• 0527 - Justinianus I succeeds Justinus I as emperor of Byzantium
• 0649 - Pope Martinus I chosen successor of Theodorus I [or 8/7]
• 0860 - Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II
• 0902 - Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily
• 1021 - Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest
• 1086 - English barons become submissive to king Willem the Occupier
• 1177 - Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I & Pope Alexander III
• 1203 - Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium
• 1291 - Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)
• 1404 - Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland
• 1485 - Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England
• 1498 - Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela)
• 1588 - English admiral Howard van Effingham beats Spanish Armada
• 1589 - Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III
• 1619 - 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
• 1626 - Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal
• 1628 - Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism
• 1664 - Battle at St Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed K�pr�l�
• 1690 - Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye
• 1711 - Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov
• 1714 - Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England
• 1716 - 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea)
• 1716 - Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed
• 1732 - Foundation laid for Bank of England
• 1759 - Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France
• 1774 - Priestly discovers oxygen
• 1780 - Sweden declares neutrality
• 1781 - English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia
• 1785 - Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
• 1789 - US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
• 1790 - 1st US census (population of 3,939,214; 697,624 are slaves)
• 1793 - France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
• 1794 - Whiskey Rebellion begins
• 1798 - Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet
• 1812 - Rare tornado hits Westchester County NY
• 1814 - Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat
• 1831 - London Bridge opens to traffic
• 1834 - Slavery abolished through out the British Empire
• 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil
• 1838 - Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas
• 1842 - Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens
• 1852 - SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
• 1855 - Castle Clinton in NYC opens as 1st US receiving station for immigrants
• 1861 - Brazil recognizes Confederacy
• 1863 - Battle of Little Rock AK & Start of Chattanooga campaign
• 1863 - Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
• 1864 - Battle of Petersburg, VA
• 1867 - Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South (Tenn)
• 1869 - 1st voyage down Colorado River
• 1873 - SF's 1st cable car begins service
• 1876 - Colorado becomes 38th state
• 1881 - US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, SF Bay
• 1883 - A papyrus offered to Brit Museum for �10,000 (forgery)
• 1883 - Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights
• 1883 - Inland postal service begins in Great Britain
• 1886 - Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand
• 1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi
• 1893 - Henry Perky & William Ford patent shredded wheat
• 1896 - George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (NY to England)
• 1901 - Burial within SF City limits prohibited
• 1902 - Building begins on Dutch public housing
• 1902 - Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia (100 die)
• 1903 - 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
• 1906 - Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th
• 1907 - Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF
• 1907 - Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division
• 1909 - British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed
• 1911 - Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point
• 1914 - British fleet reaches Scapa Flow
• 1914 - Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I)
• 1914 - France & Germany mobilize
• 1914 - Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
• 1916 - Hawaii National Park forms
• 1917 - Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT
• 1918 - British troops enter Vladivostok
• 1918 - Pitts Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings
• 1919 - Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam
• 1919 - Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek
• 1920 - Papendrecht soccer team forms
• 1920 - Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia
• 1922 - Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard
• 1925 - Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk & Netherland East-Indies
• 1926 - Battles between Druzen & French in Damascus
• 1926 - Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
• 1927 - Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards
• 1928 - Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 & is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace
• 1933 - Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3)
• 1933 - Death penality for anti fascists in Germany
• 1933 - Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno
• 1933 - NRA (National Recovery Administration) forms
• 1936 - Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
• 1936 - Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College
• 1941 - Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division
• 1941 - NY Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St L 0)
• 1942 - Deurne soccer team forms
• 1942 - German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers
• 1942 - Race riots in Harlem, New York
• 1943 - Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw
• 1943 - Race riot in Harlem NYC
• 1943 - Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 & U-383
• 1944 - Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
• 1944 - Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
• 1944 - General Montgomery takes command of 12th & 21st army
• 1944 - US 90th division occupies St Hilaire-du-Harcourt
• 1944 - US troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir
• 1944 - Uprising in Warsaw ghetto
• 1945 - Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's
• 1945 - Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx)
• 1945 - SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld
• 1946 - Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
• 1947 - "Medium & The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 211 perfs
• 1947 - Valleivogels soccer team forms in Scherpenzeel
• 1950 - 1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)
• 1950 - American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule
• 1950 - Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act)
• 1950 - King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King
• 1950 - Territory of Guam created
• 1951 - David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
• 1953 - Calif introduces sales tax (for education)
• 1953 - Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba
