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1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
1746 - Joachim Heinrich Campe, pedagogue (d. 1818)
1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
1858 - George Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
1861 - Dr. William Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic
1868 - George Ellery Hale, astronomer (d. 1938)
1880 - Ludwig Beck, general (d. 1944)
1890 - Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, world's oldest woman
1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (d. 1944)
1901 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
1908 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
1910 - Frank Loesser, composer (d. 1969)
1911 - Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands)
1911 - Bernard Herrmann, composer (d. 1975)
1914 - Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
1915 - Ruth Warrick, actress
1919 - Slim Pickens, actor (d. 1983)
1920 - Ray Harryhausen, film maker
1921 - Reinhard Mohn, publisher
1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (d. 1991)
1924 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer
1928 - Ian Bannen, Scottish Actor (d. 1999)
1936 - Harmon Killebrew, Baseball Hall of Famer
1941 - Kwame Ture, (born "Stokeley Carmichael"), civil rights activist
1943 - Little Eva, singer
1944 - Gary Busey, actor
1952 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player
1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, prime minister of Portugal
1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, violinist
1968 - Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 - Mike Vallely, Professional Skateboarder
1971 - Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, erotic actress
1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian rock musician and activist
1972 - Samantha Smith, U.S. social activist, actress

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2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress

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1613 - The Globe Theatre burns to the ground.
1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
1786 - Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1850 - Coal discovered on Vancouver Island.
1863 - George Custer is appointed as a U.S. Union brigadier-general
1864 - Ninety-nine people killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire.
1880 - France annexes Tahiti
1891 - National Forest Service is organized.
1891 - Street railway in Ottawa commences operation.
1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1922 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
1925 - Canada House opens in London.
1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
1933 - Italian boxer Primo Carnera knocked out American Jack Sharkey to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union
1986 - Argentina wins the Football World Cup

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