I was born on the same day as.....

[Läufer]

Look at the bold

[spoiler=Events of August 2nd]

338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea' date=' securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.

216 BC – [b']Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.[/b]

1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

1776 – Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United States Declaration of Independence.1790 – The first US Census is conducted.

1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) concludes in a British victory

1869 – Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).

1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.

1903 – Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.1916 – World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

1918 – Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.

1932 – The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.

1934 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.

1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

1939 – Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.1943 – Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.

1943 – World War II: PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.

1944 – ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia

1945 – World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.

1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy.

1967 – The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London.

1968 – The 1968 Casiguran Earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.

1973 – A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.

1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.

1985 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.

1989 - Pakistan is re-admitted back into the Commonwealth of Nations, for restoring democracy, since 1972.

1989 – 1989 Valvettiturai massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces in the Gulf War

 

 

[spoiler=Births on August 2nd]

1455 – John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1499)

1533 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)

1612 – Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1642)

1672 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)

1674 – Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)

1696 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)

1702 – Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau, German Prince (d. 1769)

1703 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)

1740 – Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general (d. 1817)

1788 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)

1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894)

1820 – John Tyndall, British physicist (d. 1893)

1828 – Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895)

1834 – Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)

1835 – Elisha Gray, American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1901)

1858 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, queen of the Netherlands (d. 1934)

1865 – Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)

1865 – John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)

1868 – King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)

1871 – John French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951)

1872 – George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946)

1875 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (d. 1957)

1878 – Aino Kallas, Finnish – Estonian author (d. 1956)

1882 – Red Ames, baseball player (d. 1936)

1884 – Rómulo Gallegos, President of Venezuela (d. 1969)

1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian Aviator (d. 1961)

1887 – Tommy Ward, Former South African cricketer (d. 1936)

1890 – Marin Sais, American actress (d. 1971)

1891 – Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (d. 1971)

1892 – Jack Warner, Canadian-born American film producer (d. 1978)

1895 – Matt Henderson, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 1970)

1896 – Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (d. 1960)

1897 – Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (d. 1945)

1897 – Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)

1899 – Charles Bennett, British screenwriter (d. 1995)

1902 – Helen Morgan, American actress (d. 1941)

1905 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d. 1963)

1905 – Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)

1907 – Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984)

1910 – Roger MacDougall, writer (d. 1993)

1912 – Palle Huld, Danish actor

1912 – Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979)

1912 – Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)

1914 – Félix Leclerc, Quebec singer, songwriter and writer (d. 1988)

1914 – Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)

1915 – Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)

1919 – Nehemiah Persoff, American actor

1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer (d. 1997)

1923 – Shimon Peres, Israeli politician, Prime Minister of Israel and the ninth President of the State of Israel

1924 – James Baldwin, American author (d. 1987)

1924 – Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger (d. 2005)

1924 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)

1925 – John Dexter, English stage and film director (d. 1990)

1925 – John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player

1925 – Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator

1925 – Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster

1926 – Betsy Bloomingdale, American socialite

1928 – Malcolm Hilton, Former England cricketer (d. 1990)

1930 – Vali Myers, Australian painter (d. 2003)

1931 – Pierre DuMaine, Catholic bishop

1931 – Viliam Schrojf, Slovak footballer (d. 2007)

1931 – Eddie Fuller, Former South African cricketer (d. 2008)

1932 – Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (d. 2006)

1932 – Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor

1933 – Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Greek politician

1934 – Valery Bykovsky, Soviet cosmonaut

1935 – Hank Cochran, American country music singer and songwriter

1937 – Billy Cannon, American football player

1937 – Garth Hudson, Canadian musician (The Band)

1938 – Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)

1938 – Pierre de Bané, French Canadian politician

1938 – Terry Peck, Falkland Islander-born British soldier (d. 2006)

1939 – Benjamin Barber, American political theorist

1939 – Wes Craven, American film director

1939 – John W. Snow, American 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury

1941 – Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)

1942 – Isabel Allende, Chilean author

1943 – Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player

1943 – Max Wright, American actor

1944 – Jim Capaldi, British musician and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)

1944 – Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian jazz musician

1945 – Joanna Cassidy, American actress

1945 – Alex Jesaulenko, Australian rules footballer

1947 – Massiel, Spanish singer

1948 – Andy Fairweather Low, British guitarist

1948 – Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host and author

1949 – James Fallows, American journalist

1950 – Lance Ito, American judge

1950 – Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (d. 1994)

1951 – Andrew Gold, American musician and songwriter

1951 – Joe Lynn Turner, American singer (Deep Purple, Rainbow)

1951 – Freddie Wadling, Swedish actor and musician (The Leather Nun, Fleshquartet)

1951 – Per Westerberg, Swedish politician

1953 – Marjo, Quebec singer

1953 – Butch Patrick, American actor

1954 – James Charles Kopp, American citizen who murdered Barnett Slepian

1954 – Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and manager

1955 – Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian

1955 – Tim Dunigan, American Actor

1955 – Tony Godden, English footballer

1956 – Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist/astrophysicist and author

1956 – Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler

1956 – Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer

1957 – Mojo Nixon, American musician and actor

1958 – Arshad Ayub, Former Indian cricketer

1959 – Victoria Jackson, American comedian

1959 – Apollonia Kotero, American singer and actress

1960 – Neal Morse, American musician (Spock's Beard, Transatlantic)

1960 – David Yow, American musician (Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard)

1961 – Graham Dye, English singer/songwriter and guitarist (Scarlet Party; The Alan Parsons Project)

1961 – Linda Fratianne, American figure skater

1961 – Cold 187um, American rapper (Above the Law)

1963 – Daniel Pelosi, American convicted murderer

1963 – Laura Bennett, American architect and designer

1964 – Frank Biela, German racing driver

1964 – Mary-Louise Parker, American actress

1965 – Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach

1966 – Takayuki Iizuka, Japanese professional wrestler

1966 – Tim Wakefield, American baseball player

1966 – M.V. Sridhar, Indian cricketer

1967 – Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player

1967 – Aline Brosh McKenna, American screenwriter

1968 – Stefan Effenberg, German footballer

1968 – John Stanier, American musician Helmet

1969 – Cedric Ceballos, American basketball player

1969 – Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer

1969 – Jan Axel Blomberg Norwegian musician (Dimmu Borgir, Winds, Mayhem)

1969 – Richard Hallebeek, Dutch guitarist

1970 – Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player

1970 – Kevin Smith, American director and screenwriter

1970 – Philo Wallace, West-Indian cricketer

1971 – Alice Evans, English actress

1971 – Michael Hughes, Irish footballer

1972 – Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer

1972 – Jacinda Barrett, Australian model and actress

1972 – Daniele Nardello, Italian professional road racing cyclist

1972 – Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer

1973 – Hiroyuki Goto, Japanese game designer

1973 – Danie Keulder, Namibian cricketer

1974 – Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress

1975 – Mineiro, Brazilian footballer

1975 – Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-born badminton player

1975 – Ingrid Rubio, Spanish actress

1976 – Reyes Estévez, Spanish athlete

1976 – Sam Worthington, Australian actor

1976 – Jay Heaps, American footballer

1976 – Michael Weiss, Olympic figure skater

1976 – Mohammad Zahid, Pakistani cricketer

1977 – Edward Furlong, American actor

1978 – Goran Gavrančić, Serbian footballer

1978 – Matt Guerrier, American baseball player

1979 – Reuben Kosgei, Kenyan athlete

1980 – Ivica Banović, Croatian footballer

1981 – Aleksander Emelianenko, Russian MMA fighter ( Fedor's brother)

1982 – Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer

1982 – Kerry Rhodes, American football player

1982 – Grady Sizemore, American baseball player

1983 – Nick Diaz, American MMA fighter

1984 – Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer

1985 – Harry Smith, Canadian professional wrestler

1986 – Mathieu Razanakolona, Malagasy skier

1991 – Evander Kane, Canadian ice hockey player

 

 

Meh, I only care about the King.

[Eury]

2008 – President George W. Bush made his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and almost got struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a farewell conference in Baghdad.

 

December 14th.

 

Lucky. The only cool thing about my B-Day is that 2 Popes died on it. No offense to anyone.

[NeoDemonX]

Well there some thing i bold that it started WWI

[Läufer]

Well there some thing i bold that it started WWI

 

Events has passed, don't live in the past.

[Lyfe.]

[spoiler=March the 8th]

1286 – John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341)

1293 – Beatrice of Castile, queen of Portugal (d. 1359)

1495 – John of God, Portuguese-born friar and saint (d. 1550)

1514 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)

1560 – Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (d. 1613)

1659 – Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (d. 1738)

1700 – Anne Bonny Irish-American pirate (d. 1782)

1712 – John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780)

1714 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)

1726 – Richard Howe, British admiral (d. 1799)

1746 – André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)

1748 – William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (d. 1806)

1783 – Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren (d. 1819)

1799 – Simon Cameron, U.S. Secretary of War (d. 1889)

1804 – Alvan Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1887)

1814 – Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878)

1822 – Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish inventor (d. 1882)

1827 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)

1830 – João de Deus, Portuguese poet (d. 1896)

1841 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1935)

1856 – Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1929)

1856 – Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist painter (d. 1937)

1856 – Tom Roberts, Australian artist (d. 1931)

1859 – Kenneth Grahame, English author (d. 1932)

1865 – Frederic Goudy, American type designer (d. 1947)

1872 – Anna Held, Polish actress and singer (d. 1918)

1879 – Otto Hahn, German Nobel laureate (d. 1968)

1886 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1972)

1891 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (d. 1984)

1892 – Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1966)

1892 – Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet (d. 1979)

1896 – Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (d. 1975)

1899 – Elmer Keith, American firearms developer (d. 1984)

1902 – Louise Beavers, American actress (d. 1962)

1902 – Jennings Randolph, America politician (d. 1998)

1907 – Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)

1910 – Bernard Benjamin, British statistician (d. 2002)

1910 – Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)

1911 – Alan Hovhaness, American composer (d. 2000)

1912 – Preston Smith, America politician (d. 2003)

1914 – Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)

1915 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (d. 1979)

1916 – John Seybold, American economist (d. 2004)

1920 – Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright (d. 1985)

1921 – Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)

1921 – Fritz Luchsinger, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1983)

1922 – Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor

1922 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008)

1922 – Carl Furillo, American baseball player (d. 1989)

1922 – Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and Mangaka

1922 – Evgeniy Matveyev, Russian actor and film director

1925 – Warren Bennis, American educator and author

1926 – Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (d. 2001)

1927 – Dick Hyman, American pianist and composer

1930 – Bob Grim, American baseball player (d. 1996)

1931 – Neil Adcock, South African Cricket player

1931 – John McPhee, American writer and professor

1931 – Neil Postman, American cultural critic (d. 2003)

