B
08--19--
Chanin Hale, entertainer (Red Skelton Show)
Ellen Gurin
08--1938
Frederick Forsyth, author (Day of the Jackal, Odessa File)
08--1943
Margaret Nolan, Hampstead England, actress (Goldfinger)
08--1958
Carole Bouquet, Paris France, actress (For Your Eyes Only)
08--1964
Debi Mazer, NYC, actress (Denise-Civil Wars, Little Man Tate)
08--1968
Stephanie Seymor, San Diego Calif, model (Sports Ill 1988)
08--1974
Amy Fisher, Long Island NY, shot Mary Jo Buttafucco
0801  10
-BC- Claudius, 4th Roman emperor (41-54 AD)
0801 126
Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman emperor (193 AD)
08011495
Jan van Scorel, painter/architect
08011520
Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland
08011714
Richard Wilson, British landscape painter
08011744
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, believed in inheritance of acquired traits
08011753
Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, reformer/inventor
08011766
Ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner, pianist/composer
Jeffry Wyatville, architect
08011770
William Clark, Charlottsville VA, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
08011779
Francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner)
08011814
Maxcy Gregg, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
08011815
Richard Henry Dana, novelist/lawyer spent 2 years before mast
08011818
Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer on Nantucket Island
08011819
Herman Melville, US, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd)
08011843
Robert Todd Lincoln, Capt (Union volunteers), died in 1926
08011847
Guido Papini, violinist/composer
08011858
Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist
08011862
Montague Rhodes James, scholar/author/editor
08011863
Gaston Doumergue, premier/pres of France (1913..34)
08011877
Charlotte Hughes, 1990 (oldest person in Great Britain)
Jan van den Tempel, Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (SDAP)
08011881
Emilie Rose Macaulay, English writer
08011886
Isaac Keesing, founder (System Keesing)
08011889
Dr John F Mahoney, developed pencillin treatment of syphillis
08011890
George II, king of Greece
08011892
Constantly Burniaux, Belg, art historian (Lesson temps inquiets)
08011895
Benjamin E Mays, SC, black educator (Morehouse, Howard University)
08011898
Morris Stoloff, Phila, violinist (Picnic, Pal Joey)
08011899
William Steinberg, Cologne, conductor (Boston Symph-1969-71)
080119--
Carolyn Ann Clarke, actress (Guiding Light)
Laura Johnson, Burbank Calif, actress (Falcon Crest)
Paul Lambert, El Paso Tx, actor (Tom-Executive Suite)
08011901
Gerard Blitz, Belgian swimmer/founder (Club Mditerrane)
08011906
William Hayter, diplomat
08011909
Nigel Henderson, admiral
08011911
Ronald MacDonald, British major-general
08011912
Henry Jones, Phila Pa, actor (Phyllis, Falcon Crest, Gun Shy)
08011913
Jerome Moross, Brooklyn NY, composer (Frankie & Johnny)
08011916
Viscount Hanworth, barrister
08011917
Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert
08011918
Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist
08011919
Stanley Middleton, novelist
08011920
Jeffrey Segal, actor (Traitors)/playwright
Sammy Lee, Fresno Calif, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
08011921
Jack Kramer, Las Vegas, tennis star (Wimbeldon 1947)
08011922
Arthur Hill, Saskatchewan Canada, actor (Owen Marshall, Glitter)
Frank Hauser, British theatrical director
08011923
Gwyn Ward Thomas, Britsh TV director
08011927
Andr Cools, Belgium, minister of Budget/vice-premier
08011930
Geoffrey Holder, Trinidad, dancer/actor (Annie, The Wiz)
Lionel Bart, composer
08011931
Bart Conner, US, parallel bars gymnist (Olympic-gold-1984)
Lucien E Blackwell, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
Monty Losowsky, prof of medicine (St James University England)
08011933
Dom DeLuise, Bkln NY, comedian, actor (End, Cannonball Run, Fatso)
Erwin Nypels, economist/Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (D66)
Richard Lloyd Jones, secretary Welsh Office
08011936
Larie Taylor, sociologist/broadcaster
Yves Saint-Laurent, fashion designer (Opium, Obsession)
08011937
Alfonse M D'Amato, Brooklyn NY, (Sen-R-NY 1981- )
08011939
Stephen Sykes, Bishop of Ely
08011940
Joan Joyce, Waterbury Ct, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1983)
Mervyn Kitchen, cricket umpire
08011941
Ron Brown, actor (Charlie the Lonesome Cougar)
08011942
Giancarlo Giannini, Italy, actor (Seduction of Mimi)
Jerry Garcia, SF, rocker (Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe's Band)
08011943
Andy Roxburgh, manager Scotland soccer team
08011944
Elske Terveld, Dutch state secretary Social Business (PvdA)
Yuri V Romanenko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 26, Soyuz 38, Soyuz TM-2)
08011946
Frederick C Boucher, (Rep-D-Virginia)
J Guillermo, husband of princess Christina of Netherlands
Richard O Covey, Fayetteville Ar, USAF/astronaut (STS 51I, 26, 38)
Rick Boucher, (Rep-D-VA, 1983-  )
Tom Loeffler, (Rep-R-TX, 1979-  )
08011947
Rick Anderson, rocker (Tubes)
Rick Coonce, rocker (Grass Roots)
08011948
Robert Spink, British MP
08011950
Doug Tract, [Greaseman], Bronx NY, radio DJ
08011951
David Jasper, British principal (St Chad's College Durham England)
08011952
Brian Patrick Clarke, Gettysburg Pa, actor (Merle-Eight is Enough)
08011953
Robert Cray, Columbus Ga, blues singer/songwriter (1987 Grammy)
08011957
Glen Gorbous, Canada, longest throw of a regulation baseball (445'10")
08011958
Taylor Negron, LA Calif, actor (Silvio-Detective School)
08011959
Joe Elliot, rocker (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
08011960
Chuck D, [Chuck Ridenhour], US rapper (Public Enemy)
Marta Ch varri Figueroa, Madrid Spain, The Marquesa de Cubas
08011961
Danny Blind, soccer star (Sparta/Ajax)
08011962
Joetta Clark, East Orange NJ, 800m runner (Olympic-1992)
08011964
Nick Christian Sayer, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
Rob Camilletti, Cher's boyfriend
08011967
Gregg Jefferies, infielder (NY Mets, KC Royals)
08011968
Stacey Augmon, Pasadena Cal, basketball player (Olympic-bronze-1988)
08011973
Tempestt Bledsoe, Chicago, actress (Vanessa-Cosby Show)
08011978
Dhani Harrison, George Harrison's 1st child
08021455
Johan Cicero, monarch of Brandenburg (1486-99)
08021627
Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, painter
08021696
Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia
08021723
Nicolas de Pigage, French classical architect
08021754
Pierre Charles L'Enfant, France, architect laid out Wash DC
08021802
Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster
08021826
William Denison Whipple, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1902
08021832
Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society)
08021835
Elisha Grey, inventor (Telephone)
08021858
William Watson, British poet (Prince's Quest, Father of Forest)
08021868
Constantine I, king of Greece
08021878
Aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales)
Princess Ingeborg, of Sweden
08021882
Nanny I Larsen-Todsen, Swedish opera singer
Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Virgin Doll)
08021884
R¢mulo Gallegos, Venezuela, novelist (Do¤a B rbara)/pres (1948)
08021891
Arthur Bliss (Edward Drummond), London, composer (Olympians)
08021892
Jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros)
John Kieran, NYC, columnist/author (Natural History of NYC)
080219--
Isabel Pantoja, spanish entertainer
Lisa Brown, KC, Mo, actress (Guiding Light, Iva-As the World Turns)
Max Wright, Detroit, actor (Buffalo Bill, Alf, Misfits of Science)
Tim Dunigan, St Louis, actor (A-Team, Mr Smith, Wizards & Warriors)
W K Stratton, Front Royal Va, actor (Lt Casey-Baa Baa Black Sheep)
08021900
Helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause)
08021905
Myrna Loy, Montana, actress (Jazz Singer, Thin Man, Vanity Fair)
08021908
George Kimble, geographer
08021909
Lord Benson, accountant
08021910
Lou Zara, NYC, writer (Stump the Authors)
08021914
Gary Merrill, Hartford Conn, actor (Young Dr Kildare, All About Eve)
08021916
Beatrice Straight, Old Westbury NY, actress (Poltergeist, Nun's Story)
Reginald Murley, surgeon
08021922
Carroll O'Connor, NYC, actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night)
Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary (TUC)
Paul Laxalt, (Sen-R-NV, 1974-  )
08021923
Brian Neill, Lord Justice of Appeal
08021924
James Baldwin, NY, author (Go Tell it on Mountain, Another Country)
08021925
Alan Wicker, British broadcaster
08021926
Betsy Bloomingdale, dept store mogul
08021927
Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician
08021929
John Gale, theatrical producer
John Hannam, MP
Lord Waddington, Govenor of Bermuda
08021930
Ron de Lugo, (Rep-D-Virgin Islands, 1973-79, 81-  )
08021932
Lamar Hunt, owns NFL KC Chiefs
Peter O'Toole, Ireland, actor (Lord Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia)
08021933
Alan Tuffin, trade union leader
08021934
Albert W Hall, actor (Apocalypse Now)
Carl Cecil Cain, Freeport Ill, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1956)
Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut (Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, 31)
08021935
Brian Wolfson, CEO (Wembley Pic)
08021936
Christopher Hogg, CEO (Courtaulds & Reuters)
08021937
Ronald Brierley, company chairman
William Cannon, football player (Heisman-1959)
08021938
Brunhilde Hendrix, German FR, relay runner (Olympic-silver-1960)
Yvonne Regg, Switzerland, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1960)
08021939
Edward Pattern, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
08021940
Doris Kenner, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
08021942
Garth Hudson, rock keyboardist (The Band)
Leo Beenhakker, soccer trainer
08021943
Jeltje van Newenhoven, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
Ropse Tremain, novelist/playwright
08021944
Joanna Cassidy, [Caskey], Haddonfield NJ, actress (240 Robert)
08021945
John Bowis, MP
08021948
Robert P Holdstock, UK, sci-fi author (Ghost Dance, Labyrinth)
08021949
Bertalan Farkas, 1st Hungarian space traveler (Soyuz 36)
08021950
Kathryn Harrold, Tarzewell Va, actress (MacGruder & Loud)
08021951
Andrew Gold, Burbank, rocker (Lonely Boy)
08021952
Angel Herrera, Cuba, FW/LW boxer (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
Paul David Crews, SC, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
08021953
Anne Leuchars, TV journalist
08021954
Sammy McIlroy, soccer player
08021955
Roberta Wallach, NYC, actress (Civil Wars)
08021956
Isabel Pantoja, Spain, spanish singer (Genio y Figura)
08021959
Britt Helfer, Utah, actress (Lily-Loving, Alley Cat)
08021960
Apollonia, [Patricia Kotero], Santa Monica Ca, actress (Purple Rain)
Linda Fratianne, US, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
08021961
Pete de Freitas, rock drummer (Echo & the Bunnyman)
08021966
Joseph Wanag, Wilson Ct, US judoka (Olympic-92)
08021967
Aaron Krickstein, Ann Arbor, Mich, tennis player (Tel Aviv 1983)
Derek Wells, LA Calif, actor (Fitzpatricks)
08021973
Kia Goodwin, Livingston NJ, actress (Tiffany Holloway-227)
08021977
Edward Furlong, Pasedina Calif, actor (John Connor-Terminator 2)
08021991
Gabriel Anthony Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen
08021993
Cassidy Gifford, daughter of Frank & Kathy Lee
08031753
Charles, Earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist
08031770
Frederik Willem III, reactionary king of Prussia (1797-1840)
08031811
Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator)
08031816
John Eugene Smith, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
08031820
William Miller, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1909
08031823
Thomas Francis Meagher, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
08031824
William Burnham Woods, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
08031833
Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist
08031850
Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper)
08031851
Isabella Caroline Somerset, temperance leader
08031867
Stanley Baldwin, (C) British PM (1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37)
08031871
Vernon Louis Parrington, author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928)
08031872
Haakon VII, Charlottenlund Denmark, King of Norway (1905-57)
08031884
Louis Gruenberg, near Brest Litovsk Poland, composer (Daniel Jazz)
08031887
Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (1914)
08031894
Harry Heilmann, SF Cal, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Detroit)
John H Van Maarseveen, minister of Justice/Internal minister
080319--
JoMarie Payton-France, actor (Harriette Winslow-Family Matters)
Larry Haines, Mt Vernon, NY actor (Search for Tomorrow)
Polito Vega, spanish entertainer
08031900
Arnoldus J Struycken, lawyer
Ernie Pyle, England, correspondant during WW II
John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution
08031901
John Stennis, (Sen-D-Miss)
Stefan Wyszynski, Polish cardinal
08031902
Habib Bourguiba, 1st president of Tunisia
Judson Laire, NYC, actor/singer (Papa-Mama, Adm Broadway Revue)
Ray Block, France, orch leader (Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason)
08031904
Clifford D[onald] Simak, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Empire, Way Station)
08031905
Dolores Del Rio, Mexico, actress (What Price Glory?)
08031907
Irene Tedrow, Denver Colo, actress (Lucy-Dennis the Menace, Mr Novak)
08031914
Rick Slabbinck, Flemish painter
08031915
Sal Santen, writer
08031918
James MacGregor Burns, political writer (The Lion & the Fox)
08031920
Maria Karnilova, Hartford Ct, actress (Olga-Ivan the Terrible)
P.D. James, mystery writer (Cover Her Face)
08031921
Hayden Carruth, Waterbury Ct, novelist (Crow & Heart)
Marilyn Maxwell, actress (East of Sumatra)
08031923
Anne Klein, fashion designer (Anne Klein II)
Roger Foulon, French/Belgian songwriter
08031924
Leon Uris, US, novelist (Exodus, QB VII, Battle Cry)
Max van der Stoel, Dutch Foreign minister (PvdA)
08031926
Tony Bennett, Queens NY, singer (Left a body part in SF)
08031927
Gordon Scott, Portland Oregon, actor (Tarzan & the Trappers)
08031929
Bethel Leslie, NYC, entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap)
08031930
James Komack, NYC, writer/director/actor (Courtship of Eddie's Father)
08031931
Alex Cord, actor (Brotherhood, Fire, Street Asylum)
08031932
Mario Montes de Oca, Mexican poet
08031933
Tjong King, illustrator of children books (Miep Diekman)
08031935
Georgi S Shonin, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 6)
Richard D Lamm, (Gov-D-Colo)
08031938
George Memmoli, NYC, actor (Earl-Hello Larry)
Terry "5 Wigs" Wogan, British talk show host (Irish Days)
08031940
John W Carlin, (Gov-D-KS)
Lance Alworth, Houston Tx, NFL hall of famer (Charger, Cowboys)
Martin Sheen [Ramon Estevez], NY, actor (Subject Was Roses, Wall St)
08031941
Beverly Lee, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
Martha Stewart, cookbook author/actress (Those Two)
08031945
Ron Hendren, Pinehurst NC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight)
08031949
B B Dickerson, rocker (War-World is a Ghetto)
08031950
JoMarie Payton, actress (Hariette-Family Matters/Perfect Strangers)
John Landis, director (Twilight Zone, Blues Brothers)
Waldemar Cierpinski, German DR, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
08031951
Jon Graham, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Celebrate)
Marcel Dionne, Qubec, NHL center (LA Kings, NY Rangers)
08031952
Jay North, North Hollywood Calif, actor (Dennis the Menace, Maya)
08031954
Denise Craig, WBL forward (Dayton Rockettes, NY Stars)
08031956
Kirk Brandon, rocker (Theatre of Hate, Spear of Destiny-Outland)
08031959
Victoria Jackson, Miami Fla, actress (Casual Sex, SNL)
08031960
Tim Mayotte, Springfield Mass, tennis player (Olympic-silver-1988)
08031961
Lee Rocker, rocker (Stray Cats-Gonna Ball)
08031962
Tina Lehtola, Finland, women's ski jumper (world's record holder)
08031963
Carlo Imperato, Bronx, actor (Fame)
James Hetfield, heavy metal rocker (Metallica-Helpless)
08031966
Christine Richters, Fullerton Ca, playmate (May, 1986)
08031967
John Femia, Bkln NY, actor (Square Pegs, Hello Larry)
08031974
Jenny Beck, actress (Claire Carroll-Guns & Paradise)
08041755
Nicolas-Jacque Conte, inventor (modern pencil)
08041776
Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French philosopher/poet (Prolgomnes)
08041792
Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais)
08041816
Israel Vogdes, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
08041818
Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General (Union volunteers)
08041823
Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, (Gov-Ind), died in 1877
08041832
Gaspar N£¤ez de Arce, Spain, poet "Spanish Tennyson"
08041839
Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato & Platoism)
08041859
Knut Hamsun, Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920)
08041870
Harry Lauder, Scotland, comedian/singer (Roman in the Gloamin)
08041873
Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War
08041881
Guy de Pourtals, Swiss/French writer (Nietzsche & Italy)
08041897
Joseph Calleia, Malta, actor (Jungle Book, Gilda, Touch of Evil)
08041900
Arturo Umberto Illia, pres of Argentina (1963-66)
Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch)
Elizabeth, Britain's Queen Mother
08041906
Marie-Jos von Saksen-Coburg, Belgian Princess
08041909
Glenn Cunningham, US middle distance runner in the 1930's
08041910
William H Schuman, NYC, composer (Amer Festival Overture, Julliard)
08041912
David Raksin, Phila Penns, composer (Modern Times)
Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved 10,000s of Jews)
08041913
Wesley Addy, Omaha Neb, actor (Bostonian, Loving)
08041914
Rik Slabbinck, Flemish painter
08041915
Irving Fields, NYC, pianist (Ilona Massey Show)
08041920
Helen Thomas, UPI journalist (starts press conferences)
08041921
Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Montreal Canadien (MVP-1947)
08041928
Udham Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64)
08041933
Nathan Eugene Brooks, Cleve Oh, flyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1952)
Rudi van Dantzig, choreographer/ballet dancer (Painted Birds)
08041934
Dallas Green, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
Rutger Kopland, [R of the Hoofdakker], poet
08041935
Michal Slory, Suriname poet (Bitter Combat)
08041939
Frankie Ford, Gretna La, rock vocalist (Sea Cruise)
08041941
Quincey Daniels, Biloxi Miss, boxer (Olympic-bronze-1960)
Ted Strickland, (Rep-D-Ohio)
08041942
David Russell Lange, PM (L) New Zealand (1984-  )
08041943
Michael J McCulley, San Diego Calif, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS-34)
Rodney Stuart Pattison, British yachtsman (Olympics)
Tina Cole, Hollywood, singer (King Cousins)/actress (Katie-My 3 Sons)
08041944
Richard Belzer, KOed by Hulk Hogan/comedian (How to be a Stand Up)
08041945
Fred Hansen, US, pole vaulter (Olympic-gold-1964)
08041946
Maureen Cox Starkey, 1st wife of Beatle Ringo Starr
08041948
James C Slattery, (Rep-D-Kansas, 1983-  )
08041949
John Riggins, NFL running back (NY Jets, Wash Redskins)
08041951
Lane Evans, (Rep-D-IL, 1983-  )
08041952
Bobby Buntrock, Denver Colo, actor (Harold Baxter-Hazel)
Daniel Bautista, Mexico, 20k walker (Olympic-gold-1976)
Kristoffer Tabori, LA Calif, actor (Rappaccini's Daughter)
08041955
Andrew M Allen, Phila Pa, Captain USMC/astronaut (STS 46, SK:66)
Charles D "Sam" Gemar, Yankton SD, army/astronaut (STS 38, 48, SK:66)
08041957
Robert E Andrews, (Rep-D-New Jersey)
08041958
Greg Foster, Maywood Ill, 110m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1984)
Mary Decker Tabb Slaney, NJ, olympic track star (mile record 4:16.71)
08041960
Robbin Crosby, heavy metal rocker (Ratt-Round & Round)
08041962
Paul Williams, rocker (Flock of Seagulls)
Roger Clemens, Dayton Ohio, Boston Red Sox pitcher (Cy Young, MVP)
08041965
Crystal Chappell, Silver Spring Md, actress (Carly-Days of our Lives)
08041967
Mike Marsh, US, 200m runner (Olympic-Gold-1992)
08041972
Wesley Snipes, actor (Passenger 57)
08051540
Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating
08051604
John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator
08051624
William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America
08051749
Thomas Lynch, signed Declaration of Independence
08051811
C L Ambroise Thomas, French composer (El Cid, Franoise the Rimini)
08051815
Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica)
08051818
Carnot Posey, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
08051823
Joseph E Labb, French lawyer
08051829
Milo Smith Hascall, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1904
08051830
James A Healy, 1st black bishop in America
08051850
Guy de Maupassant, France, author (Boule de Suif)
08051856
Achad Ha'am, [Asjr Ginsberg], Hebrew philosopher/writer
08051860
Joseph Carey Merrick, "Elephant Man"
08051876
Mary R Beard, Indianapolis, historian (Woman as a Force in History)
08051882
Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WW I)
08051889
Conrad P Aiken, US, poet/writer (Ushant/Conversation)
08051890
Erich Kleiber, Vienna Austria, conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46)
Naum Gabo, Russian/US sculptor
08051899
Conrad Aiken, US, poet/short story writer/critic (Selected Poems)
080519--
Don Matheson, Dearborn Mich, actor (Mark-Land of the Giants)
Jimi Kennedy, Staten Island NY, rocker (Tyketto-Wings)
Lucerito, spanish entertainer
08051900
Bodi Rapp, [Johanna PAC Goetmakers], mezzo-soprano/song theorist
08051906
John Huston, Nevada Mo, director/writer (African Queen, Chinatown)
Wassely Leontief, Russ/US economist (Nobel 1973)
08051908
Harold Holt, PM of Australia (1966-67); supported US in Vietnam
08051911
Robert Taylor, Filley Neb, actor (Death Valley Days)
08051912
Abb Pierre, [Henri Pierre Grous], French priest who helps poor
08051914
Anita Colby, Wash DC, model/actress (Pepsi Cola Playhouse)
David Brian, NYC, actor (Accussed of Murder, Dawn at Sorocco)
Stjepan Sulek, Croatian violinist/composer (Coriolan)
08051920
G V [Sonny] Montgomery, (Rep-D-Mississippi, 1967-  )
Selma Diamond, London Ontario, comedienne (Selma-Night Court)
08051923
Richard Kleindienst, attorney general (1972)
08051925
Cor Witschge, actor (Pipo the Clown)
08051930
Neil Armstrong, Ohio, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11)
08051933
Joan Weldon, SF, actress (So This is Love, Them)
08051935
John Saxon, Bkln, actor (Bees, Nightmare on Elm St, Electric Horseman)
08051936
John Dancy, Jackson Tx, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday)
08051938
Hayes Wendell Jones, Sturksville Mich, 110m hurdler (Oly-gold-1964)
Ja'net Dubois, Phila, actress (Willona-Good Times)
08051939
Irene, Princess of Netherlands
0805194-
Jo Collins, Ore, Playboy playmate (Dec, 1964)
08051941
Leonid D Kizim, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-10, T-15)
08051942
Rick Huxley, guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
08051943
Rodney Pattisson, England, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968)
Sammi Smith, singer
08051944
Loni Anderson, St Paul Minn, actress (Jennifer-WKRP in Cincinnati)
08051945
Jacob Reitsma, economist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
08051946
Erika Slezak, Hollywood, Calif, actress (Viki-One Life to Live)
Rick van der Linden, rocker (Ekseption)
08051947
Rick Derringer, rocker (I am the Real American (Hulk Hogan's theme)
08051950
Holly Palance, LA Calif, actress (Thorn Birds, Ripley's Believe It)
Rose Mittermaier, German FR, slalom/downhill (Olympic-gold-1976)
08051953
Samantha Sang, singer (Emotion)
08051954
Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda, Bx, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
08051956
Ferdi Bolland, singer/guitarist (B&B)
Maureen McCormick, actress (Marcia-Brady Bunch)
08051957
Andrei Yevgeniyevich Zaitsev, cosmonaut
Pavel Vinogradov, Russia, cosmonaut
08051959
Pete Burns, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
08051960
Mike Nocito, rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock)
08051961
Tawny Kitaen, (Coverdale), actress (Bachelor Party, Witchboard)
08051962
Patrick Ewing, Jamaica, basketball center (NY Knicks/Olympic-gold-92)
08051966
Jonathan Silverman, LA Calif, actor (Brighton Beach Memoirs)
08051975
Ami Foster, actress (Margaux-Punky Brewster)
08052184
Christine Lauren Chapel, Davenport Heights, Vermont (Star Trek)
08052186
Kevin Thomas Riley, Tasvennir, Tarsus IV (Star Trek)
0806 966
Berengarius II, king of Italy
08061504
Matthew "Nosey" Parker, archbishop of Canterbury
08061638
Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher
08061651
Francois Fenelon, France, writer (Playing for Time)
08061697
Charles VII, Holy Roman emperor (1742-45)
08061775
Louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angoulme/General of France
08061809
Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England
08061811
Judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy), died in 1884
08061819
Samuel Powhatan Carter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
08061845
Anthonie A Vorsterman of Oyen, genealogist/heraldicus
08061856
Nestor de Tire, Flemish poet (Roze Kate)
08061859
J Arthur S Berson, Austria meteorologist (Balloon flights, Amazon)
08061861
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt
08061868
Paul Claudel, France, diplomat/poet (L'Otage-1909)
08061875
Thomas Mann, German writer (Die Buddenbrooks, Nobel)
08061879
Joseph Wirth, German politician (Stalin Peace Prize)
08061881
Alexander Fleming, England, bacteriologist (penicillin; Nobel 1954)
08061883
Scott Nearing, US sociologist/pacifist/author (The Good Life)
08061885
Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union
08061892
Hoot Gibson, US western actor (Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw)
08061893
Guthrie McClintic, Seattle Wash, Broadway producer/dir (Winterset)
080619--
De'Voreaux White, actor (Head of the Class)
Grant Aleksander, Balt Md, actor (Phillip-Guiding Light)
Ira Angustan, Glendale Calif, actor (Ricky-White Shadow)
08061904
Henry Payne Iba, Easton Mo, US basketball coach (Olympic-gold-64, 68)
08061906
Ken Strong, NFL, AFL halfback (Staten Island, NY Yanks, NY Giants)
08061908
Helen Hull Jacobs, Berkley Calif, US tennis champ (1932-35)
08061910
Charles Crichton, director (Battle of Sexes)
08061911
Lucille Ball, Jamestown NY, comedienne/actress (I Love Lucy, Mame)
08061916
Dom[inic] Mintoff, premier Malta
Michael Burke, sports executive (NY Yankees, NY Knicks)
08061917
Robert Mitchum, Bridgeport Ct, actor (Winds of War, North & South)
08061919
Pauline Betz Addie, Dayton Ohio, tennis champ (Wimbeldon 1946)
08061921
Ella Raines, Sinoqualmie Falls Wash, actress (Janice Dean RN)
08061922
Freddie Laker, CEO (Laker airlines)
08061923
Jack Parnell, London England, orch leader (Englebert Humperdick Show)
Jackie Kelk, Brooklyn NY, actor (Homer-Aldrich Family)
William B Williams, Babylon NY, DJ (WNEW, Sammy & Company)
08061925
Barbara Bates, Denver Colo, actress (Kathy-It's a Great Life)
08061926
J[anet] O[pal] Jeppson, [nee Janet Asimov], author (2nd Experiment)
08061927
Andy Warhol, artist/movie producer (Frankenstein, Bad)
William David Ford, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1965-  )
08061928
Janice-Lee York Romary, Calif, fencer (Olympics-1952-68)
08061929
Anneliese Kuppers, German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956)
08061930
Abbey Lincoln, actress/singer (Nothing But a Man)
08061934
John Storey Bonington, UK, mountain climber (Annapurna I in 1970)
Leopold M de Beer, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD)
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, UK, sci-fi author (Chthon, Phthor)
08061937
Barbara Windsor, actress (Study in Terror)
08061938
Carry Tefsen, actress (Say Some time A)
Peter Bonerz, Portsmouth NH, actor (Jerry-Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5)
08061940
Louise Sorel, LA Calif, actress (BS I Love You, Crimes of Passion)
08061943
Muchael Anderson Jr, London, actor (Clayt-The Monroes)
Ray Buktenica, Greenwich Village NYC, actor (Rhoda, House Calls)
08061944
Swoosie Kurtz, actress (Vice Versa, World According to Garp)
08061945
Ken Norton, heavyweight boxer [or 8/9]
08061947
Sally Eaton, Ill, actress
08061948
Michael Peters, choreographer
08061949
Joyce McKinney, Avery County NC, Miss Wyoming (1972)
08061950
Dorian Harewood, Dayton Ohio, actor (Earl-Glitter, Trauma Center)
Nathan Purdee, actor (Nathan-Young & Restless, Hank-1 Life to Live)
Winston E Scott, Miami Fla, USN Commander/astronaut
08061951
Catherine Hicks, Scottsdale Az, actress (Star Trek IV, Child's Play)
08061952
Barrel Scherpenzeel, rocker (Earth & Fire)
Wojiech Fortuna, Poland, ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
08061954
Carl C Perkins, (Rep-D-KY, 1984-  )
08061956
Stepfanie Kramer, LA Calif, actress (Claudia-We Got it Made, Hunter)
Vinnie Vincent, heavy metal rocker (Solo-Ashes to Ashes)
08061957
Faith Prince, Augusta Ga, broadway actress (Guys & Dolls, Carousel)
08061958
Randy DeBarge, rocker (Debarge)
Simon Francken, bassist (Ivy Green)
08061959
Joyce Sims, rocker (All & All)
08061961
Carol Norman, Ardmore Okla, bowler (LPBT Rookie of Year 1982)
08061962
Thomas Jefferson, Cleve Ohio, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1984)
08061963
Kimberley Conrad Hefner, Moulton Al, playmate of year (Jan, 1988)
Thomas Bohrer, US West Islip NY, rower (Olympic-92)
08061964
Moosie Drier, Chic Ill, actor (Laugh-in)
08061965
David Robinson, Fla, NBA center (San Antonio Spurs/Olympic-gold-92)
08061976
Soleil Moon Frye, actress (Punky Brewster)
0807 317
Flavius Julius Constantius II, Emperor Egypt/Byzantine/Rome (337-61)
08071598
Georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules)
08071742
Nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General
08071779
Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography
08071783
John Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery)
08071829
Thomas Ewing Jr, Major General, Bvt (Union volunteers), died in 1896
08071833
Powell Clayton, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1914
08071836
Evander McIvor Law, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1920
08071867
Emil Nolde, [Hansen], German painter/graphic artist
08071870
19 kittens, born to Tarawood Antigone (4 still born)
08071876
Mata Hari, dancer/courtesan/spy (WW II)
08071880
Earnest Laqueur, chemist/pharmacology/psychology (sexual hormones)
08071885
Billie Burke, Washington DC, actress (Glinda-Wizard of Oz)
08071886
Louis Hazeltine, inventor (neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible)
08071887
Jan HA Eman, Aruban politician
08071896
Ernesto Lecuona, Havana Cuba, composer (Malague¤a)
08071897
Franz J Weinrich, [Heinrich Lerse], German writer (Himmlisches)
080719--
Carlos Vives, Columbia, spanish singer (No Podras Escaparde Mi)
David Rasche, Ill, actor (Sledge Hammer)
08071903
Louis Leakey, anthropologist (1964 Richard Hooper Medal)
08071904
Ralph J Bunche, founder/diplomat (UN) (Nobel 1950)
08071911
R Nicholas Ray, US director (Rebel Without a Cause)
08071914
Ted Moore, South Africa, cinematographer (James Bond)
08071920
Jan Walravens, Flemish writer (Motionless on Sea)
08071921
Karel Husa, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Trojan Women)
08071926
Amo Houghton, (Rep-R-New York)
Stan Freberg, LA Calif, satirist/ad executive
08071927
Edwin W Edwards, (Gov-La)
08071928
Amazing Randi, [James], Toronto Ontario, skeptic magician
Herbert H Bateman, (Rep-R-Virginia)
08071929
Don Larsen, pitcher (NY Yankees), on what must have been a perfect day
Richard T Schulze, (Rep-R-PA, 1975-  )
Ruth Carter-Stapleton, Plains Ga, 1st sister/evangelist
08071930
Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderdecke, US, jazz trumpetist
08071932
Abebe Bikila, Ethiopia, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1960, 64)
Ann Harding, US, actress (East is West, Janie)
08071933
Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle, US, sci-fi author (Mercenary, Red Dragon)
08071936
Richard L[ouis] Tierney, US, sci-fi author (Winds of Zarr)
08071938
Helen Caldicott, Melbourne Australia, physician/anti-war activist
08071940
Marlyn Mason, San Fernando Cal, actress (Making It, Peyton Place)
Tom Barlow, (Rep-D-Kentucky)
08071941
Thomas F Hartnett, (Rep-R-SC, 1981-86)
08071942
Anjanette Comer, Dawson Tx, actress (Baby, Lepke)
B J Thomas, singer (Raindrops, Growing Pains Theme)
Garrison Keillor, PBS radio personality (Prairie Home Companion)
08071943
Lana Cantrell, Sydney, Australia, singer (Those Were the Days)
08071944
John Glover, Kingston NY, actor (52 Pick-Up, Something Special)
08071945
Alan Page, defensive tackle (Minn Vikings)
Kerry Chater, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
08071950
David James Wottle, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
Rodney Crowell, singer/guitarist (for Emmylou Harris)
08071951
Gary Hall, swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1976)
08071952
Richard Joswick, rocker (Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods)
08071956
Kent V Rominger, Del Norte Colo, US Navy Lt Commander/astronaut
08071957
Aleksandr Ditiatin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980)
08071958
Alberto Salazar, marathoner (NYC Marathon Winner)
Bruce Dickinson, heavy metal rocker (Iron Maiden-Run to Hills)
Larisa Karlova, USSR, team handball player (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
08071960
Jacquie O'Sullivan, rocker (Bananarama-Venus)
08071961
Yelena Davydova, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980)
08071963
Marcus Lewis, Pontiac Mich, singer (Sing me a Song)
08071966
Kristin Hersch, US singer/songwriter (Throwing Muses)
08071967
Charlotte Lewis, Kensington London, actress (Golden Child, Pirates)
08071969
David Hollander, LA Calif, actor (Lewis & Clark, What's Happenings?)
0807197-
Josh A Andrew Koenig, actor (Boner-Growing Pains)
08071971
Sydney Penny, actress (Danni Collins-The New Gidget)
08071992
Cleveland Indians turn a triple play
08081586
Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen
08081763
Charles Bulfinch, Boston Mass, 1st US pro architect (Mass State House)
08081812
John Rodgers II, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
08081819
Charles Anderson Dana, Asst Secy War, (Union) died in 1897
08081820
Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate)
08081823
Theodule Augustin Ribot, painter
08081835
James William Forsyth, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
08081839
Nelson Appleton Miles, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925
08081857
Henry Osborn, Conn, paleontologist/author (52 Years of Research)
08081864
Henri de Vries, [Hendricus van Walterop], actor
08081866
Matthew A Henson, met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole
08081879
Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader
08081884
Sara Teasdale, US, poet (1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-"Love Songs")
08081887
JC Heldring, businessman
Malcolm Keen, Bristol England, actor (Uncle Chris-Mama)
08081895
Law Pendleton, US, wrestler/actor (Laughing Lady)
08081896
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Wash DC, writer (The Yearling)
08081898
Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (De baadster, Orlans)
080819--
Anne Francine, Phila, actress (Harper Valley PTA)
Branscombe Richmond, LA Cal, actor (Heart of the City, Hawaiian Heat)
Doran Clark, New Orleans, actress (King's Cross, Emerald Point NAS)
Earl Boen, Pueblo Colo, actor (Dennis-It's a Living)
Matt Shakman, actor (Graham-Just the 10 of Us)
Rosetta LeNoire, actor (Grandma Winslow-Family Matters)
Veronica Redd-Forrest, actress (Mamie-Young & Restless)
08081900
Victor Young, Chic Ill, orch leader (Milton Berle Show, In Old Calif)
08081901
Ernest O Lawrence, Canton SC, inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939)
08081902
Paul A M Dirac, England, physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1933)
08081903
August Cool, Belgian union leader
Nita Talbot, NYC, actress (Chained Heat, Frightmare, Island Claws)
08081905
Andr Jolivet, Paris France, composer (L'Eunuque)
08081906
Andr Demedts, Flemish writer (Rainfall of the Days)
08081907
Benny Carter, NYC, musician/composer (Easy Money, King Carter)
08081908
Arthur J Goldberg, Ill, UN ambassador/Supreme Court justice (1962-65)
08081910
Francisco Brochado Da Rocha, PM of Brazil (1962)
Sylvia Sidney, Bronx NY, actress (WKRP, Sabotage, Beetlejuice, Demon)
08081913
Axel Stordahl, Staten Island NY, orch leader (Frank Sinatra Show)
Robert T Stafford, (Sen-R-VT, 1971-88)
08081918
Rory Calhoun, LA Calif, actor (Capitol, Motel Hell, Bill-Texan)
08081919
Dino DeLaurentis, producer (King Kong)
08081922
Rudi Gernreich, designer (1st women's topless swimsuit, miniskirt)
08081923
Esther Williams, Inglewood Cal, actress/swimmer (Dangerous when Wet)
08081926
Richard Anderson, Long Beach NJ, actor (Oscar Goldman-6 Million $ Man)
Webb Pierce, West Monroe La, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
08081927
Elis Juliana, Antillian writer/songwriter (Dama di anochi)
Jim Weaver, (Rep-D-OR, 1975-  )
08081929
Josef Suk, Prague Czechoslovakia, violinist (Artist of Merit-1977)
08081930
Jerry Tarkanian, US politician(?)