• 1953 - KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, MO (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 - KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 - Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland
• 1953 - Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief
• 1954 - Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France
• 1954 - WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1955 - 1st microgravity research begins
• 1955 - Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca govt
• 1955 - WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1956 - KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1957 - 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)
• 1957 - Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln)
• 1957 - Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10")
• 1957 - US & Canada create North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
• 1958 - 1st class postage up to 4� (had been 3� for 26 years)
• 1958 - US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole
• 1959 - New Continental baseball league formed
• 1959 - Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia
• 1959 - WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1960 - Aretha Franklins 1st recording session
• 1960 - Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
• 1960 - Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"
• 1961 - Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford
• 1961 - German DR limits traffic to West Berlin
• 1961 - New SF Hall of Justice opens
• 1961 - Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League
• 1962 - Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0
• 1962 - Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana
• 1963 - Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
• 1963 - Germany FR annexes Elten village
• 1963 - WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1964 - ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation
• 1964 - Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
• 1965 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
• 1966 - Charles Whitman climbs U of Texas tower & shoots 12 dead
• 1966 - Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 & wounds 31 at U of Texas
• 1967 - Iza�k Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam
• 1967 - WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1968 - Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins
• 1968 - Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo
• 1968 - WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1969 - 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival
• 1969 - 36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208)
• 1969 - Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars
• 1970 - EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wi
• 1970 - KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1970 - Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game
• 1971 - Bangladesh refugee concert with George Harrison
• 1971 - CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII
• 1971 - George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC
• 1971 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
• 1972 - 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
• 1972 - Nate Colbert of SD Padres hits record tying 5 HRs in a double header
• 1973 - H J Witteveen appointed as director of IMF
• 1973 - Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
• 1974 - Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr J" Erving to NY Nets
• 1975 - 38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord
• 1975 - 41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103)
• 1975 - Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of NY Yankees
• 1975 - Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations
• 1976 - 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada
• 1976 - Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colo on Route 34, kills 139
• 1976 - Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton)
• 1976 - Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20)
• 1977 - SF Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer
• 1978 - Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games
• 1978 - Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead
• 1978 - Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL)
• 1979 - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms govt in Portugal
• 1980 - Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record
• 1980 - Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03
• 1981 - MTV premieres at 12:01 AM
• 1981 - Poland premier Jagielski resigns
• 1982 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
• 1982 - Greg Louganis, US becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives
• 1982 - H Aaron, F Robinson, T Jackson, & H Chandler inducted in Hall of Fame
• 1982 - Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut
• 1982 - Petra Schneider swims world record 400m medley (4:36.10)
• 1983 - New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England
• 1985 - 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)
• 1985 - Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time
• 1985 - Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74
• 1986 - Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000
• 1986 - Cleveland sets AL attendance record for twi-night doubleheader, 65,934
• 1986 - Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma
• 1986 - Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal
• 1987 - Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart
• 1987 - Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada
• 1987 - Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1987 - Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
• 1988 - Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon
• 1989 - Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes
• 1990 - "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 149 perfs
• 1990 - Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game
• 1990 - Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
• 1990 - Soyuz TM-10 launches
• 1990 - Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs
• 1991 - Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida
• 1991 - Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires
• 1992 - "Salome" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 9 performances
• 1992 - NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres
• 1992 - USA/USSR Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica
• 1993 - "In the Summer House" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 25 perfs
• 1993 - "She Loves Me" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
• 1993 - Missie Berteott wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
• 1993 - Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
• 1993 - Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack
• 1994 - 99.9�F (37.7�C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record
• 1994 - The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour
• 1994 - Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed
• 1995 - Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network
• 1996 - M2, MTV's second TV channel is launched
• 1998 - -8] Gay & Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam

Famous birthdays for this day ..

