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Lee Marvin 1924-1987

Events

197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
356 – Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire.
1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
1600 – The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
1807 – In Alabama, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddert.
1819 – British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.
1846 – In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following Texas' annexation by the United States.
1847 – The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
1852 – The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
1859 – Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the 1st time this defense is successfully used in the United States.
1861 – Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
1876 – Founding of the National Amateur Press Association (NAPA) in Philadelphia.
1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1884 – More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
1915 – World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
1921 – Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup
1937 – Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades. Italian authorities exact vicious reprisals on the population.
1942 – World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.
1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps.
1943 – World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima – about 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
1953 – Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
1960 – China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the Feminist Movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
1972 – The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan.
1976 – Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417
1978 – Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
1985 – Artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital.
1985 – Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
1986 – Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers the eastern province of Sri Lanka.
1986 – The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for 10 of those years.
1999 – President Bill Clinton issues a posthumous pardon for U.S. Army Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper.
2001 – The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
2006 – A methane explosion in coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.

Births

1473 – Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)
1526 – Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (d. 1609)
1552 – Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (d. 1630)
1630 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680)
1660 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742)
1671 – Charles-Hubert Gervais, French composer (d. 1744)
1717 – David Garrick, British actor (d. 1779)
1722 – Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (d. 1774)
1743 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (d. 1805)
1780 – Richard McCarty, American politician (d. 1844)
1800 – Émilie Gamelin, French Canadian Roman Catholic Religious Sister, founder of the Sisters of Providence (d. 1851)
1802 – Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881)
1804 – Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, German physician (d. 1878)
1804 – David Wark, Canadian politician (d. 1905)
1821 – August Schleicher, German linguist (d. 1868)
1824 – Henri Germain, French banker and politician, founder of Le Crédit Lyonnais (d. 1905)
1833 – Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1906)
1843 – Adelina Patti, Italian opera singer (d. 1919)
1855 – Nishinoumi Kajirō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Yokozuna (d. 1908)
1859 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
1865 – Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (d. 1952)
1869 – Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian poet and writer (d. 1923)
1876 – Constantin Brâncuşi, Romanian sculptor (d. 1957)
1877 – Gabriele Münter, German painter (d. 1962)
1880 – Alvaro Obregon, Mexican president (d. 1928)
1886 – José Abad Santos, Filipino jurist and lawyer (d. 1942)
1888 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (d. 1928)
1888 – Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1949)
1893 – Sir Cedric Hardwicke, British actor (d. 1964)
1895 – Louis Calhern, American actor (d. 1956)
1895 – Diego Mazquiarán, Spanish matador ( d. 1940 )
1896 – André Breton, French poet (d. 1966)
1897 – Alma Rubens, American actress (d. 1931)
1899 – Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (d. 1960)
1899 – Lucio Fontana, Italian-Argentinian painter and sculptor (d. 1968)
1902 – Kay Boyle, American writer (d. 1992)
1904 – Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Irish writer (d. 1950)
1904 – Havank, Dutch writer (d. 1964)
1906 – Eugene Eisenmann, Panamanian-American ornithologist (d. 1981)
1910 – Dorothy Janis, American silent film actress (d. 2010)
1911 – Merle Oberon, British actress (d. 1979)
1912 – Saul Chaplin, American composer (d. 1997)
1913 – Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne (d. 2007)
1914 – Jacques Dufilho, French comedian (d. 2005)
1916 – Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (d. 1997)
1917 – Carson McCullers, American author (d. 1967)
1920 – C. Z. Guest, American socialite (d. 2003)
1920 – Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (d. 2007)
1920 – George Rose, British music hall entertainer (d. 1988)
1924 – David Bronstein, Ukrainian chess player (d. 2006)
1924 – Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
1924 – Bruce Norris, American ice hockey executive (d. 1986)
1924 – František Vláčil, Czech film director, painter, and graphic artist (d. 1999)
1929 – Jacques Deray, French film director (d. 2003)
1930 – John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002)
1930 – K Viswanath, South Indian film director
1932 – Joseph P. Kerwin, NASA astronaut
1934 – Pierre Barouh, French writer, composer and singer
1934 – Carole Eastman, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