Joan Mondale, wife of US vice-president Walter Mondale (1977-81)
Nita Talbot, NYC NY, actress (Supertrain, Here We Go Again)
08081932
Mel Tillis, country singer/stutterer (Who's Julie, M-M-Mel)
08081933
Joe Tex, singer/songwriter (Hold What You've Got)
08081934
Julian C Dixon, (Rep-D-California, 1979-  )
08081935
Ron Marlenee, (Rep-R-MT, 1977-  )
08081936
Don Bowden, US, 1st American to run a sub 4 min mile
Frank Howard, baseball player (NL Rookie of the Year 1960)
Keith Barron, Mexborough England, actor (At Earth's Core, Baby Love)
08081937
Dustin Hoffman, LA, actor (Graduate, Tootsie, Kramer vs Kramer)
Louis Neefs, Belgian singer
08081938
Connie Stevens, Bkln, singer/actress (Hawaiian Eye, Back to Beach)
08081939
Phil Balsley, Va, country singer (Statler Bros-Flowers on the Wall)
08081942
Jay David, Dr Hook & Medicine Show, rocker
08081944
Hans van Ek, guitarist (Jumping Jewels)
Peter Weir, Australian director (Witness, Picnic at Hanging Rock)
08081946
French W Weisglas, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD)
Robin M Tallon, (Rep-D-SC, 1983-  )
08081947
Jose Cruz, leftfielder (St Louis Cards, Houston Astros)
Larry Wilcox, SD Calif, actor (Lassie, CHiPs)
08081948
Svetlana Yevgeniyevna Savitskaya, 2nd woman in space (Soyuz T-7, T-12)
08081949
Keith Carradine, San Mateo Calif, actor (Young Guns, Pretty Baby)
08081952
Robin Quivers, radio/TV personality (Howard Stern's sidekick)
08081953
"Sweet" Lou Dunbar, basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)
Donny Most, Bkln NY, actor (Ralph Malph-Happy Days)
08081954
Nigel Mansell, formula-1 racer (Portugal Grand Prix-1990)
08081955
Ali Score, Flock of Seagulls, rocker
08081956
Chris Foreman, guitar (Madness-1 Step Beyond)
David Grant, rocker (Heaven Knows)
08081957
Dieuwertje Blok, Dutch TV hostess
08081958
Chris Foreman, rocker (Madness-Burning Down the House)
Deborah Norville, TV host (Today)
Harry Crosby, LA Calif, actor (Friday the 13th)
08081959
Rikki Rockett, rocker (Poison-Every Rose Has a Thorn)
08081961
Charmaine Crooks, Jamaica, Canadian 4X400m relayer (Oly-silver-1984)
The Edge (Dave Evans), London, rocker (U2-I Will Follow)
08081962
Suzee Pai, Toledo Ohio, actress (Big Trouble in Little China)
08081963
Carol Lewis, Willingboro NJ, high jumper (Olympic-9th-1984)
08081967
Cherry Lawson, XXX actress (Glitz Tits)
Lorraine Pearson, rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel)
08081988
Beatrice E M, Princess of England
08091593
Izaak Walton, England, biographer/fisherman/writer (Compleat Angler)
08091611
Henry earl of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/governor of Holly
08091631
John Dryden, English opoet/playwright (Heroic Stanzas)
08091686
Benedetto Marcello, Venice Italy, composer (Lettera Famigliare)
08091758
Bruno Dalberg/Anonymus Belga, [Petrus the Wacker van Zon], writer
08091776
Amedeo Avogadro, Tuin Italy, 6.022 x 10 ^ 23 (Avogadro's Law)
08091808
William Thomas Ward, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
08091819
William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, used ether (HOF 1920)
08091823
Daniel Marsh Frost, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
08091824
Simon Goodell Griffin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
08091825
Elisha Ferry, (Gov-R-Wash, 1872-80, 1889-93)
08091866
Mattheco Henson, 1st Black to reach North Pole
08091875
Albert William Ketlbey, Aston England, composer (Wonder Worker)
08091883
George Hoyt, NBA hall of fame referee (elected 1961)
08091887
Abraham Schierbeek, biologist (Swammerdam)
08091888
Hans Oster, general/German spy/"July 20th plotter"
08091890
Eino Kaila, Finnish psychologist/philosopher
08091896
Jean Piaget, Switz, pioneer developmental psychologist/zoologist
Leonide Massine, choreographer (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1914-20)
08091897
Ralph Wyckoff, American pioneer in x-ray crystallography
08091898
David de Jong, writer (Mutiny on the canal)
08091899
Armand Salacrou, French poet
080919--
Clint Ritchie, ND, actor (Clint Buchanon-One Life to Live)
Dennis Belanger, Canada, rock vocalist (Voivod-Angel Rat)
Michael Storm, Chicago, actor (Dr Larry Wolek-One Life to Live)
08091901
Charles Farrell, Cape Cod Mass, actor (Vern-My Little Margie)
08091902
Zino Francescatti, Marseilles France, violinist (NY Phil-1939)
08091905
Leo Genn, actor (Affair in Monte Carlo)
08091909
John Baur, museum director/author (American Paintings in 19th Century)
08091910
Robert H van Gulik, diplomat/writer (Rechter Tie)
08091911
Robert McCormick, Danville Ky, NBC newscaster (Current Opinion)
William A Fowler, US, astrophysicist (Nobel 1983)
08091913
Harry Mills, singer (Mills Brothers-Paper Moon)
Herman Talmadge, (Sen-D-Ga, Watergate Committee)
08091914
Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor
08091919
Joop [Johannes] den Uyl, Dutch Premier (PVDA, 1973-77)
Ralph Houk, baseball manager (Yankees, Tigers)
08091921
J James Exon, (Sen-D-Nebraska, 1979-  )
08091922
Philip Larkin, Coventry England, writer (North Ship, Jill)
08091923
Gerrit Kouwenaar, literary
08091926
Michiel de Ruyter, [Mister Jazz], jazz historian
08091927
Marvin Minsky, Artifical intelligence computer scientist (MIT)
Robert Shaw, England, actor (Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday)
08091928
Bob Cousy, NBA star (Boston Celtics, 1957 MVP)
08091930
Betty Boop, animation
08091938
Dick Anthony Williams, Chicago Ill, actor (Our Family Honor)
Rod Laver, Australia, tennis ace (1962, 1969 Grand Slam)
08091939
Billy Henderson, rocker (Spinners)
Claude Osteen, baseball pitcher (Cin Reds)
08091940
Beverlee McKinsey, Okla, actress (Another World, Guiding Light)
08091942
David Steinberg, Winnipeg Canada, comedian/director (End)
08091944
Gerrit Jan Wolffensperger, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (D66)
Sam Elliot, Calif, actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty)
Viv Prince, rocker (Pretty Things)
08091945
Ken Norton, heavyweight boxing champ/TV panelist (Gong Show)
08091946
Maarnus Gerritsen, rocker (Golden Earring)
Rinus Gerritsen, bassist/rocker (Golden Earring)
08091955
Doug Williams, Louisana, NFL QB (Tampa Bay Bucaneers, Wash Redskins)
08091957
Melanie Griffith, NYC, actress (Something Wild, Working Girls)
08091958
Amanda Bearse, actress (Marcy Rhodes-Married With Children)
Greg Chaisson, heavy metal rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
08091959
Kurtis Blow, NYC, rapper (Krushgroove-The Breaks)
08091962
Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author
Michael Colnroy, Modern English, rocker
08091963
Lonnie Quinn, Cheshire Conn, actor (Will Cooley-All My Children)
Whitney Houston, Newark NJ, singer (One Moment in Time)
08091965
John Smith, Okla City, US Olympic wrestler (Goodwill-gold-1988, 90)
Kyle Kyle, Kensington Pa, rock bassist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
08091966
Pat Petersen, LA Calif, actor (Michael-Knots Landing)
08091971
Mary Joe Fernandez, Dom Rep, tennis player (US National 16s)
08091972
Elizabeth Vassey, Raleigh NC, actress (Emily Martin-All My Children)
08101296
Jan de Blinde, King of Bohemia/Count of Luxembourg
08101556
Philipp Nicolai, Germany, theologist/poet/composer
08101794
Leopold Zunz, German learned (Synagogalen Prose(?))
08101801
Robert Woodward Barnwell, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882
08101810
Camilio Benso di Cavour, Italy, PM
Cornelis Outshoorn, architect
08101814
John Clifford Pemberton, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1881
William Lowndes Yancey, MC (Confederacy), died in 1863
08101823
Antnio G Dias, Brazilian poet
Charles Thomas Campbell, Brig General (Union volunteers)
08101865
Alexander Glazunov, St Petersburg Russia, composer (Chopiniana)
08101869
Lawrence Binyon, Vienna Austria, writer (Symbolic Wounds)
08101874
Herbert Clark Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933)
James (Tod) Sloan, jockey, created monkey crouch riding style
08101877
Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance
08101878
Alfred Dblin, German/French author/co-founder of Sturm
08101881
Albrecht M Sprenger, landbuilder
08101889
Irene Steer, England, 4 X 100m relay swimmers (Olympic-gold-1912)
08101893
Douglas Stuart Moore, Cutchogue NY, composer (Good Night Harvard)
Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Gov Gen of Australia (1959-61)
08101897
Edward Orval Gourdin, Jacksonville, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1924)
Piet[er O] Bakker, journalist (Telegraph, People)
08101899
Jack Haley, Boston Mass, actor (Wizard of Oz, Ford Star Revue)
081019--
Daniel Hugh-Kelly, Hoboken NJ, actor (Chicago Story, Hardcastle)
James Reynolds, Oskaloosa, Ks, actor (Abe Carver-Days of our Lives)
Jim Storm, actor (Bill-Bold & Beautiful)
08101900
Arthur Porritt, NZ, 100m sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1924)
Norma Shearer, Canada, actress (Divorcee, Idiot's Delight)
08101905
Richard F Kahn, baron of Hampstead/British economist
08101909
George W Crockett Jr, (Rep-D-MI, 1980-  )
Julio A Abraham, president (Democratic Party Bonaire)
Mohammed V, ibn Joesoef, King of Morocco (1953, 1955-61)
08101910
Angus Campbell, US, psychologist (Elections & Political Order)
08101912
Izak Samkalden, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA)
Richard Reeves, NYC, actor (Murph-Date With an Angel)
Romain Maes, Belgian bicylist
08101913
Noah Beery Jr, NYC, actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot)
Steven Nagy, bowler, 1st to bowl 300 on TV (1954)
08101914
Jeff Corey, NYC, actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men)
08101920
Red Holzman, NBA coach (NY Knickerbockers)
08101923
Rhonda Fleming, Hollywood Calif, actress (Spellbound)
08101924
Martha Hyer, actress (Day of the Wolves, Night of the Grizzly)
08101926
Marie-Claire Alain, French organist
08101928
Eddie Fisher, Phila Pa, singer (Oh My Papa, Lady of Spain)
Jimmy Dean, Tx, actor/singer (Jimmy Dean Show, Diamonds are Forever)
08101933
Bill Nieder, shot putter, (Olympic-gold-1960)
Rocky Colavito, Bronx, baseball player (Hit 4 HRs in a game)
08101938
Diana Muldaur, actress (McCloud, Star Trek-Next Generation)
08101939
Charles Rose, (Rep-D-North Carolina, 1973-  )
Kate O'Mara, Leicaster England, actress (Caress Morell-Dynasty)
08101940
Bobby Hatfield, Wisc, rocker (Righteous Bros-Unchained Melody)
08101941
Anita Lonsbrough, England, 200m backstroke swimmer (Oly-gold-1960)
Kees Van Kooten, TV-commentator/also-founder Simplisties Covenant
08101942
Betsy Johnson, fashion designer (1971 Winnie Award)
08101943
Ronnie Spector, [Veronica Bennett], NYC, singer (Be My Little Baby)
08101945
Harry Thomas, founder rock song festival/Dutch Homosexuals Party
Larry Larden, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
08101947
Ian Anderson, Scotland, rocker (Jethro Tull-Bungle in the Jungle)
08101948
Pal Gerevich, Hungary, fencer (Olympic-bronze-1972, 80)
Patti Austin, singer (Real Me)
08101952
Ashley Putnam, NYC, soprano (NY City Opera 1978)
Nikolai Alekseyevich Pushenko, Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut
08101959
Mark Price, bass/vocals (All About Eve, Tin Huey-Contents Dislodged)
Rosanna Arquette, NYC, actress (Desperately Seeking Susan)
08101961
Beatrice Alda, daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Lisa-Four Seasons)
John Farriss, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
08101962
Dan Donovan, rocker (Bad)
08101967
Riddick Bowe, Brooklyn NY, HW boxing champ (Olympic-silver-1988)
08111778
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of turnverein (gymnastics) movement
08111799
Joachim de Barrande, French paleontologist/geologist
08111807
David R Atchison, pres of USA on March 3rd 1849
08111811
Judah P Benjamin, US lawyer/minister of Confederacy navy
08111823
Charlotte Mary Yonge, England, writer (Heir of Redclyffe)
08111828
Edward Saloman, Gov (Union), died in 1909
08111832
Thomas Ogden Osbord, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
08111833
Robert Green Ingersoll, NY, author/politician/agnostic (Att Gen-R-Ill)
08111836
Cato M Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician
08111837
Sadi Carnot, engineer, French president (1887-94); assassinated
08111858
Christian Eykman, bacteriologist (avitaminosen (Nobel 1929)
08111862
Carrie Jacobs Bond, Janesville Wisc, songwriter (I Love You Truly)
08111867
Joseph Weber, comedian (Weber & Fields)
08111873
J Rosamond Johnson, Fla, co-composer (Lift Every Voice & Sing)
08111882
Rodolfo Graziani, Italian marschal/viceroy of Ethiopia
08111890
Erich Wichman, fascist painter/sculptor
08111891
Helen Broderick, US, comdienne/actress/singer (Swing time)
08111892
Hugh MacDiarmid, Scotland, writer (Scots Unbound)
Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general
08111897
Louise Bogan, Maine, writer (Sleeping Fury)
08111900
Alexander Mosolov, Kiev Russia, composer (Zavod)
Charles William Paddock, Texas, 100m runner (Olympic-2 gold-1920)
08111902
Christian Castries, French general (Dien Bien Phu)
Lloyd Nolan, SF Calif, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place)
08111906
Harry Elstrím, Danish/Belgian sculptor (Great Pass, Black Christ)
08111911
Alphonse de Waelhens, Flemish philosopher (La psychosis)
Henry Kulky, Hastings-on-Hudson NY, actor (Otto-Life of Riley)
Thanom Kittikachorn, general/premier Thailand
08111912
Jean Parker, Montana, actress (Beyond Tomorrow, Little Women)
08111913
Angus Wilson, England, writer (Mulberry Bush-1955)
08111920
William Masselos, Niagara Falls NY, pianist/prof (Juiliard 1976)
08111921
Alex Haley, US, writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots)
08111924
Arlene Dahl, Minneapolis Minnesota, actress/TV panelist (Ambush)
08111925
Carl Rowan, gun-toting newspaper columnist (Wash Post)
Mike Douglas, Chicago Ill, talk show host (Mike Douglas Show)
08111926
Claus Von Bulow, accused of murdering his wife
08111927
Len Rempt-Halmmans de Jongh, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD)
Pentti Vihtori, Finland, writer/poet (Yksiniset [Solitude])
Raymond Leppard, London England, conductor (St Louis Symphony Orch)
08111929
Alun Hoddinott, Bargoed Wales, composer (Floriture)
08111930
William A O'Neal, (Gov-D-Ct)
08111932
Fernando Arrabal, Spanish song/romance writer (Baal Babilonia)
08111933
Jerry Falwell, US, TV evangelist (Moral Majority)
08111937
Allegra Kens, US actress(?)
Anna Massey, actress (De Sade, Doll's House)
08111940
Kip King, Chicago Ill, actor (Charlie & Company)
08111941
Elizabeth Holtzman, Bkln DA (D-Rep-NY, Watergate Committee)
08111942
Mike Huggs, drummer (Manfred Mann)
08111943
Denis Payton, rocker (Dave Clarke 5-Glad All Over)
James Kale, rocker (Guess Who)
08111946
Marilyn Vos Savant, St Louis Mo, writer/world's highest IQ (Guinness)
08111947
Jeff Hanna, singer/guitarist (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
Sergey Kovalneko, USSR, basketball (Olympic-bronze-1968)
08111949
Eric Carmen, Cleveland Ohio, rocker (All by Myself)
Ian Charleson, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Jamie-Master of the Game)
Tim Hutchinson, (Rep-R-Arkansas)
08111950
Erik Braun, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly)
Steve Wozniak, co-founder (Apple Computers)
08111952
Ann Michelle, England, actress (Virigin Witch)
08111953
Hulk Hogan, [Terry Bollea], Ga, WWF heavyweight champion (1984-89)
Sanford Jensen, South Haven Mich, actor (Foley Square)
08111954
Lina Polito, Naples Italy, actress (Love & Anarchy)
08111955
Joe Jackson, England, singer (Steppin' Out)
08111957
Richie Ramone, rocker (Ramones-Pet Semtary)
08111959
Linda Rhys Vaughn, Grossmont Ca, playmate (Apr, 1982)
08111960
Leora "Sam" Jones, Mt Olive NC, US team handball player (Olympic-92)
08111964
Hamish, rocker (The Pasedenas-Riding on the Train)
08111969
Eddie Garcia, LA, actor/musician (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)
08111971
Julie Anne Clark, Tucson Az, playmate (Mar, 1991)
08111975
Chris Kelly, [Mack Daddy], Teaneck NJ, rapper (Kris Kross-Warm it Up)
08121503
Christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59)
08121566
Isabella CE, infante of Spain/country guardians of the Netherlands
08121592
Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, gov of Fort Emmerik/Heusden
08121720
Martin Gerbert, [von Hornau], prince-abbot/music historian
08121744
Rowland Hill, preacher
08121753
Thomas Bewick, England, artist (British Birds, Aesop's Fables)
08121757
ALF, alien life form (ALF)
08121762
George IV, king of England (1820-30)
08121774
Robert Southey, English poet laureate/biographer of Nelson
08121778
Francis Horner, politician
08121781
Robert Mills, US, architect (Washington Monument)
08121819
Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
08121820
Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation
08121825
Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, composer
08121829
John Horace Forney, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
08121832
Hely Hutchinson Almond, politician/doctor
08121833
William Price Sanders, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
08121838
Joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal
08121848
Macellus Emants, writer/poet (Along the Hippo)
08121849
Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter/naturalist
08121853
Jean Louis Nicode, composer
08121854
Alfred Gilbert, sculptor/goldsmith
John P Kelly, [Kell], actor/operetta writer
08121859
Katharine Lee Bates, US, author (America the Beautiful)
08121866
Jacinto Benavente y Mart¡nez, Spanish playwright (Nobel 1922)
08121867
Edith Hamilton, US, writer (Mythology)
08121868
Frederick JNT lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-India (1916-21)
08121876
Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer (Miss Pinkerton)
08121880
Christy Mathewson, HOF baseball pitcher (Won 37 in 1908)
Marguerite "John" Radclyffe-Hall, author
08121881
Cecil B deMille, Mass, directed God (10 Commandments, Cleopatra)
08121883
Jan Schouten, co-founder illegal Loyal/chairman (ARP)
08121884
Frank Arthur Swinnerton, England, novelist (Summer Storm, Sanctuary)
08121887
Erwin Schrdinger, Austria, physicist (had a cat)
08121890
Al Goodman, Nikopol Russia, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
08121893
Howard Smith, Attleboro Mass, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel)
08121897
Otto (von) Struve, German/US dir (Yerkes/MacDonald observatory)
08121899
Alfred Kantorowicz, German historian (Spanish Tagebuch)
081219--
Carl Sturken, Plainfield NJ, rocker (Rythm Syndicate)
Dana Ivey, Atlanta Ga, actress (Easy Street)
Elizabeth Kerr, KC Mo, actress (Cora-Mork & Mindy)
Jorge Rigo, Chile, spanish singer
Kay Campbell, actress (All My Children)
Lezlie Dalton, actor (Search for Tomorrow)
Marsha Clark, actress (Guiding Light)
08121900
Wilhelm Steinitz, Germany, 1st chess champ (1866-1894)
08121903
Frances Clode, CEO (WRVS)
08121904
Aleksei N Romanov, son of tsar Nicolas II
Frank Ervin, harness racer (Hambletonian 1959, 66)
08121905
Joan [Jacobus J] Remmelts, actor
08121908
Lord Renton, QC/British govt minister
08121909
Maurice Heath, air marshal
08121910
Baroness Phillips, pres/general secretary (Natl Assn of Women)
08121911
Cantinflas, [Mario Moreno], Mexico, actor (Around World in 80 Days)
08121912
Jane Wyatt, Campgaw NJ, actress (Father Knows Best, Star Trek)
Louis JN Grardin, [Toto], French bicyclist/trainer (champ 1930)
08121913
Kurt Kaszner, Vienna Austria, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants)
08121915
Alex Wojciechowicz, NFL center (Lions, Eagles)
08121919
Michael Kidd, [Milton Greenwald] choreographer (7 Brides for 7 Bros)
08121920
Peter West, British sports commentator
08121921
Marjorie Reynolds, Buhl Idaho, actress (Peggy-Life of Riley)
Patrick Howard-Dobson, president (Royal British Legion)
08121922
Andr Kloos, Dutch political party leader (NVV/VARA)
Lord Colinbrook, British government minister
08121925
Dale L Bumpers, (Sen-D Arkansas, 1975-  )
Norris McWhirter, author (Guinness Book of World Records)
Robin Nicholson, metallurgist
Ross McWhirter, author (Guinness Book of World Records)
08121926
John Derek, LA Calif, actor/director (10, Annapolis Story)
08121927
Ralph Waite, White Plains NY, actor (John-Waltons, Roots)
08121929
Buck Owens, Sherman Texas, country singer (Hee Haw)
08121931
William Goldman, author (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983)
08121932
Porter Wagoner, country singer, discovered Dolly Parton (Y'All Come)
Queen Ferekit, of Thailand (Queens Day)
08121934
Kenneth Eaton, Controller of the British Navy
08121936
Hans Haacke, Cologne Germany, artist (Right to Life, Dripper Boxes)
John Poindexter, US Chief of Staff
08121938
Anthony Joliffe, mayor of London
08121939
George Hamilton, Memphis Tn, (Love at 1st Bite, Where the Boys Are)
08121940
Michael Brunson, TV reporter/newscaster
08121941
Deborah Walley, Bridgeport Ct, actress (Mothers-in-Law)
Jennifer Warren, NYC, actress (Slap Shot, Fatal Beauty, Mutant)
08121942
Elizabeth Appleby, QC
08121948
Cliff Fish, rocker (Paper Lace)
Graham Zellick, principal (Queen Mary & Westfield College London)
Ron Mael, rocker (Sparks)
08121949
Anthony Akerman, South Africa, director
Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil (1990-92)
Mark Knopfler, guitar/vocals (Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing)
08121951
Charles E Brady Jr, Pinehurst NC, USN Commander/astronaut
Hector Rodriguez, Cuba, lightweight judo (Olympic-gold-1976)
Kid Creole, [August Darnell Browder], US singer (Savannah)
08121954
Marvin L Johnson, Ind, middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972)
Pat Methany, jazz guitarist (As Wichita Falls)
Sam J Jones, Chicago Ill, actor (Chris-Code Red, The Highway Man)
08121955
Heintje, [Hendrik Simons], singer (Mama)
08121959
Lynette Woodard, Wichita Ks, (Olympic-gold-1984, Harlem Globetrotter)
08121960
Lonny Chin, Liverpool England, playmate (Jan, 1983)
Morty Black, heavy metal rocker (TNT-7 Seas)
08121961
Pete De Freitas, rocker (Echo & the Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
Roy Hay, guitarist (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me)
08121967
Tom Holkenborg, drummer (Weekend at Waikiki)
08121972
Del The Funkee Homosapian, rapper
08131422
William Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)
08131655
Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)
08131717
Christoph Nichelsmann, German composer
08131802
Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)
08131814
Anders Jonas ngstrm, Sweden, physicist, founded spectroscopy
08131818
Lucy Blackwell-Stone, US abolitionist/feminist
08131819
George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (Spectroscope)
08131820
George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer
08131840
Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (Eros)
08131851
John Lincoln Clem, Drummer (Union volunteers), died in 1937
08131860
Annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)
08131867
Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit)
08131878
Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, zionist/socialist theorist
08131879
John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Thin)
08131881
Jacqueline (Pierrette) R of Stuwe [Eline v S], author)
08131886
Jacob Pierneef, South Africa, painter
08131888
John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV)
08131894
Ferdinand Sassen, philosopher/director
08131895
Robert Burton, actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row)
08131896
Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor
08131898
Jean Borota, France, tennis champ (35 Wimbeldons between 1922-64)
08131899
Alfred Hitchcock, London, director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window)
081319--
Alex Donnelley, Frankfurt Germany, actress (Young & Restless)
Alma Cuervo, Tampa Fla, actress (Sylvia-AKA Pablo)
Hank Cheyne, actor (Another World, Young & Restless)
Jane Carr, actress (Louise-Dear John)
Sid Falck, rocker (Overkill-Hello From the Gutter)
08131902
Felix Wankel, Germany, inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine)
Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane, president (J Sansbury Pics)
Regis Toomey, Pitts Pa, actor (Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction)
08131904
Charles "Buddy" Rogers, actor (Wings)
08131907
Alfred Alwin Felix Krupp, Essen Germany, arms manufacturer
08131908
Gene Raymond, NYC, actor (Paris 7000, Fireside Theater)
08131909
John Beal, actor (10 Who Dare, I Am the Law, Amityville 3D)
08131912
Ben Hogan, Dublin Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1950, 51, 53)
John Peeters, water colors painter/monumental artist
Max Croiset, actor/playwright/director/lecture artist
Metten Koornstra, painter/graphic artist
Rita Johnson, Worcester Mass, actress (All Mine to Give)
Salvador E Luria, Italian/US biologist (Nobel prize 1969)
08131913
Lord Oram, labour MP
Makarios III, [Michail Moeskos], archbishop/president Cyprus
08131918
Denis Smallwood, British air chief marshal
Frederick Sanger, England, biochemist (Nobel 1958, 1980)
John Bunting, senior civil servant
08131919
Rex Humbard, televanglist
08131920
George Shearing, London, blind pianist/composer (Lullabye of Byrdland)
08131921
Neville Brand, actor (DOA, Eaten Alive, Fire, Mohawk)
08131924
John Milne, CEO (Blue Circles Industries)
08131925
Benny Bailey, jazz trumpeter
Leslie Joseph, QC
08131927
Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuban political leader (1959-  )
08131929
Charles Lyon, gen-sect (Transport Salaried Staffs Association)
Michael Beavis, deputy cmdr-in-chief (Allied Forces Central Europe)
Pat Harrington Jr, NYC, actor (Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time)
08131930
Don Ho, Hawaii, ukulele player (Tiny Bubbles)
Marquess Camden
08131931
Bernard Manning, British comedian
Norman Read, NZ, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1956)
Roy Evans, general sect (British Iron & Steel Trade Confederation)
08131933
Madhur Jaffrey, cookbook writer/actress (Shakespeare Wallah)
08131934
Gary Davidson, founder of ABA, WHA, WFL
08131935
Rod Hull, entertainer
08131939
Saul Steinberg, artist (The Art of Living)
08131940
Timothy Wood, British govt asst whip
08131941
Jim Barnes, Tuckerton Ark, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1964)
08131942
Robert L Stewart, Wash DC, Brig Gen US Army/astronaut (STS 41B, 51J)
Sheila Armstrong, soprano
08131943
Gary Ilman, US, 100m freestyle (Olympic-4th-1964)
Susan Jameson, actress
08131945
Robin Jackman, cricket commentator
08131947
Gretchen Corbett, Camp Sherman Ore, actress (Beth-Rockford Files)
08131948
Kathleen Battle, Portsmouth Ohio, soprano (Shephard-Tannhuser)
Tony Santini, rocker (Sha Na Na)
08131949
Bobby Clarke, Manitoba, NHL player/coach (Phila Flyer)
Peter J Visclosky, (Rep-D-Indiana, 1985-  )
Sheralee, Ft Lauderdale Fla, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
0813195-
Kavi Raz, India, actor (VJ Kochar-St Elsewhere)
08131951
Dan Fogelberg, Peoria Ill, rocker (Same Auld Lang Syne)
Gwen Cheeseman, Harrisburg Pa, field hockey goalie (Oly-bronze-1984)
08131952
Marie Helvin, model
08131954
Lincoln Diaz-Balart, (Rep-R-Florida)
08131955
Betsy King, LPGA golfer (1990 Dinah Shore, 1990 US Women's Open)
08131958
Feargal Sharkey, rocker (Undertones-Never Never, Good Heart)
08131959
Bruce French, cricketer
Danny Bonaduce, actor (Danny-Partridge Family)
Mark Nevin, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
08131961
Betine Vriesekoop, table tennis star
Dawnn Lewis, actress (Jaleesa-Different World)
Neil Mallender, cricketer
08131963
Pamela Jean Stein, Syracuse NY, playmate (Nov, 1987)
Tigg Ketler, Chula Vista Ca, drummer (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
08131964
Ian Haughland, heavy metal rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
08131967
Quinn Cummings, LA Calif, actress (Annie-Family, Goodbye Girl)
08141552
Fra Paolo Sarpi [Paulus Venetus], expert/philosopher
08141599
Florence Estienne Mric Casaubon, classical scholar
08141687
Johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/ruler (Nassau-Dietz)
08141714
Claude-Joseph Vernet, painter
08141737
Charles Hutton, mathematician
08141740
Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], bishop of Imola/Pope (1800-23)
08141758
Carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer
08141769
Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer
08141774
Meriwether Lewis, Charlottsville VA, capt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
08141777
Hans Christian Oersted, Den, physicist/chemist (View of Chemical Law)
08141802
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet (Heath's Book of Beauty)
08141810
Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer
08141814
Henry Hayes Lockwood, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
08141821
Clement Hoffman "Rock" Stevens, Brig General (Confederate Army)
08141824
William Terry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
08141836
Walter Besant, writer/philanthropist (Rebel Queen)
08141840
Baron Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist
08141842
Henry Duff Trail, journalist/author
08141860
Ernest T Seton, naturalist/painter/author (Buffalo Wind-1938)
08141861
Bion Joseph Arnold, electrical engineer/inventor
08141867
John Galsworthy, England, author (Forsyte Saga-Nobel 1932)
08141869
Armas Jrnefelt, Vyborg Finland, composer (Berceuse)
08141876
Alexander I Obrenovic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1922-34)
08141883
Ernest E Just, biologist (pioneered cell division)
081419--
David Hallyday, actor (He's My Girl)
Lila Murillo, Maricibo, spanish singer
08141901
James Pitman, England, educator/publisher/phonetic speller
08141903
John Ringling North, circus director
Ronald Stewart, CEO (London Brick Co)
08141908
Lady Jean Swaythling, chief controller (ATS)
08141911
Pieter Platteel, last governor Neth New-Guinea
08141913
Fred Davis, snooker player
08141914
Sydney Wooderson, miler (world record 1937)
08141915
Lord Mishcon, economist
08141916
Andrew Kay, surgeon/professor of surgery (U of Glasgow)
08141920
Nehemiah Persoff, actor (Al Capone, Yentl)
08141924
Georges Prtre, Waziers France, conductor (NY Met)
08141925
Russell Baker, columnist/humorist (NY Times)
08141926
Alice Adams, US author
Alice Ghostley, Montana, actress (Bewitched, Designing Women)
Buddy Greco, Phila Pa, jazz singer (Away We Go, Broadway Open House)
08141927
Lord Whaddon, CEO (Daltrade & Skorimpex-Rind)
08141929
Hewlett Thompson, Bishop of Exeter
Louise M Slaughter, (Rep-D-New York)
Oliver Neville, principal (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts)
08141930
Earl Weaver, St Louis Mo, manager (Balt Orioles 1968-82, 85-86)
Gerald B H Solomon, (Rep-R-New York, 1979-  )
Lord Chorley, mountaineering enthusiast
08141931
Frederic Raphael, writer (After the War, California Time)
08141932
Dom Philip Jebb, headmaster (Downside School Great Britain)
James V Hansen, (Rep-R-Utah, 1981-  )
08141934
Robin McLaren, British ambassador (China)
08141938
Stuart McKinnon, high court judge
08141940
Dash Crofts, Cisco Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)
08141941
Connie Smith, Elkhart, Indiana, singer (Dream Painter, New Horizons)
David Crosby, rocker (Crosby, Stills & Nash-Southern Cross)
08141942
Sandy Gilmour, Montclair NJ, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday)
08141943
Barrie Leadbeater, cricket umpire
Jon A McBride, Charleston WV, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 41G)