1933 – Evelyn Margaret Ay, American beauty pageant winner

1933 – Luca Ronconi, Italian theater and opera director

1934 – Marv Breeding, American baseball player (d. 2006)

1936 – Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1982)

1937 – Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (d. 1994)

1938 – Pete Dawkins, American football player

1939 – Jim Bouton, American baseball player and author

1939 – Lidia Skoblikova, Russian skater

1939 – Robert Tear, Welsh tenor

1940 – Susan Clark, Canadian actress

1941 – Andrei Mironov, Soviet actor (d. 1987)

1942 – Dick Allen, American baseball player

1942 – Ann Packer, British athlete

1943 – Lynn Redgrave, English actress

1944 – Buzz Hargrove, Canadian labour leader

1944 – Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer

1944 – Palito Ortega, Argentine singer and actor

1944 – Pepe Romero, Spanish guitarist

1945 – Bruce Broughton, American composer

1945 – Jim Chapman, American politician

1945 – Micky Dolenz, American musician (The Monkees)

1945 – Anselm Kiefer, German painter

1946 – Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles)

1947 – Mike Allsup, American musician (Three Dog Night)

1947 – Florentino Pérez, Spanish football executive

1947 – Carole Bayer Sager, American composer

1948 – Peggy March, American pop singer (LMAO)

1948 – Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth

1949 – Karel Lismont, Belgian athlete

1949 – Antonello Venditti, Italian singer-songwriter

1950 – Richard Ouzounian, Canadian/American theatre director and critic

1952 – George Felix Allen, American politician

1953 – Bob Brozman, American musician

1953 – Jim Rice, American baseball player

1953 – Don Werner, American baseball player

1954 – Cheryl Baker, British singer (Bucks Fizz)

1954 – David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer

1955 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1981)

1956 – Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (d. 1989)

1956 – John Kapelos, Canadian actor

1957 – Clive Burr, British musician (Iron Maiden)

1957 – John Butcher, American baseball player

1957 – Billy Childs, composer/pianist

1957 – Cynthia Rothrock, American actress

1957 – Bob Stoddard, American baseball player

1958 – Nick Capra, American baseball player

1958 – Gary Numan, British singer

1959 – Aidan Quinn, American actor

1959 – Lester Holt, American television journalist

1960 – Max Metzker, Australian swimmer

1960 – Buck Williams, American basketball player

1961 – Camryn Manheim, American actress

1961 – Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player

1961 – Mark Salas, American baseball player

1963 – Mike Lalor, Canadian ice hockey player

1964 – Thomas Bezucha, American screenwriter and director

1964 – Lance McCullers, American baseball player

1965 – Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer

1965 – Kenny Smith, American basketball player

1967 – Joel Johnston, American baseball player

1968 – Michael Bartels, German race car driver

1968 – Jim Dougherty, American baseball player

1968 – Ellen Forney, American cartoonist

1968 – Shawn Mullins, American musician

1970 – Andrea Parker, American actress, ballet dancer

1970 – Jason Elam, American football player

1971 – Kit Symons, Welsh footballer

1972 – Georgios Georgiadis, Greek footballer

1972 – Angie Hart, Australian pop singer

1972 – Fergal O'Brien, Irish snooker player

1973 – Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer (The Gathering)

1973 – Boris Kodjoe, Austrian model

1973 – Mark Lukasiewicz, American baseball player

1973 – Kurt Mollekens, Belgian racing car driver

1973 – Justin Thompson, American baseball player

1974 – Mike Moriarty, American baseball player

1975 – Fardeen Khan, Indian actor

1975 – Peggy Zina, Greek singer

1976 – Gaz Coombes, English singer (Supergrass)

1976 – Juan Encarnacion, American baseball player

1976 – Ryan Freel, American baseball player

1976 – Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor

1976 – Hines Ward, American football player

1977 – James Van Der Beek, American actor

1977 – Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer

1978 – Mohammed Bouyeri, Dutch-Moroccan assassin

1978 – Nick Zano, American actor

1979 – Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane)

1979 – Andy Ross, American guitarist (OK Go)

1980 – Charli Delaney, Australian singer (Hi-5)

1980 – Stephen Milne, Australian rules footballer

1981 – Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer

1981 – Timothy Jordan II, American musician (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta) (d. 2005)

1982 – Nicolas Armindo, French race car driver

1982 – Kat Von D, Mexican-born tattoo artist

1982 – Leonidas Kabantais, Greek footballer

1982 – Craig Stansberry, American baseball player

1983 – Mark Worrell, American baseball player.

1984 – Dave Moffatt, Canadian musician

1984 – Ross Taylor, New Zealand Cricketer

1984 – Sasha Vujacic, Slovenian basketball player

1985 – Ewa Sonnet, Polish model and pop singer

1986 – Princess Tsuguko, Japanese princess

1988 – Armanti Edwards, American college football player

1990 – Ben Tozer, English footballer

1990 – Kristinia DeBarge, American R&B singer

1991 – Devon Werkheiser, American actor

1992 – Charlie Ray, American actress

1993 – Austin Brown, Singer

 

 

[.Legend]

[spoiler=May 26]1264 – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)

1478 – Pope Clement VII (d. 1534)

1566 – Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603)

1602 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)

1650 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (d. 1722)

1667 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d. 1754)

1669 – Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722)

1689 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (d. 1762)

1700 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d. 1760)

1764 – Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman (d. 1836)

1799 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author (d. 1837)

1822 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1896)

1863 – Robert Fitzsimmons, Boxing champion (d. 1917)

1865 – Robert W. Chambers, American artist (d. 1933)

1867 – Mary of Teck, queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953)

1873 – Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist (d. 1958)

1883 – Mamie Smith, American singer (d. 1946)

1886 – Al Jolson, American singer (d. 1950)

1893 – Norma Talmadge, American actress (d. 1957)

1893 – Eugène Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (d. 1962)

1895 – Dorothea Lange, American photographer (d. 1965)

1895 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (d. 1971)

1899 – Antonio Barrette, French Canadian politician (d. 1968)

1904 – George Formby, English singer and comedian (d. 1961)

1904 – Vlado Perlemuter, Polish pianist (d. 2002)

1907 – Jean Bernard, French physician (d. 2006)

1907 – John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)

1908 – Robert Morley, English actor (d. 1992)

1908 – Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Prime Minister of South Vietnam

1909 – Sir Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1994)

1909 – Nikolay Guryanov, Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (d. 2002)

1909 – Adolfo López Mateos, President of Mexico (d. 1969)

1911 – Ben Alexander, American actor (d. 1969)

1912 – János Kádár, Prime minister of Hungary (d. 1989)

1912 – Jay Silverheels, American actor (d. 1980)

1913 – Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)

1914 – Frankie Manning, American Lindy Hop dancer (d. 2009)

1915 – Sam Edwards, American actor (d. 2004)

1915 – Antonia Forest, British children's author (d. 2003)

1916 – Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (d. 1999)

1916 – Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)

1917 – Eva Szorenyi, Hungarian actress, freedom activist for Hungary

1918 – Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (d. 1985)

1920 – Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)

1923 – James Arness, American actor

1923 – Roy Dotrice, British actor

1926 – Dirch Passer, Danish actor

1926 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (d. 1991)

1926 – Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author

1928 – Jack Kevorkian, Former American pathologist and right-to-die advocate

1930 – Karim Emami, Iranian Translator (d. 2005)

1932 – Grigor Vachkov, Bulgarian actor (d. 1980)

1935 – Sheila Steafel, South African-born British actress

1938 – William Bolcom, American composer

1938 – Pauline Parker, New-Zealandic murderess

1938 – Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian playwright and novelist

1938 – Teresa Stratas, Canadian soprano

1939 – Merab Kostava, Georgian anti-Soviet leader

1939 – Brent Musburger, American sports broadcaster

1940 – Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, French Canadian politician

1940 – Levon Helm, American musician (The Band)

1941 – Reg Bundy, British performer (d. 2003)

1941 – Cliff Drysdale, South African tennis player

1941 – John Kaufman, sculptor

1942 – Ganapathi Sachchidananda, Spiritual Leader

1943 – Erica Terpstra, President of the Dutch Olympic Committee

1944 – Sam Posey, American race car driver, TV commentator and author

1945 – Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer (The Guess Who)

1946 – Neshka Robeva, Bulgarian Rhythmic gymnas and coach.

1946 – Mick Ronson, English musician (d. 1993)

1948 – Stevie Nicks, American songwriter

1949 – Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer and inventor

1949 – Pam Grier, American actress

1949 – Philip Michael Thomas, American actor

1949 – Joe Alaskey, American voice actor

1949 – Hank Williams Jr., American singer

1951 – Sally Ride, American astronaut

1951 – Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician

1952 – David Meece, Christian musician

1953 – Kay Hagan, U.S. Senator from North Carolina

1953 – Michael Portillo, British politician

1954 – Marian Gold, German singer (Alphaville)

1954 – Alan Hollinghurst, British novelist

1954 – Danny Rolling, American murderer (d. 2006)

1955 – Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef

1955 – Wesley Walker, American football player

1956 – Frédéric Dutoit, French politician

1957 – Margaret Colin, American actress

1957 – François Legault, French Canadian politician

1957 – Kristina Olsen, American musician

1957 – Roberto Ravaglia, Italian racing driver

1957 – Pontso S.M. Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician

1959 – Steve Hanley, English musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers)

1959 – Ole Bornedal, Danish film director, actor and producer

1960 – Masahiro Matsunaga, Japanese racing driver

1960 – Rob Murphy, American baseball player

1961 – Tarsem Singh, Indian film director

1962 – Genie Francis, American actress

1962 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor

1964 – Caitlín R. Kiernan, Irish-American writer

1964 – Lenny Kravitz, American musician

1964 – Argiris Pedoulakis, Greek basketball coach and former player

1965 – Hazel Irvine, British television presenter

1966 – Helena Bonham Carter, English actress

1966 – Zola Budd, South African athlete

1967 – Phil Doyle, Australian writer

1967 – Kevin Moore, American musician (OSI)

1968 – Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark

1968 – Pat Kenney, American professional wrestler

1968 – Fernando León de Aranoa, Spanish film director

1968 – Steve Sedgley, English footballer

1969 – John Baird, Canadian politician

1969 – Musetta Vander, South African actress

1970 – Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist

1971 – Timothy Allen, British photojournalist

1971 – Matt Stone, American animator and filmmaker

1972 – Patsy Palmer, British actress

1974 – Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer

1974 – Kelly Jones, Welsh Musician

1975 – Nicki Aycox, American actress

1975 – Travis Lee, American baseball player

1976 – Justin Pierre, American singer (Motion City Soundtrack)

1977 – Nikos Hatzivrettas, Greek basketball player

1977 – Mark Hunter, American musician (Chimaira)

1977 – Misaki Ito, Japanese actress and model

1977 – Raina Telgemeier, American cartoonist

1977 – Luca Toni, Italian footballer

1978 – Phil Elverum, American singer-songwriter

1979 – Elisabeth Harnois, American actress

1979 – Ashley Massaro, American model and professional wrestler

1979 – Mehmet Okur, Turkish basketball player

1981 – Robert Copeland, Australian Australian rules footballer

1981 – Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer

1981 – Irini Merkouri, Greek singer

1981 – Isaac Slade, American musician (The Fray)

1982 – Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model

1982 – David Reed, British writer and comedian

1987 – Josh Thomas (comedian), Australian comedian

1987 – Bangs Garcia, Filipina actress

1988 – Joel Selwood, Australian footballer

1991 – Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress

 

[TAG]

*sniff* *sniff*

 

I.....*sniff*...have....*whimper*....the same birth date (day, month, AND year) as...*sob*.....SELENA GOMEZ!!!!

