Welcome to Today In History for Wednesday, July 23, 2008.

On this day in history ..

• 0636 - Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire
• 0685 - John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1148 - Crusaders attack Damascus
• 1215 - Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
• 1253 - Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III
• 1298 - Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany
• 1298 - Rindfleish Persecutions-Jewish community Wurzburg Germany annihilated
• 1403 - Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV
• 1431 - Council of Basel opens
• 1431 - G Cesarini opens Counsel of Basel (Ferrara/Florence)
• 1453 - Battle at Gavere: Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion
• 1532 - Karel I & evangelical monarchy signs Peace of Neurenberg
• 1540 - Turkey recognizes J nos Sigismund Z polyai as vassal-king of Hungary
• 1558 - Battle at Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal van Egmont beat France
• 1572 - Willem van Oranges troops occupy Roermond on the Spanjaarden
• 1594 - Groningen surrenders to earl Mauritius/Willem Louis
• 1599 - Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings
• 1645 - Aleksei Mihailovitch Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar
• 1664 - 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of NY, arrive in Boston
• 1726 - Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia
• 1745 - Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides
• 1764 - James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
• 1798 - Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
• 1803 - Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin
• 1812 - Battle of Mogilev Russia-Napolean fights Czar Alexander I
• 1827 - 1st US swim school opens (Boston Mass)
• 1829 - William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)
• 1834 - HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso
• 1840 - Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper & Lower Canada
• 1848 - Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
• 1850 - 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of NY takes office
• 1851 - Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians & US
• 1852 - 1st interment in US National Cemetery at Presidio
• 1858 - Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
• 1863 - Alexandra Park opens in North London
• 1864 - Battle of Woodstock, VA
• 1866 - Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms
• 1870 - Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eug‚nie as Regent of France
• 1877 - 1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
• 1877 - 1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii completed
• 1880 - 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich
• 1886 - Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge
• 1888 - John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire
• 1890 - Jack Barrett carries his cricket bat for Australia at Lord's (67)
• 1900 - Pan-African Congress meets in London
• 1903 - Ford Motor Co sells 1st Model A car
• 1904 - Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo
• 1906 - Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa
• 1907 - 7th Davis Cup: Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
• 1913 - Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine
• 1914 - Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I
• 1917 - Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes
• 1920 - British East Africa renamed Kenya & becomes a British crown colony
• 1921 - Chinese communist party forms under Henk Sneevliet
• 1921 - Edward Gourdin of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 2 3/4"
• 1925 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers
• 1926 - Belgian NMBS/SNCFB forms
• 1926 - France govt of Poincar‚, forms
• 1930 - Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed
• 1930 - Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with HRs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th)
• 1931 - Ashmore & Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia
• 1931 - France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics
• 1934 - Bradman completes 304 at Headingley, 430 mins, 43 fours 2 sixes
• 1935 - Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building
• 1936 - Anthony M Kennedy, Sacramento CA, Supreme Court Justice
• 1937 - Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
• 1938 - Bradman scores 103 in 178 mins on a Headingley sticky, 3rd Test
• 1940 - "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins
• 1942 - German troops conquer Rostow
• 1942 - Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad
• 1942 - Treblinka Concentration Camp destroyed
• 1943 - Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
• 1943 - US 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini
• 1944 - Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
• 1944 - Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin
• 1944 - Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland
• 1944 - US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II
• 1944 - US troops occupy Pisa Italy
• 1945 - Marshal Henri P‚tain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial
• 1946 - Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel
• 1947 - 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI
• 1948 - Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President
• 1949 - Test Cricket debut of Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days
• 1952 - General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (Natl Day)
• 1955 - NY Yankees Bob Cerv & E Howard are 1st to hit consecutive pinch HRs
• 1956 - Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
• 1956 - Joe Cronin & Hank Greenberg inducted into Hall of Fame
• 1958 - 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords
