Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.
Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Due to the Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood.
Events
- 350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
- 1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
- 1520 – Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan.
- 1521 – Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
- 1559 – King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.
- 1651 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising – the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
- 1688 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William (continuing the English rebellion from Rome), which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
- 1758 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
- 1794 – Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
- 1805 – The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory.
- 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
- 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
- 1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
- 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
- 1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
- 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
- 1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
- 1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
- 1912 – The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
- 1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
- 1922 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
- 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
- 1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
- 1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
- 1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London
- 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
- 1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
- 1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States, killing all 128 on board the two planes.
- 1959 – A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
- 1960 – Congo gains independence from Belgium.
- 1963 – Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.
- 1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
- 1968 – Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
- 1969 – Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
- 1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
- 1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
- 1972 – The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
- 1977 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
- 1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
- 1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
- 1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
- 1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
- 1991 – 32 miners are killed when a coal mine catches fire in the Donbass region of Ukraine and releases toxic gas.
- 1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
- 2009 – Yemenia Flight 626 crashes into the Indian Ocean, near Comoros, killing all but one of the 153 passengers and crew on board.
Births
- 1286 – John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English nobleman (d. 1347)
- 1470 – King Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
- 1503 – John Frederick, Elector of Saxony (d. 1554)
- 1588 – Giovanni Maria Sabino, Italian composer, organist and teacher (d. 1649)
- 1641 – Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (d. 1719)
- 1685 – John Gay, British writer (d. 1732)
- 1755 – Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (d. 1829)
- 1789 – Horace Vernet, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1863)
- 1803 – Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (d. 1849)
- 1807 – Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, German narrator, lyricist and philosopher (d.1887)
- 1817 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist (d. 1911)
- 1823 – Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Indian industrialist (d. 1901)
- 1843 – Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat (d. 1929)
- 1864 – Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect, illustrator, archaeologist and psychical researcher (d. 1945)
- 1884 – Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)
- 1891 – Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
- 1891 – Ed "Strangler" Lewis, American professional wrestler (d. 1966)
- 1892 – Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (d. 1951)
- 1892 – Bo Carter, American blues musician (d. 1962)
- 1893 – Walter Ulbricht, German Communist leader (d. 1973)
- 1899 – Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1899 – Harry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1971)
- 1906 – Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
- 1906 – Anthony Mann, American film actor and director (d. 1967)
- 1907 – Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian politician (d. 1950)
- 1908 – Winston Graham, British writer (d. 2003)
- 1911 – Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet and writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
- 1912 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003)
- 1912 – Dan Reeves, American sports team owner (d. 1971)
- 1913 – Harry Wismer, American sports team owner (d. 1967)
- 1913 – Alfonso López Michelsen, Colombian politician (d. 2007)
- 1914 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese politician (d. 2001)
- 1917 – Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975)