 

*runs off crying in shame*

[Yasu]

Hayley Williams :3

[Läufer]

*sniff* *sniff*

 

I.....*sniff*...have....*whimper*....the same birth date (day' date=' month, AND year) as...*sob*.....SELENA GOMEZ!!!!

 

*runs off crying in shame*

[/quote']

 

Aw, I feel sorry for you.

[Guest Uchiha Itachi]

1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.

1536 – George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.

1590 – Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.

1642 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (1612-1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.

1673 – Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.

1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.

1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed.

1805 – Muhammad Ali became Wāli of Egypt.

1809 – Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.

1814 – Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.

1814 – The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.

1849 – A fire threatens to burn St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.

1860 – German football club TSV 1860 München is founded

1863 – Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, her first book in the Galician language.

1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established.

1873 – El Paso, Texas is established by charter from the Texas Legislature.

1875 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.

1895 – The first Omonoia station of the Athens metro is inaugurated in Greece.

1900 – Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.

1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.

1914 – The Protocol of Corfu is signed recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.

1915 – The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.

1919 – War Department (UK) orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes.

1927 – U.S. Army aviation pioneer, Major Harold Geiger, dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania

1933 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.

1939 – The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the first-ever televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.

1940 – World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.

1940 – World War II: the old city centre of the Dutch town of Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in Zeeland.

1943 – The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.

1943 – World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.

1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

1963 – Bruno Sammartino defeats Nature Boy Buddy Rogers in 48 seconds in Madison Square Garden for the WWWF Heavyweight Championship. It begins the longest heavyweight championship reign in professional wrestling history.

1967 – Six-Day War: President Abdul Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.

1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.

1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.

1973 – Watergate scandal: Hearings begin in the United States Senate and are televised.

1974 – Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.

1974 – Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.

1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.

1980 – On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the Internal conflict in Peru.

1983 – U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.

1983 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.

1987 – An Iraqi fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. warship USS Stark (FFG-31), killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.

1992 – the WHO takes Homosexuality out of its list of mental illnesses.

1992 – In Thailand, the so-called Black May begins. Thai police and protesters start attacking one another. By midnight, the current Thai government declares a state of emergency, and military troops open fire.

1994 – Malawi holds its first multiparty elections.

1995 – After 18 years as the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac takes office as President of France.

1997 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic Of Congo

2000 – In the Philippines an explosion rocks Glorietta 2 injuring 13 persons, mostly teenagers. According to local authorities, the homemade bomb was placed in front of a toilet beside a video arcade.

2004 – Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage

2006 – The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef

2007 – Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.

[Flame Dragon]

*sniff* *sniff*

 

I.....*sniff*...have....*whimper*....the same birth date (day' date=' month, AND year) as...*sob*.....SELENA GOMEZ!!!!

 

*runs off crying in shame*

[/quote']

 

Weren't you both born in the same place, or am I missing remembering things?

[Seta]

[spoiler=9th of May]

1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)

1741 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)

1800 – John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)

1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895)

1860 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937)

1866 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Leader of Indian Independence Movement (d. 1915)

1873 – Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)

1874 – Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)

1882 – George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)

1882 – Henry J. Kaiser, American shipbuilder (d. 1967)

1883 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)

1886 – Francis Biddle, United States Attorney General (d. 1968)

1887 – Sir Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan Philanthropist (d. 1957)

1892 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)

1893 – William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman) (d. 1947)

1895 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)

1895 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)

1888 – Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector and museum director (d. 1964)

1907 – Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (d. 1976)

1907 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)

1907 – Fred Warngård, Swedish athlete (d. 1950)

1908 – Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (d. 2007)

1909 – Don Messer, Canadian country musician (d. 1973)

1912 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)

1912 – Per Imerslund, Norwegian writer (d. 1943)

1914 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian musician and conductor (d. 2005)

1914 – Hank Snow, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1999)

1918 – Moisis Michail Bourlas, Greek member of the World War II resistance

1918 – Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)

1918 – Mike Wallace, American journalist

1919 – Arthur English, English actor and comedian (d. 1995)

1920 – Richard Adams, English author

1920 – William Tenn, American author

1921 – Daniel Berrigan, American peace activist

1921 – Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)

1921 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)

1923 – Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (d. 2008)

1924 – Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (d. 1997)

1927 – Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1928 – Ralph Goings, American painter

1928 – Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)

1928 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater

1929 – Kay Dotrice, British actress (d. 2007)

1930 – Joan Sims, British actress (d. 2001)

1931 – Vance Brand, American astronaut

1932 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress

1933 – Jessica Steele, English romance novelist

1934 – Alan Bennett, British author

1935 – Nokie Edwards, American guitarist (The Ventures)

1935 – Roger Hargreaves, English children's author (Mr. Men) (d. 1988)

1936 – Albert Finney, British actor

1936 – Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician

1937 – José Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect

1937 – David Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave) (d. 1988)

1938 – Charles Simic, Yugoslavian-born poet, 15th Poet Laureate of the United States

1939 – Ralph Boston, American athlete

1939 – Pierre Desproges, French humorist (d. 1988)

1939 – Ion Ţiriac, Romanian tennis manager

1940 – James L. Brooks, American film producer and writer

1942 – John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General

1942 – Tommy Roe, American singer and songwriter

1943 – Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (d. 2009)

1944 – Richie Furay, American musician (Poco and Buffalo Springfield)

1945 – Steve Katz, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)

1946 – Candice Bergen, American actress

1946 – Clint Holmes, English-born American singer and songwriter

1948 – Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician

1948 – Calvin Murphy, American basketball player

1949 – Billy Joel, American musician

1951 – Alley Mills, American actress

1953 – Bruno Brokken, Belgian high jumper

1955 – Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (d. 1991)

1955 – Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano

1955 – Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia

1956 – Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress

1960 – Tony Gwynn, American baseball player

1962 – John Corbett, American actor

1962 – David Gahan, English singer (Depeche Mode)

1962 – Paul Heaton, English singer/songwriter (Beautiful South)

1963 – Sanja Doležal, Croatian singer (Novi fosili)

1964 – Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and disc jockey

1965 – Ken Nomura, Japanese racing driver

1965 – Janu Tornell, American model and Survivor contestant

1965 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player

1968 – Marie-José Perec, French athlete

1969 – Amber, Dutch musician

1969 – Hudson Leick, American actress

1970 – Doug Christie, American basketball player

1970 – Ghostface Killah, American rapper

1971 – Paul McGuigan, English bassist (Oasis)

1972 – Dana Perino, former White House press secretary

1972 – Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and artist

1972 – Daniela Silivaş, Romanian gymnast and Olympic Champion

1973 – Chu Sang-mi, South Korean actress

1975 – Brian Deegan, freestyle motocross innovator

1975 – Chris Diamantopoulos, Canadian actor

1975 – Tamia, Canadian singer

1977 – Choi Jeong-yoon, South Korean actress

1977 – Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (d. 2006)

1977 – Iñigo Landaluze, Spanish cyclist

1978 – Leandro Damián Cufré, Argentine footballer

1978 – Aaron Harang, American baseball player

1979 – Dionysis Boukouvalas, Greek composer, pianist and musicologist

1979 – Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)

1979 – Rosario Dawson, American actress

1979 – Matt Morris, American singer-songwriter

1979 – Andrew W.K., American musician

1979 – Brandon Webb, American baseball player

1980 – Jo Hyeon-jae, South Korean actor

1980 – Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer

1980 – Angela Nikodinov, American figure skater

1980 – Tony Schmidt, German racing driver

1981 – Bill Murphy, American baseball player

1981 – Yu Yokoyama, Japanese actor and singer

1982 – Rachel Boston, American actress

1983 – Tyler Lumsden, American baseball player

1983 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor

1983 – Gilles Müller, Luxembourgian tennis player

1984 – Prince Fielder, American baseball player

1985 – Jake Long, American football player

1985 – Audrina Patridge, American actress

1988 – Skye Regan, Canadian actress and writer

1988 – John Ryan Fitzpatrick, Canadian race truck driver

1992 – Chris Gutierrez, Filipino actor

1993 – Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese actor and singer

1997 – Zane Huett, American actor

 

[JG.]

* 1578 – Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640)

* 1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771)

* 1703 – Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)

* 1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)

* 1738 – Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)

* 1754 – William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)

* 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician (d. 1806)

* 1811 – Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)

* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)

* 1825 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891)

* 1846 – Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (d. 1904)

* 1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)

* 1863 – Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)

* 1884 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand lawyer and judge (d. 1953)

* 1885 – George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950)

* 1886 – Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949)

* 1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)

* 1891 – Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)

* 1893 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002)

* 1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)

* 1895 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)

* 1897 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)

* 1898 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)

* 1899 – John Barbirolli, British conductor (d. 1970)

* 1899 – John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952)

* 1899 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)

* 1901 – Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)

* 1902 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (d. 1995)

* 1906 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977)

* 1910 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991)

* 1914 – Bill Erwin, American actor

* 1914 – Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)

* 1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)

* 1917 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992)

* 1921 – Carlo Cardinal Furno, Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

* 1922 – Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist

* 1923 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)

* 1924 – Alexander M. Haig, Jr., American soldier and politician

* 1924 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (d. 2006)

* 1925 – Julie Harris, American actress

* 1930 – Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize

* 1930 – David Piper, British race car driver

* 1931 – Nigel Calder, British science writer

* 1931 – Hatsumi Masaaki, founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization

* 1931 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (d. 1971)

* 1931 – Edwin Meese, American lawyer, U.S. attorney general and presidential advisor

* 1933 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)

* 1933 – K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist

* 1934 – Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church

* 1934 – Sissela Bok, Swedish philosopher and ethicist

* 1934 – Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)

* 1935 – David Hackett Fischer, American historian

* 1939 – Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician

* 1939 – Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate

* 1939 – Harry Reid, American politician

* 1943 – Wayne Allard, American politician

* 1944 – Inger Davidson, Swedish politician

* 1944 – Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)