• 1959 - VP Richard Nixon begins visit on USSR
• 1960 - 15th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
• 1961 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
• 1961 - Bricusse & Newley's musical "Stop the world I want to ...," premieres
• 1964 - A's Bert Campaneris HRs on 1st pitch, hits a 2nd HR on 2nd at bat
• 1964 - Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage
• 1965 - Beatles "Help" is released in UK
• 1965 - Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park
• 1966 - Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens
• 1966 - John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m)
• 1966 - Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"
• 1967 - -27] 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
• 1967 - Pirate Radio Swinging Scotland closes down for financial reasons
• 1968 - Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt
• 1968 - PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane
• 1968 - Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed
• 1969 - 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Wash DC
• 1969 - All star MVP: Willie McCovey (SF Giants)
• 1969 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1972 - 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
• 1972 - Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France
• 1972 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic
• 1973 - Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St Louis-36 die
• 1973 - Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan & Prime Minister of Oman
• 1973 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1973 - Pres Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
• 1974 - 45th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pitts
• 1974 - All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers)
• 1974 - Greek military dictatorship collapses
• 1975 - Alan Ayckbourn's "Absent Friends," premieres in London
• 1975 - LA Dodgers W Crawford & Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
• 1976 - 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895)
• 1976 - Balt Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game
• 1976 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
• 1976 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1976 - Wings release "Let 'em In"
• 1977 - Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges
• 1978 - 33rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
• 1978 - Israeli govt rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas
• 1978 - Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th pitcher to win 200
• 1978 - Reggie Jackson returns & helps Yankees win their 5th straight
• 1979 - George Brett gets his 1,000th hit
• 1980 - Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya
• 1980 - River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
• 1980 - Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6
• 1982 - FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo
• 1982 - Intl Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985)
• 1984 - KC Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save
• 1984 - Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984
• 1984 - Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
• 1986 - Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson
• 1986 - King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres
• 1987 - Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record)
• 1987 - RNI (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
• 1987 - Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last years World Series
• 1987 - Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39)
• 1988 - Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton
• 1989 - 118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon
• 1989 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
• 1989 - FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted)
• 1989 - Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas
• 1990 - Rosie Jones, (St Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America
• 1990 - South-Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
• 1991 - James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession
• 1991 - Rob Dibble back from 3-game suspension, is ejected for throwing at & hitting Cubs baserunner Doug Dascenzo Cubs win, 8-5
• 1992 - Bruce Springsteen begins a world tour
• 1992 - Emperor Haile Selassie, [Ras Tafari Makonnen] of Ethiopia's, funeral
• 1993 - Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley
• 1993 - British Aerospace 147 crash at Yinchuan, 55 killed
• 1993 - Chinese B737 crash at Yinchuan, at least 66 killed
• 1993 - Chris Boardman bicycles world record 1 hour distance (52,270 km)
• 1993 - NY Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yanks, Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st
• 1994 - All 40,000 ceiling tiles in Kingdome must be replaced
• 1994 - Amy Osmond, of Utah, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
• 1994 - Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
• 1994 - Don Mattingly becomes 6th NY Yankee to get 2,000 hits
• 1994 - Goodwill Games open in St Petersburg
• 1994 - Longest baseball rain delay (3:39) as Giants beat Mets 4-2 in NYC
• 1994 - Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 mins
• 1995 - "Hamlet" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 121 performances
• 1995 - 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St Andrews Scotland
• 1995 - Miguel Indur ins wins his 5th Tour de France
• 1995 - Tracy Kerdyk wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
• 1997 - Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin & Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them
• 2000 - 129th British Golf Open: at Royal Lytham
• 2000 - 55th US Women's Open Golf Championship

Famous birthdays for this day ..

