrator (b. 1892)
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1986
Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American journalist (b. 1921)
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1989
I. F. Stone, American journalist and author (b. 1907)
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1992
Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944)
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1992
Mordecai Ardon, Polish-Israeli painter and educator (b. 1896)
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1993
Craig Rodwell, American activist, founded the Oscar Wilde Bookshop (b. 1940)
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1996
Endel Puusepp, Estonian-Soviet military pilot and politician (b. 1909)
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1997
Lev Kopelev, Ukrainian-German author and academic (b. 1912)
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1998
Felix Knight, American actor and tenor (b. 1908)
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2000
Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
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2003
Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager (b. 1923)
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2005
Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
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2005
Manuel Sadosky, Argentinian mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
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2006
Vincent Sherman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
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2006
Joseph Zobel, Martinique-French author (b. 1915)
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2007
Bernard Manning, English comedian and actor (b. 1930)
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2007
Hank Medress, American singer and producer (b. 1938)
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2007
Georges Thurston, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
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2008
Jean Delannoy, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
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2008
Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator (b. 1915)
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2008
Hans Steinbrenner, German sculptor (b. 1928)
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2010
Trent Acid, American wrestler (b. 1980)
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2010
José Saramago, Portuguese novelist Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
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2010
Okan Demiriş, Turkish composer (b. 1942)
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2011
Yelena Bonner, Russian activist (b. 1923)
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2011
Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (b. 1943)
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2011
Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist (b. 1942)
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2012
Horacio Coppola, Argentinian photographer and director (b. 1906)
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2012
Lina Haag, German author and activist (b. 1907)
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2012
Tom Maynard, Welsh cricketer (b. 1989)
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2012
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín, Peruvian general and politician, 109th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1919)
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2012
Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1934)
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2012
William Van Regenmorter, American businessman and politician (b. 1939)
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2013
Brent F. Anderson, American engineer and politician (b. 1932)
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2013
Alastair Donaldson, Scottish bass player (b. 1955)
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2013
Garde Gardom, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (b. 1924)
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2013
Michael Hastings, American journalist and author (b. 1980)
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2013
David Wall, English ballet dancer (b. 1946)
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2014
Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and engineer (b. 1923)
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2014
Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor (b. 1928)
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2014
Claire Martin, Canadian author (b. 1914)
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2014
Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general (b. 1957)
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2014
Horace Silver, American pianist and composer (b. 1928)
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2015
Phil Austin, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1941)
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2015
Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman, co-founded Comcast (b. 1920)
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2015
Danny Villanueva, American football player and broadcaster, co-founded Univision (b. 1937)
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2015
Allen Weinstein, American historian and academic (b. 1937)
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2016
Jeppiaar, Indian educationist, founder and chancellor of Sathyabama University (b. 1931)