* 1944 – Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter

* 1944 – Botho Strauß, German author

* 1945 – Penelope Spheeris, American film director

* 1946 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)

* 1947 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)

* 1947 – Tommy Jenkins, English football player

* 1947 – Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist

* 1948 – T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer

* 1950 – Bob Kevoian, American radio personality

* 1950 – Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic

* 1950 – Benjamin Stora, French historian

* 1951 – Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher

* 1952 – Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman

* 1954 – Dan Butler, American actor

* 1954 – Stone Phillips, American television journalist

* 1956 – Steven Bauer, American actor

* 1957 – Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian politician

* 1958 – Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer

* 1958 – George Saunders, American writer

* 1960 – Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (d. 1984)

* 1960 – Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard)

* 1962 – Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, titular Bulgarian royal family

* 1963 – Dan Gauthier, American actor

* 1963 – Ann Patchett, American novelist

* 1963 – Ron Sutter, National Hockey League player

* 1966 – Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler

* 1968 – Darryl Kile, baseball player (d. 2002)

* 1968 – Lucy Liu, American actress

* 1968 – Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)

* 1968 – Rena Sofer, American actress

* 1968 – Chris Wedge, American animator

* 1970 – Treach, American rapper (Naughty by Nature)

* 1970 – Yang Hyun Suk, South Korean record producer

* 1971 – Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor

* 1971 – Francesco Toldo, Italian Football Player

* 1972 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004)

* 1973 – Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer

* 1973 – Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player

* 1973 – Jan Ullrich, German cyclist

* 1976 – Eddy Garabito, Dominican baseball player

* 1976 – Masafumi Gotō, Japanese singer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)

* 1977 – Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer

* 1978 – Melissa Archer, American actress

* 1978 – Jarron Collins, American basketball player

* 1978 – Jason Collins, American basketball player

* 1978 – Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter

* 1978 – Peter Moylan, Australian baseball player

* 1978 – David Rivas, Spanish footballer

* 1978 – Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse)

* 1979 – Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress

* 1979 – Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer

* 1981 – Danijel Pranjić, Croatian football player

* 1981 – Britney Spears, American singer

* 1981 – Isabella Soprano, American porn star

* 1982 – Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen

* 1982 – Christos Karipidis, Greek footballer

* 1982 – Pizon, American rapper/producer

* 1982 – Matt Ware, American football player

* 1983 – Chris Burke, Scottish footballer

* 1983 – Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player

* 1983 – Aaron Rodgers, American football player

* 1984 – Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer

* 1985 – Dorell Wright, American basketball player

* 1986 – Claudiu Keserü, Romanian football player

* 1987 – Teairra Mari, American R&B singer

* 1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor

* 1988 – Soniya Mehra, Indian actress

* 1989 – Cassie Steele, Canadian actress

* 1990 – Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese actor

* 1992 – Brandon Knight, basketball player

[Mindscatter]

23 february. So I was born in the same day as...myself?!!

[Guest Welche]

[spoiler=August 12th]1503 – Christian III of Denmark and Norway (d. 1559)

1566 – Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (d. 1633)

1604 – Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)

1629 – Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)

1643 – King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)

1644 – Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Bohemian composer (d. 1704)

1647 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719)

1686 – John Balguy, English philosopher (d. 1748)

1696 – Maurice Greene, English composer (d. 1755)

1720 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778)

1762 – King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)

1774 – Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (d. 1843)

1831 – H. P. Blavatsky, Russian theosophist (d. 1891)

1856 – "Diamond Jim" Brady, American financier (d. 1917)

1859 – Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (d. 1929)

1866 – Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1954)

1867 – Edith Hamilton, German-born, American classicist (d. 1963)

1872 – Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1956)

1876 – Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author (d. 1958)

1880 – Radclyffe Hall, British author (d. 1943)

1880 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (d. 1925)

1881 – Cecil B. DeMille, American film director (d. 1959)

1883 – Pauline Frederick, American actress (d. 1938)

1883 – Marion Lorne, American actress (d. 1968)

1885 – Jean Cabannes, French physicist (d. 1959)

1886 – Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952)

1887 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)

1889 – Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (d. 1981)

1892 – Alfred Lunt, American actor (d. 1977)

1897 – Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese West Indies cricketer (d. 1981)

1899 – Ben Sealey, Trinidadian West Indies cricketer (d. 1963)

1902 – Mohammad Hatta, Vice President of Indonesia 1945-1956 (d. 1980)

1904 – Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, only son of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)

1906 – Harry Hopman, Australian-born tennis player and coach (d. 1985)

1906 – Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)

1907 – Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (d. 1988)

1909 – Richard Bare, American director

1910 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (d. 2006)

1910 – Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (d. 1970)

1911 – Cantinflas, Mexican actor (d. 1993)

1912 – Samuel Fuller, American film director (d. 1997)

1914 – Gerd Buchdahl, German philosopher (d. 2001)

1914 – Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again) (d. 1981)

1915 – Michael Kidd, American choreographer (d. 2007)

1918 – Guy Gibson, British aviator, awarded Victoria Cross (d. 1944)

1919 – Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (d. 1971)

1923 – John Holt, Jamaican West Indies cricketer (d. 1997)

1924 – Derek Shackleton, English cricketer (d. 2007)

1924 – Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988)

1925 – Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 2004)

1925 – Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 1975)

1925 – George Wetherill, American scientist (d. 2006)

1926 – John Derek, American actor (d. 1998)

1926 – Joe Jones, American R&B singer (d. 2005)

1926 – Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002)

1927 – Porter Wagoner, American singer (d. 2007)

1928 – Charles Blackman, Australian artist

1928 – Bob Buhl, American baseball player (d. 2001)

1928 – Dan Curtis, film and television producer and director (d.2006)

1929 – Buck Owens, American singer (d. 2006)

1930 – George Soros Hungarian-American financier and political activist

1930 – Jacques Tits, Belgian mathematician

1931 – William Goldman, American screenwriter

1932 – Dallin H. Oaks, LDS apostle and former Utah Supreme Court Justice

1932 – Charlie O'Donnell, American game show announcer

1932 – Queen Sirikit, Queen of Thailand

1933 – Parnelli Jones, American race car driver and team owner

1935 – John Cazale, American actor (d. 1978)

1937 – Walter Dean Myers, American author

1938 – Jean-Paul L'Allier, Canadian Mayor of Quebec

1939 – Skip Caray, American TV/radio baseball announcer (Atlanta Braves) (d. 2008)

1939 – George Hamilton, American actor

1939 – Roy Romanow, Canadian politician

1939 – Michael D. Antonovich, American politician

1940 – Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer (d. 2005)

1941 – Réjean Ducharme, Canadian novelist and playwright

1943 – Deborah Walley, American actress (d. 2001)

1944 – Peter Hofmann, German tenor

1945 – Ron Mael, American musician (Sparks)

1946 – Terry Nutkins, British TV Presenter

1947 – Sam Rosen, American sportscaster

1949 – Panagiotis Chinofotis, Greek politician

1949 – Mark Knopfler, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dire Straits)

1950 – Jim Beaver, American actor and writer

1951 – Willie Horton, American murderer and rapist

1952 – Chen Kaige, Chinese film director

1954 – Sam J. Jones, American actor

1954 – Pat Metheny, American guitarist

1955 – Ann M. Martin, American author

1955 – Terry Taylor, American professional wrestler

1956 – Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor

1956 – Sidath Wettimuny, Sri Lankan cricketer

1959 – Amanda Redman, English actress

1960 – Laurent Fignon, French cyclist

1960 – Greg Thomas, England cricketer

1960 – Eduardo Tokeshi, Peruvian artist.

1961 – Roy Hay, British guitarist and keyboardist (Culture Club)

1961 – Lawrence Hayward, English musician (Felt, Denim, Go Kart Mozart)

1961 – Mark Priest, New Zealand cricketer

1963 – Sir Mix-a-Lot, American rapper

1965 – Peter Krause, American actor

1967 – Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer

1967 – Andrey Plotnikov, Russian race walker

1967 – Andy Hui, Hong Kong actor and singer

1968 – Andras Jones, American actor

1969 – Tanita Tikaram, British singer

1969 – Aga Muhlach, Filipino actor

1969 – Stuart Williams, Nevisian West Indies cricketer

1970 – Anthony Swofford, American novelist

1970 – Jim Schlossnagle, baseball coach

1970 – Charles Mesure, British actor

1971 – Michael Ian Black, American comedian

1971 – Yvette Nicole Brown, American actress

1971 – Rebecca Gayheart, American actress

1971 – Pete Sampras, American tennis player

1972 – Mark Kinsella, Irish footballer

1972 – Takanohana, Sumo yokozuna

1972 – Gyanendra Pandey, Indian cricketer

1973 – Joseba Beloki, Spanish cyclist

1973 – Jonathan Coachman, American professional wrestler and executive

1973 – Todd Marchant, American ice hockey player

1973 – Richard Reid, British terrorist (the "Shoe Bomber")

1973 – Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi theologian and political leader.

1973 – Grey DeLisle, American voice actress

1974 – Matt Clement, American baseball player

1975 – Casey Affleck, American actor

1975 – David Filmore, American actor

1976 – Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström, Finnish guitarist

1976 – Antoine Walker, American basketball player

1976 – Wednesday 13, American musician (Wednesday 13, Murderdolls)

1976 – Brad Lukowich, Canadian ice hockey player

1976 – Richard McCourt, English children's television presenter

1976 – Henry Tuilagi, Samoan rugby union footballer

1976 – Pedro Collins, Barbadian West Indies cricketer

1977 – Plaxico Burress, American football player

1977 – Jesper Grønkjær, Danish footballer

1977 – Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer

1978 – Hayley Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player

1978 – Chris Chambers, American football player

1979 – D.J. Houlton, American baseball player

1979 – Cindy Klassen, Canadian speed skater

1980 – Maggie Lawson, American actress

1980 – Dominique Swain, American actress

1980 – Matt Thiessen, Canadian/American musician (Relient K)

1980 – Jade Villalon, American singer/songwriter

1981 – Tony Capaldi, Northern Irish footballer

1981 – Djibril Cissé, French footballer

1982 – Alexandros Tzorvas, Greek footballer

1982 – Iza Calzado, Filipino TV actress

1983 – Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Dutch footballer

1984 – Marian Rivera, Filipino actress

1990 – Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer

1993 – Imani Hakim, American actress

 

[ayy lmao]

* 1578 – Agostino Agazzari' date=' Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640)

* 1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771)

* 1703 – Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)

* 1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)

* 1738 – Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)

* 1754 – William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)

* 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician (d. 1806)

* 1811 – Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)

* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)

* 1825 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891)

* 1846 – Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (d. 1904)

* 1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)

* 1863 – Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)