1935 – Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (d. 2010)
1936 – Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (d. 2006)
1936 – Marin Sorescu, Romanian writer and novelist (d. 1997)
1937 – Robert Walker Jr., American blues guitarist
1938 – René Muñoz, Cuban-born Mexican actor and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1938 – Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Tibetan religious figure (d. 1989)
1938 – Dutch Mason, Canadian blues musician (d. 2006)
1939 – Gwen Taylor, English actress
1940 – Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (d. 2006)
1940 – Smokey Robinson, American singer
1941 – David Gross, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1942 – Paul Krause, American football player
1943 – Lou Christie, American singer
1943 – Homer Hickam, American author and retired NASA engineer
1943 – Tim Hunt, British biochemist, Nobel laureate
1945 – Michael Nader, American actor
1945 – Jürgen Rumor, German footballer
1945 – Yuri Antonov, Soviet-Russian musician
1946 – Paul Dean, Canadian guitarist (Loverboy)
1946 – Peter Hudson, Australian rules footballer
1946 – Karen Silkwood, American activist (d. 1974)
1946 – Hiroshi Fujioka, Japanese actor
1947 – Tim Shadbolt, mayor of Invercargill, New Zealand
1948 – Mark Andes, American musician (Spirit, Firefall and Heart)
1948 – Tony Iommi, English guitarist (Black Sabbath)
1948 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
1948 – Big John Studd, American professional wrestler (d. 1995)
1949 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (d. 1998)
1949 – William Messner-Loebs, American comics writer
1950 – Juice Leskinen, Finnish songwriter
1950 – Andy Powell, British musician (Wishbone Ash)
1951 – Stephen Nichols, American actor
1951 – Tahir-ul-Qadri, Pakistani Islamic Sufi Scholar
1952 – Amy Tan, American novelist
1952 – Rodolfo Neri Vela, Mexican astronaut
1953 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of Argentina
1953 – Bill Kirchenbauer American comedian and actor
1953 – Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (d. 1994)
1954 – Francis Buchholz, German bassist (Scorpions)
1954 – Sócrates, Brazilian footballer (d. 2011)
1955 – Jeff Daniels, American actor
1956 – Kathleen Beller, American actress
1956 – Roderick MacKinnon, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1956 – Dave Wakeling, English musician (The (English) Beat and General Public)
1956 – Peter Holsapple, American musician (The dBs and The Continental Drifters)
1957 – Falco, Austrian singer (d. 1998)
1957 – Lorianne Crook, Television Personality
1957 – Ray Winstone, British actor
1958 – Helen Fielding, English writer
1960 – Prince Andrew, Duke of York
1960 – Leslie Ash, English actress
1961 – Benoît Chamoux, French mountaineer (d. 1995)
1961 – Justin Fashanu, English footballer (d. 1998)
1961 – Andy Wallace, English race car driver
1962 – John Laroche, American orchid poacher
1962 – Hana Mandlíková, Czech tennis player
1963 – Laurell K. Hamilton, American writer
1963 – Seal, English singer
1963 – Jessica Tuck, American actress
1964 –Doug Aldrich, American musician (Whitesnake and Burning Rain)
1964 – Dmitri Lipskerov, Russian writer
1964 – Sonu Walia, Indian actress
1965 – Jon Fishman, American musician (Phish)
1965 – Cathy Lane, English Swimmer
1965 – Leroy, American musician (Smash Mouth)
1966 – Justine Bateman, American actress
1966 – Paul Haarhuis, Dutch tennis player
1966 – Enzo Scifo, Belgian footballer
1967 – Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
1969 – Burton C. Bell, American vocalist (Fear Factory and Ascension of the Watchers)
1969 – Helena Guergis, Canadian politician
1970 – Joacim Cans, Swedish singer (HammerFall)
1971 – Miguel Batista, Dominican baseball player
1971 – Lisa McCune, Australian actress
1971 – Gil Shaham, Israeli-born American violinist
1972 – Francine, American professional wrestler
1973 – Eric Lange, American actor
1974 – Danny Doring, American professional wrestler
1975 – Daniel Adair, Canadian Drummer (Nickelback and 3 Doors Down)
1975 – Mikko Kavén, Finnish footballer
1975 – Katja Schuurman, Dutch actress and singer
1975 – Daewon Song, Korean professional skateboarder
1976 – Jahidi White, American basketball player
1977 – Ola Salo, Swedish singer (The Ark)
1977 – Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer
1978 – Michalis Konstantinou, Greek-born Cypriot footballer
1978 – Immortal Technique, Peruvian-born American rapper
1979 – Bassnectar, American Dubstep/Electronica musician
1979 – Andrew Buchan, English Actor
1979 – Steve Cherundolo, American soccer player
1979 – Mariska, Finnish rapper
1979 – Mariana Ochoa, Mexican singer and actress (OV7)
1979 – René Renno, German footballer
1980 – Neleh Dennis, American reality show contestant
1980 – Dwight Freeney, American football player
1980 – David Gandy, British model
1980 – Ma Lin, Chinese table tennis player
1980 – Mike Miller, American basketball player
1981 – Ronnie Arniell, Canadian professional wrestler
1981 – Beth Ditto, American singer (The Gossip)
1981 – Daniel Letterle, American actor
1981 – Kyle Martino, American soccer player
1981 – Gil Reyes, American boxer
1981 – Nicky Shorey, English footballer
1981 – Vitas, Russian singer
1982 – Camelia Potec, Romanian swimmer
1983 – Assunta De Rossi, Filipino actress
1983 – Kotoōshū Katsunori, Bulgarian sumo wrestler
1983 – Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer/actress
1983 – Ryan Whitney, American ice hockey player
1984 – Chris Richardson, American Idol finalist
1985 – Haylie Duff, American singer/actress
1985 – Arielle Kebbel, American actress
1986 – Kyle Chipchura, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Björn Gustafsson, Swedish comedian
1986 – Reon Kadena, Japanese model and actress
1986 – Henri Karjalainen, Finnish racing driver
1986 – Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
1986 – Jayde Nicole, Canadian model
1986 – Michael Schwimer, American baseball player
1986 – Marta Vieira da Silva, Brazilian footballer
1988 – Miyu Irino, Japanese voice actor
1990 – Luke Pasqualino, English actor
1991 – Trevor Bayne, American race car Driver
1993 – Victoria Justice, American actress and singer
1993 – Empress Schuck, Filipina actress