- 1917 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (d. 2010)
- 1919 – Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)
- 1925 – Fred Schaus, American basketball coach and executive (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Paul Berg, American biochemist, Nobel laureate
- 1929 – James Goldman, American screenwriter (d. 1998)
- 1929 – Hans Krondahl, Swedish painter and textile designer
- 1930 – Thomas Sowell, American economist
- 1931 – Bert Eriksson, Flemish neo-Nazi (d. 2005)
- 1931 – Andrew Hill, American jazz pianist (d. 2007)
- 1933 – Lea Massari, Italian actress
- 1933 – M. J. K. Smith, English cricketer
- 1933 – Orval Tessier, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1934 – Harry Blackstone Jr., American stage magician (d. 1997)
- 1935 – John Harlin, American mountaineer (d. 1966)
- 1936 – Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker
- 1936 – Nancy Dussault, American actress
- 1936 – Tony Musante, American actor
- 1936 – Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
- 1938 – Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
- 1939 – José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet
- 1940 – Mark Spoelstra, American folk singer (d. 2007)
- 1941 – Peter Pollock, South African cricket player
- 1942 – Robert Ballard, American oceanographer
- 1942 – Ron Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1943 – Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Indian Film Director
- 1943 – Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
- 1943 – Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi writer (d. 2001)
- 1944 – Terry Funk, American professional wrestler
- 1944 – Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
- 1944 – Glenn Shorrock, Australian singer-songwriter (Little River Band)
- 1944 – Ron Swoboda, American baseball player
- 1947 – Barry Bremen, American sports imposter
- 1949 – Uwe Kliemann, German footballer
- 1949 – Andy Scott, British guitarist and singer (Sweet)
- 1950 – Leonard Whiting, British actor
- 1951 – Stanley Clarke, American jazz bass and double bass player (Return to Forever)
- 1952 – David Garrison, American Broadway and TV actor
- 1952 – Athanassios S. Fokas, Greek mathematician
- 1953 – Hal Lindes, American-born British guitarist (Dire Straits)
- 1953 – Lin Feng-Jiao, Taiwanese actress
- 1954 – Pierre Charles, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
- 1954 – Serzh Sargsyan, President of Armenia
- 1955 – David Alan Grier, American actor and comedian
- 1957 – Bud Black, Americab baseball player
- 1957 – Sterling Marlin, American racing driver
- 1957 – Rich Vos, stand-up comedian
- 1958 – Lina Nikolakopoulou, Greek lyricist
- 1958 – Wilhelm Reisinger, German footballer
- 1958 – Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
- 1959 – Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
- 1959 – Brendan Perry, British multi-instrumentalist (Dead Can Dance)
- 1959 – Sakis Tsiolis, Greek footballer and manager
- 1960 – Murray Cook, Australian singer (The Wiggles)
- 1962 – Tony Fernández, Dominican baseball player
- 1962 – Deirdre Lovejoy, American actress (The Wire)
- 1962 – Julianne Regan, British singer and guitarist (All About Eve)
- 1963 – Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist
- 1964 – Alexandra Christina Manley, Hong Kong-born ex-wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark
- 1964 – Mark Waters, American film director
- 1965 – Mitch Richmond, American basketball player
- 1965 – Steve Duchesne, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1965 – Anna Levandi, Russian figure skater
- 1965 – Gary Pallister, English footballer
- 1966 – Mike Tyson, American boxer
- 1966 – Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor
- 1966 – Cheryl Bernard, Canadian curler
- 1966 – Wendy Davis, American actress
- 1967 – David Busst, English former footballer
- 1968 – Phil Anselmo, American singer (Pantera)
- 1969 – Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1970 – Brian Bloom, American actor
- 1970 – Antonio Chimenti, Italian footballer
- 1970 – Mark Grudzielanek, American baseball player
- 1971 – Anette Michel, Mexican actress
- 1971 – Monica Potter, American actress
- 1972 – Sandra Cam, Belgian swimmer
- 1972 – James Martin, English celebrity chef
- 1973 – Chan-ho Park, South Korean baseball player
- 1973 – Frank Rost, German footballer
- 1973 – Noam Zylberman, Israeli-born Canadian actor
- 1974 – Tony Rock, American actor and stand-up comedian
- 1975 – Ralf Schumacher, German Formula One driver
- 1975 – Rami Shaaban, Swedish footballer
- 1975 – James Bannatyne, New Zealand footballer
- 1977 – Justo Villar, Paraguayan footballer
- 1977 – Mark Van Gisbergen, New Zealand/English rugby player
- 1978 – Ben Cousins, Australian football player
- 1978 – Claudio Rivalta, Italian footballer
- 1979 – Matisyahu, American reggae singer
- 1979 – Sylvain Chavanel, French cyclist
- 1979 – Rick Gonzalez, American actor
- 1979 – Faisal Shahzad, Pakistani/American terrorist
- 1980 – Rade Prica, Swedish footballer
- 1980 – Seyi Olofinjana, Nigerian footballer
- 1981 – Can Artam, Turkish racing driver
- 1981 – Matt Kirk, Canadian football player
- 1981 – Karolina Sadalska, Polish kayaker
- 1981 – Ben Utecht, American football player
- 1982 – Andy Knowles, British drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
- 1982 – Mitch Maier, American baseball player
- 1982 – Delwyn Young, American baseball player
- 1982 – Lizzy Caplan, American actress
- 1983 – Brendon James, British drummer (Thirteen Senses)
- 1983 – Marlin Jackson, American football player
- 1983 – Patrick Wolf, English singer-songwriter