* 1884 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand lawyer and judge (d. 1953)

* 1885 – George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950)

* 1886 – Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949)

* 1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)

* 1891 – Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)

* 1893 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002)

* 1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)

* 1895 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)

* 1897 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)

* 1898 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)

* 1899 – John Barbirolli, British conductor (d. 1970)

* 1899 – John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952)

* 1899 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)

* 1901 – Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)

* 1902 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (d. 1995)

* 1906 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977)

* 1910 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991)

* 1914 – Bill Erwin, American actor

* 1914 – Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)

* 1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)

* 1917 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992)

* 1921 – Carlo Cardinal Furno, Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

* 1922 – Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist

* 1923 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)

* 1924 – Alexander M. Haig, Jr., American soldier and politician

* 1924 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (d. 2006)

* 1925 – Julie Harris, American actress

* 1930 – Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize

* 1930 – David Piper, British race car driver

* 1931 – Nigel Calder, British science writer

* 1931 – Hatsumi Masaaki, founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization

* 1931 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (d. 1971)

* 1931 – Edwin Meese, American lawyer, U.S. attorney general and presidential advisor

* 1933 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)

* 1933 – K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist

* 1934 – Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church

* 1934 – Sissela Bok, Swedish philosopher and ethicist

* 1934 – Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)

* 1935 – David Hackett Fischer, American historian

* 1939 – Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician

* 1939 – Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate

* 1939 – Harry Reid, American politician

* 1943 – Wayne Allard, American politician

* 1944 – Inger Davidson, Swedish politician

* 1944 – Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)

* 1944 – Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter

* 1944 – Botho Strauß, German author

* 1945 – Penelope Spheeris, American film director

* 1946 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)

* 1947 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)

* 1947 – Tommy Jenkins, English football player

* 1947 – Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist

* 1948 – T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer

* 1950 – Bob Kevoian, American radio personality

* 1950 – Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic

* 1950 – Benjamin Stora, French historian

* 1951 – Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher

* 1952 – Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman

* 1954 – Dan Butler, American actor

* 1954 – Stone Phillips, American television journalist

* 1956 – Steven Bauer, American actor

* 1957 – Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian politician

* 1958 – Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer

* 1958 – George Saunders, American writer

* 1960 – Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (d. 1984)

* 1960 – Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard)

* 1962 – Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, titular Bulgarian royal family

* 1963 – Dan Gauthier, American actor

* 1963 – Ann Patchett, American novelist

* 1963 – Ron Sutter, National Hockey League player

* 1966 – Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler

* 1968 – Darryl Kile, baseball player (d. 2002)

* 1968 – Lucy Liu, American actress

* 1968 – Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)

* 1968 – Rena Sofer, American actress

* 1968 – Chris Wedge, American animator

* 1970 – Treach, American rapper (Naughty by Nature)

* 1970 – Yang Hyun Suk, South Korean record producer

* 1971 – Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor

* 1971 – Francesco Toldo, Italian Football Player

* 1972 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004)

* 1973 – Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer

* 1973 – Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player

* 1973 – Jan Ullrich, German cyclist

* 1976 – Eddy Garabito, Dominican baseball player

* 1976 – Masafumi Gotō, Japanese singer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)

* 1977 – Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer

* 1978 – Melissa Archer, American actress

* 1978 – Jarron Collins, American basketball player

* 1978 – Jason Collins, American basketball player

* 1978 – Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter

* 1978 – Peter Moylan, Australian baseball player

* 1978 – David Rivas, Spanish footballer

* 1978 – Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse)

* 1979 – Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress

* 1979 – Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer

* 1981 – Danijel Pranjić, Croatian football player

* 1981 – [b']Britney Spears, American singer[/b]

* 1981 – Isabella Soprano, American porn star

* 1982 – Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen

* 1982 – Christos Karipidis, Greek footballer

* 1982 – Pizon, American rapper/producer

* 1982 – Matt Ware, American football player

* 1983 – Chris Burke, Scottish footballer

* 1983 – Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player

* 1983 – Aaron Rodgers, American football player

* 1984 – Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer

* 1985 – Dorell Wright, American basketball player

* 1986 – Claudiu Keserü, Romanian football player

* 1987 – Teairra Mari, American R&B singer

* 1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor

* 1988 – Soniya Mehra, Indian actress

* 1989 – Cassie Steele, Canadian actress

* 1990 – Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese actor

* 1992 – Brandon Knight, basketball player

[Läufer]

* 1578 – Agostino Agazzari' date=' Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640)

* 1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771)

* 1703 – Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)

* 1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)

* 1738 – Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)

* 1754 – William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)

* 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician (d. 1806)

* 1811 – Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)

* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)

* 1825 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891)

* 1846 – Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (d. 1904)

* 1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)

* 1863 – Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)

* 1884 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand lawyer and judge (d. 1953)

* 1885 – George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950)

* 1886 – Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949)

* 1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)

* 1891 – Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)

* 1893 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002)

* 1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)

* 1895 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)

* 1897 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)

* 1898 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)

* 1899 – John Barbirolli, British conductor (d. 1970)

* 1899 – John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952)

* 1899 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)

* 1901 – Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)

* 1902 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (d. 1995)

* 1906 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977)

* 1910 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991)

* 1914 – Bill Erwin, American actor

* 1914 – Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)

* 1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)

* 1917 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992)

* 1921 – Carlo Cardinal Furno, Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

* 1922 – Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist

* 1923 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)

* 1924 – Alexander M. Haig, Jr., American soldier and politician

* 1924 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (d. 2006)

* 1925 – Julie Harris, American actress

* 1930 – Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize

* 1930 – David Piper, British race car driver

* 1931 – Nigel Calder, British science writer

* 1931 – Hatsumi Masaaki, founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization

* 1931 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (d. 1971)

* 1931 – Edwin Meese, American lawyer, U.S. attorney general and presidential advisor

* 1933 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)

* 1933 – K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist

* 1934 – Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church

* 1934 – Sissela Bok, Swedish philosopher and ethicist

* 1934 – Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)

* 1935 – David Hackett Fischer, American historian

* 1939 – Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician

* 1939 – Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate

* 1939 – Harry Reid, American politician

* 1943 – Wayne Allard, American politician

* 1944 – Inger Davidson, Swedish politician

* 1944 – Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)

* 1944 – Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter

* 1944 – Botho Strauß, German author

* 1945 – Penelope Spheeris, American film director

* 1946 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)

* 1947 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)

* 1947 – Tommy Jenkins, English football player

* 1947 – Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist

* 1948 – T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer

* 1950 – Bob Kevoian, American radio personality

* 1950 – Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic

* 1950 – Benjamin Stora, French historian

* 1951 – Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher

* 1952 – Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman

* 1954 – Dan Butler, American actor

* 1954 – Stone Phillips, American television journalist

* 1956 – Steven Bauer, American actor

* 1957 – Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian politician

* 1958 – Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer

* 1958 – George Saunders, American writer

* 1960 – Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (d. 1984)

* 1960 – Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard)

* 1962 – Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, titular Bulgarian royal family

* 1963 – Dan Gauthier, American actor

* 1963 – Ann Patchett, American novelist

* 1963 – Ron Sutter, National Hockey League player

* 1966 – Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler

* 1968 – Darryl Kile, baseball player (d. 2002)

* 1968 – Lucy Liu, American actress

* 1968 – Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)

* 1968 – Rena Sofer, American actress

* 1968 – Chris Wedge, American animator

* 1970 – Treach, American rapper (Naughty by Nature)

* 1970 – Yang Hyun Suk, South Korean record producer

* 1971 – Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor

* 1971 – Francesco Toldo, Italian Football Player

* 1972 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004)

* 1973 – Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer

* 1973 – Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player

* 1973 – Jan Ullrich, German cyclist

* 1976 – Eddy Garabito, Dominican baseball player

* 1976 – Masafumi Gotō, Japanese singer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)

* 1977 – Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer

* 1978 – Melissa Archer, American actress

* 1978 – Jarron Collins, American basketball player

* 1978 – Jason Collins, American basketball player

* 1978 – Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter

* 1978 – Peter Moylan, Australian baseball player

* 1978 – David Rivas, Spanish footballer

* 1978 – Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse)

* 1979 – Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress

* 1979 – Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer

* 1981 – Danijel Pranjić, Croatian football player

* 1981 – [b']Britney Spears, American singer[/b]

* 1981 – Isabella Soprano, American porn star

* 1982 – Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen

* 1982 – Christos Karipidis, Greek footballer

* 1982 – Pizon, American rapper/producer

* 1982 – Matt Ware, American football player

* 1983 – Chris Burke, Scottish footballer

* 1983 – Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player

* 1983 – Aaron Rodgers, American football player

* 1984 – Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer

* 1985 – Dorell Wright, American basketball player

* 1986 – Claudiu Keserü, Romanian football player

* 1987 – Teairra Mari, American R&B singer

* 1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor

* 1988 – Soniya Mehra, Indian actress

* 1989 – Cassie Steele, Canadian actress

* 1990 – Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese actor

* 1992 – Brandon Knight, basketball player

 

It's JG's, not yours.

[Azmodius]

April 20

 

Adolf Hitler.

 

lol

[Läufer]

April 20

 

Adolf Hitler.

 

lol

 

OMG.

You're a Nazi.