Keith Hampson, MP
Ronald Campbell, MP
08141944
Robyn Smith Astaire, jockey/wife of Fred Astaire
08141945
Jennifer d'Abo, CEO (Ryman, Moyses Stevens)
Steve Martin, Waco Tx, comedian (The Jerk, Man With 2 Brains)
Tony Scannell, actor [or 1932]
08141946
Alexander Curly, [Harm Breemer], artist
Antonio Fargas, Bronx NY, actor (Huggy Bear-Starsky & Hutch)
Larry Graham Jr, rocker (Graham Central Station-One in a Million You)
Marga van Prag, radio hostess
08141952
Deborah Elizabeth Meyer, Fair Oaks Calif, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-68)
Mark C Lee, Viroqua Wisconsin, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 30, 47)
08141956
Sharon Bryant, vocalist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
08141957
Jackee [Harry], Winston-Salem NC, actress (Sandra-227)
08141959
Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Mich, NBA Forward (LA Lakers/Olympic-gold-92)
08141961
Sarah Brightman, actress/singer (Phantom of the Opera)
Susan Olson, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Cindy-Brady Bunch)
08141965
Emmanuelle Bart, St Tropez France, actress (Manon of the Spring)
Lynette Falls, Ridgewood NJ, Miss NJ-America-1991
08141968
Halle Berry, Cleve Ohio, Miss World USA (1986)/actress (Boomerang)
08151432
Luigi Pulci, Italy, poet (Morgante)
08151688
Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)
08151769
Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba (emperor 1804-13, 1814-15)
08151771
Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake)
08151782
Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary (Souvenirs)
08151785
Thomas De Quincey, Eng, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater)
08151794
Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (System mycologicum)
08151803
James Douglas, father of British Columbia
08151823
Orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
08151845
Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast)
08151856
J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament
08151860
Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady (1921-23)
08151874
Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert
08151875
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)
08151876
Aleksandar Belic, Swedish linguist
08151878
Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general/commanding white legers
08151879
Ethel Barrymore, Phila, actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green)
08151887
Edna Ferber, US, author (American Beauty, Cimarron)
08151888
T.E. Lawrence Tremadoc, [Lawrence of Arabia], Wales, soldier/writer
08151890
Jacques Ibert, Paris France, composer (Escales)
08151892
Louis-Victor due de Broglie, France, physicist (Nobel 1929)
08151893
Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8)
08151898
Lillian Carter, Pres Carter's (1977-1981) mom
081519--
Jim Lange, St Paul Mn, TV host (Dating Game, Name the Tune)
Jonathan Daniel, rocker (Electric Angels-I Believe, Whiplash)
Lila Morillo, spanish entertainer
Matt Kramer, rocker (Saigon Kick-New World)
Tom Williams, Chicago Ill, actor (Nobody's Perfect)
08151901
Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama (1940-41, 49-51, 68)
08151902
Jan RT Campert, writer (Song the 18 dead)
08151904
Bill Baird, Grand Is Nebr, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie, Muppet Show)
08151910
Josef Klaus, Chancellor of Austria (1966-70)
08151912
Julia Child, Pasadena Calif, chef (French Chef)
Wendy Hiller, England, actress (Major Barbara, David Copperfield)
08151915
Alma Gardeslan, Surinamese folk lorist
Signe Hasso, Switzerland, actress (Double Life)
08151920
Huntz Hall, actor (Cyclone, Gas Pump Girls, The Rating Game)
08151922
Lukas Foss (Fuchs), Berlin Germany, composer (Prairie)
08151923
Rose Marie, NYC, actress (Sally Rogers-Dick Van Dyke Show)
Simon Peres, [Persky], premier of Israel
08151924
Phyllis Schlafly, St Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president
Robert Bolt, playwright (Man for All Seasons, Dr Zhivago)
08151925
Mike Connors, Fresno Calif, actor (Joe Mannix-Mannix, Night Kill)
08151926
Georgiann Johnson, Decorah Iowa, actress (Marge-Mr Peepers)
08151931
Janice Rule, Norwood Ohio, actress (Alvarez Kelly, Doctor's Wife)
08151932
Robert L[ull] Forward, US, sci-fi author (Dragon's Egg, Starquake)
08151933
Lori Nelson, Santa Fe NM, actress (Greta-How to Marry a Millionaire)
08151935
Abby Dalton, Las Vegas NV, actress (Joey Bishop Show)
Jim Dale, Broadway entertainer (Barnum, My One & Only)
Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr, civil rights activist
08151937
Ronnie G Flippo, (Rep-D-NY, 1977-  )
08151938
Maxine Waters, (Rep-D-California)
08151939
H Onno C R Ruding, director (Amrobank)/Dutch Financial minister (CDA)
Herman of Keeken, singer (Daddy run not so fast)
08151941
Don Rich, Olympia Wash, guitarist/country singer (Hee Haw)
08151943
Barbara Bouchet, Reichenberg Czech, actress (Casino Royale)
Eni F H Faleomavaega, (Rep-D-American Samoa)
08151944
Linda Ellerbee, Bryan Texas, newscaster (NBC News Overnight)
08151945
Gene Upshaw, NFL guard (Oakland), NFLPA leader
Thomas C Sawyer, (Rep-D-Ohio)
08151946
Jimmy Webb, Elk City Okla, songwriter (MacArthur Park, Up Up & Away)
Kathryn Jean Whitmire, Houston Texas, (4 time Mayor-Houston)
08151947
Geraldo Velez, jazz congas (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, Macon Ga, USN/astro (STS 33)
08151949
Ann Ryerson, Wisc, actress (Pvt Carol Winter-Pvt Benjamin)
08151950
Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor, England, Princess
Tess Harper, actress (Amityville 3D, Tender Mercies)
Thomas Aldrich, country performer (Black Oak Arkansas)
08151952
Ger Hoeymakers, guitarist (Franc Boeen Group)
08151955
Kenneth Carr, Clearwater Fla, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
Larry Mathews, Burbank Calif, actor (Ritchie-Dick Van Dyke Show)
08151957
Zeljko Ivanek, Yugoslavia, actor (Mass Appeal)
08151960
Maureen "Peanut" Louie Harper, SF, tennis player (Denver-1985)
Tommy Aldridge, heavy metal rocker (Ozzy-Diary of a Mad Man)
08151961
Matt Johnson, rocker (The The-Infected Soul Mining)
08151964
MCA [Adam Yauch], rocker (The Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight)
08151967
Moulay Brahim Boutaib, Morocco, 10k runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
08161622
Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian
08161666
Henritte Amalia, monarch of Nassau-Dietz
08161763
Frederick of York, English duke/bishop of Osnabrck
08161817
Henry Winter Davis, MC (Union), died in 1865
08161828
Joseph Bradford Carr, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
08161831
Edward Payson Chapin, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
08161832
Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher
08161837
Emile AH Seipgens, priest/brewery/literature
08161845
Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist
08161846
Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/writer/head of red guard
08161860
Jules Laforgue, Uruguay, French poet (Les Complaintas)
08161862
Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor (tackling dummy)
08161863
Gabriel Piern, Metz France, composer (Edith)
08161867
Ant¢nio Nobre, Portuguese poet (Lonely)
08161868
Bernard MacFadden, publisher (Physical Culture, True Romances)
08161874
Arthur Meighen, Canada, PM of Canada (1920, 21, 26)
08161882
Pierre H Ritter Jr, literary/head (Utrecht Newspaper)
08161884
Adrian S Oppenheim, lawyer/adviser (British Pretroleum/Shell)
Hugo Gernsback, sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo)
08161892
Harold Foster, cartoonist (created "Prince Valiant")
08161894
George Meany, NYC, labor leader (headed AFL-CIO)
08161895
Lucien Littlefield, San Antonia Tx, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie)
08161897
Robert Ringling, circus master
08161899
Glenn Strange, Weed NM, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke)
08161902
Georgette Heyer, England, novelist (Friday's Child)
08161904
Wendell Stanley, biochemist, 1st to crystallize a virus (Nobel 1946)
08161906
Franz Josef II, prince of Liechtenstein (1938-  )
08161910
Mae Clarke, Phila, actress (Frankenstein, Nana, Parole Girl)
08161912
Marga AM Klomp, 1st Netherland woman elected minister
08161913
Menachem Begin, Israeli PM (1977-83, Nobel 1978)
08161914
Tullio Pandolfini Italy, water polo (Olympic-gold-1948)
08161917
Roque Cordero, Panama, composer (Sonata Breve)
08161920
Charles Bukowski, US writer (Hollywood: A Novel)
08161922
Louis E Lomax, author
08161925
Fess Parker, Fort Worth Texas, actor (Davy Crockett, Old Yeller)
08161928
Ann Blyth, Mt Kisko NY, actress (Kismet, Mildred Pierce)
08161930
Frank Gifford, Calif, NFL halfback (NY Giants)/ABC sportscaster
Robert Culp, Berkley Calif, actor (I Spy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
Ted Hughes, England, poet laureate (1984-  )
Tony Trabert, tennis pro (1955 Wimbeldon)
08161931
Betsy Von Frstenberg, Germany, stage actress (Gingerbread Lady)
08161932
Eydie Gorme, [Edithe Gormezano], Bronx NY, singer (Bossa Nova)
Jon Lindbergh, 2nd son of aviator Charles Lindbergh
08161933
Stuart A "Smokey" Roosa, Durango Colo, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 14)
08161934
Diana Wynne Jones, UK, sci-fi author (Drowned Ammet, Witch Week)
Ed van Thn, foreign minister/mayor (Amsterdam)
John Standing, London England, actor (Edward-Lime Street)
08161935
Julie Newmar, Hollywood Calif, actress (Catwoman-Batman, Living Doll)
08161936
Anita Gillette, Balt Md, actress (Quincy ME, Marathon, Moonstruck)
Gary Clarke, LA Calif, actor (Hondo, Virginian, Michael Shayne)
08161938
Andr s Balcz¢, Hungary, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1972)
Ketty Lester, Hope Ark, actress (Hester-Little House on the Prairie)
08161939
Carol Shelley, London, actress (Gwendolyn Pidgeon-Odd Couple)
Valeri V Ryumin, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32)
Wim Meer, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
08161942
John Meulendks, cryptogram maker (People's newspaper)
08161943
Pedro Chapp-Garc¡a, Havana, basketball player (Olympic-bronze-1972)
08161944
Dick Zimmer, (Rep-R-New Jersey)
08161945
Kevin Ayers, England, progressive rocker (Joy of a Toy)
Robert Balaban, Chicago, actor (Absence of Malice, Altered States)
Snowy Fleet, rocker (Easybeats)
Suzanne Farrell, Cincinatti, dancer (Don Quioxote)
08161946
Lesley Ann Warren, NYC, actress (Cinderella, Mission Impossible)
08161947
Carol Moseley-Braun, (Sen-D Illinois)
John Howard, (US), speed record (152.284 mph at Bonneville Flats, UT)
08161948
Barry Hay, singer/fluitist/saxophonist/guitarist (Golden Earring)
08161949
Bill Spooner, rocker (Tubes)
08161950
Hasely Crawford, Trinidad, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
08161952
Gianna Rolandi, NYC, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier)
Reginald Veljohnson, actor (Carl Winslow-Family Matters, Die Hard)
08161953
Catlin O'Heaney, Whitefish Bay Wisc, actress (Snow White-Charmings)
James Taylor, rocker (Kool & The Gang-Joanna)
Kathie Lee Gifford, Paris Fla, hostess (Live with Regis & Kathie Lee)
Nick Leyva, baseball manager (Phillies 1988-91)
08161957
Tim Farriss, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
08161958
Jonathan Prince, Beverly Hills Pa, actor (Danny-Alice)
Madonna, [Ciccone], Bay City Mich, singer/actress (Like a Virgin)
Peter "Jeff" K Wisoff, Norfolk VA, Phd/Astronaut (SK:STS 57)
08161960
Timothy Hutton, actor (Turk 182, Ordinary People)
08161964
Jimmy Arias, Buffalo NY, tennis player (US Davis Cup team)
08161988
Rumer Willis, child of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
08171601
Pierre de Fermat, mathematician who needed wider margins
08171786
Davy Crockett, US, frontiersman/adventurer/politician (Alamo)
08171819
James Henry Van Alen, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
08171839
Ths [Matths] Maris, painter/etcher
08171840
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer (Irish Land League)
08171844
Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913)
08171851
Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist
08171870
Frederick Russell, developed 1st successful typhoid fever vaccine
08171876
Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations (1919-33)
Henri G Winkelman, general/supreme commander/navy 1940
Theodor Dubler, German writer (Northern Lights)
08171885
Clara [G Meer-]Wichmann, German anarchists/feminist (Wife & society)
08171887
Charles I, last emperor of Austria-Hungary (1916-18)
Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks
08171888
Monty Wooley, NYC, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner)
08171890
Harry L Hopkins, US politician (Loan & Lease law)
08171892
Mae West, Bkln, actress (Go up & see her sometime, Klondike Annie
08171894
Johan Polet, sculptor
08171896
Henry P De Vries, painter/poet (Laws of the Americas)
08171898
Gerard Schmook, Flemish librarian/historian/custodian
081719--
Emily Schulain
Guy Killum, LA Calif, actor (Snake-Better Days)
Julianna McCarthy, actress (Young & Restless)
Kathy McNeil, actress (As the World Turns)
Kenji Hino, rocker (RU Ready)
Steven Gorman, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
08171900
Quincy Howe, Boston Mass, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
08171901
Henri Tomasi, Marseilles France, composer (Don Juan de Ma¤ara)
08171905
John Hay Whitney, publisher (NY Herald Trib 1961-67)
08171910
J A Manusama, Moluccan politician
08171911
Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince
Jan L Cantens, Flemish poet (Puppet Uprising)
08171912
Edgar Fernhout, painter/son of Charley Toorop
08171914
Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, son of FDR/(Rep-D-NY, 1949-55)
08171917
P Roger Peyrefitte, French writer (Singular Love)
08171918
Mort Marshall, NYC, actor (Cully-Dumplings)
08171920
Georgia Gibbs, Worcester Mass, singer (Ballin the Jack, Kiss of Fire)
08171921
Maureen O'Hara, [Fitzsimmons], Dublin, actress (Miracle on 34th St)
08171922
Ralph Roberts, NC, actor (Tradition, Gone are the Days)
08171923
Larry Rivers, modern/abstract painter (Wash crossing Delaware-1953)
08171925
John Hawkes, US writer (2nd Skin)
08171926
Haakon Barfod, Norway, yachting (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
Jean Poiret, French actor/writer (Le Dernier Metro)
08171927
Robert Moore, Detroit Mich, actor (Marshall-Diana)
08171928
Willem Duys, Dutch radio/TV host
08171929
Francis Gary Powers, US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident)
08171931
Alain Mimoun O'Kacha, France, marathon runner (Olympic-gold-1956)
08171932
Chet Allen, Chickasha Okla, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter)
V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist (Middle Passage)
Vidiadhar S Naipaul, British writer (In a free country)
08171939
Luther Allison, Arkansas, guitarist (Bad News is Coming)
08171940
David E Price, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
Thomas Williams, US, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1960)
08171941
Boog Powell, baseball player (AL MVP 1970)
Ibrahim Babangida, president of Nigeria (1985-  )
08171943
Koos Postema, editor in chief (Free People)/Dutch TV host
Robert De Niro, NYC, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Taxi Driver)
Yukio Kasaya, Japan, 70m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
08171946
Hans Vandenburg, singer/guitarist (Gruppo sportivo)
08171947
Gary Talley, rocker (Box Tops)
08171949
Sib Hashlan, rocker (Boston)
08171951
Alan Minter, England, light-middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972)
08171952
Kathryn C Thornton, Montgomery Alabama, PhD/astronaut (STS 33, 49)
08171953
Kevin Rowlands, rocker (Dexy's Midnight Runners-Come on Eileen)
08171958
Belinda Carlisle, Hollywood Ca, (GoGos lead singer, Heaven on Earth)
08171960
Sean Penn, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
08171963
Carmen Berg, Bismark ND, playmate (July, 1987)
08171965
Glen Goldsmith, rocker (What You See is What You Get)
08171969
Donald E Wahlberg, Jr, Boston, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
08171970
Jim Courier, tennis champ
0818 472
Flavius Ricimer, general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker
08181450
Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pechinich, Croatian poet
08181579
Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I of Orange
08181587
Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents
08181685
Brook Taylor, England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem
08181750
Antonio Salieri, Italy, composer (Tatare)
08181774
Meriwether Lewis, US explorer (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
08181778
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica
08181792
John, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig PM (1846-52, 1865-66)
08181805
Josef Danhauser, Austrian painter (Mutterliebe)
08181807
Charles Francis Adams, (Union), died in 1886
08181813
Benjamin Alvord, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1884
08181818
William Farquhar Barry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
08181834
Marshall Field, founded Chicago-based store chain
08181873
Leo Slezak, Austria tenor/actor (Othello)
Otto Harbach, songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes)
08181896
Alan Mowbray, London England, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack)
081819--
Karen Jensen, SF Calif, actress (Rachel Holt-Bracken's World)
Taylor Miller, New Orleans, actress (All My Children, Another World)
08181900
Walter O'Keefe, Hartford Ct, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood)
08181904
Max Factor Jr, CEO (Max Factor Cosmetics)
Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY)
08181905
Peter Kreuder, German composer
08181906
Andre Van Gyseghem, England, actor (Search for the Nile)
08181907
Enoch Light, Canton Ohio, orch leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith)
08181908
Armn Pane, Indonesian writer (Belenggu)
Edgar Faure, premier France
08181916
Elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo)
Moura Lympany, Saltash England, pianist (OBE-1979)
08181917
Casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87)
08181919
Walter J Hickel, (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary of Interior (1969-71)
08181922
Alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur)
Shelley Winters, [Schrift], St Louis Mo, actress (Poisidon Adventure)
08181924
Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1978-88)
08181925
Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy)
08181927
Rosalynn Carter, Georgia, 1st lady (1977-1981), Jimmy's main lust
08181930
Carl Barger, Lewistown Pa, baseball pres (Pitts Pirates, Fla Marlins)
Grant Williams, NYC, actor (Greg-Hawaiian Eye)
Johnny Preston, Port Arthur, Tx, rocker (Feel So Fine)
08181931
Hans van Mierlo, Dutch 2nd Chamber member/vice-premier (D66)
08181933
Roman Polanski, Poland, director (Knife in the Water, Repulsion)
08181934
Rafer Lewis Johnson, Hillsboro Tx, decathlete (Olympic-gold-1960)
Roberto Clemente, US baseball outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
08181935
Gail Fisher, Orange NJ, actress (Peggy-Mannix)
08181937
Robert Redford, Calif, actor (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby)
08181941
Christopher Jones, Jackson TN, actor (Wild in the Streets)
08181943
Martin Mull, Chic Ill, actor/comedian (Bad Manners, Flick, Serial)
08181944
Carl Wayne, rocker (Move)
08181945
Nona Hendryx, Trenton NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
08181948
Rudy Hartono Kurniawan, Indonesia, All-England tennis champ
08181950
Dennis Elliot, rocker (Foreigner)
08181951
Candice Earley, actress (Donna Tyler-All My Children)
08181952
Patrick Swayze, Houston Tx, actor/dancer (Dirty Dancing, Ghost)
08181958
Madeleine Stowe, actress (Ruth-Gangster Chronicles)
08181961
John Viscardi, NYC, actor (Father Tony-One Life to Live)
08181967
Blas Elias Gomez, Kennedy TX, rock drummer (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
Tracy Tracy, rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal)
08181968
Greta Lind, actress (Katie Kennicott-All My Children)
08181970
Malcolm Jamal Warner, Jersey City NJ, actor (Theodore-Cosby Show)
08181971
Trey Ames, Canton Oh, actor (David-A Year in the Life)
08191398
I¤igo L¢pez, Spain, marques de Santillana, poet (Comedieta de Ponza)
08191521
Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian (Descrittione di tutti)
08191558
Paulus Merula, lawyer/historian
08191631
John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England (Absalom & Achitophel)
08191646
John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England
08191689
Samuel Richardson, English novelist (Pamela) (baptized)
08191785
Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks
08191815
John Porter McCown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
08191831
Stephen Gano Burbridge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
08191844
Minna Canth, Finland, novelist/playwright (social evils)
08191851
French Schollaert, Belgian politician
08191858
Edith Nesbit, England, children books author (Railway Children)
Ludwig Wllner, German actor/baritone
08191859
Charles Comiskey, 1st basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox)
Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian
08191860
John Kane, Scottish-born US primitivist painter (Self-Portrait)
08191870
Bernard Baruch, financier/presidential adviser (Cold War)
08191871
Orville Wright, aviator (Wright Brothers)
08191878
Manuel Quezon, 1st president of Philippine Commonwealth (1935-42)
08191881
Georges Enesco (or Enescu), Romania, composer (Romanian Dances)
08191889
Arthur Waley, sinologist, translator from Chinese & Japanese
08191890
Yves Alix, French painter/graphic artist
08191892
Alfred Lunt, Broadway actor (Emmy 1965)
081919--
Frank Telfer, actor (As the World Turns)
Matthew L Perry, actor (Chazz Russell-2nd Chance)
Michael Goodwin, Virginia Minn, actor (Strike Force, Hamptons)
Sandro, spanish entertainer
08191902
Ogden Nash, Rye NY, humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself)
08191903
Claude Dauphin, Corbell France, actor (April in Paris, Deported)
James Gould Cozzens, US, novelist (1949 Pulitzer-Guard of Honor)
08191906
Philo T Farnsworth, Beaver Utah, inventor (electronic TV)
08191907
June Collyer, NYC, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show)
Thurston Morton, (Sen-Ky, 1957-1969)
08191909
Jerzy Andrzejewski, Warsaw Poland, writer (Ashes & Diamonds)
08191913
Walter B Jones, (Rep-D-NC, 1966-  )
08191915
Lardner Ring Jr, Chicago, screenwriter (Woman of the Year)
08191916
Marie Wilson, Anaheim Calif, actress (My Friend Irma)
08191919
Malcolm Forbes, publisher (Forbes Magazine)
08191920
Lucila English-Boskaljon, Curaao painter
08191921
Gene Roddenberry, executive producer (Star Trek)
Philip A Potter, Dominica sec-gen World council of Churches
08191924
William Marshall, Gary Ind, actor (Blacula, Something of Value)
08191927
James T Broyhill, (Sen-R-NC, 1986)
08191930
D[avid] G[uy] Compton, UK, sci-fi author (Synthajoy, Radio Plays)
08191931
Willie Shoemaker, jockey (In 1956 he won $2 million)
08191933
Debra Paget, actress (Anne of the Indies, Love Me Tender)
08191934
Bill Cleary, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
David F Durenberger, Minn, (Sen-R-MN, 1978-  )
Renee Richards, [Richard Rankind], trans-sexual tennis player
08191935
Bobby Richardson, SC, 2nd baseman (NY Yankees)
F Story Musgrave, Boston, MD/astronaut (STS 6, 51-F, 33, 44)
08191938
Diana Muldaur, actress (McCloud, Star Trek Next Generation, LA Law)
Valentin Mankin, USSR, finn class yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968)
08191939
Ginger [Peter] Baker, England, drummer (Cream-White Room)
08191940
Jill St John, [Oppenheim], LA Calif, actress (Diamonds are Forever)
Johnny Nash, Houston, Tx, rocker (I Can See Clearly Now)
08191943
Billy J Kramer, Liverpool, rocker (The Dakotas-Bad to Me)
Diana Muldaur, NYC, actress (McCloud, Survivors, Hizzoner)
08191945
Ian Gillian, heavy metal rocker (Deep Purple-Knocking at Backdoor)
08191946
Charles F Bolden Jr, Columbia SC, astronaut (STS 61C, 31, STS 45)
08191947
Gerald McRaney, Collins Miss, actor (Simon & Simon, Major Dad)
08191949
Bill Clinton, Pres (D, 1993-  )
08191951
John Deacon, rocker (Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody)
Randi Oakes, Randalia Iowa, actress (Officer Bonnie Clark-CHiPs)
08191952
Jonathan Frakes, actor (Commander William T Riker-Star Trek Next Gen)
08191953
Johan F de Leeuw, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
08191955
Peter Gallagher, actor
08191956
Adam Arkin, Bkln, actor (Busting Loose, Pearl, Northern Exposure)
Cindy Nelson, US, skier (Olympic-bronze-1976)
08191957
Darby Hinton, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Israel-Daniel Boone)
08191959
Steve Grimmett, heavy metal rocker
08191960
Ron Darling, Hawaii, baseball pitcher (NY Mets)
08191962
Valerie Kaprisky, Paris France, actress (Breathless, Public Woman)
08191963
Joey Tempest, rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
John Stamos, Cypress Calif, actor (General Hospital, Full House)
08191965
Kevin Dillon, actor (Heaven Help Us, Remote Control, Platoon)
08191967
Jason Starsky, son of Beatle Ringo
Tabitha Soren, San Antonio Texas, MTV reporter (This Week in Rock)
08191969
Christian Slater, actor (Legend of Billie Jean)
08191970
Matthew Perry, actor (Sydney)
08191971
Tricia Ann Luedtke, Oostburg Wisc, Miss Wisc-America-1991
08201601
Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician
08201625
Thomas Corneille, French playwright
08201710
Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rules of Simpson)
08201778
Bernardo O'Higgins, won independence for Chile
08201779
Freiherr Jns J Berzelius, Swedish chemist (atomic weight)
08201785
Oliver Hazard Perry, US Naval hero ("We have met the enemy")
08201802
Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1867
08201811
Gilman Marston, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
08201824
Absalom Baird, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1905
08201832
Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, inventor, died in 1913
08201833
Benjamin Harrison, North Bend Ohio, (R) 23rd Pres (1889-1893)
08201842
Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter
08201860
Raymond Poincar, France, president/PM (1912)
08201873
Eliel Saarinen, Finland, architect (GM Tech Institute, Mich)
08201881
Edgar Albert Guest, Detroit Mich, poet/newspaperman
08201886
Paul Tillich, German/US theologist (Die sozial Entscheidung)
08201890
H.P. Lovecraft, US, Gothic novelist (At the Mountains of Madness)
08201897
Tarjei Vesaas, Norse author (Det Store Spelet)
08201898
G Kraus, director Santpoort (Insanity in Netherlands)
082019--
"Diamond" Darrell, rocker (Pantera-Cowboys From Hell)
Louis Svitek, rocker (Mind Funk-Sugar Aint So Sweet, Fire)
Norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital)
Peter Davies, actor (Loving)
Phyllis Lyons, actress (Arlene Vaughan-All My Children)
08201901
Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959)
08201904
Jap [Jacob AW] Burger, chairman (PvdA)
08201905
Jack [Weldon J] Teagarden, US trombonist/actor (Meet Band Leaders)
08201907
Alan Reed, NYC, actor (Mr Adams & Eve/voice (Fred Flintstone)
Shirley Booth, NYC, actress (Hazel-Hazel, A Touch of Grace)
08201908
Alfonso Lopez, baseball player (AL Manager of the year 1959)
08201910
Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (IBM Building, MIT Chapel)
08201911
Ronald Udell, England, production designer (Pinewood Studios)
08201920
Istv n Sziv¢s, Hungary, water polo player (Olympic-gold-1976)
08201921
Jacqueline Susann, Phila Pa, author (Valley of the Dolls)
08201931
Bernhard Becher, photographer (industrialist builder 19th/20th)
Don King, boxing promoter, shocking hairstyle
08201933
Don Fuqua, (Rep-D-FL, 1963-86)
George J Mitchell, (Sen-D-ME, 1980-  /Senate Whip 1989-  )
Larry Robideaux, horse trainer
08201935
Justin Tubb, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
08201937
Corrie E Moret-de Jong, Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (CDA)
George Thoma, German FR, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1960)
08201938
Jean-Loup Chrtien, 1st French traveler in space (on Soyuz T-6)
08201940
Sam Melville, Utah, actor (Mike Danko-Rookies, Roughnecks)
08201941
Slobodan Milocevic, premier Serbia
William H Gray III, Baton Rouge La, (Rep-D-PA, 1978-  )
08201942
Hans-Joachim Klein, German FR, 100m swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1964)
Isaac Hayes, composer (Shaft)
08201943
Robert Plant, rocker (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
08201944
Graig Nettles, 3rd baseman (NY Yankees, SD Padres, Cleve Indians)
Rajiv Gandhi, PM of India (1984-  )
08201946
Connie Chung, TV newscaster (NBC, CBS)
08201951
Greg[ory] [Dale] Bear, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Eon, Eternity)
Svetlana Oktyabrevna Omelchenko, Russia, cosmonaut
08201952
John Hiatt, US singer/songwriter
Rudy Gatlin, country singer (Gatlin Brothers)
08201953
Peter Horton, Bellevue Wash, actor (Gary-30 Something)
08201954
William Quinn Buckner, Phoenix Ill, basketballer (Olympic-gold-1976)
08201955
Jay Acovone, Mahopac NY, actor (Det Rado-Hollywood Beat)
Rob Wiedk, singer (Bob Color)
08201956
Joan Allen, US actress(?)
08201957
Cindy Nicholas, Canada, swimmer, swam English Channel 19 times
Jim "Bullseye" Bowen, British TV game show host
08201958
Lenny Henry, British comedian (3 of a Kind)
08201959
Richard DeStasio, horse trainer
08201960
Elizabeth Alda, daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Beth-Four Seasons)
Troy Young, horse trainer
08201961
Linda Mantz, NYC, actress (Frankie-Dorothy)
Rick Rael, heavy metal rocker
08201964
Giuseppe Giannini, Rome Italy, soccer player (Rome A Team)
08201965
Joe Durigon, jockey
08201966
Courtney Gibbs, Miss USA (1988)/actress (Baywatch)
08201969
Francisco Torres, jockey
08201971
Ke Huy Quan, Saigon Vietnam, actor (Sam-Together We Stand)
08201979
Frank J Guarini, (Rep-D-NJ, 1979-  )
08201980
Corey Carrier, actor (Young Indiana Jones)
08211165
Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)
08211567
Franois de Sales, French bishop of Genevea/writer/saint
08211579
Henri II, Duke de Rohan-Gi, French hugenot leader
08211643
Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)
08211660
Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building
08211765
William IV, king of England (1830-37)
08211780
Jernej Kopitar, Slavic filmologist/censor (Slavic Grammar)
08211789
Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician
08211798
Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour)
08211801
Guillaume Groen van Princeterer, statesman/historian
08211810
Thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
08211821
William Barksdale, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
08211824
John Sanford Mason, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
08211847
Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader
08211871
Leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist/writer (Red Laugh)
08211872
Aubrey Beardsley, England, artist (Salome)
08211875
Maurice Lippens, Belgian earl/minister/governor of Congo
08211880
Johan H Westerveld, leader OD (Order Service) WW II
08211890
Bill Henry, SF Calif, newscaster (Who Said That?)