- 1983 – Cheryl Cole, British singer (Girls Aloud)
- 1983 – Marcus Burghardt, German cyclist
- 1984 – Miles Austin, American football player
- 1984 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer
- 1984 – Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer
- 1985 – Trevor Ariza, American basketball player
- 1985 – Rafal Blechacz, Polish pianist
- 1985 – Michael Phelps, American swimmer
- 1985 – Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
- 1985 – Cody Rhodes, American wrestler
- 1986 – Alicia Fox, American wrestler and model
- 1986 – Allegra Versace, Italian heiress
- 1986 – Nicola Pozzi, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Fredy Guarín, Colombian footballer
- 1989 – Steffen Liebig, German rugby player
- 1989 – Miguel Vítor, Portuguese footballer
- 1989 – David Myers, Australian footballer
- 1991 – Kaho, Japanese actress
Deaths
- 350 – Nepotianus, Roman usurper
- 1181 – Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
- 1224 – Adolf of Osnabrück, German monk and bishop (b. 1185)
- 1364 – Arnošt of Pardubice, Polish-born Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
- 1538 – Charles, Duke of Guelders, Dutch nobleman (b. 1467)
- 1579 – Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, Turkish Janissary (b. 1506)
- 1607 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
- 1660 – William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
- 1666 – Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)
- 1670 – Henrietta Anne of England, daughter of King Charles I of England (b. 1644)
- 1704 – John Quelch, English pirate (b. 1665)
- 1709 – Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
- 1785 – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the U.S. state of Georgia (b. 1696)
- 1796 – Abraham Yates, American Congressman (b. 1724)
- 1857 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
- 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of President James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
- 1882 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
- 1890 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819)
- 1917 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
- 1919 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1842)
- 1932 – Bruno Kastner, German actor (b. 1890)
- 1934 – Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
- 1934 – Gregor Strasser, former German Nazi politician (b. 1892)
- 1934 – Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria (b. 1862)
- 1934 – Karl Ernst, German Sturmabteilung-gruppenführer (b. 1904)
- 1934 – Erich Klausener, German politician (b. 1885)
- 1941 – Yefim Fomin, Soviet political commissar (b. 1909)
- 1953 – Charles William Miller, Brazilian sportsman, the "father of football in Brazil" (b. 1874)
- 1956 – Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (b. 1880)
- 1959 – José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
- 1961 – Lee DeForest, American inventor (b. 1873)
- 1966 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian Formula One driver, the winner of the first Formula One championship (b. 1906)
- 1971 – Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
- 1971 – Viktor Patsayev Soviet astronaut (b. 1933)
- 1971 – Georgi Dobrovolski Soviet astronaut (b. 1928)
- 1971 – Vladislav Volkov Soviet astronaut (b. 1935)
- 1971 – Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1938)
- 1971 – Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1943)
- 1973 – Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R, Ukrainian-born Canadian Greek-Catholic bishop and martyr (b. 1903)
- 1974 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
- 1976 – Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1984 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
- 1985 – Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)
- 1993 – George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
- 1993 – Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer (b. 1962)
- 1995 – Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906)
- 1995 – Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1921)
- 1995 – Phyllis Hyman, American jazz vocalist (b. 1949)
- 1996 – Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1932)
- 1997 – Larry O'Dea, Australian professional wrestler (b. 1944)
- 2001 – Chet Atkins, American country guitar player and producer (b. 1924)
- 2001 – Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1937)
- 2002 – Chico Xavier, Brazilian spiritist medium (b. 1910)
- 2003 – Buddy Hackett, American comedian (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Robert McCloskey, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
- 2004 – Jamal Abro, Pakistani writer (b. 1924)
- 2005 – Clancy Eccles, Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
- 2006 – Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
- 2007 – Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
- 2009 – Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
- 2009 – Robert DePugh, American anti-Communist activist (b. 1923)
- 2010 – Park Yong-ha, Korean actor and singer (b. 1977)
- 2011 – Barry Bremen, American sports imposter and business man (b. 1947)
Holidays and observances
Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture; June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998) was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "snick") and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party. Initially an integrationist, Carmichael later became affiliated with black nationalist and Pan-Africanist movements. He popularized the term "Black Power".