[ayy lmao]

* 1578 – Agostino Agazzari' date=' Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640)

* 1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771)

* 1703 – Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)

* 1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)

* 1738 – Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)

* 1754 – William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)

* 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician (d. 1806)

* 1811 – Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)

* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)

* 1825 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891)

* 1846 – Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (d. 1904)

* 1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)

* 1863 – Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)

* 1884 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand lawyer and judge (d. 1953)

* 1885 – George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950)

* 1886 – Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949)

* 1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)

* 1891 – Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)

* 1893 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002)

* 1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)

* 1895 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)

* 1897 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)

* 1898 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)

* 1899 – John Barbirolli, British conductor (d. 1970)

* 1899 – John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952)

* 1899 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)

* 1901 – Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)

* 1902 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (d. 1995)

* 1906 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977)

* 1910 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991)

* 1914 – Bill Erwin, American actor

* 1914 – Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)

* 1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)

* 1917 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992)

* 1921 – Carlo Cardinal Furno, Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

* 1922 – Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist

* 1923 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)

* 1924 – Alexander M. Haig, Jr., American soldier and politician

* 1924 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (d. 2006)

* 1925 – Julie Harris, American actress

* 1930 – Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize

* 1930 – David Piper, British race car driver

* 1931 – Nigel Calder, British science writer

* 1931 – Hatsumi Masaaki, founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization

* 1931 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (d. 1971)

* 1931 – Edwin Meese, American lawyer, U.S. attorney general and presidential advisor

* 1933 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)

* 1933 – K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist

* 1934 – Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church

* 1934 – Sissela Bok, Swedish philosopher and ethicist

* 1934 – Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)

* 1935 – David Hackett Fischer, American historian

* 1939 – Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician

* 1939 – Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate

* 1939 – Harry Reid, American politician

* 1943 – Wayne Allard, American politician

* 1944 – Inger Davidson, Swedish politician

* 1944 – Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)

* 1944 – Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter

* 1944 – Botho Strauß, German author

* 1945 – Penelope Spheeris, American film director

* 1946 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)

* 1947 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)

* 1947 – Tommy Jenkins, English football player

* 1947 – Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist

* 1948 – T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer

* 1950 – Bob Kevoian, American radio personality

* 1950 – Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic

* 1950 – Benjamin Stora, French historian

* 1951 – Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher

* 1952 – Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman

* 1954 – Dan Butler, American actor

* 1954 – Stone Phillips, American television journalist

* 1956 – Steven Bauer, American actor

* 1957 – Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian politician

* 1958 – Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer

* 1958 – George Saunders, American writer

* 1960 – Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (d. 1984)

* 1960 – Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard)

* 1962 – Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, titular Bulgarian royal family

* 1963 – Dan Gauthier, American actor

* 1963 – Ann Patchett, American novelist

* 1963 – Ron Sutter, National Hockey League player

* 1966 – Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler

* 1968 – Darryl Kile, baseball player (d. 2002)

* 1968 – Lucy Liu, American actress

* 1968 – Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)

* 1968 – Rena Sofer, American actress

* 1968 – Chris Wedge, American animator

* 1970 – Treach, American rapper (Naughty by Nature)

* 1970 – Yang Hyun Suk, South Korean record producer

* 1971 – Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor

* 1971 – Francesco Toldo, Italian Football Player

* 1972 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004)

* 1973 – Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer

* 1973 – Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player

* 1973 – Jan Ullrich, German cyclist

* 1976 – Eddy Garabito, Dominican baseball player

* 1976 – Masafumi Gotō, Japanese singer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)

* 1977 – Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer

* 1978 – Melissa Archer, American actress

* 1978 – Jarron Collins, American basketball player

* 1978 – Jason Collins, American basketball player

* 1978 – Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter

* 1978 – Peter Moylan, Australian baseball player

* 1978 – David Rivas, Spanish footballer

* 1978 – Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse)

* 1979 – Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress

* 1979 – Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer

* 1981 – Danijel Pranjić, Croatian football player

* 1981 – [b']Britney Spears, American singer[/b]

* 1981 – Isabella Soprano, American porn star

* 1982 – Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen

* 1982 – Christos Karipidis, Greek footballer

* 1982 – Pizon, American rapper/producer

* 1982 – Matt Ware, American football player

* 1983 – Chris Burke, Scottish footballer

* 1983 – Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player

* 1983 – Aaron Rodgers, American football player

* 1984 – Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer

* 1985 – Dorell Wright, American basketball player

* 1986 – Claudiu Keserü, Romanian football player

* 1987 – Teairra Mari, American R&B singer

* 1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor

* 1988 – Soniya Mehra, Indian actress

* 1989 – Cassie Steele, Canadian actress

* 1990 – Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese actor

* 1992 – Brandon Knight, basketball player

 

It's JG's, not yours.

 

Yes, I know, I was pointing out the fact that he was born on the same day as Britney Spears.

[Läufer]

* 1578 – Agostino Agazzari' date=' Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640)

* 1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771)

* 1703 – Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)

* 1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)

* 1738 – Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)

* 1754 – William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)

* 1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician (d. 1806)

* 1811 – Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)

* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)

* 1825 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891)

* 1846 – Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (d. 1904)

* 1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)

* 1863 – Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)

* 1884 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand lawyer and judge (d. 1953)

* 1885 – George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950)

* 1886 – Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949)

* 1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)

* 1891 – Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)

* 1893 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002)

* 1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)

* 1895 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)

* 1897 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)

* 1898 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)

* 1899 – John Barbirolli, British conductor (d. 1970)

* 1899 – John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952)

* 1899 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)

* 1901 – Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)

* 1902 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (d. 1995)

* 1906 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977)

* 1910 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991)

* 1914 – Bill Erwin, American actor

* 1914 – Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)

* 1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)

* 1917 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992)

* 1921 – Carlo Cardinal Furno, Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

* 1922 – Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist

* 1923 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)

* 1924 – Alexander M. Haig, Jr., American soldier and politician

* 1924 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (d. 2006)

* 1925 – Julie Harris, American actress

* 1930 – Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize

* 1930 – David Piper, British race car driver

* 1931 – Nigel Calder, British science writer

* 1931 – Hatsumi Masaaki, founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization

* 1931 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (d. 1971)

* 1931 – Edwin Meese, American lawyer, U.S. attorney general and presidential advisor

* 1933 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)

* 1933 – K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist

* 1934 – Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church

* 1934 – Sissela Bok, Swedish philosopher and ethicist

* 1934 – Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)

* 1935 – David Hackett Fischer, American historian

* 1939 – Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician

* 1939 – Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate

* 1939 – Harry Reid, American politician

* 1943 – Wayne Allard, American politician

* 1944 – Inger Davidson, Swedish politician

* 1944 – Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)

* 1944 – Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter

* 1944 – Botho Strauß, German author

* 1945 – Penelope Spheeris, American film director

* 1946 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)

* 1947 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)

* 1947 – Tommy Jenkins, English football player

* 1947 – Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist

* 1948 – T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer

* 1950 – Bob Kevoian, American radio personality

* 1950 – Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic

* 1950 – Benjamin Stora, French historian

* 1951 – Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher

* 1952 – Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman

* 1954 – Dan Butler, American actor

* 1954 – Stone Phillips, American television journalist

* 1956 – Steven Bauer, American actor

* 1957 – Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian politician

* 1958 – Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer

* 1958 – George Saunders, American writer

* 1960 – Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (d. 1984)

* 1960 – Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard)

* 1962 – Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, titular Bulgarian royal family

* 1963 – Dan Gauthier, American actor

* 1963 – Ann Patchett, American novelist

* 1963 – Ron Sutter, National Hockey League player

* 1966 – Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler

* 1968 – Darryl Kile, baseball player (d. 2002)

* 1968 – Lucy Liu, American actress

* 1968 – Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)

* 1968 – Rena Sofer, American actress

* 1968 – Chris Wedge, American animator

* 1970 – Treach, American rapper (Naughty by Nature)

* 1970 – Yang Hyun Suk, South Korean record producer

* 1971 – Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor

* 1971 – Francesco Toldo, Italian Football Player

* 1972 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004)

* 1973 – Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer

* 1973 – Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player

* 1973 – Jan Ullrich, German cyclist

* 1976 – Eddy Garabito, Dominican baseball player

* 1976 – Masafumi Gotō, Japanese singer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)

* 1977 – Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer

* 1978 – Melissa Archer, American actress

* 1978 – Jarron Collins, American basketball player

* 1978 – Jason Collins, American basketball player

* 1978 – Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter

* 1978 – Peter Moylan, Australian baseball player

* 1978 – David Rivas, Spanish footballer

* 1978 – Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse)

* 1979 – Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress

* 1979 – Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer

* 1981 – Danijel Pranjić, Croatian football player

* 1981 – [b']Britney Spears, American singer[/b]

* 1981 – Isabella Soprano, American porn star

* 1982 – Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen

* 1982 – Christos Karipidis, Greek footballer

* 1982 – Pizon, American rapper/producer

* 1982 – Matt Ware, American football player

* 1983 – Chris Burke, Scottish footballer

* 1983 – Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player

* 1983 – Aaron Rodgers, American football player

* 1984 – Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer

* 1985 – Dorell Wright, American basketball player

* 1986 – Claudiu Keserü, Romanian football player

* 1987 – Teairra Mari, American R&B singer

* 1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor

* 1988 – Soniya Mehra, Indian actress

* 1989 – Cassie Steele, Canadian actress

* 1990 – Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese actor

* 1992 – Brandon Knight, basketball player

 

It's JG's, not yours.

 

Yes, I know, I was pointing out the fact that he was born on the same day as Britney Spears.

 

You're supposed to put your birth date events, not others.

[Kotaro]

[spoiler=July 4th]1330 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)

1546 – Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595)

1694 – Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (d. 1772)

1715 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (d. 1769)

1719 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)

1790 – George Everest, Welsh surveyor (d. 1866)

1799 – King Oscar I of Sweden, French general (d. 1859)

1804 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. 1864)

1807 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (d. 1882)

1816 – Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)

1826 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter (d. 1864)

1845 – Thomas Barnardo, Irish humanitarian (d. 1905)

1847 – James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (d. 1906)

1854 – Victor Babeş, Romanian bacteriologist (d. 1926)

1867 – Stephen Mather, American entrepreneur and conservationist (d. 1930)

1868 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)

1872 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933)

1881 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d. 1968)

1882 – Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (d. 1957)

1883 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (d. 1970)

1895 – Irving Caesar, American lyricist and composer (d. 1996)

1896 – Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981)

1898 – Dr. Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d. 1997)

1898 – Gertrude Lawrence, English-born actress (d. 1952)

1902 – Meyer Lansky, Russian-born American gangster (d. 1983)

1902 – George Murphy, American entertainer (d. 1992)

1903 – Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist and teacher (d. 1986)

1904 – Angela Baddeley, English actress (d. 1976)

1905 – Irving Johnson, American adventurer (d. 1991)

1907 – Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)

1907 – Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (d. 1996)

1910 – Gloria Stuart, American actress

1911 – Mitch Miller, American entertainer

1912 – Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991)

1916 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American World War II figure (d. 2006)

1917 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)

1918 – Ann Landers, American advice columnist (d. 2002)

1918 – Abigail Van Buren, American advice columnist

1918 – King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (d. 2006)

1918 – Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)

1920 – Norm Drucker, American basketball referee

1920 – Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (d. 2007)

1921 – Gerard Debreu, French economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)

1921 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist (d. 2003)

1923 – Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor

1924 – Eva Marie Saint, American actress

1926 – Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer

1927 – Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress

1927 – Neil Simon, American playwright

1929 – Al Davis, American businessman

1929 – Chuck Tanner, American baseball player

1929 – Bill Tuttle, American baseball player (d. 1998)

1930 – Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor

1930 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman

1930 – Yuri Tyukalov, Soviet Olympic rower

1931 – Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (d. 1977)

1931 – Sébastien Japrisot, French author, film director and screenwriter (d. 2003)

1932 – Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian athlete

1934 – Colin Welland, English actor

1935 – Paul Scoon, Governor General of Grenada

1936 – Zdzisława Donat, Polish coloratura soprano

1937 – Sonja Haraldsen, Queen of Norway (spouse of King Harald V of Norway)

