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1034 - Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan (d. 1073)
1499 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri II of France (d. 1566)
1568 - Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (d. 1634)
1675 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751)
1693 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d. 1746)
1695 - Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (d. 1764)
1710 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784)
1724 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808)
1781 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine (d. 1824)
1810 - Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871)
1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (d. 1909)
1856 - Louis Sullivan, American architect (d. 1924)
1859 - Jean Jaurès, French Socialist leader (d. 1914)
1869 - Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)
1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (d. 1951)
1887 - Frank Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
1899 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)
1900 - Maurice Dobb, economist (d. 1976)
1900 - Urho Kekkonen, eighth President of Finland (d. 1986)
1905 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1907 - Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist (d. 1977)
1908 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (d. 1988)
1910 - Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality
1913 - Alan Ladd, American actor (d. 1964)
1914 - Dixy Lee Ray, Governor of Washington State (d. 1994)
1916 - Eddie Stanky, baseball player (d. 1999)
1917 - Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (d. 2000)
1918 - Helen Wagner, American actress
1921 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971)
1923 - Mort Walker, American cartoonist
1928 - Gaston Thorn, President of the European Commission
1929 - Irene Papas, Greek actress
1930 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d. 2002)
1931 - Dick Motta, American basketball coach
1933 - Tompall Glaser, American singer
1933 - Freddie King, American Blues Musician
1938 - Eileen Brennan, American actress
1938 - Caryl Churchill, English playwright
1938 - Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 - Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist
1941 - Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (d. 1990)
1942 - Al Jardine, American musician (the Beach Boys)
1943 - Valerie Perrine, American actress
1947 - Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway
1949 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (d. 2004)
1950 - Doug Pinnick, American bassist and vocalist (King's X)
1955 - Steve Jones, English musician (Sex Pistols)
1957 - Garth Ancier, American television executive
1959 - Merritt Butrick, American actor (d. 1989)
1963 - Amber Lynn, American porn star
1964 - Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur
1965 - Charlie Sheen, American actor
1969 - John Fugelsang, American actor
1969 - Dominic West, British actor
1970 - Gareth Southgate, English footballer
1976 - Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
1976 - Ashley Jones, American actress
1977 - Olof Mellberg, Swedish footballer
1978 - John Curtis, English footballer
1979 - Tomo Milicevic, Croatian musician (30 Seconds to Mars)
1980 - The B.G., African American rapper
1980 - Jason McCaslin, Canadian bassist (Sum41)
1982 - Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
1982 - Kaori Natori, Japanese singer and model
1982 - Andrew McMahon, American singer and songwriter
1985 - Scott Carson, English footballer
1985 - Kelvin Wilson, English footballer
1985 - Tiana Ringer, American professional wrestler
1986 - Shaun White, American snowboarder and skateboarder
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36 BC - In the battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
301 - San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
590 - St. Gregory I becomes Pope.
1189 - Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionhearted") is crowned at Westminster.
1260 - The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
1540 - Gelawdewos becomes Emperor of Ethiopia.
1650 - Third English Civil War: Battle of Dunbar (1650)
1651 - Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester - Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.
1777 - Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.
1783 - American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1798 - Weeklong battle of St. George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize.
1826 - The USS Vincennes commanded by William Finch, leaves New York City to become first United States warship to circumnavigate globe.
1838 - Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a Free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.
1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1861 - American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
1874 - The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez".
1878 - Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
1892 - Nottingham Forest play their first ever football league game. It ended 2-2 against Everton FC.
1895 - The first professional American football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0).
1914 - Giacomo della Chiesa acceeds to the papacy as Pope Benedict XV.
1933 - Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union - Communism Peak (7495 m).
1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph
1939 - World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany.
1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr. authors the sonnet "High Flight".
1942 - World War II: Uprising of the Jewish ghetto in Lakhva occurs.
1943 - World War II: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces for the first time in the war.
1951 - The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
1954 - The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy
1958 - In Greece, police start shaving the hair of youths called "Teddy Boys" to the skin.
1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam.
1967 - Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight
1969 - the hit song "I've Got You Under My Skin" by The Four Seasons was released to radio
1976 - Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars and takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
1991 - In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
1994 - Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
1997 - Arizona Governor Fife Symington is convicted for various crimes tied to his real estate business, effectively forcing him out of office.
1997 - A Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
2004 - The Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 teachers and children.
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