08211896
Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Rose of Jericho)
Roark Bradford, writer/humorist (Ol' Man Adan an' His Chillun)
082119--
Callan White, actor (Loving)
Steve Nathan, Buffalo NY, actor (Allan-Busting Loose)
Tammy Amerson, actress (Mari Lynn-One Life to Live)
08211904
William "Count" Basie, Red Bank NJ, jazz musician (Blazing Saddles)
08211906
Friz Freleng, animator (Bugs Bunny-Emmy 1982)
08211907
Dr Roy K Marshall, Glen Carbon Ill, TV scientist (Nature of Things)
08211909
C Dillon Douglas, Geneva Switz, US Secretary of Treasury (1961-65)
08211913
Cornelius Johnson, LA Calif, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1936)
08211915
Jack Weston, [Morris Weinstein], Cleveland, actor (4 Seasons, Rad)
08211920
Christopher R Milne, son of Alan A Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
08211921
Nancy Kulp, Harrisburg Pa, actress (Jane-Beverly Hillbillies)
08211923
Chris Shenkel, Biuppus Ind, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights)
08211928
Gillian Sheen, England, foils (Olympic-gold-1956)
08211930
Princess Margaret, England (Sister of Queen Elizabeth)
08211931
Nancy Hadley, LA Calif, actress (Love That Jill, Joey Bishop Show)
08211933
Chris Schenkel, sportscaster (Boxing from St Nicholas Arena)
Dame Janet Baker, York England, mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave)
08211936
Mart Crowley, playwright (Boys in the Band)
Wilt Chamberlain, NBA great center (LA Laker, 5 time MVP)
08211937
Robert Stone, US writer
08211938
Kenny Rogers, singer (Through the Years)/actor (Coward of the County)
08211939
Clarence Williams III, NYC, actor (Mod Squad, 52 Pick Up, Purple Rain)
08211940
Robert Camac, horse trainer
08211944
Jackie DeShannon, Hazel Kentucky, singer (What the World Needs Now)
08211945
Patty McCormack, Bkln NY, actress (Mama, Peck's Bad Girl, Ropers)
08211946
Lev Alburt, USSR, International Chess Master (1976)
08211948
Taurean Black, actor (Hill Street Blues)
08211951
Bernhard Germeshausen, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
Harry Smith, Indiana, TV host (CBS Morning Show)
08211953
Joe Strummer, [John Mellor], rocker (Clash-Rock the Casbah)
08211956
Kim Cattrall, Liverpool England, actress (Mannequin, Star Trek VI)
08211957
Budgie, rocker (Siouxsie & the Banshees-Wild Thing)
Janice Thomas, WBL guard (NY Stars)
Kim Sledge, Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family)
08211958
Dom Mamzi, horse trainer
08211959
Jim McMahon, NFL QB (Chicago Bears, SD Chargers, Phila Eagles)
08211962
Matthew Broderick, actor (Ferris Buehler, Biloxi Blues)
08211967
Michael Bendetti, actor (Officer Tony McCann-21 Jump Street)
08211979
David Osmond, Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys)
08221760
Leo XII, [Annibale Sermattei], Italy, Pope (1823-29)
08221788
Thomas Tredgold, engineer/carpenter
08221822
George Stoneman, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
08221827
Josef Strauss, Austria, composer (Dorfschwalben aus Austria)
Joseph Anthony Mower, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1870
08221834
Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brig General (Confederate Army)
08221836
Archibald M Willard, US, artist (Spirit of '76)
08221846
B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norway, writer (Hellemyrsfolket)
08221847
Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, composer
08221852
Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (La lotta politics in Italy)
08221854
Milan, King of Serbia
08221856
Friedrich Kstner, German astronomer
08221860
Gustaf Frding, poet
Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk)
08221862
Claude Debussy, St Germain-en-Laye, composer (La Mer, Clair de lune)
08221865
Piet A W Hopmans, bishop of Breda (Eucharistische Crusade)
08221891
Francis McDonald, Bowling Green Ky, actor (Will-Adv of Champion)
Jacques Lipchitz. painter/cubist sculptor
08221893
Dorothy Parker, US, short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award)
08221895
Paul White, Bangor Maine, composer (Adante & Rondo for Cello)
082219--
Debbie Peterson, rocker (Bangles-Walk Like an Egyptian)
Tricia Pursley, actress (All My Children)
08221900
Elizabeth Bergner, Vienna Austria, actress (Catherine the Great)
08221902
Leni Riefenstahl, [Helene Bertha Amalie], Germany, actress
08221903
Ren Wellek, Vienna Austria, writer (Concepts of Criticism)
08221904
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader (1976-1983)
08221909
Mel Hein, NFL center (NY Giants)
Stojan T Daskalov, Bulgaria, writer (Dvor Aone Farm)
08221911
Edith Atwater, Chic, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop)
08221917
John Lee Hooker, Mississippi, blues musician (Canned Heat)
08221919
Earl Cathcart, British major-general
Leo Pliatzky, senior civil servant
08221920
Anthony Tuke, CEO (Savoy Hotel Groups)
Denton Cooley, US, heart surgeon (1st artifical heart transplant)
Pierre A Lauffer, Antillian songwriter (Patria)
Ray[mond] [Douglas] Bradbury, Ill, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451)
08221921
James Menter, principal (Queen Mary College)
08221922
Micheline Presle, Paris, actress (Nea, Donkey Skin)
08221923
Gerald Long, journalist/CEO (Reuters)
08221924
Peter Allsop, publisher
08221926
Honor Blackman, London, actress (Pussy Galore-Goldfinger)
Marc Bohan, dress designer
08221928
John Lupton, Highland Park Ill, actor (Tom-Broken Arrow)
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mdrath Germany, composer (Kontrapunkte)
08221929
Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British (Lab) spokesperson on Home Affairs
08221932
Gerald P Carr, Denver Colorado, Col USMC/astronaut (Skylab 4)
08221933
Sylvia Koscina, actress (Jessica, Hercules)
08221934
Diana Sands, actress (Raisin in the Sun, Doctor's Wife)
Margaret Douglas, chief political adviser (BBC)
Norman Schwartzkopf, NJ, US General (Desert Storm 1991)
08221935
Morton Dean, Fall River Mass, TV newscaster (CBS, ABC)
Richard W Howard, Okla City Ok, 400m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1960)
08221936
Anne Downey, British circuit judge
08221937
Donald MacLeary, dancer
Max Hebditch, director (Museum of London)
08221939
Carl Yastrzemski, NY, Boston Red Sox great (1967 AL MVP, Hall of Fame)
08221940
David Vance, horse trainer
George Reinholt, Phila, (Another World, One Life to Live)
John Banham, director-general (CBI)
Valerie Harper, Sufferin NY, (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, Valerie)
08221941
Bill Parcells, NFL coach (NY Giants)/sportscaster (NBC)
08221942
Kathy Lennon, Santa Monica Calif, singer (Lennon Sisters)
08221943
Alun Michael, Labour MP
08221944
Henk Veldhoen, biochemist/Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (PvdA)
08221945
Derek Fatchett, Labour MP
James G Richardson, Gainesville Fla, actor (Tim Cassidy-Sierra)
Ron Dante, Staten Island NY, rocker (Archies-Sugar, Sugar)
08221946
Felix Meurders, radio host
08221947
Bud Cramer, (Rep-D-Alabama)
Cindy Williams, Van Nuys Calif, actress (Shirley-Laverne & Shirley)
08221948
Rob Buckman, British broadcaster
08221949
Diana Nyad, swimmer (1st to swim Bahamas to Fla-1979)
08221956
Jeff Lloyd, jockey
08221957
Randy Romero, Garden City NY, jockey (Breeder's Cup 1987-89)
Steve Davis, snooker player
08221958
Elhadjdia Ba, Dakar Senegal, hurdler (Olympic-silver-1988)
08221959
Denise Curry, Daivs Calif, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
Juan Croucier, heavy metal rocker (Ratt-Round & Round)
08221961
Roland Orzabal, singer (Tears for Fears-Shout, Head over Heels)
08221962
Marie Laurie Mahabir, Guadeloupe, N Amer Bodybuilding Champ (1985-87)
08221963
Terry Catledge, NBA star (Orlando Magic)
08221964
Mats Wilander, Sweden, tennis player (1988 US Open)
08221966
Mark Michaels, heavy metal guitarist (Teach Yourself Rhythm Guitar)
Rob Witschge, soccer star (Ajax/Feyenoord)
08221967
Curt Bourque, jockey
08221968
Paul Ereng, Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
08231524
Franois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat (Anti-Tribonien)
08231593
Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Pianto d'Italia)
08231740
Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia 1740-41)
08231751
Louis-Franois Beffara, lexicographer
08231754
Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France (1774-92); guillotined
08231773
Jakob F Fries, German philosopher
08231785
Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero
08231809
Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (Trip to H Land)
08231818
Rufus Ingalls, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1893
08231832
Alexander Chambers, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
08231864
Eleftherios K Venizalos, premier of Greece (1910-15, 28-32)
08231869
Edgar Lee Masters, poet/novelist
James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, SF mayor (1912-31), MUNI backer
08231885
Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist
08231887
Jo Sternheim, actor/playwright
082319--
Cathy St George, Norfolk Va, playmate (Aug, 1982)
Jennifer Holmes, Fall River Mass, actress (Leslie-Newhart)
Jimmy Ward, Ct, rocker (Steelheart-She's Gone)
Michael Davis, SF Calif, comedian/juggler (The News is the News)
08231900
Ernst Krenek, Vienna Austria, composer (Johnny Spielt Auf)
08231901
C H Rolph, [Cecil Rolph Hewitt], author
John Sherman Cooper, (Sen-Ky)
08231903
William Primrose, Glasgow Scot, violist (Method for Violin & Viola)
08231905
Leonard Constant Lambert, London England, composer (King Pest)
08231908
Arthur Adamov, Kislovodsk Russia, playwright (Paolo Paoli)
08231911
Birger Ruud, Norway, 90m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1932, 36)
Carl Dolmetsch, director (Haslemere Festival)
Elizabeth Robinson, US, 100m dash (Olympic-gold-1928)
08231912
Gene Kelly, Pitts, dancer/actor (An American in Paris, Going My Way)
Lord Kissin, president (GPG)
08231913
Bob Crosby, Spokane Wa, Bing's brother, orch leader (Bob Crosby Show)
Stanley Kitchen, British chartered accountant
08231916
Mary Ward, [Myra Syrir], actress
08231918
Gus [August CM] Hermus, actor
08231919
James Quinn, film producer/exhibitor
Robert Crichton-Brown, CEO (Rothmans International)
08231922
Brian Young, Chairman (Christian Aid)
Jack Boddy, British trade union leader
08231923
Pete Wilson, (Sen-R-CA, 1983-88)
Wolfgang Sawallisch, Munich Ger, conductor (Vienna Symph 1960-70)
08231927
Dick Bruna, illustrator
John Hoskyns, director-general (Institute of Directors)
08231929
Peter Thompson, golfer
08231930
Andy Ireland, (Rep-R-FL, 1977-  )
John Fairclough, British scientific adviser
Michel Rocard, Courbevoie France, Prime Minister of France
Vera Miles, actress (Psycho)
08231931
Richard Vincent, British chief of Defense
08231932
Mark Russell, Buffalo NY, political satirist/pianist (Real People)
08231933
Pete Wilson, (Sen-R-Calif)
08231934
Barbara Eden, [Huffman], Tucson Az, actress (Dream of Jeannie)
Christian "Sonny" Jurgensen, NFL QB (Eagles, Redskins)
08231935
Brendan Jackson, British air marshal
Roy Strong, writer/art historian/director (Victoria & Albert Museum)
08231938
Roger Greenaway, composer
08231939
Charles Wardle, MP/under sect of state British home office
John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH at Bonneville Salt Flats
Ronald (Ronny) A Casseres, minister of Dutch Antilles
08231940
Richard Sanders, Harrisburg Pa, actpr (Les-WKRP, Spencer, Berrengers)
Tony Bill, SD Cal, (Sam-What Really Happened to the Class of '65)
08231942
Nancy Richey Gunther, San Ant Tx, tennis player (US Doubles 1965, 66)
Patricia McBride, ballerina (NYC Ballet Co)
08231943
Bobby Diamond, LA Calif, actor (Duncan Gillis-Dobie Gillis)
Dale Campbell-Savours, MP (Lab)
Peter Lilley, MP/sect of state for British social security
08231944
Antonia Novello, US Surgeon General
08231947
Keith Moon, rocker (True Story of 200 Motels)
Rex Allen Jr, Chicago, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
Willy Russell, author/playwright
08231948
Ernst Jansz, singer (Doe Maar)
Ron Blomberg, 1st baseman (NY Yankees)/1st designated hitter
08231949
Christopher Blake, actor
Geoff Capes, shot putter
Pieter J Biesheuvel, lawyer/Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (CDA)
Rick Springfield, Australia, (General Hospital, Jessie's Girl)
Shelley Long, Fort Wayne Indiana, actress (Diane-Cheers, Money Pit)
08231951
Mark Hudson, Portland Ore, comedians (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)
Queen Noor, of Jordan
08231953
Bobby Gubby, rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
08231956
David A Wolf, Indianapolis Ind, MD/Astronaut (SK:STS 58)
Gerry Cooney, heavyweight boxer
08231960
Helen Rees, director (Design Museum)
08231963
Richard Illingworth, cricketer
08231966
Laura Richmond, Fort Dix NJ, playmate (Sep, 1988)
08231967
Nancy Jane Cox, Campbellsville Kentucky, Miss Kentucky-America-1991
08231970
River Phoenix, Madras Ore, actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me)
08241113
Geoffrey Plantagenet, France, conquered Normandy
08241210
Floris IV, Count of Holland
08241420
Albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichsttt)
08241591
Robert Herrick, England, poet (Gather ye rosebuds) (baptized)
08241750
M Laetitia Bonaparte-Ramolino [madame Mre], moither of Napoleon I
08241759
Wilbur Wilberforce, England, crusaded against slavery
08241787
James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)
08241808
Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army)
Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
08241816
Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables
08241827
Walter Husted Stevens, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
08241828
George Hume "Maryland" Steuart, Brig General (Confederate Army)
08241842
Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market)
08241865
Ferdinand I VAM, king of Romania
08241872
Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review)
08241880
Joshua L Cowen, inventor (electric train)
Miles W L Killearn, British diplomat
08241886
William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty ships
08241890
Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaii, 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1912, 20)
08241891
Germaine Loosveldt, Flemish actress (Kniertje in On hope)
08241894
Jean Rhys, [Ella Williams], Dominica, writer (Voyage in the Dark)
08241896
Phil Baker, Phila, comedian (Who's Whose)
08241898
Albert Claude, Belgium, physician (Nobel 1974)
Malcolm Cowley, Belsano Penn, author (Flowering of New England)
Marie J Hugenholtz, [Doctor Grandi], surgeon on Curaao
08241899
Johan J Fabricius, Romania, novelist (Island of Demons)
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, writer of fiction, essays (Labyrinths)
082419--
Carole Ita White, NYC, actress (Rosie-Laverne & Shirley)
Frank Runyeon, actor (As the World Turns)
Stephen Keep, Camden SC, actor (Les Kincaid-Flo)
Steve Hanks, Wadsworth Ohio, actor (B.A.D. Cats)
08241900
Preston Foster, Ocean City NJ, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger)
08241902
Fernand Braudel, French historian (Civililization & Capitalism)
08241911
Lo Ferr, French chansonnier/composer (Le silly-aim, L'amour)
08241912
Durward Kirby, Indianapolis Ind, TV announcer (Garry Moore Show)
08241915
Alice B[radley] Sheldon, US, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful)
08241917
Dennis James, Jersey City NJ, wrestling announcer/TV host (PDQ)
08241919
"Drs P" [Heinz H Polzer], Swiss/Neth writer/singer
08241922
Rne Lvesque, Quebec premier (1976-85)
08241923
Helena Carter, [Helen Rickerts], US model/actress (River Lady)
08241924
Louis Teicher, pianist (Ferante & Teicher-Exodus)
08241927
Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist
William V Shannon, journalist/ambassador to Ireland (1977-81)
08241936
William J Coyne, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania, 1981-  )
08241938
Mason Williams, Abilene Tx, writer (Smother Brothers Hour)
08241940
Don Cormier Sr, horse trainer
08241944
Gregory B Jarvis, Detroit Mich, astronaut (STS 25)
Jim Capaldi, English singer/songwriter (Traffic-Something So Strong)
08241946
Richard "Dick" N Richards, Key West Fl, USN/astr (STS 28, 41, 50)
08241949
Anna L Fisher, St Albans NY, MD/astronaut (STS 51-A)
Joe Regalbuto, Bkln NY, actor (Knots Landing, Frank-Murphy Brown)
08241951
Orson Scott Card, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Ender's War)
08241956
Gerry Cooney, heavyweight boxer (US Olympics team 1980)
08241958
Steve Guttenberg, Bkln NY, actor (Police Academy, Short Circuit)
08241960
David Guillory, jockey
08241961
Cal Ripkin Jr, all-star shortstop (Balt Orioles)
08241962
Mary E Weber, Cleveland Ohio, PhD/astronaut
08241963
John Bush, heavy metal rocker (Armoured Saint-Can U Deliver)
08241964
Pebbles, rocker (Girlfriend)
Salizhan Shakirovich Sharipov, Russia, major/cosmonaut
08241965
Casey Lambert, jockey
Marlee Matlin, Ill, deaf actress (Children of Lesser God-Acad Award)
08251530
Ivan IV (the Terrible), 1st tsar of Russia (1533-84)
08251724
George Stubbs, England, animal painter (House Frightened by Lion)
08251775
Charlotte J T, infant of Portugal (Court of Rio de Janeiro)
08251786
[Charles] Louis I, (Augustus), King of Bavaria (Lola Montez)
08251811
Joseph Dana Webster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
08251812
Percival Drayton, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1865
08251819
Allan Pinkerton, founded Chicago detective agency
08251823
John Newton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
08251825
Henry Warner Birge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
08251836
Bret Harte, US, author (Outcasts of Poker Flat)
08251841
Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist (Nobel 1909)
08251845
Ludwig II, mad king of Bavaria (1864-86)
08251846
Louise J Gautier, French poetess
08251860
George Fawcett, US actor (Intolerance)
08251880
Robert Stolz, Austrian composer/conductor (...smaller guard)
08251887
Friedrich Lbke, German politician
082519--
Morgan Englund, actor (Dylan Lewis-Guiding Light)
08251902
Stefan Wolpe, Berlin Germany, composer (Zeus & Elidco)
08251903
Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian/US psycho-analyst (Uses of Enchantment)
08251905
Clara Bow, silent movie actress (Wings, Down to the Sea in Ships)
08251906
Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician (CDU)
William J Brennan, Newark NJ, US supreme court justice (1957-90)
08251909
Michael Rennie, actor (The Robe, Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still)
Ruby Keeler, Halifax NS, dancer (Dames, 42nd Street)
08251910
J B Charles, [Willem H Nagel], criminologist/writer
Pierre Musy, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1936)
08251912
Erich Honecker, Germany, Pres (East Germany)
08251913
Walt Kelly, cartoonist, creator of "Pogo"
08251914
Alexei Haieff, Blagovestchensk Siberia, composer (Princess Zondilda)
08251915
Walter Trampler, Munich Germany, violist (Beaux Arts Trio)
08251916
Frederic Robbins, US bacteriologist
Van Johnson, Newport RI, actor (Brigadoon) always wore red socks
08251917
Don Defore, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (George-Hazel, Ozzie & Harriet)
Mel Ferrer, Elberon NJ, actor (Longest Day, Eaten Alive, 5th Floor)
08251918
Leonard Bernstein, conductor/composer/pianist/egotist
Richard Greene, Plymouth England, actor (Adv of Robin Hood)
08251919
George C Wallace, (gov-D-Ala) pres candidate
08251920
Jef Diederen, painter
08251921
Brian Moore, Ireland, novelist (Catholics, Doctor's Wife)
08251923
Monty Hall, Winnipeg Canada, TV game show host (Lets Make a Deal)
08251927
Althea Gibson, Silver SC, 1st black tennis champion in a major event
08251930
Graham Javis, Toronto Ontario, actor (Charlie-Mary Hartman)
Page Johnson, WV, actress (Passages from Finnegan's Wake)
Sean Connery, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (James Bond)
08251931
Regis Philbin, host (Joey Bishop Show, Live with Regis & Kathie Lee)
08251933
Tom Skerritt, Detroit Mich, actor (Ryan's Four, Alien, Big Bad Mama)
08251934
John Stears, Middlesex England, special effects expert (Dr No)
Valery F Bykovsky, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok V Soyuz 22 31/39)
08251935
David Canary, Elwood Ind, actor (Peyton Place, Candy-Bonanza)
08251938
Frederick Forsyth, British romance writer (Deceiver)
08251940
Jos Van Dam, Brussels Belgium, bass-baritone (Franois d'Assisif)
08251942
Margaret Murdock, US, small bore rifle (Olympic-silver-1976)
Nathen Deal, (Rep-D-Georgia)
08251946
Larry LaRocco, (Rep-D-Idaho)
Rollie Fingers, relief pitcher (Oakland Athletics)
08251947
Anne Archer, LA Cal, actress (Too Scared to Scream, Fatal Attraction)
Wim J van Gelder, Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (PvdA)
08251949
Gene Simmons, Queens NY, rocker (KISS-Beth)
John Savage, Long Island NY, actor (Deer Hunter, Maria's Lovers)
08251951
Rob Halford, heavy metal rocker (Judas Priest-Got Another Thing)
08251954
Elvis Costello, [Declan Patrick McManus], rocker (Allison)
John Savage, Old Bethpage NY, actor (Jim Malloy-Gibbsville)
Martin Jourard, keyboardist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
08251956
Matt Aitken, rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
08251958
Christian LeBlanc, NC, actor (Michael Baldwin-Young & Restless)
Saskia Van Orly, singer (Tambourine)
08251961
Billy Ray Cyrus, Flatswood Ky, country singer (Some Gave All)
Joannie Whalley-Kilmer, Manchester England, actress (Kill Me Again)
08251962
Mazzi Rawd, heavy metal rocker
Vivian Campbell, heavy metal rocker (White Snake-Here I Go Again)
08251964
Blair Underwood, Tacomma Wash, actor (Jonathan-LA Law)
08251965
Kathleen Horvath, Chic Ill, tennis player (French Open Jr 1980)
08251970
Claudia Schiffer, Rheinbach Germany, super model (Elle, Rolling Stone)
08261596
Frederik V, king of Bohemia (White Mountain)
08261676
Robert Walpole, (Whig) British PM (1721-42)
08261728
Johann Lambert, Switzerland, mathematician, proved ã is irrational
08261740
Joseph Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (ballooning)
08261743
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris, father of mod chemistry (Oxygen)
08261788
Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist
08261811
Danville Leadbetter, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
08261820
James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Seretary of Interior (1865-66)
08261833
Charles Jackson Paine, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
08261835
Theodore Washington Brevard, Brig General (Confederate Army)
08261838
John Wilkes Booth, actor/assassin (Pres Lincoln)
08261850
Charles Richet, French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913)
08261873
Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor (Audion vacuum (radio) tube)
08261875
John Buchan, Scotland, Gov-Gen of Canada/writer (Battle of Somme)
08261880
Guillaume Apollinaire, France, poet/movie critic (Alcoola)
08261882
James Franck, German naturalist (Nobel 1925)
08261884
Earl Biggers, author ("Charlie Chan" detective series)
08261885
Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet (Men of Good Will)
08261891
Ferdinand Bruckner, [Theodor Tagger], Austrian songwriter (Races)
08261899
Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter
082619--
Brett Cullen, Houston Tx, actor (Bob-Thorn Birds)
Jon Hensley, Doylestown, Penn, actor (As the World Turns)
Jorge De Sait, rocker (Tuff-What Comes Around Goes Around)
Richard Kantor, Bkln NY, actor (Brian-Finder of Lost Loves)
08261901
Gen Maxwell D Taylor, former US Army chief of staff
Jan de Quay, Dutch minister of war/premier (KVP)
Tullio Campagnolo, Italy, auto manufacturer (Fiat)
08261904
Christopher Isherwood, England, novelist/playwright (I Am a Camera)
Christopher W Bradshaw-Isherwood, Brit/US writer (Goodbye to Berlin)
08261906
Albert B Sabin, Russia, US microbiologist (oral polio vaccine)
08261909
Frank Gasparro, Phila Pa, US chief engraver (1965-81)
08261911
Lester Lanin, orchestra leader (40 Beatle Hits)
08261914
Julio Cort zar, Argentina, writer (We Love Glenda So Much)
08261915
Gr [Gerarda D] Brouwenstn, singer
Humphrey Searle, England, writer (20th Century counterpoint)
Jim Davis, Edgerton Mo, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas)
08261917
Jan Clayton, Tularosa NM, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie)
William French Smith, Attorney General (1981-85)
08261919
Ronny Graham, Phila Pa, actor (Bob Crane Show, Chico & the Man)
08261921
Benjamin C Bradlee, journalist (Wash Post)
William Preston, Columbia Penn (Penn State), actor
08261927
Francois Leydet, sierra club (Last Redwoods)
Sam Massell
08261931
Guy Vander Jagt, (Rep-R-MI, 1966-  )
08261932
Joe H Engle, Abilene Ks, Brig Gen USAF/astro (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 51I)
08261935
Cornelis B Vandrager, [Cor Van], poet (Leve Joop Massacre)
Geraldine Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY) 1st female major-party VP candidate
08261937
Tom Heinsohn, NBA star/coach (Boston Celtic)
08261938
Francine York, Aurora Minn, actress (Slattery's People)
08261942
John E Blaha, San Antonio, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 29, 33, STS 43)
Vic Dana, Buffalo, singer/dancer (Talent Scouts)
08261943
Ulf Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
08261945
Melvin Watt, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
Thomas J Ridge, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania, 1983-  )
08261947
Candy Moore, Maplewood NJ, actress (Lunch Wagon, Tomboy & Champ)
08261948
Jet Black, rocker (Stranglers-Dreamtime)
Valerie Simpson, Bronx, singer, Ashford's partner (Like a Rock)
08261949
John Baldwin, Detroit, light middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1968)
08261950
Richard Cowsill, rocker (Cowsills-Hair, We Can Fly)
Robert Cowsill, rocker (Cowsills-Hair, We Can Fly)
08261951
Robert G Torricelli, (Rep-D-New Jersey, 1983-  )
08261952
John Kinsella, USA, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
08261954
Sarah Lundy, horse trainer
Steve Wright, Britain's wacky DJ
08261957
Alex Trevino, catcher (LA Dodgers)
08261960
Branford Marsalis, jazz saxophonist (Bring on the Night, Tonight Show)
Ola Ray, St Louis Mo, playmate (Jun, 1980)/actress (Thriller)
08261965
Chris Burke, actor with down syndrome (Life Goes On)
08261975
Thomas N Kindness, (Rep-D-OH, 1975-  )
08261981
Macauley Culkin, actor (Home Alone, My Girl)
0827 551
-BC- Confucius, philospher
08271545
Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma/general/diplomat
08271630
Maria van Oosterwck, flower painter
08271666
Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89)
08271770
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor (dialectic)
08271809
Hannibal Hamlin, (R) 15th VP (1861-65)
08271824
Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
08271826
Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brig General (Union volunteers)
Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer
08271832
James Alexander Walker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
08271837
Heinrich Urban, composer
08271839
Emory Upton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1881
08271847
Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theology/bishop of Bridge
08271865
Charles Gates Dawes, (R) 30th VP (1925-29, Nobel 1925)
Emmuska Orczy, British writer (Scarlet Pimpernel)
08271867
Umberto Giordano, composer
08271869
Karl Haushofer, soldier/geographer
08271871
Theodore Dreiser, US, novelist (Sister Carie, American Tragedy)
08271874
Karl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931)
08271877
Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd)
Lloyd Cassel Douglas, novelist
08271882
Samuel Goldwyn, [Gelbfisch], film magnate (MGM)
08271886
Eric Coates, Hucknall Nottinghamshire England, viola player/composer
08271890
Man Ray, US statues artist/photographer/movie (dada)
08271894
Charles Meredith, Knoxville Pa, actor (Court of Last Resort)
08271897
Ad van Emmenes, soccer reporter
08271898
Enny de Leeuwe, [Engelina], actress (Anatevka)/wife of Pierre Mols
08271899
Cecil Scott Forester, Engld, historical novelist (Horatio Hornblower)
082719--
Daniela Romo, spanish entertainer
G.W. Bailey, Port Arthur Tx, actor (Dr Beale-St Elsewhere)
Harrison Page, Atlanta Ga, actor (CPO Sharkey, Supertrain)
08271905
Alexander Johnston, CEO (Board of Inland Revenue)
Frederick O'Neal, Brooksville Miss, actor (Car 54 Where Are You)
08271908
Donald [George] Bradman, Australian cricketer (6,996 runs)
Frank Leahy, O'Neill Nebraska, football coach (Notre Dame)
Lyndon B Johnson, Stonewall Tx, (D) 36th Pres (1963-1969)
08271909
Lester W "Pres" Young, US jazz saxophonist
Sidney R Yates, (Rep-D-Illinois)
Sylveer Maes, Belgian bicylist
08271910
Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Yugoslavia (Nobel 1979)
08271912
Peter Gretton, British vice admiral
08271913
Stewart Crawford, British diplomat
08271915
Walter W Heller, economist (Old Myths & New Realities)
08271916
Martha Raye, [Margaret Reed], Butte Mont, actress (Martha Raye Show)
08271918
Lord Winstanley, physician/Liberal MP
08271919
Lord Dormand, of Eastington, British labour minister
Sidney R Yates, (Rep-D-IL, 1949-62, 65-  )
08271920
James Molyneaux, Ulster unionist MP
08271925
Richard Rutt, bishop of Leicester
Tony Crombie, drummer/bandleader
Viscount Rothermere, newspaper owner
08271927
Hugh Byatt, British diplomat
Liselott Linsenhoff, German FR, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1972)
08271928
Jack Thompson, Labour MP
08271929
Ad J Hermes, Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (KVP/CDA)
Elizabeta Bagrintseve, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1952)
Ira Levin, author (Rosemary's Baby, Sleuth, This Perfect Day)
08271930
John Daly, British trade union leader
John Watts, chief of defense (Omani Armed Forces)
08271932
Antonia Fraser, biographer (Mary Queen of Scots)
08271933
Joke Smit, feminist
08271935
Michael Holroyd, author
08271937
Alice Coltrane, jazz musician
Mark Potter, British court judge
Tommy Sands, singer/actor (Teenage Rock, Dream With Me)
08271940
David Hart, gen-sect (National Assn of Head Teachers)
08271941
Yuri V Malyshev, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-2, T-11)
08271942
Daryl Dragon, Pasadena Calif, keyboardist (Capt & Tennille)
08271943
Bob Kerrey, (Sen-D Nebraska)
Susan "Tuesday" Weld, NYC, actress (Dobie Gillis, Wild in Country)
08271947
Jacques Arnold, conservative MP
08271948
Andy Turnell, horse trainer
08271949
Andrew McKay, coservative MP
Barbara Bach, [Goldbach], Queens NY, actress (Spy Who Loved Me)
Edmund Weiner, lexicographer
Jeff Cook, Alabama, rocker
08271950
Charles Fleischer, Wash DC, comedian (Roger Rabbit)
Cynthia Potter, US, springboard diver (Olympic-bronze-1976)
08271952
Pee-wee Herman, [Paul Reubens], actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
08271954
Derek Warwick, race car driver
John Lloyd, tennis player (former husband of Chris Everet)
08271955
Diana Scarwid, actress (Extermites, Psycho 3, Strange Invaders, Heat)
08271957
Bernhard Langer, golfer
Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikaljov, Russia, air acrobat/cosmonaut (Mir)
08271959
Gerhard Berger, formula-1 racer (Italian Grand Prix-1988)
08271961
"Downtown" Julie Brown, TV host (Club MTV, Inside Edition)
08271963
Patty Duffek, Woodland Hills Calif, playmate (May, 1984)
08271966
Deena Wigger, Colorado Springs CO, US shooter (Olympic-92)
0828 865
Rhazes [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarja al-Razi), Persians physician
08281476
Motonoboe, Japans painter (Kano-school
08281592
George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, royal minister to James I
08281713
Louis A Count d'Affry, French ambassador to Netherland
08281749
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust)
08281774
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint (1975)
08281794
Johannes Zwsen, archbishop (Utrecht Netherlands)
08281795
Joannes A Paredis, Belgian Bishop of Roermond
08281798
Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1863
08281828
William Alexander Hammond, Brig General (Union Army), died in 1900
08281831
Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, 1st lady (1877-81)
08281833
Edward Burne-Jones, England, Pre-Raphaelite painter/designer
08281840
Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel hymns)
08281842
Willem Linnig jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist
08281878
George Hoyt Whipple, US, astrophysicist (Nobel-1934)
08281882
Carl W de Vries, rechts leader (Unknown Thorbecke)
08281889
Charles Boyer, France, actor (Algiers, Fanny, Barefoot in the Park)
08281894
Karl Bhm, Austrian conductor
08281899
Charles Boyer, French actor (Gaslight)
082819--
Marla Adams, actress (Gotcha, Secret Storm, Young & Restless)
Sonny Shroyer, Valdosta Ga, actor (Dukes of Hazzard, Enos)
Steve Whiteman, rocker (Kix-Hot Wire)
08281901
Cornelis J Kelk, writer (Dance of Young Feet)
Paul Henry Lang, Budapest, critic/musicologist (NY Herald Tribune)
08281905
Sam Levene, actor (Demon, Gung Ho, Boomerang)
08281906
John Betjeman, poet laureate of England (Mt Zion)
08281907
Philip A Edwards, Brit Guiana, runner (Olympic-bronze-1928, 32, 36)
08281908
Roger Tory Peterson, NY, ornithologist/writer (How to Know Birds)
08281911
Joseph MAH Luns, foreign minister/secr-general NATO
08281912
Ruurd Faber, mayor of Aalten (1971-75)
08281913
Richard Tucker, [Reuben Ticker], Brooklyn NY, Tenor (NY Met Opera)
08281914
Glenn Osser, Munising Mich, orch leader (Paul Whiteman Goodyear Revue)
08281916
C Wright Mills, sociologist, writer (The Power Elite)
Jack H Vance, US, sci-fi writer (Eyes of the Overworld)
Jack [Holbrook] Vance, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugo, Dirdir, Pnume)
08281919
Ernest Martin, [Markowitz], producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line)
08281921
Joop Doderer, actor (Swiebertje)
Nancy Kulp, Penn, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
08281924
Janet Frame, NZ, novelist (Intensive Care, Owls Do Cry)
Peggy Ryan, Long Beach Calif, actress (Jenny-Hawaii Five-0)
08281925
Arkadi Strugatski, USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of the Troika)
Marvin Davis, Newark NJ, CEO (Davis Oil Company)
08281929
Istv n Kertsz, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Budapest Opera 1953-57)
Rokie Roker, Miami Fla, actress (Helen-Jeffersons)
08281930
Ben Gazzara, NYC, actor (Run for Your Life, QB VII)
08281931
John Perkins, rocker (Crew Cuts)
John Shirley-Quirk, Liverpool England, baritone (Death in Venice)
08281932
Andy Bathgate, Canada, NY Ranger (1958 NHL MVP)
08281939
Cassie Mackin, newswoman (NBC TV)
08281940
Richard Sanders, actor (Les Nessman-WKRP, Berrengers, Spencer)
William S Cohen, (Sen-R Maine, 1979-  )
08281941
Paul Peter Plishka, Old Forge Penn, bass (Bronx Botanical Gardens)
08281943
David Soul, Chicago, actor (Starsky & Hutch, Here Comes the Bride)
Lou Pinella, Yankee manager (1969 AL rookie of the year)
08281947
Alice Playton, NYC, actress (Who Killed Mary Whats 'er Name)
08281948
Daniel Seraphine, rocker (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now)
Vonda N[eel] McIntyre, US, sci-fi author (Star Trek II, III, IV)
08281949
Hugh Cornwell, rocker (The Stranglers-Dreamtime)
08281950
Ron "Louisana Lightning" Guidry, Yankee pitcher (Cy Young 1978)
08281951
Dave Hlubek, rocker (Molly Hatchet)
Wayne Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
08281953
Gates McFadden, actress (Beverly Crusher-Star Trek Next Generation)
08281956
Beverley Goddard-Callender, Barbados, 4x100m (Olympic-bronze-1980, 84)
08281957
Daniel Stern, Stamford Ct, actor (City Slickers, Wonder Years)
08281958
Scott Scovell Hamilton, Toledo Oh, ice skater (Olympic-gold-1984)
08281960
Emma Samms, [Samuels], London, actress (Colby's, General Hospital)
Leroy Chiao, Milwaukee Wisc, astronaut
08281961
Kim Appleby, rocker (Mel & Kim-Coming to America)
08281963
Reyna Thompson, NFL corner back (NY Giants)
08281965
James Jagger, son of Mick Jagger & Jerry Hall
Julie Brown, MTV VJ (approx)
08281966
Jerry Fehily, rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go)
08281968
Scarlet Annette Morgan, Pfafftown NC, Miss NC-America-1991
08281969
Jason Priestley, Vancouver BC, actor (Brandon-Beverly Hills 90210)
Mary McCartney, daughter of Beatle Paul McCartney
08281971
Janet Evans, US swimmer (Olympics-1992)
Raul Marquez, Mexico, US boxer (Olympic-92)
08291387
Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)
08291561
Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)
08291619
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron
08291632
John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance
08291780
Jean A D Ingres, French painter (Monsieur Rivire)
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather)
08291808
Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer
08291809
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge, MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)
08291811
Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA
08291815
Anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction)
08291849
Titus A J van Asch van Wck, governor Suriname (1891-97)
08291852
P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck,  Belgium, poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911)
08291876
Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)
08291877
Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II)
08291881
Valery Nicolas Larbaud, France, novelist/translator (Enfantines)
08291894
E Franklin Frazier, sociologist, died in 1962
08291898
Preston Sturges [Edmund P Biden], US director (Sullivan's Travels)
08291899
Charles Boyer, Figeac France, actor (The Rogues)
George Macready, Providence RI, actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place)
Lyman L Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general (WW II)
082919--
Dick O'Neill, Bronx NY, actor (Kaz, Empire, Better Days)
Ellen Geer, West Nyack NY, actress (Wendy-Jimmy Stewart Show)
08291900
Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building/Centre Pompidou)
08291904
Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956)
08291905
Martinus A Jansen, Bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70)
08291906
Lurene Tuttle, Pleasant Lake Ind, actress (Father of Bride, Julia)
08291907
Joseph Wechsberg, Austria/US writer (Looking For a Bluebird)
08291909
Roy Reuther, Wheeling WV, labor leader
08291912
Barry Sullivan, NYC, actor (Duffy's Tavern, Man Called X, Tall Man)
Emil Schumacher, German painter (Tangible Objects)
08291915
Ingrid Bergman, Sweden, actress (Casablanca, Cactus Flower)
08291916
George Montgomery, Brady Mont, actor (Battle of Bulge, Hallucination)
Leo Horn, Dutch columnist/businessman
08291917
Isabel Sanford, NYC, actress (Louise-Jeffersons/All in the Family)
08291918
Jelle Zlstra, economist/minister/pres Netherlands Bank
08291920
Charlie "Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist
08291922
Charles White, Perth Amboy NJ, actor (Troublemaker)
08291923
Reinier Brams, biophysicist/Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (VVD)
Richard Attenborough, actor/director (Gandhi, Young Winston)
08291924
Dinah Washington, Chicago, singer (What a Difference a Day Makes)
08291925
Donald O'Connor, Chicago Ill, dancer/actor (Singing in the Rain)
08291928
Charles Gray, Bournemouth England, actor (Clay-Rawhide)
Thomas Stewart, San Saba Texas, baritone (La Roche Capriccio)
08291929
Thom Gunn, Kent England, poet (The Wound)
08291930
Marius J J van Amelsvoort, Dutch state secretary (CDA)
08291933
Ramses Shaffy, cabaret performer/actor
08291934
David H Pryor, (Sen-D Arkansas, 1979-  )
08291935
Hugo Brandt Corstius, essayist/mathematician
08291936
Gilbert Amy, French composer (Coeur de Fume)
John McCain, (Rep-R-Arizona, 1983-86)
08291937
James J Floria, (Rep -D-NJ, 1975-  /Gov-D-NJ)
08291938
Elliott Gould, Queens NY, actor (M*A*S*H, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
Peter Jennings, Canada, news anchor (ABC TV)
08291939
William Friedkin, US, dir (Exorcist, Cruising, French Connection)
08291940
Wilhelm Ruska, Holland, judo champ (Olympic-gold-1972)
08291941
Robin Leach, TV host (Life Styles of Rich & Famous)
08291943
Richard Halligan, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears)
08291945
Wyomia Tyus, Griffin Ga, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
08291946
Bob Beamon, NYC, broad jumper (Olympic-gold-1968) 29' 2«" (8.9m)
08291948
Charles D Walker, astronaut (STS 41D, STS 51D, STS 61B)
08291953
Rick Downey, rocker (Blue Oyster Cult)
08291954
Chet Catallo, guitarist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
Julio Fernandez, jazz musician (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
Michael P[aul] Kube-McDowell, US, sci-fi author (Enigma, Empery)
08291958
Michael Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Thriller, Bad)
08291959
Eddi Reader, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
08291961
Tony Macalpine, heavy metal rocker (Solo-Edge of Insanity)
08291962
Carl Banks, NFL line backer (NY Giants)
Rebecca De Mornay, actress (And God Created Women)
08291963
Greg Steele, rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over)
08301334
Pedro De Wrede, King of Castili & Leon
08301693
Jacobus Nozeman, composer/organist
08301748
Jacques-Louis David, France, Neoclassical painter (Death of Marat)
08301769
Bonifacio Asioli, composer/music writer
08301772
Henri D Count the Larochejacquelin, French royalist leader
08301797
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein)
08301811
Thophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic
08301837
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85)
08301844
Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum)
08301849
Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher
08301852
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, Neth, physical chemist (Nobel 1901)
08301866
Georges Minne, Flemish sculptor
08301871
Ernest Lord Rutherford, Engld, physicist (atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908)
08301878
Paul Hazard, French literature historian
08301882
Meer de Dog, rabbi
08301883
Theo Van Doesburg [Christian EM Kupper], painter/architect (Style)
08301884
Theodor Svedberg, Sweden, chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel 1926)
08301890
S ndor Remnyik, [Vgv ri], Hungary, poet (Campfire)
08301893
Huey P Long, Winn Parish La, (gov/sen-D-La)
08301896
Raymond Massey, Toronto Canada, actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildare)
083019--
Anthony Call, actor (Herb Callison-One Life to Live)
Ben Jones, NC, actor (Cooter-Dukes of Hazzard)
Deedy Peters, Hartford City Indiana, actress (House Calls)
Dorian Lopinto, actress (One Life to Live)
James Vallely, New Brunswick NJ, acotr (Charles-Double Trouble)
William G Schilling, Phila Pa, actor (Dr Samuels-Head of the Class)
08301900
Franklin C Fry, US minister (Lutheran World Relief)
08301901
John C Stennis, (Sen-D-MS, 1947-88)
John Gunther, Chicago Ill, author/host (John Gunther's High Road)
Roy Wilkins, civil rights director (NAACP)
08301906
Gravin van Longford, biographer/historian
08301907
Fred MacMurray, Kankakee Ill, actor (Caine Mutiny, My 3 Sons)
08301908
Willie Bryant, New Orleans La, singer (Sugar Hill Times)
08301909
Joan Blondell, NYC, actress (Real McCoys, Here Come the Brides)
08301910
Donald Bisset, actor/children book writer
08301912
Edward M Purcell, US physicist (Nobel 1952)
08301913
Allan David, actor/director/producer
Thomas Torrance, theologist
08301915
Liesbeth Saers, sculptor
08301916
John Thoday, geneticist
Kornelis MR Van de Brook, reformed vicar in Arnhem
Lord Keith of Castleacre, English banker
08301917
Denis Healey, English politician
Julie Bishop, Denver Colo, actress (Northern Pursuit, Threat)
08301918
Ted Williams, Baseball's last .400 hitter (Boston Red Sox)
08301919
Kitty Wells, Nashville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
08301920
Ben Cami, Flemish writer
08301922
Regina Resnik, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Sieglinde-Bayreuth)
08301923
Elias Victor Seixas, US, mixed double tennis player (Wimbeld 1953-56)
Gerhard Wimberger, Austria composer (Of the Handschuh)
08301925
Julien Schoenaerts, Flemish actor (Daens/Medea)
08301927
Geoffrey Beene, Louisiana, dress designer (8 Coty Awards)
08301928
Bill Daily, Des Moines Iowa, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Newhart)
Johnny Mann, Balt Md, music director (Johnny Mann Stand Up & Cheer)
08301930
Warren Buffett, author (The Midas Touch)
08301931
John L Swigert Jr, Denver Colorado, astronaut (Apollo 13)
08301934
Eric Schneider, actor
08301935
John Phillips, singer/guitarist (Mama & Papas-California Dreaming)
08301938
Steve Delaney, Dobbs Ferry NY, newscaster (Monitor)
08301939
Elizabeth Ashley, Ocala Florida, actress (Coma, Evening Shade)
08301941
John McNally, rocker (Searchers)
Sue MacGregor, BBC-radio hostess
08301942
Jonathan Aitken, English parliament member
08301943
Jean Claude Killy, France, skier (Olympic-3 golds-1968)
Robert Crumb, US, cartoonist (Father Time, Fritz Cat)
08301944
Frederick De Young, comedian
John Surman, jazz musician
08301947
Peggy Lipton, Lawrence NY, actress (Julie-Mod Squad, Twin Peaks)
08301950
John Landis, actor (American Werewolf in London)
08301951
Dana, singer
Timothy Bottoms, actor (Paper Chase, East of Eden)
08301953
Robert Parish, NBA center (Boston Celtics)
08301954
Gerard Hadders, Dutch postage stamp designer (1991 children stamp)
08301955
Martin Jackson, rocker (Swing Out Sister-Swing Out)
08301956
Jayne Irving, English TV hostess
08301964
Joan Bennett, Chicago Ill, playmate (January, 1985)
Michael Chiklis, actor (Commish)
Stephen Baker, NFL receiver (NY Giants)
08301974
Matt Bongiovi, heavy metal rocker (cousin of Jon Bon Jovi)
0831  12
Caligula, [Gaius Csar], 3rd Roman emperor (37-41 AD)
0831 161
Lucius A A Coomodus, emperor of Rome (180-91)
08311569
Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India
08311602
Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels, wife of Gov Frederik Hendrik
08311811
Goode Bryan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
Thophile Gautier, Tarbas France, writer/poet (Albertus)
08311822
Fitz John Porter, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
08311823
Galusha Aaron Grow, MC (Union), died in 1907
08311828
George Leonard Andrews, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
08311834
Amilcare Ponchielli, Paderno Italy, composer (I Lituani)
08311840
Giovannini Verga (Italian writer (Eros) [or 8/13]
08311852
Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister
08311870
Maria Montessori, Italy, educator (spontaneous response)
08311879
Joshihito, emperor of Japan (1912-26)
08311880
Wilhelmina HPM, queen of the Netherlands (1898-1948)
08311885
DuBose Heyward, novelist (Porgy)
08311888
Ramon the Basterra, Spanish writer/diplomat (La Obra de Trajano)
08311889
A Provost Idell, father of modern volleyball
08311897
Frederic March, Wisc, actor (Dr Jeckyll-Acad Awards 1932/1946)
083119--
Noble Willingham, Mineola Tx, actor (Cutter to Houston)
Paul Garber, help establish Air & Space Museum in Washington DC
Rick Porter, actress (Another World)
08311900
Roland Culver, London England, actor (Thunderball)
08311903
Arthur Godfrey, radio, TV host (Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scout)
Bernard Lovell, England, radio astronomer, founded Jodrell Bank
08311905
Dore Schary, producer/writer/director (Act 1, Boys Town, Big City)
08311907
August F Hawkins, (Rep-D-CA, 1963-  )
Ram¢n Magsaysay, Phillipines, statesman (US Legion of Merit-1952)
08311908
William Saroyan, US, novelist/playwright (Time of Your Life)
08311914
Richard Basehart, Zanesville Oh, actor (Voyage to Bottom of Sea)
08311916
Daniel Schorr, broadcast journalist (CBS)
08311918
Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist composer (Lerner & Leowe-My Fair Lady)
08311919
Richard Basehart, actor (Voyage to Bottom of the Sea)
08311924
Buddy [Leonard] Hackett, Bkln, comedian (God's Little Acre, Music Man)
08311926
Jan de Koning, CDA-minister of Agriculture/Social Businesses
08311928
James Coburn, Laurel Nebr, actor (Our Man Flint, Magnificent Seven)
08311930
Owen B Pickett, (Rep-D-Virginia)
Tiny Little Jr, Worthington Minn, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)
08311931
Dan Rather, news anchor (CBS-TV)
Jean Beliveau, hockey star (Montreal Canadiens)
08311932
Robert [Franklin] Adams, US, sci-fi author (Castaways in Time)
08311935
Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther turned Republican
Frank Robinson, baseball player/manager (MVP 1961-NL 1966-AL)
08311937
Guido de Moor, actor
Warren Berlinger, Bkln, actor (Larry-Joey Bishop Shop, Take Two)
08311940
Alain Calmat, France, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1964)
Jack Thompson, Australia, actor (Breaker Morant)
08311942
Carole Wells, Shreveport La, actress (Pistols n Petticoats)
08311945
Itzhak Perlman, Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/polio victim
Leonid I Popov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 35, 40, T-7)
Van Morrison, [George I], Belfast, singer (Here Comes the Night)
08311949
Richard Gere, Phila Pa, actor (Breathless, Cotton Club, Pretty Woman)
08311952
Rudolf Schenker, heavy metal rocker (Scorpions-No One Like You)
08311954
Tula, [Barry Kenneth Cossey], Engld, transexual (For Your Eyes Only)
08311955
Edwin Corley Moses, Dayton Ohio, hurdler (Olympic-gold-76, 84)
08311957
Gina Schock, rocker (Gogos-Our Lips Are Sealed)
Glenn Tilbrook, guitarist/vocalist (Squeeze-Tempted)
08311958
Edwin C Moses, track star (hurdler, Olympic-gold-1984)
08311959
Rachel Dennison, Knoxville Tn, actress (Doralee Rhodes-9 to 5)
Tony DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
08311961
David Chastain, heavy metal rocker (Chastain-Rule of Wasteland)
08311963
Reb Beach, heavy metal rocker (Winger-17)
08311970
Debbie Gibson, Brooklyn NY, singer (Only in My Dreams)
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0801 527
Justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies
08011137
Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37)
08011190
Floris III, Count of Holland, dies
Queen Anne Stuart, dies
08011821
Elizabeth Inchbald (Simpson), actress/author, dies
08011834
Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies
08011837
Walter Geikie, painter, dies
08011857
Charles Turner, engraver, dies
08011882
Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at 43
08011883
Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, classic scholar, dies
08011902
Ludwig Beckmann, painter, dies
Konrad Duden, German linguist (Das grosse Duden Lexicon), dies
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies
08011926
Israel Zangwill, British zionists writer (Ghetto tragedies), dies
Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45
Harvey Glatmin, 1st bondage-photo victim
08011963
Theodore Roethke, US poet (Praise to the end!), dies
08011966
Bud Powell, US jazz pianist/composer, dies
Walter Ulbricht, pres German DR, dies
08011977
Francis Gary Powers, US U-2 pilot, dies at 47
08011983
Peter Arne, actor, bludgeon to death in London at 62
08011985
Joseph Walker, cameraman, dies at 92
08011987
Pola Negri, actress (Forbidden Paradise), dies at 92
08011988
Florence Eldridge, Broadway actress (The Swan), dies at 86
John Cardinal Dearden, US cardinal, dies at 80
Trindad Silva, of Hill St Blues, dies at 38 in an auto accident
08011990
Norbert Elias, German/English/Neth philosopher/sociologist, dies
08011992
Chico Alvarez, trumpeteer (Stan Kenton Orch), dies at 72 of cancer
Stanley Dudek, US platform diver (watershows), dies
08011993
Ewing Kaufman, founder/owner (KC Royals), dies of lung cancer at 76
0802 257
Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies
0802 640
Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies
0802 686
John V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies
08021075
John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies
08021100
King William II, [William Rufus], shot in New Forest, dies
08021332
Christoffel II, king of Denmark (Handfstning), dies at 55
08021589
Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), dies
08021788
Thomas Gainsborough, painter (Blue Boy), dies
08021799
Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, balloonist, dies
08021849
Mehemet Ali, British viceroy to Egypt, dies
A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent dies at 76
08021881
Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author, dies
08021903
Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies
08021921
Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies
[Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, author/feminist, dies
[Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist, dies
Warren Harding, 29th Pres (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel SF at 57
Paul Von Hindenburg, dies at 86, Hitler takes over German presidency
Louis Biriot, aviator, dies
Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern, dies
Albert Woolson, burden veteran US Union army, dies at 109
08021958
Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies
Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies
08021963
Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, author, dies
Oliver La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 83
08021964
Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69
08021965
Milton Babbitt, US composer, dies
Claude A Barnett, founded Associated Negro Press, dies at 78
08021972
Brian Cole, rocker with the Association, dies of heroin OD at 28
Paul Goodman, US social critic/writer, dies at 60
08021976
Fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85
08021978
Carlos Chavez, Mexican composer, dies
08021979
Thurmon Munson, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32
08021982
Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Seperate Tables), dies at 93
08021985
Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies at 79 of pneumonia
08021987
Myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79
08021988
Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50
Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen
08021992
Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies
Julio C Fern ndez, Cuban/US journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies
Michel Berges, French composer, dies at 44 of a heart attack
08031387
Olaf V Hakonsson, King of Denmark (1376-87)/Norway (1380-87), dies
08031530
Philibert Chalon, prince of Orange, dies
08031531
Fern n Prez de Oliva, Spanish poet (Dignity of Man), dies at 37
08031780
Etienne B de Condillac, French philospher (sensualism), dies at 64
08031802
Henry DFL, prince of Prussia/general strategist/diplomat, dies
08031910
Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies
08031916
Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), dies
Albert P Hahn, political cartoonist, dies
Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies
08031948
Albert F Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies
Colette, France, novelist (Claudine), dies at 81
08031964
Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39
Lenny Bruce, [Leonard Schneider] comedian, dies of a morphine overdose
08031977
Makarios III, [Michail Moeskos], archbishop/president Cyprus, dies
08031983
Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), dies at 54 of cancer
08031986
Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies
08031992
Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Comm Party, dies
08041060
Henry I, King of France (1060), dies at 27
08041204
Boniface of Montferrat, markgraaf of M, dies
08041265
Simon de Montfort, English baron, dies in battle
08041430
Philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant, dies
08041526
Juan Sebastin Cano, Spanish explorer, dies
08041566
Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies
08041639
Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies
08041666
Johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle
08041891
George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41
08041892
Abby Plates & Spouse, killed by Lizzie Borden(?)