Events
- 226 – Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
- 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
- 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
- 1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
- 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
- 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
- 1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
- 1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
- 1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey
- 1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
- 1807 – Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
- 1850 – Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
- 1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
- 1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
- 1880 – France annexes Tahiti.
- 1881 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
- 1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
- 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
- 1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
- 1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
- 1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
- 1922 – France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
- 1926 – Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1927 – The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
- 1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller.
- 1928 – The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
- 1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
- 1950 – The United States defeats England during the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
- 1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
- 1972 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
- 1974 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
- 1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with Bolshoi Ballet.
- 1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
- 1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
- 2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
- 2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
- 2009 – Yemenia Flight 626 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing 152 people and leaving schoolgirl Bahia Bakari as the sole survivor.
Births
- 1136 – Petronilla, Queen of Aragon (d. 1173)
- 1398 – King John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
- 1475 – Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan (d. 1497)
- 1482 – Maria of Aragon, Spanish-born wife of King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1517)
- 1517 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)
- 1596 – Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
- 1746 – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German writer and linguist (d. 1818)
- 1793 – Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor (d. 1857)
- 1798 – Willibald Alexis, German historical novelist (d. 1871)
- 1798 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
- 1844 – Peter I, King of Serbia, founding father of Yugoslavia (d. 1921)
- 1849 – Pedro Montt, President of Chile (d. 1910)
- 1849 – Sergei Witte, Prime Minister of Russia (d. 1915)
- 1803 – John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
- 1818 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1878)
- 1849 – John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
- 1858 – George Washington Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
- 1858 – Julia Lathrop, American social reformer and children's rights activist (d. 1932)
- 1861 – William James Mayo, American physician (d. 1939)
- 1863 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player and hall-of-famer (d. 1934)
- 1865 – Shigechiyo Izumi, oldest man ever, who lived to be 120 years 237 days old (d. 1986)
- 1866 – Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
- 1868 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
- 1870 – Joseph Carl Breil, American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor (d. 1926)
- 1873 – Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (d. 1938)
- 1879 – Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian cardinal (d. 1970)
- 1879 – Zsigmond Móricz, Hungarian writer (d. 1942)
- 1880 – Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
- 1881 – Harry Frazee, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
- 1881 – Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
- 1882 – Franz Seldte, Nazi politician (d. 1947)
- 1886 – Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
- 1886 – James Van Der Zee, African American Harlem Renaissance photographer (d. 1983)
- 1888 – Joseph 'Squizzy' Taylor, Australian underworld figure (d. 1927)
- 1889 – Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
- 1890 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 2005)
- 1893 – Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
- 1893 – Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist and statistician (d. 1972)
- 1897 – Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
- 1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
- 1901 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
- 1903 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
- 1903 – Paul Newlan, American actor d. 1973
- 1906 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
- 1906 – Heinz Harmel, German SS General (d. 2000)
- 1908 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
- 1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
- 1910 – Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1911 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
- 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
- 1912 – José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican composer (d. 1958)
- 1912 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
- 1912 – John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
- 1914 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
- 1914 – Allan Houser, Native American artist (d. 1994)
- 1914 – Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
- 1915 – Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1919 – Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (d. 2008)
- 1919 – Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
- 1919 – Lloyd Richards, American theatre director (d. 2006)
- 1920 – César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer (d. 1995)
- 1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
- 1921 – Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
- 1921 – Jean Kent, British actress