• 1339 - Louis I, Duke of Anjou/King of Naples (Battle at Poitiers)
• 1401 - Francesco Sfoza, soldier
• 1659 - Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer
• 1734 - Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini, opera composer [or Jun 14 1730]
• 1735 - Johannes Herbst, composer
• 1769 - Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer
• 1773 - Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer
• 1775 - Fran‡ois-EugŠne Vidocq, British police detective
• 1793 - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer
• 1796 - Franz Adolf Berwald, Sweden, composer
• 1803 - Johann Vesque von Puttlingen, composer
• 1806 - Eduard Marxsen, composer
• 1816 - Charlotte Sanders Cushman, US, actress (Lady MacBeth)
• 1822 - Darius Nash Couch, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
• 1823 - Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, English poet
• 1824 - Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1906
• 1825 - Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor
• 1827 - Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway)
• 1828 - Jonathan Hutchinson, surgeon/scientist
• 1834 - James "Cardinal" Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore
• 1838 - Edouard [Judas] Colonne, composer/violinist
• 1841 - Edward John Armstrong, poet
• 1849 - Geza Zichy, composer
• 1851 - Charles Bannerman, Aussie cricket batsman (1st centurion)
• 1853 - William H Gillette, actor (Sherlock Holmes on stage)
• 1856 - Arthur H Bird, composer
• 1856 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindi leader
• 1857 - French [M J Fran‡ois] Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years)
• 1861 - Alexander W F Idenburg, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1909-16)
• 1865 - Friedrich Aereboe, landhuishoudkundige
• 1866 - Francesco Cilea, composer
• 1876 - William Gillies Whittaker, composer
• 1883 - Alan Francis Brooke, 1st viscount Alanbrooke fieldmarshal [or Jul 4]
• 1884 - Albert Warner, US producer (Warner Bros)
• 1884 - Apolinary Szeluto, composer
• 1884 - Emil Jannings, Germany, actor (Faust, Passion, Blue Angel)
• 1886 - Arthur Whitten Brown, aviator
• 1886 - John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist
• 1886 - Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, writer/diplomat
• 1888 - Gluyas Williams, SF, cartoonist (Fellows Citizen)
• 1888 - Milan Stoyadinovich, Serbia, fascist Yugoslavia PM (1935-39)
• 1888 - Raymond Chandler, writer
• 1891 - Maurus H Hulsman, Dutch priest/editor (Amigoe di Cura‡ao)
• 1892 - Haile Selassie, [Ras Tafari Makonnen], emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74)
• 1892 - Petros John Petridis, composer
• 1893 - Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic)
• 1894 - Arthur Treacher, Brighton England, announcer (Merv Griffin Show)
• 1895 - Florence Vidor, [Arto], Houston TX, actress (Jack Knife Man)
• 1898 - Mervyn "Red" Dutton, Manitoba, 2nd NHL pres (1943-46)
• 1899 - Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany
• 1902 - Walter Burle Marx, composer
• 1904 - Adone Zecchi, composer
• 1905 - Daniel M K "Daan" Inghelram, Flemish author (Ang‚lique)
• 1905 - Erich Itor Kahn, composer
• 1906 - Clancy Cooper, actress (Enchanted Forest, Girls in Chains)
• 1906 - Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist
• 1907 - Elspeth Josceline Huxley, English author
• 1908 - Karl Swenson, Bkln NY, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie)
• 1910 - Pimen, [Sergei Irzjekov], patriarch Russian-Orthodox Cathederal
• 1912 - Michael Wilding, England, actor (Courtney Affair, World of Suzie Wong)
• 1913 - Coral Browne, Melbourne Aust, actress (Margaret-Time Express)
• 1913 - Michael Foot, MP
• 1914 - Alastair Down, CEO (Burmah Oil)
• 1916 - Ben Weber, St Louis Missouri, composer (Thorne Music Award-1965)
• 1916 - Ronald Ridout, school textbook author