08041922
Enver Pasja, Turkish general/politician, dies at 41
08041925
Alfons Van de Perre, Flemish physician, dies
08041931
Daniel H Williams, doctor (pioneer in surgery), dies
08041938
LH Perquin, Dutch radio announcer, dies at 73
Pearl White, US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies
Rudolf G Binding, German poet/writer, dies at 70
08041973
Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), dies at 68
08041981
Melvyn Douglas, [Hesselberg], actor (Woman's Face, Hud), dies at 80
08041984
Edmon Ryan, actor, dies at 79 of a heart attack
Mary Miles Minter, silent screen star, dies at 82 of heart failure
Walter Burke, actor, dies at 75 of emphysema
08041991
Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80
08041992
Frantisek Tomasek, archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 93
Ralph Cooper, creator of Amateur Night at the Apollo, dies of cancer
08051157
Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies
08051852
Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech slavist/poet, dies at 53
08051895
Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies
James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80
08051901
Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60
08051932
Isral Querido, writer (Jordan), dies
08051940
Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (North Pole), dies at 75
Joannes D M Cornelissen, historian (Johann de White), dies
08051955
Carmen Miranda, singer/actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42
Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80
Edgar Guest, US poet/newspaperman, dies at 77
Sidney Holland, PM of New Zealand (1949-57), dies at 67
Marilyn Monroe, found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug overdose
08051972
Frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71
08051978
Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79
08051983
Judy Canova, singer/comedienne/actress, dies at 66 of cancer
08051984
Howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66
Richard Burton, actor (Cleopatra), dies at 58 of cerebral hemorrhage
08051985
Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67
08051990
Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies
08051991
Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cin Bengals), dies at 82
Soichiro Hondo, CEO & founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84
08051992
Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies at 38 of cardiac arrest
Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/President IMF, dies
0806 258
Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded
0806 523
Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies
08061195
Henry the Lion, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies
08061272
Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies
08061458
Callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58), dies at 79
08061548
Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies
08061623
Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies
08061661
Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies
08061666
Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43
08061746
Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies
08061820
M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca, dies at 43, dies
08061867
Faustin-lie Soulouque, emperor of Haiti, dies (birth date unknown)
08061890
William Kemmler, US, 1st executed in electric chair
08061900
Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies
08061914
Ellen Wilson, 1st lady (1913-14), dies at 54
Annie E F Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre), dies at 76
Theo[by] Van Ren, sculptor/drawer/lithograph, dies at 70 [or 8/10]
Preston Sturges [Edmund P Biden], US director/screenwriter, dies
Jozef E Van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechelen, dies at 87
Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71
Nancy Carroll, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60
08061966
Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53
08061968
Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician, dies
08061969
Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist, dies
08061973
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, dictator Cuba, dies
08061978
Edward Durrell Stone, US architect, dies at 76
Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini], Italian Pope (1963-78), dies at 80
08061979
Kurt Kasznar, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65
08061987
Ira C Eaker, commandant USAF in Europe (WW II), dies at 91
08061988
J Skelly Wright, US judge (anti-segregatinist), dies at 77
08061989
Hubert Beuve-Mry, French newspaper founder (Le Voice), dies
08061990
Jacques Soustelle, French ethnology/minister of Information, dies
08061991
Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes), dies at 68
Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies in Paris
08071106
Henry IV, Roman catholics-German king/emperor (1056/84-1105), dies
08071547
Cajetanus van Thiene, Italian saint, dies
08071616
Vincenzo Scamozzi, Ital architect (Procurazie Nuove, Vneneti), dies
08071816
Dionysius G Van de Keessel, lawyer (Theses selectae), dies
08071848
Freiherr Jns J Berzelius, Swedish chemist (atomic weight), dies
Ira F Aldridge, US actor (Othello/Shylock), dies at 63 in Lodes Poland
08071923
Henry Pierson, theology/theory (HS Foundation), dies
Alphonse MAJ Arins, pastor (founder 1st RC workers group), dies
Konstantin S Stanislavski, [Aleksejev], Russ actor/director, dies
Radindranath Tagore, Indies philosopher/poet/writer, dies
Oliver Hardy, comedian of Laurel & Hardy, dies at 65
Russ Morgan, orch leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 65
08071972
Joi Lansing, actress (Bob Cummings Show), dies at 44 of cancer
08071976
Murvyn Vye, actor (Bob Cummings Show), dies at 63
08071991
Shotzie, Cincinnati Red dog mascot, dies at 9
Francisco Fernandez Ordo¤ez, Brit foreign min to Spain (1985-92), dies
John Anderson, actor (MacGyver), dies at 69
Titti Sotto, Cuban composer (La Esquina Habanera), dies
08071993
Kelly Ahrendt, 1st NYer to die of rabies in 40 years, dies at 14
0808 869
Lotharius II, King of Middle-France (Lotharingen) (855-869), dies
08081471
Thomas  Kempis [Thomas Hammerken von Kempen], august saint, dies
08081694
Antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies
08081788
Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies
08081928
Stjepan Radic, founder/leader Croatian Boer party, dies
Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal, hanged
08081950
Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, founder National-India Party, dies
08081960
Danton Walker, columnist (Broadway Spotlight), dies at 61
Charlie Gemora, actor who portrayed King Kong, dies at 58
Franc ND Buchman, US theology (Moral Rearms), dies at 83
08081965
Shirley Jackson, US author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45
08081975
Julian "Cannonball" Alderly, sax player, dies at 46 of a stroke
08081976
John Roselli, hired by CIA to kill Castro, found murdered
08081982
Ferre Grignard, Belgian pop singer/painter (Crucified Jesus), dies
Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist, dies at 62
Valeer van Kerkhove, Flemish writer/producer (De Weerlozen), dies
08081984
Richard Deacon, actor (Mel-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 62
08081985
Louise Brooks, actress, dies of a heart attack at 78
08081991
James B Irwin, US astronaut, dies
John Brasser, Zaans resistance fighter "White Ko", dies
Magdalena G Schenk, historical (Vorstenhuizen of our time), dies
08081992
Abul Qassim Khoei, Iraqi great-ayatollah/leader of the sjiieten, dies
Alison L Gertz, US, aids-activist/Esquire women of year, dies of aids
Arthur Lang, US boxer/businessman, dies at 115
Eitan Berglas, Israeli banker/advisor, dies
Thomas J McIntyre, US, senator/writer (Fear Brokers), dies
0809 803
Irene, Byzantine empress/wife of emperor Leo IV, dies
08091048
Damasius II, [Poppo], Pope (1047-48), dies
08091420
Pierre d'ailly/Peter the Alliaco, French theologist/cardinal, dies
08091612
Ottavio M Frangipani, Pope elect, dies
08091634
Pieter I de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies
08091738
Pierre Drevet, French engraver, dies
08091854
Frederik Augustus II, king of Saxon (1836-54), dies at 57
08091892
Matthias de Vries, linguistic (spelling), dies
Otto Lilenthal, killed during a glider test
08091904
Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geography (Lebensraum), dies at 59
Ernst Haeckel, German philosopher/zoologist (Social Darwinism), dies
Frederik II W, grand duke of Baden (1907-18), dies at 71
Edith Stein, German philospher, dies
08091961
Walter Bedell Smith, US general/WW II chief of staff, dies
08091967
Jaromir Weinberger, Czech/US composer (Czech Rhapsody), dies
08091969
Abigail Folger, US, coffee magnate (Folgers), murdered
George P Marshall, NFL president (Washington Redskins), dies at 72
Robert Lehman, US multi-millionaire/director (Met Museum of Art), dies
Sharon Tate, actress (Valley of Dolls), killed by Manson's gang
Voyteck Freykowski, US director, murdered
Bill Berns, commentator (Television Screen Magazine), dies at 53
08091973
Dean Corll, shot; he raped & killed 26 boys
08091975
Dimitri D Sjostakovitsj, Russian composer (Sun over motherland, dies
Julian "Cannonball" Adderly, saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 46
08091978
James G Cozzens, US writer (Guard of Honor, Pulitzer), dies at 74
08091979
Allan Frank, actor (Charade Quiz), dies at 64
Johan Daisne, [Herman Thiery], Belgian writer (Lago Maggiore), dies
08091982
Aleksandr A Aleksejev, Russian director, dies
08091988
Alan Napier, (Alfred the Butler-Batman), dies at 85
08091991
Corrie Hartong, dance pioneer, dies
08091992
Jan van Baal, antropologist/gov Dutch New-Guinea, dies
Lord Patrick A Devlin, England, judge/lead house of Lords, dies
0810  30
-BC- Cleopatra VII, Ptolemaesch queen, beloved by Caesar, dies
0810 955
Koenraad the Rode, Duke of Lotharingen, dies in battle
08101250
Erik IV Plovpenning, king of Denmark, murdered
08101717
Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam), dies
08101759
Ferdinand VI, the wise, king of Spain, dies at 46
08101843
Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies
08101867
Ira Aldridge, famed Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock), dies 1867
08101896
Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies
08101904
Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies
08101921
John M Martin, last confederate congress member, dies
08101929
Aletta [Henritte] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician/feminist, dies
08101930
William H Taft, US president (1909-13), dies
08101934
John Kane, US, painter, dies at 73
C Bergsma, resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
J Janzen, resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
J Posthuma, resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies
08101944
Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, attempt Hitler assassination, dies
Robert H Goddard, US, rocket pioneer, dies at 62
08101960
Emil Strauss, German writer (Vaterland), dies
Ted Husing, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights), dies at 60
08101963
Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn), dies at 60
M ty  R kosi, [Rosencranz], premier of Hungary (1952-53), dies at 71
08101966
Felix A Vening Meinesz, geophysicist (black force), dies at 79
Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Cinders), dies
08101970
Gino Torretta, quarterback (Heisman Trophy 1992)
08101974
Ilona Massey, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show), dies at 64
Pedro Regas, actor (Pat Paulsen's « Comedy Hour), dies at 92
08101976
Ray "Crash" Corrigan, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch), dies at 74
08101977
Vince Barnett, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle), dies at 75
08101979
Dick Foran, actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 69
08101985
Kenny Backer, comedian, dies of a heart attack at 72
08101987
Clara Peller, actress (Where's the Beef), dies at 86
I W Able, CEO (United Steel Workers of America, 1965-77), dies at 87
08101988
Adela Rogers St John, journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at 94
Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama, dies at 86
08111180
Guillaume de/Willem van Sens, Fren master builder (Canterbury), dies
08111183
Christian I, archbishop of Mainz, dies
08111259
Mngke, Mongols great-khan/grandson of Ghengis Khan, dies
08111464
Nicholaas van Cusa, philospher/bishop of Brixen, dies
08111494
Hans Memling, [John Memlinc], Flemish painter (Passietaferelen), dies
08111578
Pedro Nunes, [Nonius], Port mathematician/astronomer (nonius), dies
08111844
Jernej Kopitar, filmologist/censor (Slavic Grammatica), dies at 63
08111868
Thaddeus Stevens, architect of Radical Reconstruction, dies at 76
08111919
Andrew Carnegie, US, industrialist/philanthropist, dies
08111935
William Watson, British poet (Purple East), dies
Bakr Sidqi, general/dictator of Iraq, dies
Edith N Wharton[-Jones], US author (House of Mirth), dies at 75
Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies
08111956
Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton)
08111968
Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian biblical scholar, dies
08111972
Max Theiler, S African/Eng/US microbiologist (vaccin-Nobel 1951), dies
08111973
Peggy Castle, actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman), dies at 46
Anthony C McAuliffe, US gen/commandant 101st div (Nuts!), dies at 77
08111982
Tom Drake, actor, dies of lung cancer at 63
08111984
Alfred A Knopf, US publisher, dies at 91
08111988
Anne Ramsey, actress, dies (Throw Mama From Train) of cancer at 59
Jean-Pierre Ponnele, opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56
08111991
Jef Contryn, Flemish pioneer puppet theatre, dies at 89
08121350
Philip VI, king of France, dies
08121484
Sixtus IV, [Francesco della Rovere], Pope (1471-84), dies
08121546
Francisco the Vitoria, Spanish theology/lawyer, dies
08121612
Giovanni Gabrieli, composer, dies
08121674
Philippe de Champaigne, painter, dies
08121676
King Philip, [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death
08121689
Innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Pope (1676-89), dies at 78
08121715
Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies
08121750
Rachel Ruysch, royal painter of soverign Johan von de Pfalz, dies
08121822
Robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies
08121827
William Blake, poet/painter, dies
George Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies
08121857
William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies
08121865
William Jackson Hooker, botanist, dies
08121877
James Drummond, historical painter, dies
Last Quagga, zebra with less slashes (in Artis), dies
08121885
Georg Curtius, philologist, dies
08121891
James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat, dies
James E Keeler, US astronomer (rings of Saturn), dies
08121901
Nils Adolf Erik, [Baron Nordenskjld], geologist/explorer, dies
Jozef Israls, painter, dies
08121914
John Philip Holland, submarine designer, dies
Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies
08121928
Leos Janacek, Czech composer/conductor (Sly Foxes), dies
Henry P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam), dies
Ludwig Borchardt, German egyptology, dies at 74
Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies
08121964
Ian L Fleming, British journalist/writer (James Bond), dies at 56
08121976
Thomas Edward Driberg, 1st baron Bradwell, journalist, dies
08121982
Henry Fonda, actor (On Golden Pond), dies at 77 of heart disease
08121988
Jean-Michel Basquiat, US musician/graffiti painter (Gray, SAMO), dies
08121992
John Cage, avante-garde composer, dies of a stroke at 79
Lady Rothermere, [Bubbles], wife of British newspaper magnate, dies
Queen Mother of Oman, dies
0813 587
Radegundis, daughter of. Thrings king Berthar/saint, dies
0813 662
Maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies
0813 900
Zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29
08131134
Irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies
08131191
Philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies
08131637
Dirck J Bas, Dutch merchant/regent/govt leader (OIC), dies
08131787
Isac the Pinto, merchant/lender States-general, dies
08131841
Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer, dies
Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies
Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies
Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel Hymns), dies
08131910
Florence Nightingale, English nurse, dies
Jules EF Massenet, French opera composer (Werther, Manon), dies at 70
F August Bebel, German social-democrat, dies
James Curwood, US journalist/writer (Valley of Silent Men), dies
08131946
H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79
Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist, dies
Hermann W S Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer, dies
08131972
George Wiess, General Manager (NY Yankees), dies at 78
08131973
Ben van Eysselsten, writer (Weather Beaten Stone), dies
08131974
Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Pray for the Wanderer), dies
08131982
Charles Walters, US actor/choreographer/dir (High Society), dies at 70
Joe E Ross, comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 77
08131984
Clyde Cook, actor, dies in his sleep at 92
08131985
Marion Martin, actress, dies at 67
08131988
Otto E Passman, (Rep-D-La, 1947-77), dies at 88
08131989
Tim Richmond, race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS
08131991
Jack Ryan, inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels), dies at 65
08131992
Clifford Allison, US, stock-car racer, dies in an accident
David Kaplan, news director (ABC), killed in Sarajevo Yugoslavia
Jan Elburg, [Joannes G], poet (Geen letterheren), dies
John [Joannes G] Elburg, poet, dies
08141167
Raynald van Dassel, archbishop of Cologne, dies
08141433
Johan I, king of Portugal (1383-1433), dies at 76
08141778
Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies
08141785
John William Fletcher, evangelist, dies
08141788
Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer, dies
08141794
George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies
08141833
Luigi Cagnola, architect, dies
08141841
Johann Friedrich Herbart, philospher, dies
08141844
Henry Francis Cary, translator (Dante), dies
08141856
William Buckland, dean (Westminister)/geologist, dies
08141858
George Combe, phrenologist, dies
08141870
David (James) Glasgow Farragut, admiral, dies
08141887
Richard Jeffries, naturalist/essayist, dies
08141905
Mohammed Abdoe, Egyptian writing expert (Al'Oerwah al-Woethka), dies
08141922
Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies
08141923
Jacob T Cremer, pres (Dutch Handel-M), dies at 76
08141936
Rainey Bethea, hanged, last US public execution
Landon Ronald, composer/pianist, dies
Susan St James, [Susan Jane Miller], LA Calif, actress (Kate & Allie)
08141949
Husni al-Barazi, premier of Syria, shot to death
Husni el-Zaim, president/dictator of Syria, shot to death
08141951
William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills
Bertold Brecht, German writer (Dreigroschenoper/Mother Courage), dies
Freiherr Constantine von Neurath, German foreign min (1932-38), dies
08141958
Frdric Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), dies
Gladys L Presley, mom of Elvis, dies at 46
Mary Ritter Beard, American historian, dies at 82
Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds), dies at 68
Henri-Edouard-Prosper Breuil, priest/archaeologist, dies
08141963
Clifford Odets, US playwright (Golden Boy), dies at 57
Jan van Nlen, Flemish poet/writer (Walk at Dawn), dies
08141969
Leonard Sidney Woolf, English publisher/writer, dies at 88
08141972
Jules Romains, French novelist (Death of Nobody), dies at 86
Oscar Levant, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life), dies at 65
08141982
Patrick Magee, Irish actor, dies at 58
08141984
John Boynton Priestley, Romanian poet (Journeys), dies
08141985
Gale Sondergaard, actress, dies at cerebral vascular thrombosis
08141988
Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari), dies at 90
08141991
Douglas Kiker, newscaster (NBC-TV), dies of a heart attack at 61
08141992
Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian/Dutch painter, dies at 104
Flora SA Benson, US, wife of pres Ezra Taft B of mormon church, dies
John J Sirica, US, judge (Watergate, dies at 88
Marion P Ames, US, advocate/activist, dies
Tony Williams, US, singer (Platters-Great Pretender), dies at 64
0815 423
Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies
08151038
Stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies
08151057
Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan
08151118
Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium, dies
08151464
Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian Pope (1458-64), dies
08151615
Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet/writer (Comfort of Soles), dies
08151619
Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies
08151666
Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionary/astronomer, dies
08151807
Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philospher/mathematician, dies at 70
08151877
Mer A Goldschmidt, Danish writer/publisher (Corsaren/And Jíde), dies
Karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist, dies at 77
08151907
Joseph Joachim, German violinist, dies
Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, Jew convicted of murder, lynched
Wiley Post, killed in plane crash in Alaska
Will Rogers, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36
08151936
Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies
08151951
Art(h)ur Schnabel, Austria/US pianist (Reflections on Music), dies
08151958
William L C "Big Bill" Broonzy, US blues singer/guitarist, dies at 65
08151966
Gerhard/Gerhart Pohl, German writer (camp um Kolbenau), dies
08151969
Stn Streuvels, [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (Vlaschard), dies
08151975
Mujib ur-Rahman, Pakistani sheik/politician, dies at 53
Sheik Mujibur Rahiman, of Bangladesh killed in a military coup
08151982
Patrick J G McGee, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon), dies at 60
08151983
Anthony Costello, actor, dies at 42
Benjamin V Cohen, US author of New Deal-legislation, dies at 88
08151988
Barry Bingham Sr, US daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82
08151989
F the Young Edz., historian/director IISG, dies
08151991
Marietta Tree, ambassador (UN Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74
08151992
Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US author (American Glass Animals), dies
Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies
Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies
Osamu Inaba, Japanese min of justice, dies
08161419
Wenzel/V clav IV, [Wenceslas], drunken RC German king, dies at 58
08161532
Johan de Standvastige, monarch of Saxon (Schmalkaldisch), dies
08161675
Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies
08161678
Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love), dies
08161786
Henri-Jacques Croes, Flemish composer, dies
08161854
Duncan Phyfe, furniture maker, dies
J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies
08161921
Peter I Karadjordjevic, king of Serbia/Yugoslavia, dies [or 8/26]
Takiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies
Babe Ruth, Baseball legend, dies in NY at 53
Margaret Mitchell, US writer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 48
08161959
William "Bull" F Halsey, US vice-admiral (WW II Pacific), dies
08161973
Selman A Waksman, Russian/US microbiology (Nobel 1952), dies at 85
08161977
Elvis Presley, rocker, dies of heart ailment/drugs at Graceland at 42
08161986
John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45
08161989
Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke), dies at 60
08161991
Frederic Mars, Spanish sculptor, dies
Shamu the Whale, dies at 16, of respiratory failure
Stuart Karl, CEO (Karl Home Video), dies at 38 of skin cancer
08161992
Mark Heard, Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack
08161993
Stewart Granger, actor, dies
08171536
Pietersz, book publisher (Kersten Knight - on Index), dies
08171553
Charles III, Duke of Savoy, dies
08171635
Francisco the Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna, dies at 48
Frederik II, king of Prussia (1740-86), dies
08171850
Jos Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, dies
08171915
Leo Frank, lynched for raping 12 year old in Georgia
Ray Chapman, hit in the head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch, dies
Horace Alderman, US, murderer, hanged
08171936
Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Surgery & Foules), dies at 36
Johannes B Tielrooy, literature (French Living Lesson), dies at 66
08171955
Fernand Lger, French painter (Grand Parade), dies
Florent Schmitt, French composer/music critic (Jardin Secret), dies
Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe, architect (November Group), dies at 83
Philip Blaiberg, after 19 days with artificial heart, dies
08171971
Horace McMahon, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64
08171973
Conrad Aiken, Pulitzer winning poet, dies at 74
08171975
Sig Arno, Hamburg Germany, actor (My Friend Irma), dies at 80
08171976
William Redfield, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop), dies at 48
08171979
Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 72
08171982
Barney Phillips, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies at 68
Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart, Letter Bomb), dies
08171983
Ira Gershwin, lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills, Cal, at 86
08171987
Rudolph Hess, Nazi, dies at 93, after 46 years in Spandau Prison
08171988
Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies on 74th birthday
Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1978-88), dies at 63
Zia, Pakistani president & US ambassador killed in plane crash
08171990
Pearl Bailey, broadway actress/singer, dies at 72 of a heart attack
08171991
Leo Geerts, [Marcel van der Linden], Belgian writer/critic, dies
08171992
Andr de Villiers, South African, murdered
08181227
Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies
08181236
Theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies
08181276
Adrianus V, [Ottobono Fieschi], Italian Pope (7/11-8/18/1276), dies
08181503
Alexander VI, [Rodrigo the Borja], Spanish Pope (1492-1503), dies
08181559
Paul IV, [Giampietro Caraffa], Pope (1555-59), dies at 83
08181803
James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth), dies at 67
08181850
Honor de Balzac, French writer (Le pre Goriot), dies at 51
08181915
Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet (Rbb-i Sjikeste), dies at 47
08181942
Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist, dies
08181949
Paul J Mares, US jazz trumpetist/composer (Tin Roof Blues), dies at 49
Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, dies
Ralph Byrd, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show), dies at 43
08181959
Harvey Glatmin, executed
Learned Hand, Chief judge of US court of Appeals, dies at 89
08181966
Isaac Keesing, founder (System Keesing), dies
Cy Walter, pianist (3's Company), dies at 52
08181981
Anita Loos, US (stage)author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 88
08181982
Beverly Bayne, actress, dies at 87
08181988
Frederick Ashton, choreographer (Cinderella), dies at 83
08181989
Bert Oosterbosch, cyclist, dies
08181990
B F Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia at 86
Raf Reymen, Flemish actor, dies
08181991
Vaughn Shoemaker, US cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies
08181992
Gerard Sonder, Dutch radio host (AVRO), dies
John Sturges, US, director (Magnificent 7, Great Escape), dies
0819  14
-BC- Octavian [Augustus], Roman general, dies at 48
0819 440
Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies
08191493
Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77
08191601
Michael, the Brave, ruler of Turkey, dies
08191691
Moestafa Kprl, Turkish grand vizer, dies in battle
Jean MMPA de Villiers de l'isle-Adam, French writer (Axel), dies at 60
Rembt THPLA of Boneval Faure, lawyer/1st-Member of parliament, dies
08191929
Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
08191936
Federico Garc¡a Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, dies
08191944
Gnther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide
Henry J Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms), dies at 75
Earnest Laqueur, chemist/psychologist (sexual hormones), dies
08191954
Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53), dies at 73
Jacob Epstein, US/English sculptor/painter, dies at 78
Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90
Carl W de Vries, lawyer (Great grandfather king), dies at 84
08191977
Groucho Martin, NYC, comedian (Marx Bros), dies in LA at 86
08191986
Hermione Baddeley, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude), dies at 79
08191990
Ben Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, children's book writer, dies
08191992
Feliks Arons, director/actor, dies
0820 984
John XIV, [Petrus Canepanova], Italian Pope (983-84), dies
08201153
Bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies
08201384
Geert Great, [Gerardus Magnus], theologist (Getdenboek), dies
08201672
Cornelis de Witt, statesman, lynched
Johan de Witt, advisor of Holland, lynched
08201804
Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
08201823
Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], Pope (1800-23), dies at 83
08201885
Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies
08201912
William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies
08201914
Pius X, [Giuseppe M Sarto], Pope (1903-14), dies
08201915
Paul Ehrlich, Germ geneologist (Chemotherapy, Nobel 1908), dies in 61
08201917
JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies
08201932
Paul Keller, German writer (Vergrabenes Gut), dies at 59
Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson
Kurt Schumacher, German politician/chairman (SPD), dies
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, dies at 82
08201968
Earl Sande, US jockey (Kentucky Derby), dies at 69
08201982
Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress, dies in Vienna at 53 of bone cancer
08201985
Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists
08201986
Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76
Thad Jones, jazz trumpeter, dies of cancer at 63
Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71
08201990
Marc Turfkruer, Flemish movie journalist/writer, dies
08201991
Lenore Strunsky Gershwin, widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at 90
08211131
Boudewn II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies
08211190
Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies
08211245
Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies
08211629
Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies
08211785
Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies
08211905
Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80
Ernest Daudet, French writer (Mon frre et moi), dies
Leo Trotsky, dies at 62, wounds inflicted by assailant the day before
Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer, dies at 68
08211942
Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies
08211943
Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies
08211947
Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car inventor, dies
Constantly Lambert, English composer/conductor/critic, dies at 45
Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show), dies at 44
08211964
Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/min of Just, dies
08211971
George Jackson, US prisoner, shot to death at 29
08211978
Charles Eames, US chair manufacturer, dies at 71
08211982
Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed in Manila
Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland/Ngwane (1921-82), dies
08211983
Benigno S Aquino, Phillippine politician, dies
08211991
Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect, dies
08211992
Theo van Tn, Marxist/social-historian, dies at 65
0822 408
Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader, dies
08221188
Ferdinand II, king of Castili/Le¢n/Asturi/Galici, dies
08221241
Gregory IX, [Ugolino di Segni], Italian Pope, dies
08221280
Nicholas III, [Giovanni Gaetano Orsini], Italian Pope (1277-80), dies
08221286
Erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered
08221350
Philips VI, of Valois, King of France (1328-50), dies
08221485
Richard III, king, killed at Bosworth Field, dies
08221755
Caspar Burman, historian/mayor (Utrecht), dies
08221793
Louis Duke de Noailles, marshal of France, dies at 80
08221806
Jean-Honor Fragonard, painter, dies
08221818
Warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85
08221866
George Shillibeer, pioneer of London's 1st bus service, dies
08221874
Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet, dies
08221889
John Sanger, circus entrepreneur, dies
08221890
Vasile Alecsandri, Romania poet/Foreign minister, dies at 69
John Neruda, Czech writer/poet (Povidky Malostransk), dies
Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer, dies at 75
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, 3rd marques of Salisbury, dies
08221912
Pope Gregory, IX, dies
Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush
Charles William Elliot, Pres of Harvard (1869-1909), dies at 92
Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses), dies at 62
David C Salas, Antillian writer (Josephina), dies
Mikhailmichel Fokine, Russian ballet dancer/choreographer, dies
Roger Martin du Gard, novelist/playwright, dies
William Richard Morris, 1st viscount Nuffield motor manufacturer, dies
08221965
Henriette de Vreker-Verschuur, actress (Revolt in Mental Home), dies
08221976
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, pres of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73
08221977
Sebastian Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair), dies at 59
08221978
Jomo Kenyatta, president of Kenya, dies at 83
08221979
James T Farrell, US writer (French Girls are Vicious), dies
08221991
Colleen Dewhurst, actress (Murphy Brown), dies of cancer at 67
0823 408
Flavius Stilcho, Roman general, beheaded
0823 634
Aboe Bekr Abd Allah, [al-Siddik], friend/successor of Mohammed, dies
08231305
William Wallace, Scottish patriot, executed
08231591
Luis de Lon, scholar/poet, dies
08231628
George Viliers, 1st duke of Buckingham, assassinated by Felton at 36
08231806
Charles Augustin de Coulomb, physicist, dies
08231819
Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday
08231865
Ferdinand G Waldmller, Austria painter (biedermeier), dies
08231926
Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol, dies in NY at 31
Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass
Charles Van de Woestne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
Adolph Loos, Austrian architect, dies at 62
08231936
Eugne Dabit, French writer/painter (Faubourgs the Paris), dies
Sidney Coe Howard, US playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies
Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies at 65
08231962
Hoot Gibson, silent screen cowboy actor (Last Outlaw), dies at 70
Irving Fine, composer, dies
Francis Xavier Bushman, actor (Ben-Hur, When Lightning Strikes), dies
08231975
Hank Patterson, actor (Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 87
08231982
Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies
Stanford Moore, US biochemist (Nobel 1977), dies
08231989
Helen le Clerq, dancer, dies
Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry), dies
Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black
08231992
Wayne McLaren, Marlboro Man, dies of lung cancer at 51, dies
08241103
Magnus III Berbein, [blootbeen], king of Norway (1093-1103), dies
08241313
Henry VII, Roman Catholic German king/emperor (1308/12-13), dies
08241371
Eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), dies
08241572
Gaspard de Chtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded
08241595
Thomas Digges, English astronomer (Universe Infinite), dies
08241770
Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies
08241806
Paul-Louis Cyffl, Flemish sculptor/goldsmith (Terre Lorraine), dies
08241833
Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist, dies at 65
08241888
Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics), dies
08241889
Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies
08241906
Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter, dies
08241907
Pieter Louis Tak, writer (Chronicle), dies at 58
Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies
08241943
Simone Weil, French philospher (Le pesanteur et la grce), dies
08241954
Get£lio D Vargas, pres/dictator Brazil (1930-45, 51-54), suicide
John G Strdom, premier of South-Africa (1954-58), dies at 65
08241967
Amanda Randolph, actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
Henry J Kaiser, industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), dies at 85
08241973
Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family), dies at 76
08241975
Charles H Revson, US cosmetic magnate, dies at 69
08241983
Jack Somack, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show), dies at 64
08241987
Bayard Rustin, US civil rights activist, dies at 77
08241988
Max Shulman, author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69
08241991
Abel Kivlat, US 1500m runner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies at 99
Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Neth/Indon writer (Day Camp book), dies
Bernard Castro, patented convertible couch, dies at 87
08241992
Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader, dies at 74
Larrie Londin, jazz drummer, dies at 48
0825  79
Gaius Plinius Secundus [Plinius Maior], Roman admiral/writer, dies
0825 383
Flavius Gratianus, Emperor of Rome, dies
0825 882
Louis III, King of France (879-82), dies
08251227
Ghengis Khan, [Temudjin], founded Mongolia, dies
08251270
Louis IX, the Saint, king of France (1226-70), dies
08251346
Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders, dies in battle
08251554
Thomas H, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English great admiral, dies
08251789
Mary Ball Washington, mother of George, dies
08251822
F William Herschel, German astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 85
08251835
Ann Rutledge, said to be Lincoln's true love, dies in Ill at 22
Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat, dies
08251900
Friedrich Nietschze, philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies
lt W of Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded
Alfred C Kinsey, US sexologist (Kinsey Report), dies
08251967
George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated
08251968
John George, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at 70
08251971
Ted Lewis, [Theodore L Friedman], bandleader, dies at 80
08251975
John R Dunning, US physicist, dies at 67
08251979
Stan Kenton, orch leader (Music 55), dies at 67
08251980
Gower Champion, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), dies at 60
08251984
Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood), dies
Waite Hoyte, knuckleball pitcher, dies at 84
08251985
Samantha Smith, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), dies in plane at 13
08251986
Allen Case, actor (Deputy, Legend of Jesse James), dies at 51
08251988
Price Daniel, (Gov/Sen-D-Texas), dies at 77
08251991
Niven Busch, US writer (Duel in the Sun), dies
08251992
Frederick O'Neal, actor/union executive, dies at 86
Jan G Toonder, writer (Castle in Ireland), dies at 78
0826 526
Theodorik the Great, King of Italy, dies
08261278
Ottokar II, king of Bohemia (1253-78), dies in battle
08261346
Jan de Blinde, king of Bohemia/count of Luxemburg, dies in battle
Louis of Nevers, count of Flanders, slain in battle
08261368
Engelbrecht van der Mark, prince-Bishop of Luik (1345-64), dies
08261486
Ernst I, ruler of Saxon (1464-86), dies at 45
08261813
Karl T Krner, German poet (Vetter aus Bremen), dies at 21
Matthias Erzberger, German min of Finance, murdered
Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1903-21), dies
Franz Werfel, Austria/US poet/writer (Spiegelmensch), dies
Oscar L Fern ndez, Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara), dies at 50
08261958
Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer, dies at 85
08261963
Larry Keating, actor (George Burns Show, Roger-Mr Ed), dies at 67
08261966
Art Baker, TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 67
08261974
Charles Lindbergh, pilot, dies at 72 in his Hawaiian home
08261976
Lotte (Krause-)Lehmann, German soprano (More than singing), dies at 88
Warner Anderson, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Peyton Place), dies at 65
08261977
HA Rey, author of popular constellation book, dies at 78
08261978
Charles Boyer, actor (Gaslight, Rogues), dies at 78
Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (ACLU), dies at 97
08261983
Mike Kellin, actor (Honestly Celeste), dies at 61 of cancer
08261984
Julie Stevens, actress (Lorelei-Big Town), dies at 67
08261986
Jennifer Levin, strangled by Robert Chambers in Central Park
Ted Knight, [Tadeus Konopka], actor (Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 62
08261989
Henk Heidweiller, ambassador of Suriname, dies
Irving Stone, US writer (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life), dies
08261992
Bob the Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje), dies
08271208
Irene Angelina, daughter of Isaac II Angeles, dies
08271576
Titian, [Tiziano Vecelli], Italian painter, dies of plague
08271590
Sixtus V, [Felice Peretti/"Montalto"], Pope (1585-90), dies at 68
08271611
Tom s L de Victoria, Spanish composer/singer/organist, dies
08271635
Lope Felix de Vega, playwright/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72
08271748
James Thomson, dies
08271827
Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat, dies
08271830
Louis H J Cond, French prince, commits suicide at 74
08271840
William Kneass, 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office
Johan George Schwartze, painter, dies
John Henry Foley, sculptor, dies
08271876
Eugne-Samuel-Auguste Fromentin, novelist/painter, dies
08271879
Sir Rowland Hill, introduced postage stamps, dies at 84
Clement of Maasdk, 1st Dutch aircraft death
08271914
John Weiss, German new testament, dies
Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies
08271931
Willem H Nolens, priest/2nd Chamber member, dies
Ursmer Berlire, Belgian historian (Monastican Belgium), dies
Otto Selz, German psychologist (In Auschwitz), dies
Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco grande), dies
Joachim Wach, philosopher/sociologist (Sociology of Religion), dies
08271958
Ernest O Lawrence, inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939), dies at 57
W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana
William Edward Burghardt du Bois, educational editor/author, dies
08271965
Le Corbusier, [Charles E Jeanneret], Swiss/French architect, dies
08271967
Brian Epstein, Beatles' manager, dies
08271968
Princess Marina, Dutchess of Kent, dies
William E B Dubois, US founder NAACP (Souls of black people), dies
08271969
Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies
Henri EJA the Page, Belgian lawyer, dies
Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, dies
08271971
Bennett Cerf, (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73
Margaret Bourke-White, US photographer, dies at 67
08271975
Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian emperor, dies at 83
08271977
Steve Dunne, actor (Professional Father), dies at 59
08271978
Robert Shaw, actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies at 51
08271979
Louis Mountbatten, British adm of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA
08271980
Sam Levenson, humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68
08271981
Joan Edwards, singer (Joan Edwards Show), dies at 62
08271984
Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies
Billy Sands, actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73
08271990
Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35
08271991
Vince Taylor, [Brian Holden], Brit singer (Brand new Cadillac, dies
0828 388
Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), dies
0828 430
Aurelius Augustinus, church elder/thinker (Belijdenissen), dies at 75
0828 876
Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies
08281481
Afonso V, king of Portugal, dies
08281544
Alardus Aemstelredamus, priest/humanist, dies
08281646
Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53
08281778
Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/shipminister, dies
08281803
Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter, dies
08281818
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies
08281900
Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University), dies
Louis Botha, South African Boer leader, dies
08281922
Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Eu/Brazil, dies at 80
Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish optician (Nobel 1911), dies
Boris III, of Saksen-Coburg, King of Bulgaria (1918-43), dies
08281944
Ernst Thlmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald
08281955
Emmett Till, kidnapped & lynched at 14, in Money Mississippi
Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies
08281964
Gracie Allen, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen), dies at 62
08281967
Paul Muni [Muni Weisenfreund] actor (Good Earth), dies at 71
John Gordon Mein, US ambassador in Guatemala, dies
Nick Castle, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), dies at 58
Nathan Leopold, US kidnapper/murderer of Bobby Franks (1924), dies
08281978
Bruce Catton, US historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78
08281982
Nini the Bol, Flemish operetta singer (White Horse), dies at 84
08281983
Jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66
08281985
Ruth Gordon, actress, dies at 88 suffering a stroke in her sleep
08281987
John Huston, US/Irish actor/director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81
08281988
Hazel Dawn, US singer/actress, dies at 98
08281990
Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske & Wiske), dies
0829  29
John the Baptist, beheaded
0829 886
Basilius I, the Macedonir, Byzantine emperor (867-886), dies
08291533
Atahualpa, last Incan King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors
08291758
Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75
08291769
Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)
08291799
Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71
Flicien C David, French composer (Lalla-Roukh), dies at 66
Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies
Murad V, sultan of Turkey (1876), dies
Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies
Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor, dies
Astrid S L T Bernadotte, Queen of Belgium/Princess of Sweden, dies
08291957
Jozef Cantr, Flemish sculptor/wood carver, dies at 66
Charles Lotsy, insurance director/chief d'quipe, dies
08291960
Alexander Gauge, actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 46
Hazza el-Majali, PM of Jordan is assassinated
08291967
George Rockwell, American nazi party leader, murdered
08291972
Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson, Ger night club performer/singer, dies
08291975
Eamon de Valera, Irish independence fighter, dies at 92
08291976
Anissa Jones, actress (Buffy-Family Affair), dies at 18
08291981
Lowell Thomas, newscaster (High Adventure), dies in Pawling NY, at 89
08291982
Ingrid Bergman, academy award winning actress, dies on 67th birthday
Nahum Goldmann, pres Zionist World Organization, dies at 87
08291983
Simon Oakland, actor (Toma, Kolchak, Baa Baa Black Sheep), dies at 61
08291985
Evelyn Ankers, actress, dies at 67
Patrick Barr, actor, dies at 77
08291987
Lee Marvin, actor (Cat Ballou, Gorky Park), dies in Tucson Ariz at 63
08291991
Dallas Adams, British actor/painter/writer, dies
Libero Grassi, Italian underwear manufacturer/anti mafia, dies
0830  30
-BC- Cleopatra, 7th & most famous queen of Egypt, commits suicide
08301181
Alexander III, [Orlando Bandinelli], Italian Pope (1159-81), dies
08301482
Louis van Bourbon, prince-Bishop of Luik (Cluppelslagers), dies
08301483
Louis XI, king of France (1461-83), dies at 60
08301580
Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherlands, dies
08301666
Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer, dies
08301809
Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies
Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's beads, dies
08301879
John B Hood, confederate general (lost Atlanta), dies at 48
08301903
Vincente F L¢pez, historian (Historia the Chile), dies at 87
Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies
Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung), dies
Wilhelm Vienna, German physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies
William H Taft, 27th US President (1909-13), dies
Earnest L Wolzogen, German writer (That tolle Komtess), dies at 79
Henri Barbusse, French writer (Le feu), dies
A[braham] [P] Merritt, author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!), dies at 58
Morten Nielsen, Danish resistance fighter, dies
08301952
Arky Vaughn, infielder (Pirates & Dodgers), drowns
08301961
Charles Coburn, Acad award winning actor, dies at 84
08301963
Axel Stordahl, orch leader (Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 50
Wesley Lau, actor (Lt Anderson-Perry Mason), dies at 43
08301968
William Talman, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason), dies at 53
08301970
Del Moore, actor/announcer (Cal-Bachelor Father), dies at 53
Abraham Schierbeek, biologist (Leeuwenhoek), dies at 87
08301981
Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
08301982
Leo[nhard] Pappenheim, conductor, dies at 86
08301991
Hans Koetsier, sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol), dies
Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies
08311057
Leofric, count of Mercia/husband of Lady Godiva, dies
08311158
Sancho III, king of Castili, dies
08311218
Al-Malik ab-Adil/Saphadin/Saif al-Din), brother of Saladin, dies
08311240
Raymundus Nonnatus, found Mercedarirs (protect pregnant women), dies
08311422
Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19), dies
08311688
John Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author (Pilgrim's Progress), dies
08311867
[Pierre-]Charles Baudelaire, French poet (Journaux Intimes), dies
08311873
Charles F Pahud de Montagnes, gov-gen (Dutch East Indies), dies at 70
08311875
Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geographer (Physicist Erdkunde), dies
William Barber, 6th US chief engraver (1844-79), dies
Dubose Heyward, US writer (Porgy-Mamba's daughters), dies
08311902
Mathilde Wesendonk, German author/poetess, dies at 73
Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WW I), dies at 36
08311920
Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher, dies
Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar, dies
08311934
Johan H A Schaper, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (SDAP), dies
08311944
Killinger, German ambassador to Romania, commits suicide
Andr Debierne, French chemist/physicist (actinium), dies
George F Broque, cubist painter, dies at 81 in Paris
08311964
Carole Coleman, singer (Face the Music), dies at 42
08311966
Kasimir Edschmid, [Karl E Schmidt], German writer, dies
08311967
Ilja G Ehrenburg, Russian poet/writer (9th wave), dies
08311968
Dennis O'Keefe, actor (Suspicion), dies at 60
George P Gooch, English historian/House of Commons leader, dies
08311969
Rocky Marciano, former heavyweight champ, dies in a plane crash at 45
08311973
John Ford, US director (Mary of Scotland, Stagecoach), dies at 78
08311981
Joseph H Hirschhorn, US art collector/founder H Museum, dies at 82
08311990
Nat (Sweetwater) Clifton, NY Knick, dies at 65 of a heart attack
08311991
Leigh Watson, US aviation pioneer/air force general, dies at 93
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0801
[Benin/Dahomey] Independence Day (1960)
[Botswana] August Holiday
[China PR] Army Day
[Dominica] Queen's Birthday
[Ghana] Homowo
[Guyana] Commonwealth Day
[Iran] 12th Imam's Birthday
[Nicaragua] Fiesta Day
[Scotland] Lammas Day, term day
[Switzerland] Anniv of Founding of Swiss Confederation (1291)
[Trinidad & Tobago, St Lucia] Emancipation Day/Caribbean Day
[US] Sports Day-good sportsmanship
[World] Breast Feeding Day (UNICEF/WHO)
[Zaire] Parents Day
[Arizona, Michigan] American Family Day
[Italy] Joust of Quintana (1st Sunday)
[Bahamas, Barbados, Turks & Caicos Island] Emancipation Day (1838)
[British Commonwealth] Bank Holiday
[Canada] Civic Holiday (1st Monday)
[Colorado] Colorado Day (1876)
[Ivory Coast] Independence Day (1st Monday in August)
[Jamaica] Independence Day (1962)
[St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla] August Monday
[US] National Smile Week begins
[Gilroy, Calif] Start of Garlic Festival
0802
[Costa Rica] Virgin of Angels Feast
[Grenada] Emancipation Day
[Lesotho] National Tree Planting Day (Arbor Day)
[Malawi] Bank Holiday
[Grasmere England] Rush-Bearing Day
0803
[New Zealand] Arbor Day (1872)
[Niger] Independence Day (1960)
[Tunisia] Bourguiba's Birthday (1902)
0804
[Burkina] Anniversary of Revolution (1983)
[Cook Island] Constitution Day
[Norway] Peer Gynt Festival Days
[Trinidad & Tobago] Discovery Day (1498)
[US] Coast Guard Day (1790)
[Virgin Islands] Nicole Robin Day
0805
[Burkina] (Upper Volta) Independence Day/Burkina Faso (1960)
[Iran] Constitution Day
[World] Test Ban Day (Int'l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War)
0806
[Australia] Bank Holiday
[Bolivia] Independence Day (1825)
[Hiroshima, Japan] Peace Festival at Peace Memorial Park (1945)
[Iceland] Bank Holiday
[Malawi, Ireland] August Holiday
[UAE] Accession of H.H. Sheik Zayed Ben Sultan Al-Nahayan
0807
[Columbia] Battle of Boyac  (1819)
[Ivory Coast/Cte d'Ivoire] Independence Day (1960)
0808
[Afghanistan] Independence Day (1919)
[Bhutan] Independence Day (1949)
[Ivory Coast] Independence Day (1960)
[Nepal] Tij Day- Woman's holiday
[Bahamas] Fox Hill Day (2nd Monday)
[Italy] Palio Del Golfo (2nd Sunday)
[Zambia] Youth Day
0809
[Japan] Nagasaki Memorial Day (1945)
[Libya] Sanusi Army Day
[Rhode Island] Victory Day
[Singapore] Independence Day (1965)
0810
[Ecuador] Independence Day (of Quito) (1809)
[Missouri] Admission Day (1821)
0811
[Central African Republic, Chad] Independence Day (1960)
[Jordan] Coronation Day/Accession of King Hussein
[Yukon] Klondike Gold Day (1896)
0812
[Cuba] People's Victory Against Machado Tyranny
[Massachusetts, Oklahoma] Indian Day
[Texas] Pioneer' Day
[Thailand] Queen's Birthday
[World] Ponce de Leon Day (1508)
0813
[Central African Republic] Independence Day (1960)
[Tunisia] International Women's Day
0814
[Arkansas] World War II Memorial Day (1945)
[Bahrain] Independence Day (1971)
[Chicago] Bud Billiken Day-honors children (1923)
[Liechtenstein] Prince Franz-Joseph Day
[Massachusett] Liberty Tree Day (1765)
[Pakistan-1947, Bahrain-1971] Independence Day
[Portugal] Independence Day (1385)
[Rhode Island, Michigan] V-J Day (1945)
[US] Atlantic Charter Day; US & UK agree on war aims (1941)
0815
[Bahrain] Independence Day
[Chad, Congo-1960, India-1947] Independence Day
[Costa Rica] Mother's Day
[Grenada, Liechtenstein, Corsica] National Day
[Laos] Memorial Day
[Pakistan] Independence Day (1947)
[South Korea] Liberation Day (1945, 1948)
[Hawaii] Admission Day (1959)
[Mich] Montrose-Blueberry Festival
0816
[Cyprus] Independence Day (1960)
[Dominican Republic] Restoration Day (1963)
[Liechtenstein] Prince Franz-Josef II Day
[Vermont] Bennington Battle Day (1777)
0817
[Argentina] San Martin Day (1850)
[India] Janmashtami
[Indonesia-1945, Gabon-1960] Independence Day
0818
0819
[Ethiopia] Buhe
[US] National Aviation Day (1939)
0820
[Hungary] Constitution Day (1949)
[Senegal] Independence Day (1960)
0821
0823
[Curaao] Memory of murder of slave Diana
[Romania] Liberation Day (1944)
[Swaziland] Umhlanga Day
0824
[Liberia] Flag Day (1847)
[Sierra Leone] President's Birthday
0825
[France] Liberation Day (1944)
[Paraguay] Constitution Day (1967)
[Uruguay] Independence Day (1825)
[Hong Kong] Liberation Day (1945)
0826
[Indonesia]
[Namibia] Namibia Day
[US] Women's Equality Day (1973)/Susan B Anthony Day (1920)
[Zanzibar] Sultan's Birthday
0827
[Gibralter] Late Summer Bank Holiday
0828
[Hong Kong] Festival of Hungry Ghosts
[Jordon] Arab Renaissance Day
[Laos]
[Mauritius] Ganesh Chatturthi
0829
[Czecoslovakia] Slovak National Uprising Day
[England, Channel Is, Northern Ireland, Wales] Bank Holiday
0829 831
[Afghanistan] Jeshyn-Afghan Day/Independence Day (1920)
0830
[Afghanistan] Children's Day
[Gibraltar] Bank Holiday
[Peru] Patrones of America & India, official feast day
[Turkey] Victory Day (1922)
[Turks & Caicos Islands] Constitution Day (1976)
0831
[Afghanistan] Pashtunistan Day
[Malaysia] Malaysia Day/Independence Day (1957)
[Trinidad & Tobago] Independence Day (1962)
[US] Festal Day/Order of Eastern Star (Robert Morris' birthday)
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[Christian] Feast of St Almedha/Aled
[Christian] Feast of St Alphonse Liguori
[Christian] Feast of St Ethelwold of Winchester Holy Machabees
[Christian] Feast of St Peter Julian Eymard
[Christian] Feast of St Pistics, Elpis & Agape (Faith Hope & Charity)
[Old RC] Feast of St Peter's Chains
[Yorkshire, England] St Wilfred
08011787
[RC] Memorial of St Alphonsus Mary de Liguori, bishop/doctor
[Christian] Feast of St Piegmund, Archbishop of Canterbury
[Christian] Feast of St Sidwell/Satiovola
[Christian] Feast of St Stephen I (pope)
[Christian] Feast of St Syragrius of Austin
[Christian] Feast of St Theodota & her 3 sons
[Orth] St Elias Day
0802 370
[RC] Memorial of Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop (opt)
08021787
[Old RC] Feast of St Alphonsus Mary de Liguori, bishop
08021998
[Jewish] Tisha B'Av
0803 415
[RC] Commemoration of Finding of Body of St Stephen, martyr
08041221
[Old RC] Feast of St Dominic, confessor
[RC] Memorial of St John Mary Vianney, patron of priests
[Christian-England] St Oswald Day
0805 432
[Old RC] Basilica of Our Lady of Snows, Rome
[RC] Mem of Dedication of St Mary Major Basilica, Rome (opt)
08051995
[RC, Ang] Feast of Transfiguration of Lord
[Ang, Episcopal] Feast of Holy Name of Jesus
0807 258
[RC] Memorial of Sixtus II, pope, & his companions, martyrs (opt)
[RC, Ang] Memorial of St Cajetan, confessor (opt)
08071866
[Ang] Commemoration of John Mason Neale, priest
[RC] Commemoration of SS Cyriacus, Largus, Smaragdus, martyrs
08081221
[Ang, RC] Memorial of St Dominic, priest/friar
[Christian] Commemoration of St Denys
0810 258
[Ang, RC, Luth] Feast of St Laurence, deacon/martyr at Rome
08102000
0811 295
[RC] Commemoration of SS Tiburtius & Susanna, martyrs
08111253
[Ang, old RC, RC]  Memorial of St Clare, virgin, Abbess at Assisi
[Christian] Feast of Porcarius & his companions
[Christian] Feast of St Clara, female saint of wash women
[Christian] Feast of St Euplus
[Christian] Feast of St Jambert, archbishop of Canterbury
[Christian] Feast of St Murtagh/Muredach
08121997
0813 235
[RC] Memorial of St Pontian, pope (230-235), martyr (opt)
0813 236
[RC] Memorial of St Hippolytus, martyr (opt)
0813 298
[RC] Commemoration of St Cassian, martyr, patron of stenographers
08131667
[Ch] Commemoration of Jeremy Taylor, bishop of Down, Connor & Dromore
08131901
[Luth] Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Clara Maass
[Christian] Feast of St Athanasia of Aegina
[Christian] Feast of St Eusebius of Rome
[Christian] Feast of St Fachanan
[Christian] Feast of St Marcellus of Apamea
[RC] St Vigil of Assumption of Mary
[RC] Memorial of Maximilian Kolbe, priest, martyr at Auschwitz
[Ang, Luth] Commemoration of St Mary, virgin, mother of Our Lord
[RC] Solemnity of Assumption of Virgin
[old RC] Feast of St Joachim, father of Mary, confessor
08161038
[RC] Memorial of St Stephen, apostle of Hungary (opt)
[Christian] St Ethelred
08171257
[RC] Commemoration of St Hyacinth of Silesia, confessor
0818 275
[RC] Commemoration of St Agapitus, martyr
0818 330
[RC] Comm of St Helena, empress, mother of Constantine the Great
08181918
[Ang] Commemoration of William Porcher DuBose, priest
[Orth] Transfiguration of Our Lord (8/6 OS)
08191680
[RC] Memorial of St John Eudes, confessor/priest (opt)
[Unification Church] Day of Total Victory
[Ang, RC, Luth] Memorial of St Bernard, abbot at Clairvaux, doctor
08211641
[RC] Commemoration of St Jane Frances Frmiot de Chantal, widow
08211914
[RC] Memorial of Pius X, pope (1903-14)
0822
[RC] Memorial of Queenship of Mary (Immaculate Heart)
[Christian] Feast of St Astrius & Claudius
[Christian] Feast of St Eugene/Eoghan of Ardstraw
[Christian] Feast of St Philip Benizi
[Christian] Feast of St Tydfil
08231285
[RC] Commemoration of St Philip Benizi, confessor
08231617
[RC] Mem of St Rose of Lima, patron of Latin America (opt)
08241583
[RC, Ang, Luth] Feast of St Bartholomew, apostle
0825 300
[RC] Comm of St Genesius, Roman actor, patron of actors
[RC, Ang] Memorial of St Louis IX, king of France, confessor (opt)
08251648
[RC] Memorial of Joseph of Calasanz, priest (opt)
0826 217
[RC] Commemoration of St Zephyrinus, pope (198-217), martyr
[Christian] Feast of St Caesarius of Aires
[Christian] Feast of St David Lewis Little
[Christian] Feast of St Hugh
[Christian] Feast of St Marcellus of Tomi
[Christian] Feast of St Margaret & barefooted
[Christian] Feast of St Poemen
0827 386
[RC] Memorial of St Monica, mother of St Augustine of Hippo
08271648
[Old RC] Feast of St Joseph Calasanctius, confessor
[Orth] Falling-Asleep (Assumption) of Mary (8/15 OS)
[Luth, RC] Memorial of St Augustine of Hippo, bishop/doctor
[RC] Memorial of Beheading of St John the Baptist
0830 670
[RC] Comm of St Fiacre, Irish hermit, patron of gardeners
08301617
[Old RC] Feast of St Rose of Lima (1568-1617), patron of Latin America
0831 651
[Ang] Commem of Aidan, bishop of Lindisfarne, monastic founder
[RC] Comm of St Raymund Nonnatus, cardinal, ransomer of captives
[Luth] Commemoration of John Bunyan, teacher
S
0800
FLOWERS-gladiolus & poppy        GEMS-sardonyx & peridot
Sandwich-National Catfish-Month
08001
[Hawaii] Aukake
[Ancient Rome] Calendae Sextilis
[Ancient Rome] Festival of Mars
[Sweden] Per name day in Sweden
0801 815
Dog Days
0801 822
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN:  Leo
[Sweden] Karin name day
[Ancient Rome] Nonae Sextilis
Middle Children's Day
[Sweden] Lars name day
0810 814
Perseid meteor shower, radiant in Cassiopeia
0810 820
Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus
08111999
Total eclipse visible over Central Europe & Asia
International Left-handers Day
[Ancient Rome] Idus Sextilis
Friday the 13th!  Beware!