- 1921 – Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (d. 2009)
- 1921 – Harry Schell, American racecar driver (d. 1960)
- 1922 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
- 1922 – John William Vessey, Jr., American general
- 1923 – Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-born American composer
- 1924 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
- 1924 – Ezra Laderman, American composer
- 1925 – Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician, 11th President of the Republic
- 1925 – Hale Smith, American composer and editor (d. 2009)
- 1925 – Cara Williams, American actress
- 1925 – Chan Parker, American memoir writer, wife of Charlie Parker and of Phil Woods (d. 1999)
- 1926 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
- 1928 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
- 1928 – Jean-Louis Pesch, French writer
- 1928 – Radius Prawiro, Indonesian politician (d. 2005)
- 1929 – Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
- 1929 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (d. 2006)
- 1930 – Robert Evans, American film producer
- 1930 – Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
- 1930 – Slawomir Mrozek, Polish writer
- 1931 – Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1932 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
- 1933 – Bob Shaw, baseball player
- 1933 – John Bradshaw, American theologian
- 1934 – Corey Allen, American filmmaker and actor (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Chuck Schaden, Chicago radio personality and historian
- 1935 – Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
- 1936 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (d. 2011)
- 1939 – Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
- 1939 – Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial artist and actor (d. 2002)
- 1939 – Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer
- 1940 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
- 1941 – John Boccabella, American baseball player
- 1941 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
- 1941 – Margitta Gummel, German shot putter
- 1942 – Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
- 1943 – Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1944 – Gary Busey, American actor
- 1944 – Sean O'Malley, American Roman Catholic bishop
- 1945 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
- 1946 – Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
- 1946 – Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
- 1947 – Michael Carter, British actor
- 1947 – Richard Lewis, American comedian
- 1948 – Fred Grandy, American actor and politician
- 1948 – Ian Paice, English drummer (Deep Purple)
- 1949 – Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician
- 1949 – Ann Veneman, American politician
- 1951 – Don Rosa, American illustrator
- 1953 – Don Dokken, American musician (Dokken)
- 1953 – Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer (Men at Work)
- 1954 – Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player
- 1954 – Júnior, Brazilian footballer
- 1955 – Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
- 1955 – Charles J. Precourt, American astronaut
- 1956 – Nick Fry, CEO of Mercedes GP Formula One team
- 1956 – Pedro Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
- 1956 – Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese politician, former Prime Minister
- 1956 – Pyotr Vasilevsky, Belarusian footballer (d. 2012)
- 1957 – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, President of Turkmenistan
- 1957 – María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
- 1957 – Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter (The Go-Betweens)
- 1957 – Michael Nutter, American politician
- 1958 – Dieter Althaus, German politician
- 1958 – Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster and singer
- 1958 – Rosa Mota, Portuguese marathon runner
- 1958 – Mark Radcliffe, British broadcaster and musician
- 1958 – Ralf Rangnick, German football manager
- 1961 – Kimberlin Brown, American actress
- 1961 – Greg Hetson, American guitarist (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks)
- 1961 – Sharon Lawrence, American actress
- 1962 – Amanda Donohoe, British actress
- 1962 – Joan Laporta, Spanish politician
- 1962 – George Zamka, American astronaut
- 1963 – Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
- 1963 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
- 1964 – Stedman Pearson, British singer (Five Star)
- 1965 – Tripp Eisen, American guitarist (Static-X)
- 1965 – Panagiotis Karatzas, Greek basketball player
- 1966 – John Part, Canadian darts player
- 1966 – Yoko Kamio, Japanese manga artist
- 1967 – Seamus McGarvey, Irish cinematographer
- 1967 – Jeff Burton, American racing driver
- 1967 – Murray Foster, Canadian bassist and double-bassist (Moxy Früvous, Great Big Sea)
- 1967 – Melora Hardin, American actress and singer
- 1968 – Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968 – Judith Hoag, American actress and acting teacher
- 1969 – Claude Béchard, Canadian politician
- 1969 – Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and football manager
- 1969 – Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
- 1969 – Toru Hashimoto, Japanese politician
- 1970 – Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
- 1970 – Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
- 1971 – Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
- 1971 – Matthew Good, Canadian singer (Matthew Good Band)
- 1971 – Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
- 1972 – DJ Shadow, American music producer and DJ
- 1972 – Samantha Smith, American activist (d. 1985)
- 1972 – Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
- 1973 – George Hincapie, American cyclist
- 1976 – Bret McKenzie, New Zealand comedian, actor and multi-instrumentalist (Flight of the Conchords)
- 1976 – Daniel Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
- 1977 – Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1977 – Zuleikha Robinson, English actress
- 1978 – Sam Farrar, American bassist (Phantom Planet)
- 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger, American singer (Pussycat Dolls) and actress
- 1979 – Baris Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
- 1979 – Matthew Bode, Australian Rules football player
- 1979 – Abz Love (formerly known as Abs Breen), English DJ and singer (Five)
- 1979 – Andy O'Brien, English footballer
- 1979 – Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