• 0126 - Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman emperor (193 AD)
• 0848 - Frantisek Kmoch, composer
• 1322 - Peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian
• 1495 - Jan Scorel, Dutch painter/architect
• 1520 - Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (1548-72)
• 1642 - Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95) [or Feb 25, 1643]
• 1659 - Antoine Mouque, composer
• 1685 - Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer
• 1686 - Benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer (Lettera Famigliare)
• 1714 - Richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter
• 1744 - Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, French zoologist
• 1753 - Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist
• 1755 - Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer
• 1766 - Ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner, pianist/composer
• 1766 - Jeffrey Wyatville, architect
• 1770 - William Clark, Charlottsville VA, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
• 1779 - Francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner)
• 1786 - Louis C Luzac, judge/Dutch Internal minister
• 1814 - Maxcy Gregg, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
• 1815 - Richard Henry Dana, novelist/lawyer spent 2 years before mast
• 1818 - Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer on Nantucket Island
• 1819 - Herman Melville, US, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd)
• 1824 - Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer
• 1840 - Aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer
• 1843 - Robert Todd Lincoln, Capt (Union volunteers), died in 1926
• 1847 - Guido Papini, violinist/composer
• 1858 - Hans Rott, composer
• 1858 - Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist
• 1861 - Sam Jones, cricketer (Australian batsman of 1880's)
• 1862 - Montague Rhodes James, scholar/author/editor
• 1863 - Gaston Doumergue, premier/pres of France (1913..34)
• 1867 - William Orlamond, Denmark, actor (Flesh & Devil, Wind)
• 1871 - Oskar Fried, composer
• 1877 - Charlotte Hughes, 1990 (oldest person in Great Britain)
• 1877 - Jan van den Tempel, Dutch MP (SDAP)
• 1881 - Emilie Rose Macaulay, English writer
• 1881 - Rose Macaulay, writer
• 1882 - Vaclav Klicka, composer
• 1886 - Isaac Keesing, Dutch publisher/founder (System Keesing)
• 1888 - Vito Frazzi, composer
• 1889 - John F Mahoney, developed pencillin treatment of syphillis
• 1890 - George II, king of Greece
• 1892 - Constantly Burniaux, Belg, art historian (Temps Inquiets)
• 1895 - Benjamin E Mays, SC, black educator (Morehouse, Howard University)
• 1898 - Morris Stoloff, Phila, violinist (Picnic, Pal Joey)
• 1899 - William Steinberg, Cologne, conductor (Boston Symph-1969-71)
• 1900 - Otto Nothling, cricketer (Test for Australia 1928, 52 runs aver 26)
• 1901 - Gerard Blitz, Belgian swimmer/founder (Club M�diterran�e)
• 1902 - Hendrik J Kruls, Neth, general/chief military authority (1944-46)
• 1902 - Ruth Evelyn Mansfield, doctor
• 1903 - Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist
• 1906 - William Hayter, diplomat
• 1908 - Miloslav Kabelac, composer
• 1909 - Nigel Henderson, admiral
• 1910 - Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (pioneer Indian opening bowler in Tests)
• 1910 - William Hayter, diplomat
• 1911 - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician
• 1911 - Ronald MacDonald, British major-general
• 1912 - Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist
• 1912 - Henry Jones, Phila Pa, actor (Phyllis, Falcon Crest, Gun Shy)
• 1912 - Masaya Hanai, businessamn
• 1913 - Jerome Moross, Brooklyn NY, composer (Frankie & Johnny)
• 1913 - Nigel Henderson, admiral
• 1914 - Jack Delano, composer
• 1915 - Ronald MacDonald, British major-general
• 1916 - Viscount Hanworth, barrister
• 1917 - Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert
• 1918 - Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist
• 1919 - Stanley Middleton, novelist
• 1920 - Jeffrey Segal, actor (Traitors)/playwright
• 1920 - Maria Cole, Boston MA
• 1920 - Sammy Lee, Fresno Calif, platform diver (Oly-2 gold/bronze-1948, 52)
• 1920 - Viscount Hanworth, barrister
• 1921 - Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert
• 1921 - Jack Kramer, Las Vegas, tennis star (Wimbeldon 1947, US Open-1946)
• 1921 - Vic Marshall, chemist
• 1922 - Arthur Hill, Saskatchewan Canada, actor (Owen Marshall, Glitter)
• 1922 - Frank Hauser, British theatrical director
• 1922 - Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist
• 1923 - Gwyn Ward Thomas, British TV director
• 1923 - Paul Lambert, El Paso Tx, actor (Tom-Executive Suite)
• 1923 - Stanley Middleton, novelist
• 1923 - Yoshinao Nakada, composer
• 1924 - Frank Worrell, cricketer (one of the three W's, inspiring WI captain)
• 1924 - Jeffrey Segal, actor/playwright (Vanity Fair, Rest in Pieces)
• 1924 - Yvonne DeCarlo, actress (10 Commandments, Lily-Munsters)
• 1925 - Ernst Jandl, writer
• 1925 - Jack Kramer, actor (Kings of the Court)
• 1926 - Burton Stein, historian
• 1926 - Frank Hauser, British theatrical director
• 1926 - Karl Kohn, composer
• 1927 - Andr� Cools, Belgium, minister of Budget/vice-premier
• 1927 - Gwyn Ward Thomas, Beritsh TV director
• 1930 - Geoffrey Holder, Trinidad, dancer/actor (Annie, The Wiz)
• 1930 - Julie Bovasso, Brooklyn NY, actress (Willie & Phil, Just Me & You)
• 1930 - Karoly Grosz, politician
• 1930 - Lionel Bart, [Begleiter], English composer (Oliver!)