1937 – Thomas Nagel, American philosopher

1938 – Bill Withers, American singer and songwriter

1938 – Sergio Oliva, Cuban born American bodybuilder

1940 – Karolyn Grimes, American actress

1941 – Brian Willson, American peace activist

1942 – Hal Lanier, American baseball player

1942 – Floyd Little, American football player

1942 – Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (d. 2008)

1943 – Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German musician

1943 – Geraldo Rivera, American reporter

1943 – Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (d. 1970)

1943 – Emerson Boozer, American football player

1943 – Milan Máčala, Czech football coach

1944 – Ray Meagher, Australian actor

1945 – Bruce French, American actor

1946 – Tish Howard, American model

1946 – Ron Kovic, American peace activist

1946 – Michael Milken, American financier

1946 – Ed O'Ross, American actor

1947 – Morganna Roberts, American entertainer

1948 – Ed Armbrister, baseball player

1948 – René Arnoux, French race car driver

1948 – Tommy Körberg, Swedish singer and actor

1948 – Jeremy Spencer, English musician

1948 – Phil Wheatley, Director-General of the National Offender Management Service

1950 – David Jensen, Canadian-born British radio DJ

1951 – Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American politician

1952 – Álvaro Uribe Vélez, President of Colombia

1954 – Jim Beattie, American baseball player

1955 – John Waite, English singer

1956 – Mark Belling, American radio talkshow host

1957 – Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand

1957 – Rein Lang, Estonian politician and diplomat

1958 – Kirk Pengilly, Australian musician

1959 – Victoria Abril, Spanish actress

1949 – Georgios Voulgarakis, Greek politician

1960 – Sid Eudy, American professional wrestler

1960 – Barry Windham, American professional wrestler

1960 – Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1994)

1961 – Richard Garriott, English video game designer

1962 – Neil Morrissey, English actor

1962 – Pam Shriver, American former tennis player

1963 – Henri Leconte, French former tennis player

1963 – Matt Malley, American musician

1963 – José Oquendo, Puerto Rican baseball player

1964 – Cle Kooiman, American soccer player

1964 – Mark Slaughter, American singer

1964 – Mark Whiting, American filmmaker and actor

1965 – Horace Grant, American basketball player

1965 – Harvey Grant, American basketball player

1965 – Jo Whiley, English radio DJ

1966 – Minas Hantzidis, Greek footballer

1966 – Lee Reherman, American actor

1967 – Vinny Castilla, Mexican baseball player

1967 – Andy Walker, Canadian television personality

1967 – Rick Wilkins, American baseball player

1968 – Jack Frost, American musician

1969 – Todd Marinovich, American football player

1970 – Tony Vidmar, Australian former footballer

1971 – Andy Creeggan, Canadian musician

1971 – Brendan Donnelly, American baseball player

1971 – Koko, sign-language gorilla

1971 – Andrew Murray, English entrepreneur

1971 – Ned Zelic, Australian soccer player

1972 – Nina Badrić, Croatian singer

1972 – Stephen Giles, Canadian canoer

1972 – William Goldsmith, American drummer

1972 – Mike Knuble, Canadian hockey player

1972 – Oleg Prudius, Ukrainian professional wrestler

1973 – Gackt, Japanese singer

1973 – Keiko Ihara, Japanese racing driver

1973 – Michael Johnson, English-born Jamaican footballer

1973 – Jan Magnussen, Danish racing driver

1973 – Tony Popovic, Australian soccer player

1974 – La'Roi Glover, American football player

1974 – Adrian Griffin, American basketball player

1974 – Vince Spadea, American tennis player

1975 – Tania Davis, Australian violist

1976 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)

1976 – Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova, Russian cross-country skier

1977 – Jonas Kjellgren, Swedish musician (Scar Symmetry)

1978 – Katia Zygouli, Greek supermodel

1978 – Vicky Kaya, Greek supermodel and actress

1978 – Stephen McNally, British singer and songwriter (BBMak)

1978 – Emile Mpenza, Belgian footballer

1978 – Becki Newton, American actress

1980 – Max Elliott Slade, American film actor

1981 – Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball player

1982 – Hannah Harper,English porn star

1983 – Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian model

1983 – Ben Jorgensen, American musician

1983 – Andy Mrotek, American musician

1983 – Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Spanish actor and singer

1984 – Gina Glocksen, American singer

1984 – Akanishi Jin, Japanese singer

1985 – Kane Tenace, Australian rules footballer

1986 – Takahisa Masuda, Japanese singer

2003 – Alessia di Matteo, Italian medical figure (d. 2005)

 

 

Dont know hardly any of these.

[Kuro no Keiyakushu]

[spoiler= August 11th Events] 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar' date=' used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.

2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.

480 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Artemisium – the Persians achieve a naval victory over the Greeks in an engagement fought near Artemisium, a promontory on the north coast of Euboea.

355 – Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.

1510 – Margaret Palaeologina, Duchess of Mantua is born.

1755 – Charles Lawrence gives expulsion orders to remove the Acadians from Nova Scotia beginning the Great Upheaval.

1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia

1804 – Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.

1858 – First ascent of the Eiger.

1898 – Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

1918 – World War I – Battle of Amiens ends.

1919 – Constitution of Weimar Republic adopted.

1920 – The Latvia-Bolshevist Russia peace treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed.

1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

1934 – First civilian prisoners arrive at Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.

1952 – Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan.

1960 – Chad declares independence.

1965 – Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in Watts area of Los Angeles, California.

1972 – Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit departs South Vietnam.

1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.

1988 – Al-Qaeda is formed.

1999 – The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.

2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.

2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.

2003 – A heat wave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112°F (44° C), leaving about 144 people dead.

 

 

[spoiler= Births and Deaths']

[edit] Births

1467 – Mary of York, English princess (d. 1482)

1648 – Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (d. 1720)

1667 – Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (d. 1743)

1673 – Richard Mead, English physician (d. 1754)

1718 – Sir Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791)

1722 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (d. 1797)

1778 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German (Prussian) gymnastics educator and nationalist (d. 1852)

1794 – James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)

1807 – David Rice Atchison, American politician (d. 1886)

1808 – William W. Chapman, American politician (d. 1892)

1833 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and soldier (d. 1899)

1833 – Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician (d. 1877)

1836 – Warren Brown, American politician (d. 1919)

1837 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (d. 1894)

1855 – John Hodges, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)

1858 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1930)

1863 – Gaston Doumergue, President of the French Third Republic (d. 1937)

1870 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer (d. 1912)

1870 – Walter Bowman, Canadian soccer player (d. ?)

1872 – Shidehara Kijuro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)

1877 – Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (d. 1954)

1878 – Oliver W F Lodge, English poet and author (d. 1955)

1892 – Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (d. 1962)

1892 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (d. 1978)

1892 – Archie Wiles, West Indian cricketer (d. 1957)

1897 – Louise Bogan, American poet (d. 1970)

1897 – Enid Blyton, English author (d. 1968)

1900 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)

1902 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)

1902 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor (d. 1985)

1905 – Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)

1907 – Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (d. 1989)

1909 – Yuji Koseki, Japanese composer (d. 1989)

1912 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (d. 1954)

1912 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004)

1913 – Angus Wilson, British novelist (d. 1991)

1913 – Paul Dupuis, French Canadian actor (d. 1976)

1913 – Bob Scheffing, American professional baseball player and manager (d. 1985)

1914 – José Silva, American parapsychologist (d. 1999)

1916 – Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (d. 1956)

1919 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949)

1919 – Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican baseball player

1920 – Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)

1921 – Alex Haley, American historian (d. 1992)

1923 – Stan Chambers, American television reporter

1925 – Mike Douglas, American entertainer (d. 2006)

1925 – Floyd Curry, National Hockey League player (d. 2006)

1926 – Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1926 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-born British socialite

1927 – Raymond Leppard, English conductor

1928 – Arlene Dahl, American actress

1932 – Fernando Arrabal, Spanish writer

1932 – Peter Eisenman, American architect

1932 – Israel Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (d. 2003)

1932 – John Gorrie, English director

1933 – Jerry Falwell, American preacher (d. 2007)

1933 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (d. 1999)

1936 – Andre Dubus, American short-story writer (d. 1999)

1938 – Branko Stanovnik, Slovenian chemist

1939 – Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly performer (d. 2003)

1940 – Lennie Pond, American NASCAR driver

1942 – Mike Hugg, British musician (Manfred Mann)

1943 – Abigail Folger, American heiress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)

1943 – Stefania Toczyska, Polish mezzo-soprano

1943 – Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani politician

1944 – Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor

1944 – Frederick W. Smith, American entrepreneur

1946 – Marilyn vos Savant, American newspaper columnist

1946 – John Conlee, American country music singer

1947 – Georgios Karatzaferis, Greek politician

1948 – Jan Palach, Czechoslovakian student protester (d. 1969)

1949 – Eric Carmen, American musician

1949 – Tim Hutchinson, American politician

1950 – Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (d. 2003)

1950 – Gennidy Nikonov, Russian weapons inventor (d. 2003)

1950 – Steve Wozniak, American computer pioneer

1951 – Vincent Bilodeau, Canadian actor and comedian

1952 – Bob Mothersbaugh AKA Bob 1, American musician (Devo)

1953 – Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler

1953 – Amy Holland, American Pop Rock singer

1954 – Joe Jackson, English singer

1954 – Juan Maria Solare, Argentine composer

1954 – Yashpal Sharma, Indian cricketer

1954 – M. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian cricketer

1955 – Sylvia Hermon, British politician

1955 – Marc Bureau, Canadian politician

1956 – Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician

1957 – Ian Stuart Donaldson, British singer (Skrewdriver) (d. 1993)

1959 – Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian musician (Soda Stereo)

1959 – Yoshiaki Murakami, Japanese investor

1961 – Craig Ehlo, American basketball player

1962 – Shaul Karnain, Sri Lankan cricketer

1962 – Ennis Whatley, American basketball player

1963 – Hiromi Makihara, Japanese baseball player

1964 – Jim Lee, Korean comic book artist

1964 – Nikki Randall, American pornographic actress

1964 – Miguel A. Núñez, Jr., American actor

1965 – Marc Bergevin, Canadian ice hockey player

1965 – Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer (Resident Evil)

1965 – Viola Davis, American actress

1965 – Embeth Davidtz, American actress

1965 – Duane Martin, American actor

1966 – Nigel Martyn, English footballer

1967 – Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer

1967 – Eric Maleson, Brazilian bobsledder

1967 – Collin Chou, Taiwanese actor

1967 – Joe Rogan, American television host, comedian, commentator,and, actor

1968 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist terrorist (d. 2009)

1969 – Ashley Jensen, British actress

1971 – Tommy Mooney, English football player

1971 – Alejandra Barros, Mexican actress

1971 – Julie Clarke, glamor model

1972 – Jonathon Prandi, American model

1973 – Nigel Harman, British actor

1973 – Carolyn Murphy, American model

1974 – Audrey Mestre, French diver (d. 2002)

