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[change] Births
- 1692 – Elizabeth Farnese, wife of King Philip V of Spain (d. 1766)
- 1767 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (d. 1830)
- 1811 – Evariste Galois, mathematician (d. 1832)
- 1825 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (d. 1899)
- 1838 – Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
- 1856 – Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (d. 1936)
- 1864 – Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (d. 1956)
- 1867 – Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (d.1937)
- 1881 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
- 1888 – Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (d. 1957)
- 1889 – Abel Gance, film writer (d. 1981)
- 1892 – Leo G. Carroll, actor (d. 1972)
- 1895 – Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969)
- 1902 – Eddie Lang, jazz musician (d. 1933)
- 1910 – William Higinbotham, physicist (d. 1994)
- 1912 – Minnie Pearl, comedian and singer (d. 1996)
- 1913 – Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (d. 1991)
- 1914 – John Berryman, American poet (d. 1972)
- 1915 – Ivan M. Niven, Canadian mathematician (d. 1999)
- 1924 – Billy Barty, actor (d. 2000)
- 1926 – Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano
- 1927 – Barbara Cook, singer, actress
- 1928 – Marion Ross, actress
- 1933 – Jack Haley Jr., film producer and director (d. 2001)
- 1935 – Russell Schweickart, astronaut
- 1940 – Bobby Knight, American basketball coach
- 1941 – Anne Tyler, novelist
- 1942 – Helen Reddy, singer
- 1944 – Jon Anderson, singer (Yes)
- 1944 – James Carville, political operative
- 1948 – Glenn Tipton, guitarist
- 1948 – Dan Gable, wrestler and coach
- 1949 – Brian Kerwin, actor
- 1951 – Richard Lloyd, musician
- 1954 – Mike Eruzione, American hockey player
- 1956 – Matthias Jabs, German guitarist
- 1957 – Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress
- 1958 – Phil Daniels, British actor
- 1962 – Darlene Vogel, American actress
- 1962 – Chad Smith, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers))
- 1963 – Tracy Nelson, actress
- 1964 – Nicole Hohloch, German singer
- 1969 – Oleg Salenko, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
- 1970 – Ed Robertson, guitarist and singer (Barenaked Ladies)
- 1971 – Pedro Martínez, Dominican baseball player
- 1971 – Midori, Japanese violinist
- 1977 – Birgit Prinz, German footballer
- 1981 – Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
- 1984 – Sara Helena Lumholdt, Swedish musician (A-Teens)
- 1984 – Katy Perry, American singer
- 1985 – Ciara Harris, American singer
- 1987 – Fabian Hambuechen, German gymnast
- 1987 – Darron Gibson, Irish footballer
- 2006 – Krista & Tatiana Hogan, Canadian craniopagus conjoined twins
[change] Deaths
- 1047 – King Magnus I of Norway (b. 1024)
- 1495 – King John II of Portugal (b. 1455)
- 1647 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
- 1733 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (b. 1667)
- 1760 – King George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
- 1920 – King Alexander I of Greece (b. 1893)
- 1955 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese Hiroshima Atomic bomb victim (b. 1943)
- 1973 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian athlete (b. 1932)
- 1993 – Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1995 – Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (b. 1920)
- 2002 – Richard Harris, Irish actor (b. 1930)
- 2004 – John Peel, British disc jockey (b. 1939)
- 2010 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (b. 1951)
[change] Events
- 1616 – Dirk Hartog makes the second-recorded European landing in Australia, on Dirk Hartog Island, off the west coast.
- 1788 – The HMAV Bounty reaches Tahiti.
- 1945 – The Republic of China takes over Taiwan.
- 1962 – Uganda joins the UN.
- 1971 – At the UN, the People's Republic of China joins, as the Republic of China is expelled.
- 1979 – The last new episode of Fawlty Towers airs.
- 1983 – The US and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after its Prime Minister Maurice Bishop is killed in a coup.
- 2010 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra causes tsunamis, which kill over 400 people, and leave many more missing.