• 1931 - Lucien E Blackwell, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
• 1931 - Monty Losowsky, prof of medicine (St James University England)
• 1931 - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, rocker
• 1931 - Sean O Riada, composer
• 1931 - Trevor Goddard, cricketer (S African opening batsman & opening bowler)
• 1933 - Dom DeLuise, Bkln NY, comedian (End, Cannonball Run, Fatso)
• 1933 - Erwin Nypels, Dutch economist/minister of Housing (D66)
• 1933 - Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary Welsh Office
• 1934 - J E F "John" Beck, cricketer (lefty bat in 8 Tests for NZ 1953-56)
• 1934 - Lionel Bart, composer
• 1935 - Geoff Pullar, cricketer (England opening batsman late 50's early 60's)
• 1936 - Larie Taylor, sociologist/broadcaster
• 1936 - Yves Saint-Laurent, Oran Algeria, fashion designer (Opium, Obsession)
• 1937 - Alfonse M D'Amato, Brooklyn NY, (Sen-R-NY 1981- )
• 1937 - Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary (Welsh Office)
• 1939 - Stephen Sykes, Bishop of Ely
• 1940 - Joan Joyce, Waterbury Ct, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1983)
• 1940 - Larie Taylor, sociologist/broadcaster
• 1940 - Mervyn Kitchen, cricket umpire
• 1941 - Ronald Harmon Brown, chairman (Democratic Party)
• 1942 - Giancarlo Giannini, La Spezia Italy, actor (Seduction of Mimi)
• 1942 - Jerry Garcia, SF, rocker (Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe's Band)
• 1943 - Andy Roxburgh, manager soccer team (Scotland)
• 1943 - Dennis Paxton, rocker (Dave Clark Five-Glad All Over)
• 1943 - Stephen Sykes, Bishop (Ely)
• 1944 - Elske Terveld, Dutch undersecretary Social Affairs (PvdA)
• 1944 - Mervyn Kitchen, cricket umpire
• 1944 - Yuri Viktorovich Romanenko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 26, 38, TM-2)
• 1946 - Frederick C Boucher, (Rep-D-Virginia, 1983- )
• 1946 - J Guillermo, ex-husband of princess Christina of Netherlands
• 1946 - Richard O Covey, Fayetteville Ar, USAF/astro (STS 51I, 26, 38, 61)
• 1946 - Tom Loeffler, (Rep-R-TX, 1979- )
• 1947 - Andy Roxburgh, soccer manager (Scotland)
• 1947 - Rick Anderson, rock bassist (Tubes)
• 1947 - Ricky Coonce, LA Calif, rock drummer (Grass Roots)
• 1948 - Robert Spink, British MP
• 1949 - Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch, TV director/film-maker
• 1949 - Primous, III Fountain, composer
• 1950 - Doug Tract, Bronx NY, radio DJ (Greaseman)
• 1951 - David Jasper, British principal (St Chad's College Durham England)
• 1951 - Robin Heifetz, composer
• 1952 - Brian Patrick Clarke, Gettysburg Pa, actor (Merle-Eight is Enough)
• 1952 - C L Whittington, WLAF defensive coach (Frankfurt Galaxy)
• 1952 - Nancy Lopez, professional golfer
• 1952 - Robert Spink, British MP
• 1952 - Yajurvindra Singh, cricketer (Indian batsman late 70's)
• 1953 - Robert Cray, Columbus Ga, blues singer/songwriter (1987 Grammy)
• 1955 - Arun Lal, cricketer (Indian batsman mid-80's)
• 1955 - David Jasper, British principal (St Chad's College Durham England)
• 1957 - Glen Gorbous, Canada, longest throw of a regulation baseball (445'10")
• 1957 - Laura Johnson, Burbank Calif, actress (Falcon Crest)
• 1958 - Taylor Negron, LA Calif, actor (Silvio-Detective School)