Deaths

197 – Clodius Albinus, Roman governor of Britain
1133 – Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus (b. 1066)
1553 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511)
1589 – Saint Philothei, Orthodox martyr and Patron of Athens (b. 1522)
1605 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (b. 1550)
1602 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (b. 1558)
1620 – Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (b. 1547)
1622 – Sir Henry Savile, English educator (b. 1549)
1653 – Luigi de Rossi, Italian composer (b. 1597)
1663 – Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat (b. 1603)
1670 – King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)
1672 – Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (b. 1592)
1709 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (b. 1646)
1716 – Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (b. 1634)
1789 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (b. 1738)
1799 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (b. 1733)
1806 – Elizabeth Carter, English writer (b. 1717)
1837 – Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)
1837 – Thomas Burgess, English author, philosopher, Bishop of Saint David's and Bishop of Salisbury (b. 1756)
1887 – Multatuli, Dutch writer (b. 1820)
1897 – Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (b. 1815)
1916 – Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)
1927 – Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (b. 1847)
1936 – Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)
1936 – Billy Mitchell, American general and military aviation pioneer (b. 1879)
1942 – Frank Abbandando, American gangster (executed) (b. 1910)
1951 – André Gide, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
1952 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
1957 – Maurice Garin, French cyclist (b. 1871)
1959 – Willard Miller, American sailor (b. 1877)
1962 – Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (b. 1883)
1968 – Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian professional wrestler (b. 1878)
1969 – Madge Blake, American actress (b. 1899)
1970 – Christoforos Nezer, Greek actor (b. 1887)
1972 – John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (b. 1898)
1972 – Lee Morgan, American jazz musician (b. 1938)
1972 – Tedd Pierce, American animator (b. 1906)
1973 – Kostas Negrepontis, Greek footballer (b. 1897)
1973 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)
1975 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904)
1977 – Anthony Crosland, British politician (b. 1918)
1977 – Mike González, Cuban baseball player (b. 1890)
1980 – Bon Scott, Australian singer (AC/DC) (b. 1946)
1983 – Alice White, American film actress (b. 1904)
1986 – Adolfo Celi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
1988 – André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1992 – Tojo Yamamoto, American professional wrestler (b. 1927)
1994 – Derek Jarman, British film director (b. 1942)
1996 – Antonio Creus, Spanish racecar driver (b. 1924)
1996 – Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (b. 1918)
1997 – Leo Rosten, American Yiddish writer and humorist (b. 1908)
1997 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist leader and revolutionary (b. 1904)
1998 – Grandpa Jones, American entertainer (b. 1913)
1999 – Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite leader (assassinated) (b. 1943)
2000 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928)
2001 – Priscilla Davis, American socialite (b. 1942)
2001 – Stanley Kramer, American director (b. 1913)
2001 – Charles Trenet, French singer (b. 1913)
2003 – Johnny Paycheck, American singer (b. 1938)
2007 – Janet Blair, American actress (b. 1921)
2007 – Celia Franca, founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1921)
2008 – Yegor Letov, Russian song writer and singer (Grazhdanskaya Oborona) (b. 1964)
2008 – Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress (b. 1945)
2009 – Kelly Groucutt, Bass guitarist and singer for the band Electric Light Orchestra (b. 1945)
2010 – Jamie Gillis, American pornographic actor, director (b. 1943)
2010 – Laura Spurr, American chairperson of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi (b. 1945)
2011 – Ollie Matson, American Football Running Back (b. 1930)