• 1917 - Charles Kerruish, president (Tyndwald Isle of Man)
• 1917 - John Stokes, MP
• 1917 - Kurt Kreuger, St Moritz Switz, actor (Fear, Unfaithfully Yours)
• 1919 - [Harold] Pee Wee Reese, Hall of Fame shortstop (Dodgers)
• 1920 - Malcolm Hughes, artist
• 1920 - Marcel Maeyer, [de Maeyer], Belgian sculptor/graphic artist
• 1921 - Calvert DeForest, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Larry "Bud" Melman)
• 1921 - David Lawmn, CEO (Prestige Group)
• 1921 - Harry Hookway, pro-chancellor (Loughborough University)
• 1921 - Heinz Bennent, Aachen Germany, Actor (Possession)
• 1921 - Jerome Rosen, composer
• 1921 - Peter Twiss, test pilot
• 1922 - Moses Rosen, chief Rabbi of Romania
• 1924 - Betsy Haworth, deacon/minister
• 1925 - Donna Anderson, Akiak AK, actress (On the Beach
• 1925 - Gloria De Haven, LA, actress (Bog, Yellow Cab Man, Irene-Nakia)
• 1925 - Pierre Baugniet, Belgium, pairs ice skater (Olympic-gold-1948)
• 1926 - Ludvik Vaculik, writer
• 1927 - Al[fred] A McCandless, (Rep-R-CA, 1983- )
• 1927 - Elliot McKay See Jr, Dallas Texas, astronaut
• 1928 - Leon Fleisher, SF Calif, pianist/conductor (Annapolis Symph 1973-77)
• 1929 - Andrew Rutherford, warden (Goldsmith's College)
• 1931 - Jan Torell, Limhamm Sweden, director (New Land, Emigrants)
• 1931 - Richard Searby, deputy-chairman (News Corp Ltd-Australia)
• 1931 - Viktor Korchnoi, chess champ
• 1932 - Alistair Graham, headmaster (Mill Hill School)
• 1933 - Bert Convy, St Louis Mo, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw)
• 1933 - Richard Rogers, English architect
• 1934 - Nicholas Barrington, high commissioner (Pakistan)
• 1935 - Cleveland Dunkin, rocker (Penguins)
• 1936 - Anthony M Kennedy, Calif, 106th Supreme Court justice (1988- )
• 1936 - Don Drysdale, Van Nuys Calif, pitcher (LA Dodgers-Cy Young 1962)
• 1938 - Ronny Cox, Cloudcroft Mass, actor (St Elsewhere)
• 1940 - Don Imus, radio disc jockey (WNBC)
• 1940 - Gary Stites, rock vocalist (Lonely For You)
• 1942 - John de Hont, Dutch guitarist (ZZ & Masks)
• 1942 - Madeline Bell, US singer (Black Nativity)
• 1943 - Tony Joe White, rocker
• 1944 - Dino Danelli, Jersey City NJ, rock drummer (Fotomaker, Young Rascals)
• 1944 - Judith A Bosch, Dutch radio/TV-hostess (Tweekamp, Zeskamp)
• 1945 - Harold W Hennep, Arubians/Dutch dancer/actor (Plus Echo)
• 1946 - Andy MacKay, London, rock sax/oboe (Roxy Music-Dance Away)
• 1946 - Keith Ferguson, blues guy (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
• 1947 - David Essex, [Cook], London, rock vocalist/actor (That'll be the Day)
• 1947 - Spencer Christian, weatherman (Good Morning America)
• 1949 - Clive Rice, South African cricket all-rounder (WSC 1978-79, ODI 1991)
• 1950 - Alan Turner, Aussie cricket left-handed opener (World Cup ton 1975)
• 1950 - Belinda J Montgomery, Winnipeg, actress (Man From Atlantis)
• 1950 - Blair Thornton, rock guitarist (Bachman-Turner-Overdrive)
• 1950 - Ian Thomas, rocker
• 1950 - Kaity Tong, news anchor (WABC-TV NYC)
• 1951 - Edie McClurg, Kansas City MO, actress (Cinderella-1985, Hogan Family)
• 1951 - Terry Davis, NYC, actress (Stacey Winthrop-Another World)
• 1952 - Janis Siegel, NYC, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction)
• 1952 - Paul Hibbert, cricketer (one Test Aust v India 1977, scored 13 & 2)
• 1953 - Graham Gooch, cricketer (prolific England opener & captain)
• 1955 - Marisa DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
• 1957 - Harry Stefanki, Mento Park Cal, tennis star
• 1958 - Kenneth J Green, Danbury CT, PGA golfer (1985 Buick Open)
• 1958 - Lydia Cornell, El Paso Tx, actress (Sara Rush-Too Close for Comfort)
• 1961 - Antoine Carr, NBA forward/center (Utah Jazz)
• 1961 - Martin Gore, rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough)
• 1961 - Woody Harrelson, Midland Tx, actor (Woody Boyd-Cheers)
