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[change] Events
- 1793 AD - Vikings or raiding tribes from Scandinavia, attack and steal valuable objects from Lindisfarne, a monastery off the coast of Northumbria in England.
- 2007 - Paris Hilton heiress and celebrity gets a 45 day jail sentence for drink driving which gets wordwide attention after that she was first released the day before.
[change] Births
- 1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, scientist (d. 1712)
- 1724 - John Smeaton, civil engineer (d. 1794)
- 1743 - Alessandro Cagliostro, adventurer (d. 1795)
- 1810 - Robert Schumann, composer (d. 1856)
- 1847 - Ida McKinley, former First Lady of the United States (d. 1907)
- 1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (d. 1959)
- 1903 - Marguerite Yourcenar, author (d. 1987)
- 1903 - Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator and Texas politician (d. 1996)
- 1910 - John W. Campbell Jr., science fiction writer, publisher, editor (d. 1971)
- 1916 - Francis Crick, scientist, Nobel laureate, helped discover the molecular structure of DNA (d. 2004)
- 1917 - Byron White, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 2002)
- 1918 - Robert Preston, actor (d. 1987)
- 1921 - Suharto, former President of Indonesia
- 1921 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)
- 1924 - Lyn Nofziger, political operative
- 1925 - Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States (to 41st US President, George Bush, mother to 43rd US President George W. Bush)
- 1927 - LeRoy Neiman, painter
- 1929 - Jerry Stiller, comedian, actor
- 1933 - Joan Rivers, comedienne, author
- 1934 - Millicent Martin, singer, actress
- 1936 - James Darren, actor, singer
- 1940 - Nancy Sinatra, singer
- 1941 - Fuzzy Haskins, musician ("P Funk")
- 1942 - Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
- 1943 - Colin Baker, British actor
- 1944 - Boz Scaggs, singer, songwriter
- 1948 - Jürgen von der Lippe, German show master
- 1950 - Sonia Braga, actress
- 1951 - Bonnie Tyler, singer, guitarist
- 1955 - Griffin Dunne, actor
- 1955 - Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
- 1957 - Scott Adams, cartoonist ("Dilbert")
- 1958 - Keenen Ivory Wayans, comedian, actor, director
- 1960 - Mick Hucknall, singer/songwriter ("Simply Red")
- 1962 - Nick Rhodes, musician ("Duran Duran")
- 1966 - Julianna Margulies, actress (ER)
- 1969 - Marcos Siega, American director
- 1970 - Kelli Williams, actress (The Practice)
- 1971 - Troy Vincent, American football player
- 1973 - Lexa Doig, Canadian actress (Andromeda)
- 1976 - Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
- 1977 - Kanye West, rapper, producer
- 1978 - Matthew Bellamy, musician ("Muse")
- 1981 - Sara Watkins, violinist ("Nickel Creek")
- 1982 - Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
- 1983 - Rodrigo Santos Dias, Brazilian Student
[change] Deaths
- 1845 - Andrew Jackson
- 1990 - José Figueres Ferrer, President of Costa Rica (b. 1906)