- 1980 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh mezzo soprano
- 1980 – Mel Peachey, British television personality
- 1980 – Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
- 1981 – Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula One driver
- 1981 – Joe Johnson, American basketball player
- 1981 – Nino, Greek singer
- 1981 – Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
- 1982 – Dusty Hughes, American baseball player
- 1982 – Ott Sepp, Estonian actor
- 1983 – Aundrea Fimbres, American singer (Danity Kane)
- 1983 – Jeremy Powers, American cyclist
- 1984 – Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
- 1984 – Christopher Egan, Australian actor
- 1984 – Derek Lee Rock, American drummer (Mêlée, Suburban Legends)
- 1985 – Quintin Demps, American football player
- 1986 – José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer
- 1986 – Edward Maya, Romanian musician
- 1986 – Iya Villania, Filipino actress
- 1987 – Ana Free, Portuguese singer-songwriter
- 1987 – Luke McLean, Australian-born Italian rugby player
- 1987 – Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor
- 1988 – Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
- 1988 – Elnur Mammadli, Azerbaijani judoka
- 1988 – Becky Jane Taylor, English singer
- 1990 – Yann M'Vila, French footballer
- 1990 – Sayuri Sugawara, Japanese singer
- 1991 – Suk Hyun-Jun, South Korean footballer
- 1992 – Adam Sevani, American actor and dancer
- 1993 – George Sampson, English dancer and actor
- 1994 – Shin Dongho, South-Korean singer, member of (U-KISS)
Deaths
- 226 – Cao Pi, Emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (b. 187)
- 1059 – Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (b. c. 995)
- 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch
- 1252 – King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
- 1315 – Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
- 1509 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
- 1520 – Moctezuma II, tlatoani of Tenochtitlan (b. c. 1466)
- 1575 – Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai (b. 1514/5)
- 1594 – Niels Kaas, Danish chancellor (b. 1535)
- 1725 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
- 1744 – André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
- 1764 – Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
- 1779 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (b. 1728)
- 1831 – Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian statesman and reformer (b. 1757)
- 1840 – Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino and Musignano, brother of Napolean Bonaparte (b. 1775)
- 1852 – Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
- 1853 – Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1797)
- 1855 – John Gorrie, American physician, scientist, inventor and humanitarian (b. 1802)
- 1860 – Thomas Addison, English physician and scientist (b. 1793)
- 1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
- 1873 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
- 1875 – Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
- 1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (b. 1825)
- 1895 – Floriano Peixoto, President of Brazil (b. 1839)
- 1900 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1827)
- 1907 – Konstantinos Volanakis, Greek painter (b. 1837)
- 1919 – José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
- 1921 – Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
- 1931 – Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
- 1933 – Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
- 1935 – Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
- 1936 – János Szlepecz, Slovene writer and priest (b. 1872)
- 1940 – Paul Klee, Swiss painter (b. 1879)
- 1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
- 1942 – Paul Troje, German politician (b. 1864)
- 1949 – Themistoklis Sophoulis, Greek politician (b. 1860)
- 1951 – Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor (b. 1884)
- 1955 – Max Pechstein, German painter (b. 1881)
- 1957 – Malcolm Lowry, English writer (b. 1909)
- 1958 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
- 1960 – Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
- 1964 – Eric Dolphy, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1928)
- 1967 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
- 1967 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
- 1969 – Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)
- 1969 – Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
- 1973 – Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
- 1975 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
- 1977 – Magda Lupescu, wife of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
- 1978 – Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
- 1979 – Lowell George, American country-rock singer (b. 1945)
- 1982 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
- 1982 – Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
- 1990 – Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
- 1992 – Mohamed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
- 1993 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
- 1994 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
- 1994 – Jack Unterweger, Austrian serial killer (b. 1950)
- 1995 – Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
- 1997 – William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1998 – Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
- 1999 – Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
- 1999 – Karekin I, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church (b. 1950)
- 2000 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
- 2002 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
- 2002 – Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
- 2002 – François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
- 2003 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
- 2004 – Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
- 2006 – Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
- 2006 – Fabián Bielinsky, Argentine film director (b. 1959)
- 2006 – Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Fred Saberhagen, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1930)
- 2007 – Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
- 2007 – Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (b. 1947)
- 2008 – Don S. Davis, American actor and artist (b. 1942)
- 2009 – Joe Bowman, American sharpshooter, Hollywood consultant, bootmaker and showman (b. 1925)
Holidays and observances