• 1962 - Eriq La Salle, Hartford CT, actor (Dr Peter Benton-ER)
• 1962 - Terry-Jo Myers, Ft Myers FL, LPGA golfer (1988 Mayflower Classic)
• 1963 - Siobodan Zivojinovic, Yugoslavia, tennis star
• 1964 - Greg Best, Lynchburg VA, Equestrian athlete (Olympic-silver-88, 92)
• 1965 - Brett Faryniarz, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
• 1965 - Slash, [Saul Hudson], England, guitarist (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child)
• 1966 - Micheal Williams, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
• 1967 - Nicole Jagerman, Netherlands, tennis star
• 1968 - Amy Fruwirth, Cypress CA, LPGA golfer (1995 McCall's LPGA-4th)
• 1968 - Beth Ehlers, Queens NY, actress (Harley Cooper-Guiding Light, Hunger)
• 1968 - Christopher "Chris" Kerber, Collingswood NJ, rower (Olympics-1996)
• 1968 - Douglas Craft, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
• 1968 - Elden Campbell, NBA forward/center (LA Lakers)
• 1968 - Gary Payton, NBA guard (Seattle Supersonics)
• 1968 - Stefan Figliuzzi, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
• 1968 - Stephane Seymour, model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover-1988)
• 1969 - Andrew Cassels, Bramalea, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)
• 1969 - Dimitri Khristich, Kiev Ukr, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
• 1969 - Fernanda Ribeiro, Portugal, 10k runner (Olympics-gold-96)
• 1969 - Reyhan Agaoglu, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
• 1970 - Sam Waters, Camp Springs Md, singer (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up)
• 1971 - Aimee Rinehart, Miss Missouri USA (1996)
• 1971 - Alison Krauss, Decatur Ill, country singer (2 Highways)
• 1972 - Marlon Wayans, comedian (Wayans Bros, In Living Color)
• 1972 - Oscar McBride, NFL tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
• 1972 - Seth Dittman, NFL offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colt, London Monarchs)
• 1972 - Trisha Fallon, Australian basketball forward (Olympics-bronze-96)
• 1973 - Darvin Ham, NBA forward (Wash Wizards)
• 1973 - Kyle Walters, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
• 1974 - Maurice Greene, KC Kansas, 100m runner
• 1974 - Tara Williams, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury)
• 1976 - Inger Lise Ebeltoft, Miss Universe-Norway (1996)
• 1982 - Schottzie Schott, dog mascot of Cincinnati Reds

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0945 - Richarius, bishop of Luik (922-45), dies
• 1373 - Birgitta van Sweden, Swedish saint, dies
• 1403 - Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], killed in battle at 39
• 1562 - Gottfried/G”tz von Berlichingen, German Knight of kingdom, dies
• 1568 - Don Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip II, dies at about 23
• 1581 - Georges Lalaing, viceroy of Friesland, dies
• 1645 - Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov, dies
• 1685 - Pietro Reggio, composer, dies at 53
• 1690 - Richard Gibson, minature painter, dies
• 1757 - Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (La Silvia), dies at 71
• 1793 - Thomas Mckean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 72
• 1803 - Arthur Wolfe, 1st viscount Kilwarden/Chief Justice of Ireld, murdered
• 1816 - Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68
• 1829 - Wojciech Boguslawski, composer, dies at 72
• 1840 - Frantisek Max Knize, composer, dies at 55
• 1844 - Christian Gobrecht, 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office
• 1866 - Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer, dies at 83
• 1875 - Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63
• 1878 - Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer, dies at 70
• 1885 - Ulysses S Grant, 18th US pres, dies in Mount McGregor NY, at 63
• 1904 - John Simon, public health pioneer, dies