• 1959 - Joe Elliot, heavy metal vocalist (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
• 1960 - Chuck D, [Chuck Ridenhour], US rapper (Public Enemy)
• 1960 - Marta Ch�varri Figueroa, Madrid Spain, The Marquesa de Cubas
• 1961 - Andrew Nicholson, UK, NZ equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
• 1961 - Bart Conner, US, parallel bars gymnist (Olympic-gold-1984)
• 1961 - Bradford John Faxon Jr, Oceanport NJ, PGA golfer (1986 Provident)
• 1961 - Danny Blind, Dutch soccer star (Sparta/Ajax)
• 1961 - Mark "Red" Mitchell, actor (JFK, 8 Sceonds, I Want to Live)
• 1961 - Mike Watkinson, cricketer (England off-spinner all-rounder v WI 1995)
• 1962 - Gertjan Verbeek, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
• 1962 - Joetta Clark, East Orange NJ, 800m runner (Olympic-1992)
• 1962 - Traci Phillips, Honolulu Hawaii, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
• 1963 - Coolio, rapper (Gangsta Paradise)
• 1963 - Koichi Wakata, Omiya Saitama Japan, astronaut (STS 72, sk: 92)
• 1964 - Andrew Wilson, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-16-92, 96)
• 1964 - Nick Christian Sayer, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
• 1964 - Rob Camilletti, Cher's boyfriend
• 1966 - Darryl Hall, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers)
• 1966 - Ganesh Mylvaganam, cricketer (UAE batsman 1996 World Cup)
• 1966 - Horacia de la Pena, Argentina, tennis star
• 1966 - Pat Carter, NFL tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
• 1967 - Gregg Jefferies, Burlingame CA, infielder (NY Mets, Royals, Phillies)
• 1967 - Lori Endicott, KC MO, volleyball setter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
• 1968 - Rob Carpenter, NFL wide receiver (Phila Eagles)
• 1968 - Stacey Augmon, Pasadena, NBA guard (Portland Trailblazers, Hawks)
• 1969 - Graham Thorpe, cricketer (England LHB Century on Test debut 1993)
• 1969 - Kevin Jarvis, Lexington KY, pitcher (Cin Reds)
• 1970 - Quentin Coryatt, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
• 1971 - Fred Lester (Atlanta Falcons)
• 1971 - Julia Chilicki, Somers CT, rower (Olympics-96)
• 1971 - Lisa Flood, Scarborough Ontario, 100m Breaststroker (Olympics-96)
• 1971 - Shae Sloan, Huntsville TX, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
• 1972 - Karen Dalton, Mt View Calif, diver (Olympics-96)
• 1972 - Martin Damm, Czech Republic, tennis star
• 1972 - Matt Dyson, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
• 1973 - Ben Johnson, cricketer (promising South Australian opening batsman)
• 1973 - Gregg Berhalter, Englewood NJ, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
• 1973 - Mario Bennett, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Phoenix Suns)
• 1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, Chicago, actress (Vanessa Huxtable-Cosby Show)
• 1974 - Kerwin Waldroup, DL (Detroit Lions)
• 1975 - Mandy Leigh, Greensburg Penn, actress (Bloodscent)
• 1976 - David Nemirovsky, Toronto, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
• 1976 - Eryn Bulmer, Edmonton Alberta, diver (Olympics-96)
• 1976 - Nwankwo Kanu, soccer player (Ajax)
• 1978 - Dhani Harrison, George Harrison's 1st child
• 1990 - Landry Allbright, actress (Bridget Forrester-Bold & Beautiful)