Memorial to Elvis Presley (1977)
[Ancient Rome] Portunalia
[Ancient Rome] Vinalia
[Ancient Rome] Consualia
0821 831
Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
08221998
Annular eclipse visible over Indonesia, Malaysia & New Guinea
[Ancient Rome] Volcanalia (Festival of Vulcan)
08-- 440
St Leo I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
08-- 827
Eugene II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
Valentine begins his reign as Catholic Pope
08-- 855
[Anastasius] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
08--1937
W1XOJ (W43B, WGTR), Paxton Mass, begins construction as 1st FM station
08--1940
WBBM TV channel 2 in Chicago, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
08--1959
KAVE (now KVIO) TV channel 6 in Carlsbad, NM (ABC) begins broadcasting
Zaire amends constitution
08--1979
Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3
08--1988
IBM releases PC-DOS 4.0
0801 649
Pope Martinus I chosen successor of Theodorus I [or 8/7]
08011291
Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence)
08011498
Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" [vasteland America]
08011589
Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French king Hendrik III
08011619
1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
08011716
1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea)
Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed
08011732
Foundation laid for Bank of England
08011774
Priestly discovers oxygen
08011781
English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia
08011785
Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
08011789
US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
08011790
1st US census (population of 3,939,214; 697,624 are slaves)
08011794
Whiskey Rebellion begins
08011798
Battle on Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet
08011812
Rare tornado hits Westchester County, NY
08011831
London Bridge opens
Slavery abolished in British empire
08011838
Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas
08011842
Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens
08011852
SF Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
08011861
Brazil recognizes Confederacy
Battle of Little Rock AK & Start of Chattanooga campaign
Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
08011864
Battle of Petersburg, VA
08011867
Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South (Tenn)
08011869
1st voyage down Colorado River
08011873
SF's 1st cable car begins service
08011876
Colorado becomes 38th state
A Borrelly discovers asteroid #173 Ino
US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, SF Bay
A papyrus offered to Brit Museum for 10,000 (forgery)
Inland postal service begins in Great Britain
Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand
08011896
George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (NY to England)
Burial within SF City limits prohibited
Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia (100 die)
08011903
1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th
08011907
Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF
Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division
Hawaii National Park established
Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT
British troops overthrow Vladivostok
M Wolf discovers asteroid #896 Sphinx
Pitts Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings
Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia
08011925
Shortwave-radio link between Kootwk & Netherland East-Indies
Battles between Druzen & French  in Damascus
Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona
08011929
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1186 Turnera
E Skvortsov discovers asteroid #1149 Volga
Death penality for anti fascists in Germany
NRA (National Recovery Administration) established
Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1432 Ethiopia
NY Yankee Lefty Gomez walks must (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St L 0)
German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers
Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw
Race riot in Harlem NYC
Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East
Uprising in Warsaw ghetto
08011945
Japanese city Tojama destroyed by B-29's
Pres Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons)
American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule
Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act)
King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes king
Territory of Guam created
David Ben Gurions Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
Calif introduces sales tax (for education)
Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba
KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, MO (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting
KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland
08011954
Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France
WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
08011955
1st microgravity research begins
Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malakka govt
WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
08011956
KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)
Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10")
1st class postage up to 4 (had been 3 for 26 years)
US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole
New Continental baseball league formed
WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"
Dahomey gains independence
German DR limits traffic to West Berlin
New SF Hall of Justice opens
Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League
Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0
Failed attack on president Nkrumah of Ghana
Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
Germany FR annexes Elten village
WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation
Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
Charles Whitman climbs U of Texas tower & shoots 12 dead
WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
08011969
110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival
Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars
08011970
EAA Convention moves from Rockford Ill to Oshkosh, Wi
KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game
08011971
CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII
George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC
08011972
1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
Nate Colbert of SD Padres hits record tying 5 HRs in a double header
Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
08011974
Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr J" Erving to NY Nets
08011975
Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of NY Yankees
Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations
08011976
Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton)
Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20)
SF Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer
Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL)
08011980
Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record
08011981
Harvard College discovers asteroid #3401
MTV premiers at 12:01 AM
08011982
Greg Louganis, US becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives
15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)
08011986
Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000
Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal
Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart
Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada
Mike Tyson beats Tony Tucker to become undisputed boxing champ
Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon
Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs
08011991
Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida
NBC's "Saturday Today" premiers
USA/USSR Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica
Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack
St Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
Severinus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
John V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
08021057
Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium, Pope Stephen IX [X]
08021375
1st roller skating rink opens (London)
08021492
Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
08021578
Battle of Rmenam
08021704
Duke of Marlborough beats French & Bavarians at Blenheim
08021776
Formal signing of Declaration of Independence
08021798
British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile
Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life"
08021819
1st parachute jump in US
1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac & Fox indians, end Black Hawk War
Black Hawk defeated (IA)
Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisc
1st street mailboxes-Boston, Mass
Govt of India transferred from East India Company to Crown
08021861
Skirmish at Dug Springs, MI
08021864
2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
08021865
Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps & is lost
08021873
1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
08021877
SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
08021894
Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
Women suffrage approved
Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
08021904
M Wolf discovers asteroid #539 Pamina
08021906
Chicago White Sox begin record 19 game win streak
1st Lincoln head pennies minted
Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
08021911
Hati's dictator Simon flees on US warship near Jamaica
08021912
John J McDermott wins US Open golf tournament
German troops overthrows Luxembourg
Postdam Conference ended
Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia
Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place
08021920
Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in NYC
China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1064 Aethusa
08021928
Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR
08021931
Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status
Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chic Cubs
1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany
William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour
1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals)
Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
08021941
Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
Lt John F Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
Riot at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed)
Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker
Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany
KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting
Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia
Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months
Bob Rosburg wins PGA golf tournament
Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples
Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club
Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo
St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto
08021962
NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin
Race riot in Jersey City NJ
Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to LA Rams 16-77
US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5
08021970
Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in Calif
Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London
George Brett gets his 1st hit
08021975
104øF (40øC) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record)
107øF (42øC) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record)
Billy Martin named manager of NY Yankees (1st time)
Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway
08021980
US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships
Roger Ebert's Movie News premiers on ABC FM network
08021983
STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination
5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
Delta L-1011 crashes at Dallas/Ft Worth, 133 die
NASA launches space vehicle S-209
08021986
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)
TODAY/PC born today
Cin Red Eric Davis becomes 7th & earliest 30 HR 30 steal man
Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")
Kevin Seitzer (KC Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game
Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)
Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo
System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)
08021990
Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA
Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched
NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes
08031108
Louis VI, King of France, crowned
08031492
All Jews are expelled from Spain
Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for "Indies"
08031529
Women's peace (treaty of Cambrai)-emperor Charles V & king French I
08031596
David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star)
08031645
Battle of Allersheim
08031678
Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon
08031692
Battle of Steenkerke
08031778
Teatro alla Scale opens in Milan
08031852
1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths
08031860
American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY
08031863
Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in NY
Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
08031864
Battle of Mobile AL
08031881
US Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes "Nation" from name
08031882
Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
08031889
A Charlois discovers asteroid #285 Regina
J Palisa discovers asteroid #286 Iclea
British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa
M Wolf discovers asteroid #540 Rosamunde
1st ship through Panama Canal
Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I
Great Britain declares war on Germany
Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning
Wolf discovers asteroid #897 Lysistrata, #898 Hildegard & #899 Jokaste
1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars)
VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president
Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist
08031925
Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games
E Skvortsov discovers asteroid #1167 Dubiago
Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games
08031937
K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1437 Diomedes & #1457 Ankara
German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters & English & French movies
Italian troops attack British-Somalia
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1881 Shao
Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR
Benzine sales limited in US
08031944
Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies
08031946
Belgian cabinet-Huysmans, forms
FDR advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a "communist"
M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1569 Evita
15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland
08031953
Frank Blair becomes news anchor of Today Show
1st VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown
08031955
Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing
Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days
Roger Moens runs world record 800 m (1:45.7)
Willie Williams of US sets 100 meter record at 10.1
08031957
British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman
08031958
USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap
50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau
AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium)
Niger gains independence from France
NY Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games
Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda"
Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool
Great Train Robbery-2.5 M ($3.25 M) robbed
James Law rides entire NYC subway in 22 hrs 12 minutes
08031969
Reds beats Phillies 19-17
08031970
4 day NFL strike ends
Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history
L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2140 Kemerovo
Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try
08031971
Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings
08031973
Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park. (Isle of Man, UK)
Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan & joins Doobie Brothers
08031975
500 drown when 2 river boats collide & sink in China's West River
Louisiana Superdome is dedicated
08031979
Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, RI
08031980
Duke Snider & Al Kaline enter baseball's Hall of Fame
08031981
13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike
E Bowell discovers asteroids #3115 Baily & #3690
08031982
Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as Yankee manager
John Sain of South Bend, Ind builds 3.91 m house of cards
08031984
365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
08031985
"Nihilator" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ
08031987
Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo)
Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26
08031988
Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to NYC
08031989
5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez)
08031990
NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th HR in 1st 72 at bats
08031991
Pan Am games open in Havana
Dodgers win 3,000th game since moving to Los Angeles (3,000-2,531)
Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot
08031993
NBA Michael Jordan's father James found dead near McColl SC
08041181
Supernova seen in Cassiopia
08041347
English troops conquer Ft Calais
08041558
1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
08041578
Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portugeese
Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique & St Christopher; thousands die
08041693
Dom Perignon invents champagne
08041753
George Washington becomes a master mason
08041777
Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus
08041790
US Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service
08041821
1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969)
08041830
Plans for city of Chicago laid out
08041864
Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
122øF (50øC), Seville, Spain (European record)
08041886
Colombia adopts constitution
Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia
08041903
Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
08041904
M Wolf discovers asteroid #541 Deborah
A's Jack Coombs & White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie
Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
08041916
US agrees to buy Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million
08041917
Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests & officers
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #954 Li
Coln cabinet, forms
US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
08041926
H E Wood discovers asteroid #1663 van den Bos
S Belyavsk discovers asteroid #1065 Amundsenia
08041927
Peace Bridge between US & Canada opened
08041929
60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich
M Wolf discovers asteroids #2373 & #3626
NY Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game & beats Phillies 21-4
08041936
Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece
German occupier orders all homing pigeons destroyed
Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season
Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax
NBL & NBAA merge into National Basketball Association
08041953
Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago
Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs & wins 15-0
08041956
1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph)
Netherlands forgives Indonesia's debts
Dumont TV Network crumbles
Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
08041961
108øF, Spokane, WA
Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand
British pirate radio station Radio 355 goes off air
Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago)
08041968
100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, Calif
WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, NY (UNI) begins broadcasting
08041969
Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium
08041970
Asteroid #2993 discovered
Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2575 Bulgaria
08041971
US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
08041974
Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
08041977
Pres Carter establishes Dept of Energy
Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank for STS-2 mission
Oliver North is assigned to white house duty
08041983
L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #3063 Makhaon
Revolution in Burkina
Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics
Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit HR
Prince's "Purple Rain," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 24 weeks
Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Fasso (National Day)
08041985
Calif Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit
Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10
White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees
08041987
FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters
08041988
Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II
Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case
08041990
95.5øF (35.3øC) in De Bilt Neth (highest Aug temp in Neth)
European community proposes a boycott of Iraq
08041996
26th Olympic Summer games closes in Atlanta, Georgia
0805 135
Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome
08051264
Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany
08051391
Jews are massacred in Toledo & Barcelona Spain
08051583
Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America)
08051772
1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
08051775
1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters SF Bay
08051781
Battle at Doggers Bank
08051837
1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, NY
08051846
Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel
08051858
Cyrus W Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable
08051861
Enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years
Naval Engagement at Fernandina, FL-USS Vincennes ends rebel blockade
US Army abolishes flogging
US levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)
08051862
Battle of Baton Rouge, LA
08051864
Battle of Mobile Bay Al-Farragut is given rank of vice-admiral
Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
08051884
Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)
08051891
1st travelers checks issued (American Express)
Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets then long jump record at 24' 11 3/4"
1st traffic light installed (Euclid Ave. & E. 105th St, Cleveland)
US beats Australia, 3-2, to win Davis Cup
US, Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US
08051915
German troops over run Warsaw
08051921
1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA, Pitts)
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #955 Alstede
1st American to swim English Channel (Henry Sullivan)
08051924
Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts
08051926
1st talkie movie "Don Juan" at Warner Theatre, NY
French & German trade agreement signed
Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1« hrs
08051927
Phillies Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at bats
08051931
Det Tiger Tommy Bridges perfect game is broken up with 2 outs in 9th
At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal
08051937
Ranger (US) beats Endeavour II (England) in 17th America's Cup
"Acquaintance" blows-up Zandvoortse synagouge
St Louis Brown John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings
German troops close Koeban River
Soviet forces reconquer Orel & Bjelgorod
Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan)
08051948
Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins golf's US open
08051949
Earthquake hits Quito; about 6000 die
Ezzard Charles KOs Freddie Beshore to retain HW boxing title
Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom
Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern & 15 pioneers
KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, GU (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
"American Bandstand," goes on network TV (ABC)
WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions
08051958
Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole
42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record)
Chic Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 55-26 in Toronto
Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France
Detroit trades mgr Jimmy Dykes for Cleve's mgr Joe Gordon
118øF (48øC), Ice Harbor Dam, Washington (state record)
Chic Bears (NFL) beat Mont Alouettes (CFL) 34-16 in Montreal
1st quasar located by radio
Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illeagally leaving S Afr
UN command forbids flights to Katangese airports
08051963
Britain, US & USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty
Craig Breedlove sets world auto speed record at 407.45 MPH
08051964
Actress Anne Bancroft & comedian Mel Brooks wed
Beatles record "Leave My Kitten Alone"
US begins bombing North Vietnam
08051965
Dave Marr wins PGA title
08051967
1st time an AFL team beats an NFL team, Broncos beats Detroit 13-7
Bobby Gentry releases her only hit "Ode to Billy Joe"
Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) & Radio London close down
08051968
WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) 1st broadcast
WZTV TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) begins broadcasting
08051969
Mariner 7 flies past Mars
Pirate Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium
08051971
WNPE TV channel 16 in Watertown, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
Moody Blues release "Nights in White Satin"
08051973
Atlanta Braves Phil Niekro no-hits SD Padres, 9-0
USSR launches Mars 6
08051974
Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways
Phillies 1st 8 batters get hits for a major league record, win 13-5
H L Giclas discovers asteroid #2118 Flagstaff
New Orlean Saints beat Phil Eagles 14-7 in Mexico City (NFL expo)
08051980
NY Met Doug Flynn ties record of 3 triples in a game
08051981
E Bowell discovers asteroid #3402 Wisdom
Federal govt began firing striking air traffic controllers
Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck 2 days ago
Joan Benoit (US) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2h24m52s)
Lou Pinella day at Yankee Stadium
Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson sets record with 19 pinch hit HRs
Baseball players go on strike for 2 days
Chic White Sox Tom Seaver wins #300 over Yanks at Yankee Stadium
08051988
Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat
Sergei Bubka of USSR sets pole vault record (20'¬") in Malm Sweden
St Sixtus II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
St Hormisdas ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0806 768
[Constantine] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0806 939
Battle at Simancas-Spain beats Moors
08061181
Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
Maffeo Barberini elected Pope Urban VIII
Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million gulders
08061774
Mother Ann (Lee) comes to NY (Shaker movement)
08061787
Constitutional Convention in Phila begans debate
08061806
Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
08061815
US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli
08061825
Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
08061854
Congress passes Confiscation Act
Lexington KY-Union milt camp established in neutral state
08061862
Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack
08061864
Rebels evacuate Ft Powell, Mobile Bayd
08061866
E Stephan discovers asteroid #89 Julia
08061870
White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tenn legislature
08061871
J C Watson discovers asteroid #115 Thyra
1st use of electric chair in US, John Hart, in NY for murder
Cy Young pitches & wins 1st game
08061905
26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record)
St Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn
Austria-Hungary declares war against Russia
Serbia declares war against Germany
08061918
Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France
1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest
Clason Point, Bronx to College Point, Queens muni ferry system begins
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #998 Bodea
NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel
US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
Franco-artillery fire on Madrid
Indians overturn Yankees' 7-6 win by a protest
US & USSR sign trade treaty
All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died
Anti-German attack at Avranches fails
Deportation of 70,000 Jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
German counter attack at Avranches fails
Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay"
08061946
US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics
Drees cabinet (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) forms
Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics
Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
Satchel Paige, 47, becomes oldest pitcher to win a complete shutout
WLAC (now WTVF) TV channel 5 in Nashville (CBS) begins broadcasting
Glenn Davis sets record of 49.2 in 400-meter hurdles
08061960
Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto
Jamaica gains independence from Britain
Beatles release "Help" album in UK
Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights
Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London
Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe)
US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam
08061967
Minn Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings
Balt Orioles pull their 3rd triple play (5-4-3 vs KC Royals)
08061972
Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament
Hank Aaron hits 660th & 661st HR for record HRs with one club
08061974
6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice
Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash
08061977
C-I Lagerkvist discovers asteroid #2191 Uppsala
John Mahaffey wins PGA golf tournament
David Graham wins PGA golf tournament
08061981
Due to strike, Yanks, A's, Philles & Dodgers declared 1st « champs
NASA launches Fltsatcom-5, it failed
08061982
WQXI (Atlanta) is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system
08061983
Minn Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo)
08061984
203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics
08061985
19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB
Major League Baseball Players Assn go on strike
STS 51-I vehicle moves to launch pad
08061986
Orioles (Dwyer & Sheets) & Rangers (Harrah) hit record 3 grand slams
Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM
Record 3 grand slams hit in game Tx vs Balt (Harrah, Sheets & Dwyer)
Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
Rich Gossage 300th career save (beats Phillies)
Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8
Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines
NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats
Pres Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan
08061992
Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500
0807 768
Stephen III [IV] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
08071479
Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Lodewk XI
08071498
Columbus arrives in Caribbean
08071620
Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
08071750
Slave uprising Curaao
08071760
Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians
08071782
George Washington creates Order of Purple Heart
08071789
US War Department established
08071802
Napoleon orders slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)
08071819
Battle of Boyac ; Bol¡var defeats Spanish in Colombia
08071820
1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
Battle of Moorefield, WV
08071875
Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #148 Gallia
08071879
J Palisa discovers asteroid #201 Penelope
08071882
Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded or die
08071888
Theophilus Van Kannel of Phila patents revolving door
08071893
53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes
08071912
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres
08071915
G Neujmin discovers asteroid #916 America
08071925
League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied
Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated
US rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3
Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
08071935
60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk)
2 die in a NYC subway accident
Nazi's seize theologic faculty university in Innsbruck
Churchill recognizes De Gaulle govt in exile
Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 1856 British Guiana)
551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin
Anton de Come arrested by Sicherheitsdienst
08071946
1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
08071947
Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef
Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
US viking rocket reaches 210 km height (record)
08071953
Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
08071954
Charles Mahoney becomes 1st US black to serve as a full UN delegate
08071955
Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel
KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins
British govt routes 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt
Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die
08071959
Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space
Ivory Coast (Cte d'Ivoire) gains independence from France
Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economics will past US
Jac Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs Cleveland
08071964
US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
Race riot in Lansing Michigan
08071970
1st computer chess tournament
4, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San
Apollo 15 returns to Earth
Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez & Early Wynn
08071978
Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI
08071981
A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3727
08071983
1st World Track & Field Championships
Bobby Murcer day at Yankee Stadium
Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin)
Hall Sutton wins PGA golf tournament
Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T
08071984
Japan beats US for olympic gold medal in baseball
Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee
08071985
Barbra Striesand records "Broadway Album"
Baseball players end a 2 day strike
08071987
5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 39øF (4øC) Bering Sea
Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret US documents
Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes
US sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds
Tampa Bay group purchases SF Giants
0808  70
Tower of Antonia destroyed by Romans
08081579
Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory
08081588
English fleet battles Spanish armada
08081609
Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope
08081673
Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands devotion of NY
08081709
1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
08081786
Jacques Balmat & Michel Paccard are 1st to climb to top of Mont Blanc
08081796
Boston African Society establishes with 44 members
08081809
70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnus, arrive in Israel (Palestine)
08081814
Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium
08081815
Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St Helena
08081831
Battle of Hasselt - Dutch army drives out Belgian Army
08081843
Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
08081844
Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death
08081860
Queen of Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) arrives in NYC
08081861
William Bateson, originator of term "genetics"
Red Cross forms in Geneva
08081868
Quake destroyes Arica Chile
08081870
Magic (US) defeats Cambria (Engld) in 2nd running of America's Cup
08081876
Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m
Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
08081882
Snow falls on Lake Michigan
08081890
Daughters of American Revolution organizes
1st Davis Cup tennis matches, held in Boston
Great Britain wins Davis Cup tennis tournament
A Kopff discovers asteroid #3105
08081909
A Kopff discovers asteroid #684 Hildburg
08081914
3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance"
Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence
08081920
Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
08081921
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #956 Elisa
Italian general strike against fascist terror broken
Pirates set record of 46 hits in a doubleheader (against Phillies)
S Belyavsk discovers asteroid #1001 Gaussia
08081924
British-Russian trade agreement drawn
08081925
1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, DC
1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward begins
German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
P Parchomenko discovers asteroid #1129 Neujmina
Salem Oregon airport dedicated
St Louis Cards are 12 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
08081931
H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1946
Wash Senator Bob Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0
Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power
08081940
Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks
6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Wash DC
Russ anti-offensive of Voronezh under marshal Timosjenko
08081943
Vegetables & fruit rationed in Holland
German raid After house, home of Anne Frank & family
08081945
Pres Harry S Truman signs UN Charter
USSR declares war against Japan in WW II
USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea
India agrees to give Bhutan 32ý miles
Bhutan, land of Dragon, becomes an independent monarchy
Syngman Ree elected president of South-Korea
Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb
US & South Korea initial a mutual security pact
Fidel Castro forms "Motion of July 26th"
Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy
Fire & explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium
WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins
USSR offers Syria economic/military aid
Ivory Coast declares independence
Ham Tigercats (CFL) beat Buff Bills (NFL) 38-21 in Hamilton, Ontario
Jamaica declares independence from UK
Great Train Robbery in England, 2.6 million ($7.3 million)
Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie," radio stations label it obscene
08081966
Beatles' release "Revolver"
South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark)
08081968
Race riot in Miami Florida
08081970
NY Yankees honor Casey Stengel, retiring his number 37
08081972
NY Yankees sign 30 year lease with NYC
08081974
Pres Richard M Nixon announced he'd resign his office 12PM 08/09
Raymon Floyd wins PGA golf tournament
08081983
Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela
E F Helin discovers asteroid #3737
Carl Lewis wins 3rd (200m) of 4 gold medals in Summer
Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993
Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
08081986
Record 3 grandslams in a game-(Harrah-Tex, Sheets & Dwyer-Orioles)
08081987
Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game
Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait
Chicago Cubs starts 1st home game under lights (rained-out)
Discovery of most distant galaxy (15 * 10 ^ 12 light yrs) announced
Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl
Goose Gossage registers career save #300
Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar
Jose Canseco becomes 11th to get 30 HRs & 30 steals in a season
Minn Twins pull 2nd triple-play of year & beat Cleve 6-2
Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years
Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
Sec of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia
South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola
Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in NYC
08081989
US space shuttle STS-28 launched
08081990
Balt Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland)
Carlton Fisk ties Johnny Bench hitting 327 HRs as a catcher
Iraq annexes Kuwait
Billy Preston charged with exhibiting porno to a minor
Carlos Santana pleads no contest to maruana possession charge
Gary Oldman, actor (State of Grace), arrested for drunk driving
Shite Muslims release British hostage John McCarthy
Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas
0809 378
Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army
0809 480
-BC- Persia defeats Spartan king Leonidas at Thermopylae
08091378
Cardinals declare pope Urbanus VI lawless (anti christian/devil)
08091638
Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx
08091673
Dutch recapture NY from English; regained by English in 1674
08091757
English Ft William Henry, NY, surrenders to French & Indians troops
08091778
Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits
08091786
1st ascent of Mt Blanc
08091790
Columbia becomes 1st US flagged ship to voyage around world
08091803
1st horses arrive in Hawaii
08091829
"Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service
08091831
1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY)
08091841
Erie boat in Buffalo NY catches fire; 242 die
08091842
US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty
08091849
Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia
Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"
08091855
Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising
08091859
Elevator patented
08091862
Battle of Cedar Mountain VA (Slaughter Mountain, Southwest Mountain)
08091864
Battle of Ft Morgan AL
08091876
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #165 Loreley
1st 44 Javans arrive in Suriname, to work 5 year on sugar plantations
08091893
1st US bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in NY
34-35øN/98-99øW open for US colonization
Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria
08091916
H Thiele discovers asteroid #3229
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #999 Zachia
NY State Golf Assoc formed
08091925
Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out
113øF (45øC) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record)
Betty Boop debutes in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes
08091936
C Jackson discovers asteroids #1396 Outeniqua & #1397 Umtata
Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal of Berlin Olympics
200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland
British arrests Indian nationalist Mohandas K Gandhi
Vice-Adm Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island
12 workers of illegal magazine Loyal executed at Camp Vught
US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki
1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night
08091950
Lusty Song wins Hambletonian
08091952
General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium
08091953
Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir, resigns
S Arend discovers asteroid #1652 Herge
08091956
1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama
South African women demonstrate against pass laws
08091960
Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court
Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premiers
Fire in Titan II silo in Searcy Arkansas, 53 die
Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)
KYAY TV channel 39 in West Monroe, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders
08091970
Crimean Astrophysical Obs discovers asteroid #2949 Kaverznev
Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes
Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame
Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle
Henry McCullough & Denny Seiwell quit Wings
USSR launches Mars 7
08091974
Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres
1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7
08091976
Pitt Pirate John Candelaria no-hits LA Dodgers, 2-0
USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
08091980
Belgium constitution revised
08091981
6 English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17)
Larry Nelson wins PGA golf tournament
NL beats AL 5-4 in 52nd All Star Game (Cleveland Stadium)
08091984
Daley Thomas of Britain sets decathalon record (8,847) in LA Cal
STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad
08091987
LA Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo)
Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field
Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to LA Kings for $15-$20 millions
Just 1 day after 8/8/88 NY's daily number is 888
08091990
12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain
0810  70
"2nd Temple" of Jews is set aflame (approx)
0810 654
Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I
08101461
Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquistion in Spain
08101519
Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate Earth
08101622
County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges
08101675
King Charles II opens Greenwich Observatory, London
08101680
In N Mex, Pop leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniads
08101743
Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
08101774
1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing
08101790
Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage
08101792
Mobs in Paris attack palace of Louis XVI
08101809
Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
08101821
Missouri admitted as 24th US state
08101822
Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
08101827
Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
08101831
Former slave Nat Turner led violent insurrection against slavery
Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die
08101833
Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
08101835
Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
08101846
Congress charters "nation's attic," Smithsonian Institution
08101856
Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana
08101861
Battle of Wilson's Creek MO (Springfield, Oak Hills)-Gen Lyon killed
08101862
Battle of Nueces River TX
08101866
Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perc indians
Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM
08101885
Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)
08101887
Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
08101888
NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record
Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act
1st Davis Cup Tennis Tournament (Mass) US beats England
08101901
Chic White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
08101907
Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Peking to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally
Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins
08101911
Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
08101916
Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
08101918
M Wolf discovers asteroid #900 Rosalinde
08101919
Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania
Treaty of Svres (Allies & Turkey)
Turkish Govt renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate
FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello
08101925
Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die
Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed
G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1110 Jaroslawa
08101936
114øF (46øC) at Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record)
120øF (49øC) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record)
119øF (48øC), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
2nd cabinet-De Geer, forms
Prince Bernhard Fund forms
Gen B Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in N Africa
Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali
Boston Brave Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to beat Reds 2-0
Race riots in Athens Alabama
ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)
Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
WABC TV channel 7 in New York, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
08101949
Heavyweight Ezzard Charles KOs Gus Lesnevich in NY
Natl Military Establishment renamed Dept of Defense
08101954
Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins
Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea
England applies for membership in European Common Market
08101964
WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
08101965
Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
1st lunar orbiter launched by US
08101972
1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada
08101973
1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
08101975
David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
Jack Nickalus wins PGA golf tournament
08101978
H E Schuster discovers asteroid #3398
Ecuador adopts its constitution
Wings release "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request"
08101980
Allen, most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx
Jack Nicklaus wins PGA championship for 5th time
08101981
Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's NL record 3,630 hits
Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes
08101984
Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run
Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47« million
Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
08101986
Billy Martin day, Yanks retire #1
Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully
UN estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion
08101990
US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
08101991
NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53
08101992
Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched
08111304
Sea battle of Zierik sea
08111492
Rodrigo the Borja becomes Pope Alexander VI
08111674
1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Cond vs Willem III)
08111772
Explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Papandayan Java, kills 3,000
08111780
Barbados hurricane begins
08111835
George B Airy begins 46-year reign as England's Astronomer Royal
08111860
Nation's 1st successful silver mill (Virginia City, Nev)
08111866
World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport, RI)
08111877
Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos
08111885
Oakland A's Dave Kingman becomes 21st to hit 400 HR
08111888
California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store)
08111896
Harvey Hubbell patents electric lamp
08111904
German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa
08111907
Italian auto racer Prince Borghese wins "Peking to Paris"
St Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn
08111909
SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC
08111914
France declares war on Austria-Hungary
Jews are expelled from Mitchenick Poland
08111915
M Wolf discovers asteroid #809 Lundia
08111918
Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans
Green Bay Packers football club founded
Weimar Republic begins in Germany
1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia
08111923
Dutch Premier de Geer resigns
US presidential candidates make 1st film for bio-scoop news
Cleve Indian Tris Speaker hits his 700th double
08111928
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1097 Vicia
Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers
Persia & Iraq sign friendship treaty
Russian-Chinese border fights
Temp reaches 136øF (58øC) at San Luis Potos¡, Mex (world record)
08111934
1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay
08111936
Chang Kai Sheks troops conquers Kanton
German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth
(- Sept 30) SS begins murdering 3,500 Jews in Lodz Poland
999 Jews are taken from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium
08111944
Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz
08111945
Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito
08111948
Summer Olympics opens in London
1st Naples-Capri swim, 17 miles (27 km) (Giovanni Gambi)
Gaston Eyskens forms Belgian cabinet
Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Bkln Dodger, 7-0
08111951
1st color baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC)
NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa
NY Giants lose & 13« games behind Bkln Dodgers, later win pennent
Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed king of Jordan
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2097
1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620
Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"
Chad declares Independence from France
08111961
Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1
08111962
Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"
08111963
Kingston Trio are mystery guest on "What's My Line?"
Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in NYC
Race riot in Paterson NJ
08111965
6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC
Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days
08111966
Last Beatle concert tour of US begins
08111967
Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches
Beatles launch "Apple Records" label
L Chernykh disc asteroid #1832 Mrkos, #1833 Shmakova & #1975 Pikelner
Pitts Steelers beat NY Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo)
08111970
Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues
Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a HR in red seats at Riverfront
Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome
Harmon Killebrew hits HRs #500 & 501
"Cheech & Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas
08111974
Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
Lee Trevino wins PGA championship
Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game
US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN
08111976
Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses & is hospitalized in Miami
Race riot in Cape Town, South-Africa; 17 die
08111978
Funeral of Pope Paul VI
H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #3266
Legionairre's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta
08111979
28øF in Embarrass Minnesota
08111980
Angola revises its constitution
Reggie Jackson hits his 400th homer
Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds
Cincinatti Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform
08111985
Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz
Hubert Green wins PGA championship
Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
08111986
Bob Tway wins PGA championship
Gary Carter (NY Mets) became 59th player to hit 300 career HR
Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament
08111989
"Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premiers
Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune
08111990
Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
NY Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 HRs (110 at bats)
John Daly, rookie golfer wins PGA title
Shite Muslims release US hostage Edward Tracy
Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands
08111993
NY Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke
Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY)
Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s)
0812   3
Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem(?)
08121071
Battle at Manzikert Armenia, Venetian Byzantine brings islam to Europe
08121099
Crusaders are victorious at Battle of Ascalon
08121332
Battle of Dupplin Moor; Scottish dynastic battle
08121508
Ponce de Le¢n arrives in Puerto Rico
08121553
Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of Jewish Talmud
08121658
1st US police corps forms (New Amsterdam)
King Philip's War (vs Wampanoag Indians) ends in New England
08121687
Charles of Lotharingen defeats Turkish leaders
Ottoman invaders of Hungary routed at Battle of Mohacs
08121759
Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians
08121812
Duke of Wellington's troops enter Madrid
08121851
1st America's Cup-US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora
Issac Singer patents sewing machine
08121861
Skirmish at Texas-rebels are attacked by Apache Indians
08121862
Gen John Hunt Morgan & his raiders capture Gallatin, TX
08121863
1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)
Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device
08121879
1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)
08121882
Paul Henry discovers asteroid #227 Philosophia
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #234 Barbara
08121888
Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour
08121896
Gold discovered at Klondike River at Dawson
08121898
Hawaii formally annexed to US
Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
King Leopold II opens Central Station Antwerp
W Lorenz discovers asteroid #685 Hermia
Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle der Zilveren Helmen")
Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary
"Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published
Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Wash DC as national shrine
08121923
Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances
Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward
K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1000 Piazzia & #1025 Riema
KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions
9th Olympic Games closes in Amsterdam
Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China
08121933
Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup
08121935
Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand
120øF (49øC), Seymour, Texas (state record)
Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d)
Netherlands starts rationing textile
French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany
German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe
08121944
Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating
Court of justice sentences Gen Fr Christiansen to 12 years
08121950
NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 20-6 in Ottawa
08121952
Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan
08121953
Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami
Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb
Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 to $1 an hour
WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
08121956
Canadain actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Gloria Brink
KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
William Shatner marries Gloria Rand
1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa
Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 26' 11¬"
USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m
08121962
Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15
08121963
Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization
10th time Mantle switch-hits HR in a game, one goes 502 feet
Race riot in Elizabeth NJ
08121965
Race riot in West Side of Chicago
New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St Louis 23-14
08121969
Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million
Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
1st approach & lands test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise
08121977
High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit
Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight
08121978
Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours
ICE is launched
08121981
IBM introduces PC & PC-DOS version 1.0
Jon Erikson (US) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27)
08121983
General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army
08121985
Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
08121986
Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season
Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single
08121987
Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock
Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23
Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released
Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at hospital
Richard Thornburgh becomes US Attorney General
08121990
12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania
08121991
Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan
0813 523
St John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
08131099
Raniero elected as Pope Paschal II
08131415
King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River
08131521
Spanish conquerors Mexico City from Aztecs
08131642
Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
08131651
Litchfield, CT founded
08131704
English defeat French at Battle of Blenheim
08131799
English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname
Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves
08131831
Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia
08131847
J R Hind discovers asteroid #7 Iris
08131861
R Luther discovers asteroid #71 Niobe
08131864
Battle of Deep Bottom VA (Strawberry Plains) & Fussell's Mill VA
08131868
Quakes kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
08131876
Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
08131892
US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
G Witt discovers asteroid #433 Eros
08131906
Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
1st taxicab (NYC)
08131917
Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning against Braves
British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350
Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
Ted Ray wins golf's US Open
08131923
Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition cabinet
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1026 Ingrid
Turkish National Congress selects Moestafa Kemal Pasja as president
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1060 Magnolia
08131928
Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
Cin Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6
08131932
Hitler refuses Von Hindenburgs proposal to become vice-chancellor
Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins game 1-0 in 10 tying
Gene Sarazen wins PGA title
Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum)
08131936
G Neujmin discovers asteroids #1403 Idelsonia & #2166 Handahl
Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)
Red army evacuates Smolensk
Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk
08131944
Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio
35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia
Britain transfers illegal immigrants bound to Palestine, to Cyprus
Satchel Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game
08131950
Pres Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai
Great-Britain & Iraq sign new oil contract
08131953
4-5 million French go on strike against economizations
Pres Eisenhower establishes Govt Contract Compliance Committee
US Gen Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff
08131956
WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
Milt satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)
08131960
Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France
USSR draws adviseors out of China
Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)
Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum
Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382
08131966
T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2754
WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
08131969
Balt Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0
Temporary baseball commisioner Bowie Kuhn formally appointed
08131971
Paul & Linda McCartney release "Back Seat of My Car"
Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th & last "Bonanza"
08131977
1st test glide of shuttle
08131979
Lou Brock gets his 3,000 career hit
08131980
Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 1.5k woman's record (3:52.47) in USSR
08131986
KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN)
08131987
Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5«" jump
US space shuttle STS-28 lands
08131993
Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24
US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
0814 410
Visigoten under king Alarik I defeat & plunder Rome
08141248
Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun
08141281
Kublai Khans invading fleet disappears in typhoon near Japan
08141385
Battle at Aljubarotta-Portugal defeats Castili
Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence
08141457
Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)
08141498
Columbus sails to mouth of Orinoco River
08141678
Battle of Mons-French repulse William of Orange
08141756
French capture Fort Oswego, NY
08141765
Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
08141782
Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies
08141813
British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus
08141816
Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha
general Lafayette returns to US
Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
08141846
Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
08141848
Oregon Territory created
79th NY troops mutinies
Martial Law is declared at St Louis MI
08141862
Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #111 Ate
08141873
"Forest & Stream" begins publishing
Prairie View State University forms
08141880
Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248)
08141882
Queen Victoria recieves Zulu chief Cetewayo
08141893
France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test
08141900
1st electric tram in Netherland (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht)
2,000 marines land to capture Peking, ending Boxer rebellion
D Stewart discovers asteroid #475 Ocllo
SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska & sinks killing 70
Heavyweight James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in SF
08141907
"Ha-Tikva" adopted as official Zionist hymn
Race riot in Springfield Illinois
08141910
6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC
08141912
2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000
08141917
China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I
08141919
Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play
Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia
Olympic Games open in Antwerp
1st "old time" musicians broadcasted on radio (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta)
Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes
08141935
Social Security Act became law
1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin)
08141937
China explains Japan the war
Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs St Louis Browns
BBC's 1st feature film on TV (Student of Prague)
08141939
1st night games at Comiskey Park (White Sox 5, Browns 2)
British Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland
Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill
-Aug 24th: Quadrant conference over strike in Pacific Ocean
Russian offensive at Weichsel
V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II
08141947
India granted independence within British Commonwealth
Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000
Pakistan gains independence from Britain
08141948
14th Olympic games in London closes
Military coup under colonel Sami Hinnawi in Syria
M ty s R kosi appointed premier of Hungary
08141953
KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
08141954
WGR TV (now WGRZ) TV channel 2 in Buffalo, NY (NBC) begins
Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
Cleve Indian, Vic Power steals home twice in 1 game
KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99
AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver & Houston
Phila Phillies lose 17th straight game
08141962
French & Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel
NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m
US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
Beatles tape an appearance for Ed Sullivan Show
Continental Football League plays 1st games
08141966
1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting Moon
L Chernykh discovers asteroids #1828 Kashirina & #2467 Kollontai
British troops intervenes militarily in Northern Ireland
NY Mets fall 9« games back, later to win pennent
08141970
City University of NY inaugurates open admissions
08141971
Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland
St Louis Cards Bob Gibson no-hits Pitts, 11-0
East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156
08141973
Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Balt Colts
US bombs Cambodia
08141974
Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
Turkish leaders overthrows Nicosia, Cyprus
08141975
Asteroid #2994 discovered
Norwegian King Olav V opens Longyearbyen Airport on Spitsbergen
08141977
77,691 see NY Cosmos beat Ft Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stad
Larry Wadkins wins PGA golf tournament
08141979
Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration
Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2474 Ruby
08141980
Democratic Convention in NYC nominates Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale
Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2390 Nezarka
08141981
George Foster hits his 8th HR into red seats at Riverfront
Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron)
IBM releases MS-DOS version 3.0
E Bowell discovers asteroid #3327 Campins
08141986
Phillies & Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days
Jeff Sluman wins PGA golf tournament
08141989
President Pieter W Botha of South-Africa, resigns
08141990
Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside park grandslam
Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise
Comedian Jackie Mason marries his manager Jyll Rosenfeld (37)
08141993
Reggie Jackson Day - NY Yanks retire 13th # (#44)
08142126
Comet Swift-Tuttle (í 5 km) approaches close to Earth
08151519
Panama City founded
08151535
Asunci¢n, Paraguay founded
08151620
Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
08151748
United Lutheran Church of US organized
08151824
Freed American slaves established country of Liberia
08151832
Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism
08151843
National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
08151858
Regular mail to Pacific coast begins
08151861
Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MI
08151863
Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
08151864
Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
08151867
2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
08151868
J C Watson discovers asteroid #101 Helena
08151870
Transcontinental Railway actually completed
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #166 Rhodope
US law of 1868 removes indians from Black Hills
08151886
Guy Hecker scores 7 runs in 1 game
US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea
08151899
Louisville's Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game
Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro
P Gotz & A Kopff discovers asteroid #542 Susanna
08151905
Phila A's Rube Waddell no-hits St Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings
08151906
1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
08151909
A Kopff discovers asteroid #686 Gersuind
Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game
08151914
Australia wins Davis Cup
Panama Canal opens (under cost)
08151917
G Neujmin discovers asteroid #882 Swetlana
08151918
1st full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania)
US & Russia sever diplomatic ties
W Baade discovers asteroid #934 Thuringia
Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State
Mexico & US reaches accord over oil concession of 1917
V Albitzk discovers asteroid #1002 Olbersia
Norway annexes Spitsbergen
08151928
P Shajn discovers asteroids #1112 Polonia & #1113 Katja
Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi)
Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as asst secretary
"Wizard of Oz" premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
G Neujmin discovers asteroid #2536 Kozyrev
K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1739 Meyermann, #1818 Brahms & #2306
Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto
08151942
5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel
Allies land on Kiska Aleutians
Allied troops land in Provence (operation Dragoon)
South Korea liberated from Japanese rule
US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends
India declares independence from UK, Islamic part becomes Pakistan
Pakistan (formerly West Pakistan) declares independence from UK
08151948
Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
8.6 quake kills over 1,000 in Assam, India
HW Ezzard Charles KOs Freddy Beshore
Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier
Pres Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia
9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34
P Shajn discovers asteroid #1954 Kukarkin
08151954
Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay
WCHS TV channel 8 in Charleston-Huntington, WV (ABC) begins
WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, VA (ABC) begins
David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon
USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter
Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank
Chic Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)
Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0
UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
08151962
Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
08151963
Fulbert Youlou, resigns as Pres of Congo-Brazzaville
K W Kamper discovers asteroid #2104 Toronto
Phillies triple-play NY Mets
Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill
Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 3¬"
08151965
Beatle's Shea Stadium concert
Dave Mair wins PGA golf tournament
Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission
08151968
Pirate Radio Free London, begins transmitting
Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
08151970
Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
08151971
Bahrain gains independence from Britain
KVRL (now KRIV) TV ch 26 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
Pres Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
08151973
Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens
08151974
Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days))
South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination
Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges
08151978
House of Reps approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA
08151979
Andrew Young resigns as UN ambassador
08151981
Robin Leamy of US swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m
Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution
08151985
E F Helin & M Barucci discovers asteroid #3752
08151986
Pres Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger
08151987
US beats Cuba in Pan-Am baseball
At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts
NYC begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments
Cancer sufferer/SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky breaks arm on mound
US Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle
08151990
Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990)
750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park
Actress Susan Anton marries actor Jeff Lester
Colombo '92 closes in Genoa Italy
08151993
NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes for 2nd time
08161465
Battle at Montlhry
08161743
Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton)
08161777
Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
08161780
British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC
08161812
Gen Hull surrenders Detroit & Michigan territory to England
08161819
Manchester Massacre; English police charge unemployed demonstrators
08161829
Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
08161856
Asteroid 46, Hestia discovered (or 1857)
08161857
N R Pogson discovers asteroid #46 Hestia
08161858
Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan
08161861
Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy
Skirmish at Fredericktown MI & Kirkville MI
Chickamauga campaign GA
Emancipation Proclamation signed
08161864
Battle of Front Royal VA (Guard Hill)
08161870
Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion
08161873
J C Watson discovers asteroid #133 Cyrene
08161876
Opera "Siegfried" is produced (Bayreuth)
08161885
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #249 Ilse
08161890
Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia
08161896
Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala
08161898
Roller coaster patented
08161903
Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, Yanks win 12-8
08161907
Abd al-Hafid ousted as sultan of Morocco
08161909
J Palisa discovers asteroid #687 Tinette
Zapata & Pancho Villa over run Mexico
08161915
KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0
08161918
US troops overthrows Archangelsk
AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (NYC)
08161924
Conference about German recovery payments opens in London
Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed
G Shajn discovers asteroids #1057 Wanda & #1709 Ukraina
08161927
1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth)
US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915)
US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (1922 m) in Bathysphere
11th Olympic games closes in Berlin
G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1692 Subbotina
Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London
Great Calcutta blood bath (muslim/hindu riot, 3-4,000 die
Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs
Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem
Israeli pound becomes legal tender
KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
Shah of Persia & princess Soraya flee to Baghdad & Rome
08161954
200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood
Sports Illustrated publishes its' 1st issue
08161955
Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor
08161956
Adlai E Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
USSR introduces installment buying
Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')
Republic of Congo (Zaire) forms
08161961
250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin
Martin L King protests for black voting right in Miami
08161963
Independence is restored to Dominican Republic
St Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader
08161965
AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)
08161967
Cin Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured & leaves
WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
08161969
WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, GA ) begins broadcasting
Woodstock rock festival begins in NY
08161970
Dave Stockton wins PGA golf tournament
08161971
J Gibson discovers asteroid #1837 Osita & #2309 Mr Spock
08161974
Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2605 Sahade
08161976
St Louis Cards beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo)
Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th
08161981
Highest score in World Cup soccor match (New Zealand-13, Fi-0)
08161982
K Olofsson discovers asteroid #3573
08161984
LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges
Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500)
NASA launches Ampte
08161985
Singer Madonna marries actor Sean Penn in Malibu Beach Calif
08161987
156 die as Northwest Flight 255 crashes at take off in Detroit
Astrological Harmonic Convergence-Dawn of New Age
NW Airlines plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9
Butch Reynolds runs world record 400 m (43.29)
IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis
Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers
Roger Kingdom of USA sets 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich
08161990
Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
Belgium census is 10,000,963 inhabitants
Pres Bush declares recession is near an end
0817 682
St Leo II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
08171787
Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
08171795
Slave revolt at Knip plantation, Curaao
08171807
Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
08171808
Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain
08171833
Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game
08171846
US fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California
08171858
1st bank in Hawaii opens
08171863
Federal batteries & ships bombard Fort Sumter, Charleston
08171869
1st international boat race (Thames River) (Oxford beats Harvard)
1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
Opera "Gtterdmmerung" is produced (Bayreuth)
08171877
Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
J Palisa discovers asteroid #295 Theresia
Phils get 36 hits, Sam Thompson hits for cycle beating Louisville 29-4
Gold is discovered on Klondike River
08171897
W B Purvis patents electric railway switch
L Carnera discovers asteroid #476 Hedwig
08171904
Boston's Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chic White Sox, 6-0
08171906
Valparaiso Chile suffers earthquake
08171907
Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union
08171908
Bank of Italy opens new HQ at Clay & Montgomery
Lithuiana surrenders to Germans
German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana
08171916
Bulgarian offensive in Macedonia
British troops overthrow Baku, Azerbaijan
Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus
08171924
French-German trade agreement signed
Greek-Serbian/Croatian/Slavs peace treaty signed
M Wolf discovers asteroid #2483 Guinevere
08171933
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1282 Utopia
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1404 Ajax
08171938
Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship
"Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
FDR & Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission
Greece mobilizes
08171942
US bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France
US troops under Gen Patton over run Messina
08171944
Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border
Yanks Johnny Lindell ties record with 4 consecutive doubles in a game
08171945
Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands
08171948
Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
08171950
Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec
08171959
7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
USSR & Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor
Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands
08171961
Building of Berlin Wall begins
Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
08171962
Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr
Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit for cycle
Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief
08171966
Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
Hurricane Camille hits Mississippi, Alabama & Virginia; 258 die
NY Jets beat NY Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season)
Ray Floyd wins PGA golf tournament
Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus
08171972
Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game
Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one
08171974
L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2576 Yesenin
08171978
1st manned balloon crossing of Atlantic Ocean (Eagle II)
LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)
South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
08171984
Pete Rose returns to Cin Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits)
08171985
Dave Kingman hits his 400th HR
Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando
08171986
Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market
Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)
Butch Reynolds of USA sets 400m record (43.29) in Zurich
LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
"Exorcist 3" premiers
Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
1st English child born in New World (Virginia Dare)
08181686
Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
08181759
-19) 2nd Battle of Lagos: England vs France
08181769
Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000
08181817
Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
Mt Vesuvius erupts
08181835
Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
08181838
1st US marine expedition
08181846
Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe, NM
08181864
Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days
08181868
Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
1st ascent of Mount Whitney, Calif (14,494')
08181884
J Palisa discovers asteroid #239 Adrastea
08181891
Hurricane hits Martinique; about 700 die
08181894
Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
08181914
Pres Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality
08181920
Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right
France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied
Belgian & US sign defense treaty
Cardinal Mercier warns Belgians against socialism/liberalism
Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
08181932
Auguste Piccard/Max Cosns reach 16,201m in a balloon
Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic
08181936
106.5øF-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa
08181938
FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada
08181939
H Alikoski discovers asteroid #2257 Kaarina
Carlson's Raiders lands on Makin, Gilbert island, kills 350 Japs
Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz
08181946
Golf Writers Associaton of America formed
08181947
Naval torpedo & mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300
Hungary adopts constitution
08181954
Asst Sec of Labor James Wilkins became 1st black to attend cabinet
08181955
46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record)
Sjukri al-Quwatli elected president of Syria
08181956
Cin Reds (8) & Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game
08181957
Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4«")
Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46
Betsy Palmer joins Today Show panel
Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde
Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales)
Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Roy Harris
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, published
TV game show scandal investigation starts
08181960
1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Construction on Berlin Wall completed
08181962
Peter, Paul & Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"
08181963
James Meredith became 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi
08181965
Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box
Rolling Stones release "We Love You"
WCBS radio in NYC goes all-news
T Smirnova discovers asteroids #2071 Nadezhda & #3501
08181972
L Zhuravleva discovers asteroids 1858 Lobachevsk, 2098 Zyskin & 3108
Police fine Paul & Linda McCartney 800 in Sweden cannabis possession
08181973
Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record
08181976
USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
08181977
N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2580, #3053 Dresden, #3408 & #3518
08181978
Memphis, Tenn, settles with striking police officers & firefighters
Jerry Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons
1st time NYSE tops 100 M figure, 132.69 M shares traded
LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game started 8/17)
Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance
08181983
Hurricane Alicia battered Houston & Galveston, Texas
Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes)
Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
08181986
Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
John Tesh's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show
08181987
Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24)
FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million
Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket
Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin
Pan Am games closes in Havana
St Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
08191099
Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon
08191263
King James I or Argon censors Hebrew writings
08191787
W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn
08191791
Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac
08191812
US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere
08191826
Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
08191849
NY Herald reports gold discovery in California
08191861
Confederacy Congress allies with govt of MI
08191882
J Palisa discovers asteroid #228 Agathe
08191888
1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins
A Charlois discovers asteroid #296 Phaetusa
08191891
William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
08191893
A Charlois discovers asteroid #372 Palma
Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game
08191905
Russian tsar installs "Imperial Duma", without legislative powers
Indianapolis 500 race track opens
Frenchman Pgoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe
Afghanistan declares independence from UK
G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1289 Kutaissi
Helen Hull Jacobs win US Lawn Tennis Association
Hitler elected Fhrer (95.7% of German voters)
Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1634 Ndola
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1469 Linzia
37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, NJ (state record)
08191942
1,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France
Allied commandos attack Dieppe (1st allied assault on occupied area)
Gen Paulus orders German 6th force to overthrow Stalingrad
Belgian church excommunicates nazi Lon Degrelle
Last Japanese troops driven out of India
08191950
ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic & Acrobat Ranch)
Bill Veeck (Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit
Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN
32.4 cm rainfall at Burlington, Connecticut (state record)
Hurricane Diane kills 200 & 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. US)
NY Giants vote to move their franchise to SF in 1958
US Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
08191958
NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)
08191961
US vice-president Lyndon B Johnson visits West Berlin
Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55
NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City
08191964
Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched
Cincinatti Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chic Cubs, 1-0
08191966
L Chernykh discovers asteroid #1789 Dobrovolsky
Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1
Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0
08191973
Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years
08191976
Pres Gerald R Ford won Republican pres nomination at KC convention
08191978
422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
08191979
Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight
08191980
Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die
08191981
2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
08191982
Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec
Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space
Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2781
08191983
LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting
08191984
Lee Trevino wins PGA
08191985
Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
08191988
Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
NY Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer
08191989
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communmist president of Poland
NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 HRs (approx 128 at bat)
08191991
Janajev & KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev
08191993
Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin
Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13
Mattel & Fisher Price toys merge
0820   2
08201191
Crusaders King Richard I kills 3,000 muslims in Akko
08201619
1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown
08201648
Battle of Lens
08201781
George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
08201794
Gen Mad Anthony Wayne routes Indians at Fallen Timbers, Ohio
08201852
Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
08201856
Wilberforce University established in Ohio
08201861
Skirmish at Jonesboro MI
08201865
Pres Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx
08201866
Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
08201895
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" (BG)
08201896
Dial telephone patented
A Kopff discovers asteroids #669 Kypria & #670 Ottegebe
Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo
US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
Wash Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
08201913
1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pgoud-France)
Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
German forces occupy Brussels, Belgium during WW I
Italy declares war on Turkey
08201918
Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
1st US coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting
Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
08201922
1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris
08201923
London harbor strike ends
08201925
WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
08201926
Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia
08201929
1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
08201930
Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
E Skvortsov discovers asteroid #1381 Danubia
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1474 Beira
Milt coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador
Dim-out regulations implemented in SF
"Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway
Gen de Gaulle returns to France
Russian offensive at Jassy & Kisjinev
08201945
Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament
Russian troops occupies Harbin & Moekden
Tommy Brown, Bkln Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17)
08201947
Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
08201948
US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
08201949
78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland
Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
Stalin meets Chou Enlai
General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia
Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca
Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
Republicans convene at Cow Palace
Chic White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Wash Senators, 6-0
USAAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)
White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0
Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months
Senegal breaks from Mali federation; declaring independence
USSR recovers 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses
LBJ signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act
Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit)
Crimean Astrophysical Obs discovers asteroid #2406 Orelskaya
650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
M Antal discovers asteroid #1807 Slovakia
08201974
Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
08201975
Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
Viking 1 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing
08201977
NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune
08201978
Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3618
Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed
NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
C & E Shoemaker discover asteroids #3025 Higson & #3225 Hoag
Don Lever becomes 1st captain of NJ Devils
US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in 9th
08201988
Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
08201989
Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45)
George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)
Estonia declares it's independence from USSR
08201992
Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler
08211321
160 Jews of Chinon France burned at stake
08211560
Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
08211673
Sea battle at Kkduin; De Ruyter defeats English & French fleet
08211680
Pueblo Indians took possession of Santa F from Spanish
08211831
Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)
Slave uprising in Virginia (Nat Turner)
08211841
John Hampson patents venetian blind
08211858
1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
08211863
Raid at Lawrence KS by William Quantrill
08211864
BBT Charleston, SC [->DEC 31]
Battle of Grubbs Crossroads, KY
Battle of Summit Point, VA
08211878
American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY
08211883
Providence shuts out Phillies 28-0
08211887
Mighty (Dan) Casey struck-out in a game with NY Giants!
