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1628 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria, Regent of the Tyrol and Further Austria
1743 - Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (d. 1784)
1749 - Edward Jenner, inventor of the vaccine (d. 1823)
1758 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (d. 1839)
1768 - Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales (d. 1821)
1794 - Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (d. 1860)
1821 - Sebastian Kneipp, naturopathist (d. 1897)
1836 - Wilhelm Steinitz, chess player (d. 1900)
1842 - August Thyssen, industrialist (d. 1926)
1844 - Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918)
1866 - Erik Satie, French composer (d. 1925)
1873 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (d. 1935)
1873 - Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (d. 1957)
1879 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (d. 1926)
1886 - Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
1888 - Tich Freeman, record-breaking Kent leg-spinner (d. 1965)
1898 - Alfred Joseph Casson painter (d. 1992)
1900 - Ruhollah Khomeini, (d. 1981)
1901 - Werner Egk, composer (d. 1983)
1903 - Cool Papa Bell, baseball player (d. 1991)
1904 - Jean Gabin, actor (d. 1976)
1906 - Zinka Milanov, Croatian opera soprano (d. 1989)
1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan, actress (d. 1998)
1918 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano
1919 - Merle Miller, Presidential biographer (d. 1986)
1921 - Dennis Brain, English French horn player (d. 1957)
1922 - Antje Weisgerber, actress
1924 - Hannes Messemer, actor (d. 1991)
1935 - Dennis Potter, writer (d. 1994)
1936 - Dennis Hopper, actor, director
1937 - Hazel R. O'Leary, United States Secretary of Energy
1942 - Taj Mahal, singer, guitarist
1945 - Tony Roche, Australian tennis player
1946 - Udo Lindenberg, musician
1948 - William Bruford, drummer, songwriter
1950 - Janez Drnovšek, Slovene politician
1955 - Bill Paxton, actor
1956 - Sugar Ray Leonard, boxer
1956 - Bob Saget, actor
1959 - Paul Di'Anno, singer
1959 - Jim Nantz, broadcaster
1962 - Lise Lyng Falkenberg, Danish writer
1962 - Alan Johnston, British journalist
1965 - Trent Reznor, singer, songwriter ("Nine Inch Nails")
1966 - Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
1971 - Maxima Zorreguieta Cerruti, wife of Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
1971 - Shaun Hart, Australian rules footballer
1974 - Andrea Corr, singer ("The Corrs")
1975 - Sasha Alexander, American actress
1975 - Jonti Picking, internet cartoonist
1975 - Laura Voutilainen, Finnish singer

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1510 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (b. 1445)
1575 - Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1504)
1727 - Catherine I of Russia (b. 1683 or 1684)
1729 - Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (b. 1675)
1765 - Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1829 - John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)
1838 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)
1839 - Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
1860 - Martin Kukučín, Slovak author (b. 1757)
1875 - John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
1917 - Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829)
1935 - Paul Dukas, French composer (b.1865)
1946 - William Jefferson Blythe III, father of U.S. President Bill Clinton (b. 1918)
1947 - George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
1985 - Abe Burrows, songwriter, composer, and writer
1992 - Lawrence Welk, American musician (b. 1903)
2000 - Donald Coggan, 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909)
2002 - Dave Berg, cartoonist (b. 1920)
2002 - Sharon Sheeley, songwriter (b. 1940)
2002 - Davey Boy Smith, professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2004 - Tony Randall, actor (b. 1920)
2004 - Jørgen Nash, artist (b. 1920)
2004 - Ezzedine Salim, leader of Iraqi Governing Council
2005 - Frank Gorshin, actor (b. 1934)

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1521 - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
1590 - Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
1642 - Paul Chomedey, sieur 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.
1809 - Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
1814 - Norway gets its own constitution.
1814 - Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
1846 - The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax.
1863 - Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, her first book in the Galician language.
1865 - The International Telegraph Union (the later International Telecommunication Union) is established.
1875 - Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
1900 - Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
1902 - Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism.
1915 - The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
1919 - Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose Winnipeg General Strike.
1933 - Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
1940 - World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
1943 - World War II: Surviving RAF Dam Busters return.
1943 - The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
1944 - Type IX U-boat: U-884 is launched.
1954 - The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
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.
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 - Iran-Iraq War: The USS Stark (FFG-31) is struck by a missile from an Iraqi Mirage fighter killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
1992 - In Thailand, the so-called Black May begins. Thai police and protestors start attacking one another. By midnight, the current Thai government declares a state of emergency, and military troops, equipped with M-16 rifles, open fire.
1995 - After 18 years as the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac takes office as President of France.
1999 - Ehud Barak is elected prime minister of Israel.
2003 - Mozilla Firefox. Browser renamed from Phoenix to Firebird.
2004 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Massachusetts.
2005 - Reverend Clarence Silva of Oakland is appointed fifth Bishop of Honolulu, Hawaii.

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