1974 – Hadiqa Kiyani, Pakistani singer

1974 – Marie-France Dubreuil, Canadian figure skater

1974 – Anju Jain, Indian cricketer

1975 – Davey von Bohlen, American musician (The Promise Ring, Maritime)

1976 – Iván Córdoba, Colombian footballer

1976 – Bubba Crosby, American baseball player

1976 – Will Friedle, American actor

1976 – Ben Gibbard, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service)

1976 – Erick Lindgren, American poker player

1976 – Ľubomír Višňovský, Slovak ice hockey player

1977 – Gemma Hayes, Irish singer

1978 – Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer

1978 – Amber Mariano, American reality television personality

1978 – Jermain Taylor, American boxer

1979 – Aggeliki Daliani, Greek actress

1980 – Lee Suggs, American football player

1981 – Fiona Sit, Hong Kong singer and actress

1981 – Sandi Thom, Scottish singer

1982 – Alan Halsall, British actor

1983 – Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor

1984 – Melky Cabrera, Dominican baseball player

1984 – Lucas Di Grassi, Brazilian racing driver

1984 – Katie Rees, American beauty pageant contestant

1985 – Asher Roth, American rapper

1986 – Kaori Fukuhara, Japanese voice actress

1986 – Pablo Sandoval, Venezuelan baseball player

1993 – Alyson Stoner, American actress, model, singer and dancer

[edit] Deaths

480 BC – Leonidas, King of Sparta during the Battle of Thermopylae (b. c. 540 BC)

353 – Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)

449 – Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople

897 – Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona

1204 – King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)

1253 – Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194)

1259 – Möngke Khan, Great Khan of the Mongol Empire

1456 – John Hunyadi, regent of Hungary (b. 1387)

1464 – Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1401)

1494 – Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. c. 1430)

1519 – Johann Tetzel, German opponent of the Reformation (b. 1465)

1563 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. c. 1500)

1578 – Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502)

1596 – Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)

1614 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)

1656 – Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (b. 1599)

1774 – Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722)

1813 – Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)

1851 – Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779)

1854 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798)

1886 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)

1890 – John Henry Cardinal Newman, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1801)

1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)

1903 – Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839)

1908 – Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1889)

1919 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1835)

1936 – Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1885)

1937 – Edith Wharton, American author (b. 1862)

1939 – Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909)

1953 – Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892)

1954 – Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (b. 1886)

1956 – Jackson Pollock, American artist (b. 1912)

1961 – Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer actor and director (b. 1910)

1965 – Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer (b. 1897)

1972 – Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)

1974 – Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan musician. (b. 1887)

1974 – Jan Tschichold, German typographer (b. 1902)

1980 – Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)

1982 – Tom Drake, American actor (b. 1918)

1984 – Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (b. 1892)

1984 – Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (b. 1916)

1988 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)

1991 – J. D. McDuffie, American NASCAR driver (b. 1938)

1994 – Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913)

1995 – Phil Harris, American singer and comedian (b. 1904)

1996 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor and composer (b. 1914)

1996 – Mel Taylor, American drummer (The Ventures) (b. 1933)

1996 – Baba Vanga, Bulgarian prophet, mystic, clairvoyant and herbalist (b. 1911)

2000 – Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (b. 1916)

2001 – Percy Stallard, English racing cyclist (b. 1909)

2002 – Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountain climber (b. 1940)

2003 – Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)

2003 – Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (b. 1937)

2005 – James Booth, English actor (b. 1927)

2006 – Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1925)

2009 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics, sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1921)

 

 

 

T'when my sister was born =P

[Läufer]

[spoiler=July 4th]1330 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira' date=' Japanese shogun (d. 1367)

1546 – Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595)

1694 – Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (d. 1772)

1715 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (d. 1769)

1719 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)

1790 – George Everest, Welsh surveyor (d. 1866)

1799 – King Oscar I of Sweden, French general (d. 1859)

1804 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. 1864)

1807 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (d. 1882)

1816 – Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)

1826 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter (d. 1864)

1845 – Thomas Barnardo, Irish humanitarian (d. 1905)

1847 – James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (d. 1906)

1854 – Victor Babeş, Romanian bacteriologist (d. 1926)

1867 – Stephen Mather, American entrepreneur and conservationist (d. 1930)

1868 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)

1872 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933)

1881 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d. 1968)

1882 – Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (d. 1957)

1883 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (d. 1970)

1895 – Irving Caesar, American lyricist and composer (d. 1996)

1896 – Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981)

1898 – Dr. Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d. 1997)

1898 – Gertrude Lawrence, English-born actress (d. 1952)

1902 – Meyer Lansky, Russian-born American gangster (d. 1983)

1902 – George Murphy, American entertainer (d. 1992)

1903 – Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist and teacher (d. 1986)

1904 – Angela Baddeley, English actress (d. 1976)

1905 – Irving Johnson, American adventurer (d. 1991)

1907 – Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)

1907 – Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (d. 1996)

1910 – Gloria Stuart, American actress

1911 – Mitch Miller, American entertainer

1912 – Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991)

1916 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American World War II figure (d. 2006)

1917 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)

1918 – Ann Landers, American advice columnist (d. 2002)

1918 – Abigail Van Buren, American advice columnist

1918 – King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (d. 2006)

1918 – Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)

1920 – Norm Drucker, American basketball referee

1920 – Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (d. 2007)

1921 – Gerard Debreu, French economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)

1921 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist (d. 2003)

1923 – Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor

1924 – Eva Marie Saint, American actress

1926 – Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer

1927 – Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress

1927 – Neil Simon, American playwright

1929 – Al Davis, American businessman

1929 – Chuck Tanner, American baseball player

1929 – Bill Tuttle, American baseball player (d. 1998)

1930 – Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor

1930 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman

1930 – Yuri Tyukalov, Soviet Olympic rower

1931 – Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (d. 1977)

1931 – Sébastien Japrisot, French author, film director and screenwriter (d. 2003)

1932 – Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian athlete

1934 – Colin Welland, English actor

1935 – Paul Scoon, Governor General of Grenada

1936 – Zdzisława Donat, Polish coloratura soprano

1937 – Sonja Haraldsen, Queen of Norway (spouse of King Harald V of Norway)

1937 – Thomas Nagel, American philosopher

1938 – Bill Withers, American singer and songwriter

1938 – Sergio Oliva, Cuban born American bodybuilder

1940 – Karolyn Grimes, American actress

1941 – Brian Willson, American peace activist

1942 – Hal Lanier, American baseball player

1942 – Floyd Little, American football player

1942 – Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (d. 2008)

1943 – Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German musician

1943 – Geraldo Rivera, American reporter

1943 – Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (d. 1970)

1943 – Emerson Boozer, American football player

1943 – Milan Máčala, Czech football coach

1944 – Ray Meagher, Australian actor

1945 – Bruce French, American actor

1946 – Tish Howard, American model

1946 – Ron Kovic, American peace activist

1946 – Michael Milken, American financier

1946 – Ed O'Ross, American actor

1947 – Morganna Roberts, American entertainer

1948 – Ed Armbrister, baseball player

1948 – René Arnoux, French race car driver

1948 – Tommy Körberg, Swedish singer and actor

1948 – Jeremy Spencer, English musician

1948 – Phil Wheatley, Director-General of the National Offender Management Service

1950 – David Jensen, Canadian-born British radio DJ

1951 – Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American politician

1952 – Álvaro Uribe Vélez, President of Colombia

1954 – Jim Beattie, American baseball player

1955 – John Waite, English singer

1956 – Mark Belling, American radio talkshow host

1957 – Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand

1957 – Rein Lang, Estonian politician and diplomat

1958 – Kirk Pengilly, Australian musician

1959 – Victoria Abril, Spanish actress

1949 – Georgios Voulgarakis, Greek politician

1960 – Sid Eudy, American professional wrestler

1960 – Barry Windham, American professional wrestler

1960 – Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1994)

1961 – Richard Garriott, English video game designer

1962 – Neil Morrissey, English actor

1962 – Pam Shriver, American former tennis player

1963 – Henri Leconte, French former tennis player

1963 – Matt Malley, American musician

1963 – José Oquendo, Puerto Rican baseball player

1964 – Cle Kooiman, American soccer player

1964 – Mark Slaughter, American singer

1964 – Mark Whiting, American filmmaker and actor

1965 – Horace Grant, American basketball player

1965 – Harvey Grant, American basketball player

1965 – Jo Whiley, English radio DJ

1966 – Minas Hantzidis, Greek footballer

1966 – Lee Reherman, American actor

1967 – Vinny Castilla, Mexican baseball player

1967 – Andy Walker, Canadian television personality

1967 – Rick Wilkins, American baseball player

1968 – Jack Frost, American musician

1969 – Todd Marinovich, American football player

1970 – Tony Vidmar, Australian former footballer

1971 – Andy Creeggan, Canadian musician

1971 – Brendan Donnelly, American baseball player

1971 – Koko, sign-language gorilla

1971 – Andrew Murray, English entrepreneur

1971 – Ned Zelic, Australian soccer player

1972 – Nina Badrić, Croatian singer

1972 – Stephen Giles, Canadian canoer

1972 – William Goldsmith, American drummer

1972 – Mike Knuble, Canadian hockey player

1972 – Oleg Prudius, Ukrainian professional wrestler

1973 – Gackt, Japanese singer

1973 – Keiko Ihara, Japanese racing driver

1973 – Michael Johnson, English-born Jamaican footballer

1973 – Jan Magnussen, Danish racing driver

1973 – Tony Popovic, Australian soccer player

1974 – La'Roi Glover, American football player

1974 – Adrian Griffin, American basketball player

1974 – Vince Spadea, American tennis player

1975 – Tania Davis, Australian violist

1976 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)

1976 – Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova, Russian cross-country skier

1977 – Jonas Kjellgren, Swedish musician (Scar Symmetry)

1978 – Katia Zygouli, Greek supermodel

1978 – Vicky Kaya, Greek supermodel and actress

1978 – Stephen McNally, British singer and songwriter (BBMak)

1978 – Emile Mpenza, Belgian footballer

1978 – Becki Newton, American actress

1980 – Max Elliott Slade, American film actor

1981 – Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball player

1982 – Hannah Harper,English porn star

1983 – Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian model

1983 – Ben Jorgensen, American musician

1983 – Andy Mrotek, American musician

1983 – Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Spanish actor and singer

1984 – Gina Glocksen, American singer

1984 – Akanishi Jin, Japanese singer

1985 – Kane Tenace, Australian rules footballer

1986 – Takahisa Masuda, Japanese singer

2003 – Alessia di Matteo, Italian medical figure (d. 2005)

 

 

Dont know hardly any of these.

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Me neither.

I thought yours was going to be really important people.

[~Wright~]

Marylin Manson