08211901
Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching & spitting on an ump
08211902
R H Frost discovers asteroid #505 Cava
08211912
Mr Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of Univ of British Columbia
J Fowler Hutchison wins PGA golf tournament
08211922
Curly Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise
08211926
White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway
08211927
4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC)
08211929
Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR (Yanks beat Browns 11-7)
E Delporte discovers asteroids #1285 Julietta & #1290 Albertine
Ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game
Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School
Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus
Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington
Dumbarton Oaks conference opens in Washington, DC; establishes UN
Pres Truman ends Lend-Lease program
E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1568 Aisleen
08211949
Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3654
NY Giants beat Phillies on a forfeit, due to fan's throwing debris
Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m
Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed
WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket)
KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions
Hawaii becomes 50th US state
08211961
Jomo Kenyatta freed in Kenya
08211963
Martial law declared in S Vietnam
08211965
Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)
Romania adopts constitution
08211968
After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio
Democratic Convention opens in Chicago
Radio Prague (Czech) at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion
Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement
William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
08211969
Fire in Al-Aksa-mosque in Jerusalem
08211972
1st hot air balloon flight over Alps
Republican convention opens in Miami Beach
US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
08211975
3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway
Rick & Paul Reuschel become 1st brothers to pitch a combined shut out
08211976
Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
08211977
Donna Patterson Brice sets high speed water skiing rec (111.11 mph)
08211981
L Brozek discovers asteroid #3102
Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut
Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
110øF (43øC) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record)
08211985
Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71
T Schildknecht discovers asteroid #3328
08211986
Lake Nios Volcano in Cameroon kills 1,746
Red Sox Spike Owens scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of Cleve Indians
Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 2,000
With 2 outs in 6th inning, Red Sox score 11 runs
08211987
"Mack Lobell" set harness racing's trotting mil (1:52)
Clayton Lonetree, 1st marine court-martialed for spying, convicted
08211988
Cease fire between Iran & Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war
Yordanka Donkova runs world record 100 m hurdles (12.21)
08211989
Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune
Communist coup is crushed in USSR in 2 days
Latvia declares it's independence from USSR
08212017
Next total solar eclipse visible from North America
0822 565
St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
08221454
Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry VII's forces defeat Richard III
08221642
Civil War begins in England
08221715
Hndels "Watermusic" premieres on Thames
08221762
1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
08221775
King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion
08221780
Resolution, without Capt Cook, returns to England
08221787
John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves
08221791
Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman
US annexes New Mexico
08221851
Gold fields discovered in Australia
Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup)
Asteroid 19, Fortuna discovered (goddess of fortune)
J R Hind discovers asteroid #19 Fortuna
Battle of Catlett's Station VA
Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely
08221864
Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations
International Red Cross forms
08221867
Fisk University established, 1867
08221868
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #102 Miriam
08221877
Nez Perc-indians flees to Yellowstone National Park
08221882
J Palisa discovers asteroid #229 Adelinda
08221892
M Wolf discovers asteroid #333 Badenia
A Charlois discovers asteroid #406 Erna
Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car
08221906
1st Victor Victrola manufactured
A Kopff discovers asteroid #754 Malabar
M Wolf discovers asteroid #1514 Ricouxa
08221907
Colin Buchanan, town planner
Cyril Astley Clarke, British geneticist
08221908
Henri Cartier-Bresson, France, photographer (Decisive Moment)
08221910
Japan annexes Korea
Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre
Somerset de Chair, MP
Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from Louvre, Paris
Richard Catling, commissioner of police (Kenya)
08221913
Robert Martineau, bishop of Blackburn
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #918 Itha
Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South-Africa
Greek dictator Gen P ngulos driven out
08221927
Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
International Zionists Congress opens in Prague
Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 HRs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12
Dutch border guards march to war
Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
Soviet troops free Karkov
1st college team to beat an NFL team (All Stars-16, Bears-0)
E L Johnson discovers asteroid #3184
08221950
Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competetor in natl tennis competition
08221951
Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
08221953
Shah of Persia returns to Teheran
08221954
WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, FL (NBC) begins broadcasting
08221955
I Groeneveld discovers asteroid #2947
Pres Eisenhower & VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF
Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in Seattle
Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return
Cin Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs
08221960
Gil Hodges set NL righty HR record with #352
Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers
Failed assassination on president De Gaulle
NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km)
1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)
Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultry
08221969
Gloria Smith becomes Miss Black America 1969
Hurricane Camille strikes U.S. Gulf Coast kills 255
L Kohoutek discovers asteroids #1834, #1875 & #1931
200 black leaders, meet in NY, to support Andrew Young
08221982
Gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
08221984
Evelyn Ashford of US ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec
Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200
Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan & VP Bush
08221985
E Bowell discovers asteroid #3368 Duncombe, #3672 & #3673
08221986
Gas from Volcano Chamberoen kills 1,734 (Cameroon)
NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
08221987
Madonna's "Who's That Girl," single goes #1
08221988
Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)
NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
08221989
1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter
08221990
Pres Bush calls up military reserves
0823 476
Odoacer elected King of Byzantine
08231328
King Philip VI of France, crowned
08231542
Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code
1st one-way streets established (London)
08231813
Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French
08231821
Mexico declares independence
08231833
Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
08231838
Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
08231839
British take Hong Kong
Fall of Ft Morgan at Mobile AL
08231866
Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
08231872
1st Japanese coml ship visits SF, carrying tea
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #124 Alkeste
08231873
Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens
08231889
1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF)
08231892
M Wolf discovers asteroid #334 Chicago
08231898
Malcolm Whitman wins US Lawn Tennis championship
National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
L Carnera discovers asteroid #477 Italia
6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
08231904
Automobile tire chain patented
08231906
Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Wash Senators
Cuba's 1st president Tom s Estrada Palma asks for US intervention
08231907
Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits NY Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game
08231914
Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
08231917
Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
"Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premiers in Chicago Tribune
08231924
Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
08231925
Britain's Betty Nuthall wins US Lawn Tennis championship
Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beat Elizabeth Ryan for US Tennis championship
Arabs attack Jews in Israel
Count Gyula K rolyi becomes premier of Hungary
Phila A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight
1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton & Laurie Raiteri in London
17 year old Bob Fellers 1st game, he strikes out 15 St Louis Browns
K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1399 Teneriffa & #1422 Stromgrenia
E Delporte discovers asteroid #1486 Marilyn
German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London
Queen Wilhelmina dismisses premier De Geer
1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal
600 Luftwaffer bombers strikes Stalingrad (40,000 die)
Battle of Stalingrad begins
Red army recaptures Charkow
94.5øF (34.7øC) in De Bilt Netherlands & 101.5øF (38.6øC) in Warnsvelt
King Michael of Romania resigns
Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
Pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert
Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine
World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
08231950
West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation
M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1684 Iguassu
Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3«")
08231955
Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2974
08231958
China PR resumes fire on Quemoi & Matsoe
Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
08231961
Belgium routes troops to Rwanda-Urundi
US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
Beatles release "She Loves You" in UK
Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"
08231964
St Louis Cards are 11 games back in NL, & win World Series
Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
08231968
Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily
Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
08231969
Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno,
08231971
WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
08231973
Intelsat communications satellite launched
Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
08231977
1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2498 Tsesevich
Yanks leap frog over Red Soxs « game in 1st place to stay
08231979
Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC
UN's Vienna office opens
08231981
H Debehogne discovers asteroid #2852 & #3274
Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
08231988
Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR)
Lewis/Everett/Burrell/Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38)
08231990
Armenia declares independence
0824  79
Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum
0824 410
Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
08241349
6,000 Jews are blamed for the plagued are killed in Mainz
Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
08241391
Jews of Palma Majorca massacred
King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
08241662
Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer
08241682
Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
08241704
Sea battle at Malaga
08241751
Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
08241814
British sack Washington, DC, White House burned
08241853
1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY)
08241854
National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
08241858
Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
08241867
J C Watson discovers asteroid #93 Minerva
08241869
Waffle iron invented
Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
08241893
Tornado destroys coast of Savannah & Charleston; about 1000 die
08241903
M Wolf discovers asteroid #513 Centesima & #514 Armida
08241904
Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
08241905
Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings
Cincinatti Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game
08241908
Heavyweight Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in Sydney NSW
08241909
Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal
NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US olympians
Territory of Alaska organized
US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition govt
08241914
Battle at Bergen-Belgian vs Britain
08241921
Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey & Greece
British airship R-38 crashes in Humber; 44 die
1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams)
08241929
Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
Turkey & Persia signs peace treaty
08241931
France & USSR sign neutrality/no attack treaty
08241932
1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
08241933
S Arend discovers asteroid #1313 Berna
Australian Antarctic Territory created
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2137 Priscilla
08241937
Republican offensive at Belchite Spain
08241939
Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
Luftwaffe bombs London
08241942
Sea battle at Eastern Solomon Island
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established
08241950
1st US Negro delegate to UN appointed-ES Sampson
Edith Sampson named 1st black US delegate to UN
Operation Magic Carpet-45,000 Yemenite Jews move to Israel
Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism
International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China
1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
127øF (-88øC), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17'
2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 6-4
08241966
USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
Liberian flag designed
08241968
France became world's 5th thermonuclear power
08241970
Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
08241972
8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 2-1
Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame
08241974
L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3770
SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0
Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup
08241976
Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
08241979
NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
08241981
American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder
08241984
Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver
T Seki discovers asteroid #3431 Nakano
08241985
STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
08241989
Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
08241990
Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
Ukraine declares independence from USSR
Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
08241993
Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
08251212
Children's cruisaders under Nikolaas (10) reaches Genoa
08251330
AntiPope Nicolaas V overthrows himself
08251580
Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal
08251609
Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers
08251689
Montral taken by Iroquois
08251718
Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found
08251768
Capt James Cook departs with Endeavour to Pacific Ocean
08251795
Curaao slaves opponents returns to St Christopher
08251802
Toussaint L'Ouverture premiers in Fort de Joux, Jura
08251804
Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England)
08251814
British capture Washington DC
Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
08251830
Belgium revolts against Netherlands
NY Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel
08251862
Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
08251864
Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda
Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station
08251865
R Luther discovers asteroid #84 Klio
08251875
Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel (21h 45m)
08251886
1st intl polo meet (US vs England)
08251888
Henry Slocum wins US Lawn Tennis Assn singles title
08251889
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #287 Nephthys
08251897
A Charlois discovers asteroid #426 Hippo
08251904
Jim Jefferies KOsJack Munroe & retains boxing heavyweight title
08251908
Allen Winter wins US 1st $50,000 trotting race
National Association of Colored Nurses, forms
J Palisa discovers asteroid #688 Melanie
1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin
Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia
German troops march into France
Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
G Neujmin discovers asteroid #829 Academia & #830 Petropolitana
National Park Service established in Dept of Interior
1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
1st US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey)
US signs peace treaty with Germany
Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record
08251922
Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game
08251924
International maritime treaty drawn
Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn
08251925
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY)
Helen Willis wins her 3rd straight US Lawn Tennis Open
Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg
08251926
Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece
S Belyavsk & N Ivanov discovers asteroid #1086 Nata
08251929
Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
E Delporte discovers asteroid #1168 Brandia
08251932
Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
Arend discovers asteroid 1281 Jeanne, 1286 Banachiewicza & 1287 Lorcia
G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1331 Solvejg
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2676 Aarhus & #2943
08251936
3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each
08251937
Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast
1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
1st parachute wedding
08251941
English & Russian troops attack pro-German Iran
German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad
08251943
German occupiers impose 72-hour work week
Lord Mountbatten named Supreme Allied Commander in Asia
Red army recaptures Smolensk
US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II
08251944
Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday)
08251945
Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine
Ben Hogan wins PGA championship
Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 kph
08251950
Pres Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike
Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title
08251952
Det Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0
08251955
Last Soviet forces leave Austria
08251957
Prince Suvanna Phuma forms govt in LAOS, with Pathet Lao
08251960
17th summer olympics opens in Rome
AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies
Demonstrations against premier Lumumba
Brazilian president Janios Quadros, resigns
08251963
Paul McCartney is fined 31 & 1 yr suspended license for speeding
08251966
Z Pereyra discovers asteroid #1769 Carlostorres
Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1
Paraguay accepts its constitution
Train crash at Beesd, 2 die
Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win US singles championship
08251969
Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montral (NFL expo)
08251973
Zambia adopts constitution
08251974
LA Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup
08251976
Harvard College discovers asteroid #2221 Chilton
Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2
Somali adopts constitution
08251981
Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09)
Mark Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years
Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)
08251983
Triple A baseball's Louisville breaks 1 million fan mark
US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact
Met Dwight Goodin becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
08251987
Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42
Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
NASA launches space vehicle S-214
08251989
Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune (0400 GMT)
08251990
Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8«")
UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq
Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds
White-Russia declares it's independence
0826  55
-BC- Roman forces under Julius Csar invade Britain
Battle of Marchfeld: Rudolf van Habsburg defeats Ottokar II
Battle at Crcy-England's longbows defeat France
08261629
Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate
08261652
Sea battle at Plymouth (Ayscue-The Ruyter)
08261791
John Fitch grants US patent for his working steamboat
08261846
W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)
08261863
Battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs)
08261874
16 blacks lynched in Tennessee
08261883
Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000
08261903
Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game
Heavyweight James J Jeffries KOs Jack Monroe in SF
08261907
Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
F Kaiser discovers asteroid #717 Wisibada
08261913
F Kaiser discovers asteroid #759 Vinifera
Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army
German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia
08261916
Phila A's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleve, 5-0
Yanks turn triple-play beating Browns 10-6
08261918
Premier of W Smith & F Bacons "Lightnin'"
08261920
19th amendment passes-women's suffrage granted (about time!)
08261933
E Delporte discovers asteroid #1288 Santa
John of Wood runs world record time (44.247 km)
08261936
A Bohrmann discovers asteroid #2226 Cunitza
Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1398 Donnera
Franco's troops conquer Santander
Pumping to build Treasure Island in SF Bay is finished
British leaders & Arabians fight in Palestine
E Delporte discovers asteroid #1493 Sigrid
Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL
08261939
1st major league baseball telecast-Reds at Bkln Dodgers (W2XBS NY)
Belgium mobilizes
Kroatia gets autonomous status
08261940
P Djurkovic discovers asteroid #1700 Zvezdara
08261941
Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1542 Schalen & #1699 Honkasalo
7,000 Jews rounded up in Vichy Free Zone of France
Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay
Russian anti offensive begins in Moscow
08261944
De Gaulle marches to Champs-Elyses
1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a HR on 1st at bat)
Fluoridation of SF water begins
08261955
1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
08261956
KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
08261961
Official Intl Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
08261962
Minn Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A's, 1-0
08261964
LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ
KLOC (now KCSO) channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
08261971
NY Giant football team announces its leaving Bronx for NJ in 1975
Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game
08261972
NY Cosmos beat St Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship
Summer Olympics open in Munich, West Germany
Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77
Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission
Voyager 2 takes photo's of Saturn's moon Titan
08261982
NASA launches Telesat-F
Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Lennigrad
Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record)
08261985
Balt Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs Calif Angels
Trumbull Conn, is 1st US team since 1983 to win Little League WS
08261990
2 slain college students found in Gainesville Florida
08261991
Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0
0827  26
-BC- Origin of Egyptian Era
08271634
Battle of Nordingen-Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, loses Duchy of Francomia
08271665
"Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is 1st play performed in N America (Acomac, Va)
08271667
Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
08271776
British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
08271783
1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
08271789
French Natl Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man & Citizen"
08271813
Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians
08271816
Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
08271859
1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn
08271861
Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft Clark
08271862
Battle of Cub Run, VA
08271881
Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die
08271883
Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons
08271884
A Borrelly discovers asteroid #240 Vanadis
08271892
Metroplitian Opera House in NYC destroyed by fire
08271896
Zanzibar loses to England in a 38 minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
A Charlois discovers asteroid #427 Galene
Roger Bresnahan debuts as Wash Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
08271903
Britain's Hugh Doherty 1st non US man to win US Tennis championship
08271906
M Wolf discovers asteroid #605 Juvisia
Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
08271911
Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0
Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"
J Palisa discovers asteroid #794 Irenaea
Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary
Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
08271921
J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
08271922
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #984 Gretia
Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
Helen Mills beats Helen Hull Jacobs to win US Tennis championship
Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
Intl anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam
P Shajn discovers asteroids #1369 Ostanina & #1387 Kama
Bkln Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game
George E.T. Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
08271938
Yanks Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples
08271939
Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)
Heinkel Hey makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion
Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
G Strommer discovers asteroid #1537 Transylvania
Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi
Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
08271945
US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC
General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
08271956
Curt Robert of Columbus (Intl League) hits 4 HRs in 7 inning game
USSR launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line"
08271962
Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world
Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes
08271973
E F Helin discovers asteroid #2048 Dwornik
08271974
L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3681
NY Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat
NY Met Benny Ayala hits a home run in his 1st at bat
08271976
S J Bus discovers asteroid #2285 Ron Helin
Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases
Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
N Chernykh discovers asteroids #3012 Minsk & #3283
Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria
08271982
Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark
Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
08271983
Haiti adopts constitution
President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project
08271985
20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
08271989
100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude
0828 476
Byzantine leader Odoacer captures Pavia
08281609
Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson for Netherlands
08281655
New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
08281776
Battle of Long Island
08281789
Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
08281850
Opera "Lohengrin" is produced (Weimar)
08281861
Battle of Fort Hatteras NC
08281867
US occupies Midway Islands in Pacific
08281876
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #167 Urda
08281884
1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
Mickey Welsh strikes-out 1st 9 men he faces
08281891
A Charlois discovers asteroid #312 Pierretta
United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
Fred McLeod wins US Golf Open
45.7 cm rainfall at St George, Georgia (state record)
F Kaiser discovers asteroid #760 Massinga
Queen Wilhelmina leaves Peace palace
Germany declares war on Romania
Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
08281917
10 suffragists arrested as they picket White House
08281920
19th amendment acknowledges women's rights
2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)
WEAF in NYC airs 1st radio coml (Queensboro Realty-$100 for 10 mins)
Walker Cup golf tournament established (US beats England 8-4)
Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
08281926
Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
08281936
J Hunaerts discovers asteroids #1423 Jose & #1637 Swings
08281938
Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
Northwestern U awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
Netherland mobilizes
French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support Gen De Gaulle
08281942
Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2)
Universal strike against nazi-occupiers in Denmark
E L Johnson discovers asteroid #2651 Karen
Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill NY
US win Davis Cup tennis tournament
Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game win streak
08281952
German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister
1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17
Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as ump called time
08281962
55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana (state record)
Dr Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid
Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"
200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, DC
Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens
Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
Race riot in Philadelphia
US weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched
1 day marriage of character Murphy Brown
Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven
08281970
Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970
T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2616 Lesya
08281973
6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527
T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2171 Kiev
08281974
Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
08281976
NY Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup
Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
08281979
Train crash at Nmegen, 7 die
08281981
A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3645
C Kowal discovers asteroid #3163
H Debehogne discovers asteroid #2707 Ueferji
John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan
Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
08281984
A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3630
08281986
US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames, killing 50
Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively
Iraq declares Kuwait it's 19th province
08281991
5 die in a NYC subway's 3rd worst accident
Lexington Ave IRT train derails injuring 200
Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher
0829 284
Origin of Era of Diocletian (Martyrs)
08291178
Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
08291261
Jacques Pantalon elected as Pope Urban IV
08291484
Giovanni B Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII
08291526
Battle at Mohacs Hungary (Louis II vs sultan Suleiman II
Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Moh cs
08291708
Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians
1st indian reservation established
08291776
Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
08291786
Shay's Rebellion in Springfield, Mass
08291792
English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900
08291793
Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed
08291844
1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win
08291854
Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
08291862
2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins
Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels
Battle of Bull Run, VA (Manassas, Gainesville, Bristoe Station)
E W Tempel discovers asteroid #74 Galatea
08291864
William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
08291889
1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)
08291896
Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis
Bridge in St Lawrence Canada caves in; 70 die
A Kopff discovers asteroid #640 Brambilla
08291908
NY gives a ticker tape parade to returning US Olympians from London
AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtis (USA) wins
08291914
Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal
J Palisa discovers asteroids #827 Wolfiana & #828 Lindemannia
Transportship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1000 die
Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff
German Republic day accepts Dawes plan
08291927
Belyavsk & Ivanov discovers asteroids #1118 Hanskya & #1224 Fantasia
German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
Phila A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
08291944
15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
Anti-German opposition in Slowake
British liberate Hong Kong from Japan
08291947
Constantine Tsaldaris follows Maximos as Greece premier
08291949
USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
08291950
Intl Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany & Japan in '52
KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
USSR explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb
SF International Airport (SFO) opens
08291956
French govt routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis
Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
Air Force Academy opens
Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack
Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended
08291964
Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
08291965
Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2326 Tololo
08291966
Beatles last public concert, (Candlestick Park, SF)
Final TV episode of "Fugitive"
08291968
Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago)
08291969
KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
08291970
Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed)
08291973
T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2002 Euler
Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
08291979
P Wild discovers asteroid #2320
Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network
George Brett gets his 1,500th hit
Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission
08291986
Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s)
08291988
Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record
USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
08291990
C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
John F Kennedy Jr wins his 1st law case
08291993
Galileo wlll pass within 600 miles of asteroid Ida
08295502
-BC- Origin of Alexandrian Era
0830  31
-BC- Origin of Era of Augustus
0830 257
St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
08301464
Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II)
08301563
Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
08301645
Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty
08301776
US army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, NYC
08301843
1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party)
08301850
Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
08301854
John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
08301860
1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
08301862
2nd Battle of Bull Run
Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY
Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
Battle of Richmond, KY
08301880
J Coggia discovers asteroid #217 Eudora
08301885
13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
08301888
Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
08301891
J Palisa discovers asteroid #313 Chaldaea
Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
08301905
Detroit Tiger Ty Cobb's 1st major league at bat (vs NY Yankees)
Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #675 Ludmilla
Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11
St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
Czechoslovakia forms independence republic
Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin
M Wolf discovers asteroid #901 Brunsia
6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1080 Orchis
Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
M Wolf & M Ferrero discovers asteroids #1169 Alwine & #2119 Schwall
08301932
Hermann Gring elected chairman (Reichstag)
M Laugier discovers asteroid #1247 Memoria
08301933
Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)
E Delporte discovers asteroid #1361 Leuschneria & #1363 Herberta
E Hubble discovers asteroid #1373 Cincinnati
08301937
G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1653 Yakhontovia
Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tommy Farr in NYC
NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
Poland mobilizes
Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0
Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
08301945
Gen MacArthur lands in Japan
Hong Kong liberated from Japan
08301949
WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
Future NYC mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in NYC
White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
08301957
US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
Last Spanish troops leave Morocco
Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
Hot Line communications link between Wash DC & Moscow begins
08301965
Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
08301967
US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
08301969
120,000 attend Texas Intl Pop Festival
25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
08301971
WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
08301975
Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroids #2189 Zaragoza & #2893
KTW-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
08301976
E F Helin discovers asteroid #2645 Daphne Plane
Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution
08301979
1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
Hurricane David hits Domincan Rep, Puerto Rico & US; about 2,000 die
L Brozek discovers asteroid #2613 Plzen
Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
08301980
Polish government recognizes Solidarity
A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3087 Beatrice Tinsley
08301983
8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
08301984
12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
R S Dunbar & M Barucci discovers asteroid #3362 Khufu
08301986
Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
08301987
Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record (6'10¬")
Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
08301988
Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills
08301989
Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points
France beats US by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14« to 13«
Mike Powell of US, sets then long jump record at 29' 4«" (8.95m)
08301992
David Lewett & Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
08311535
Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII
08311772
Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
08311778
British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution
08311829
Opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris)
08311842
US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
08311843
Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate
08311850
Calif pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
08311864
Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesborough
08311881
1st US tennis championships (Newport, RI)
08311886
1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston SC, 110 die
Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
08311887
Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures)
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Cardboard Box" (BG)
08311894
Phillies Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases
08311895
1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0)
British troops over run Johannesburg
Dodgers' Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)
Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month
England, Russia & France form Triple Entente
08311913
Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven Netherlands
24.8 cm rainfall at Bloomingdale, Michigan (state record)
Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die)
08311915
Chic White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
Belgium opens old age home
08311923
League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
Mussolini's troops occupy Korfu
08311927
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1081 Reseda & #1085 Amaryllis
Brecht & Weils "Dreigroschenoper" premiers
08311929
G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1158 Luda
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1157 Arabia
1st football all star game-Bears tie collegians 0-0 in Chicago
1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis)
Chic White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleve Indians, 5-0
FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents
Reinmuth discover asteroid 1370 Hella, 1371 Resi, 1372 Haremari & 2944
Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 6 hours, 105 tons of cabbages
White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Indians 5-0
1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap ration
08311941
Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC
08311943
Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo
Allied offensive at "Gothen-linie," Italy
Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest
08311947
Hungarian communist party wins election
08311950
Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 HRs & a single in a game vs Braves
08311951
1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dsseldorf
S Arend discovers asteroid #1640 Nemo
08311953
KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins
WLVI TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins broadcasting
Census Bureau established
Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1825 Klare
WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins
1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Tx)
1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill
KTRE TV channel 9 in Lufkin, TX (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
Malayasia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain
Australia defeats US for tennis' Davis Cup
08311960
Agricultural Hall of Fame established
08311962
Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)
"Hot line" between Moscow-Washington, DC installed
08311965
House of Reps joins Senate establish Dept of Housing & Urban Develop
Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival
Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
US defeats German FR for tennis' Davis Cup
WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
08311971
Dave Scott becomes 1st person to drive a car on Moon
08311972
Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics
1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)
08311976
Trinidad & Tobago adopts constitution
08311977
Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')
08311978
Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka
08311979
Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun
Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador
08311980
Poland's Solidarity labor union founded
08311983
Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3450
J Gibson discovers asteroid #3711
08311984
E Bowell discovers asteroid #3677
K Suzuki & T Urata discovers asteroid #3165 Mikawa
Pinklin Thomas defeats Tim Witherspoon for WBC heavyweight title
08311985
"Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill
Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S Calif captured in East LA
08311986
Aeromexico DC-9 & small plane collide in LA, killing 82
Russian airship rams cruiser Admiral Nakhimov, 398 die
Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
08311987
Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)
08311988
5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
08311992
Dynamite explosion in Philipines mine; 500 die
Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcasting in Cleveland (WNCX-FM)
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