• 1905 - Jean-Jacques, painter, dies
• 1909 - Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65
• 1909 - Zygmunt Noskowski, composer, dies at 63
• 1916 - William Ramsey, chemist, dies
• 1927 - Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman, dies at 74
• 1930 - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer/airplane builder, dies at 52
• 1933 - Max Schillings, German composer/conductor (Mona Lisa), dies at 65
• 1942 - Andrew Ducat, cricketer (England 1921), dies whilst batting at 56
• 1942 - Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32
• 1943 - Emanuel Querido, publisher (Sobibor), dies
• 1943 - Meijer de Hond, [Emanuel Querido], rabbi (Sobibor), dies
• 1944 - Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp
• 1944 - Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed
• 1944 - Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian (Der Anarchismus), dies at 79
• 1946 - James Maxton, politician, dies
• 1948 - D[avid] W[ark] Griffith, US director/producer, dies
• 1951 - Henri Philippe P‚tain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime), dies
• 1951 - Robert Joseph Flaherty, documentary film maker, dies
• 1955 - Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Un soir de joie), dies at 55
• 1955 - Cordell Hull, statesman, dies
• 1955 - Harry Haden, actor (Harry-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 73
• 1957 - G Tomasi di Lampedusa, writer, dies at 61
• 1961 - Esther Dale, actress (Birdie-Ma & Pa Kettle), dies after surgery at 75
• 1964 - Jan PML de Vries, Dutch germanist/folklorist, dies at 74
• 1966 - Donald Novis, singer/actor (Pajama Game), dies at 60
• 1966 - Douglass Montgomery, actor (Forbidden, Daybreak), dies at 56
• 1966 - [Edward] Montgomery Clift, actor (From Here to Eternity), dies at 45
• 1968 - Don Lillis, NFL president (NY Jets)
• 1968 - Henry Hallett Dale, physiologist, dies
• 1969 - Deli Floyd, writer, dies
• 1971 - Van Heflin, actor (Great Adventure), dies at 60
• 1973 - Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot, dies at 82
• 1973 - Marius-Fran‡ois Gaillard, composer, dies at 72
• 1974 - Mary Forbes, actress (Nun-Les Miserables, Ivy), dies at 90
• 1976 - Wilhelmina Von Bremen, 4X100 relay sprinter (Oly-gold-32), dies at 64
• 1977 - Ren‚ de Vos, Dutch actor/composer (Jij Bent Mijn Leven), dies at 79
• 1979 - Keith Godchaux, rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at 31
• 1982 - Vic Morrow, actor (Cimmaron), killed during "Twilight Zone" at 53
• 1983 - Georges Auric, French composer (It Always Rains on Sunday), dies at 84
• 1984 - Lloyd Gough, actor (Black Bart, Tolsa), dies of aortic aneurism at 77
• 1985 - Kay Kyser, bandleader (Kay Kyser's Kollege), dies at 79
• 1986 - Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, composer, dies at 73
• 1988 - Jahangir Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for India 1932-36), dies
• 1990 - Georges Flamant, actor (La Chienne), dies in Paris at 86
• 1990 - Joe Turner, jazz pianist, dies of cardiac arrest at 82
• 1990 - Robert Sommer, singer, dies of liver failure at 42
• 1991 - Billie Carlyle
• 1992 - Arletty, French actress (Hotel, Longest Day), dies at 94
• 1992 - Maxine Audley, Brit actress (Vikings, Our Man in Havana), dies at 69
• 1993 - Jordan, father of Michael Jordan, murdered
• 1994 - Aad Ivens, Dutch checkers player, dies at 80
• 1994 - Hans J Salter, Aust/US composer (Deanna-Durbin musicals), dies at 98
• 1994 - Henry William Collins, artist, dies at 84
• 1995 - Bob Rundick, poet/DJ, dies at 52
• 1995 - Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 80
• 1996 - Aliki Vougiouklaki, actress (Madalena), dies at 63
• 1996 - Jessica Lucy Mitford, author, dies at 78
• 1996 - John Corner, scientist, dies at 80
• 1997 - Andrew Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versage), commits suicide