Today In History - Thursday, September 10, 2026




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Welcome to Today In History for Thursday, September 10, 2026.

On this day in history ..

0422 - St Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0918 - Arnulf I the Old becomes landsheer of Flanders
1349 - Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
1510 - Bishop Frederik of Bathe recaptures Oldenzaal
1547 - Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots
1547 - English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5
1608 - John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
1776 - George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
1785 - Prussia signs trade agreement with US
1798 - British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St George
1813 - Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie
1823 - Simon Bolivar named president of Peru
1838 - Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini," premieres in Paris
1845 - King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange
1846 - Elias Howe patents sewing machine
1846 - Japan invents the rickshaw
1847 - 1st theater opens in Hawaii
1849 - 1st performance by US actor Edwin Booth (Richard III)
1858 - John Holden hits 1st recorded HR (Bkln vs NY)
1861 - -15] Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia
1861 - Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities
1863 - George Bizets opera "Les Pˆcheurs de Perles," premieres in Paris
1869 - Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
1870 - Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms
1872 - Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam
1880 - Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo
1882 - 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
1884 - Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention
1894 - Londens taxi driver George Smith is 1st fined for drunk driving (œ1)
1897 - Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, kills 20
1898 - Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda
1899 - 2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay Alaska
1900 - 20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record)
1902 - Utrecht soccer team UVV forms
1905 - Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes
1910 - Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
1913 - 1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway, opens
1913 - Cleveland Call & Post forms
1913 - George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia
1913 - Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
1918 - Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers
1919 - Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0
1919 - NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers
1919 - Treaty of St Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany
1922 - Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth & Gehrig consecutive HRs
1923 - Irish Free state joins League of Nations
1924 - Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out
1924 - Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder
1926 - Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn
1926 - Germany joins League of Nations
1927 - 22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2)
1930 - Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
1931 - Lord Cecil of British Govt says War was never so improbable
1932 - 52nd US Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet (64 64 64)
1932 - Dodgers Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season
1932 - Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC
1933 - 1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park)
1933 - 53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J H Crawford (63 11-13 46 60 61)
1937 - 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)
1937 - Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0
1939 - Canada declares war on Germany
1939 - In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany
1940 - Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb
1942 - British troops lands on Madagascar
1942 - RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dsseldorf
1943 - British 8th army occupies Tarente
1943 - German troops occupied Rome & took over the protection of Vatican City
1943 - Italian fleet anchors at Malta
1943 - Lt-Gen Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London
1944 - Lt-gen Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"
1945 - KLS-AM in Oakland Ca changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA)
1945 - Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis
1948 - Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life
1948 - Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England
1949 - "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" closes at Broadway NYC after 76 perfs
1950 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium
1951 - British begins economic boycott of Iran
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Thomasville Golf Open
1953 - Swanson sells it's 1st "TV dinner"
1954 - 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria
1954 - WLUK TV channel 11 in Green Bay, WI (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls
1955 - "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV
1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1956 - Louisville Ky public schools integrates
1956 - WSYE (now WETM) TV chan 18 in Elmira-Corning, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast
1957 - "Mask & Gown" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 39 performances
1958 - WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:15:16.2)
1960 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit
1961 - 75th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones (63 64)
1961 - 81st US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Rodney G Laver (75 63 62)
1961 - Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - 82nd US Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64)
1962 - KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - Maryland Campaign (Antietam Campaign)
1962 - WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 - 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
1963 - Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0
1963 - Stan Musial hits a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather
1964 - Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms
1964 - Rod Steward records his 1st single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"
1965 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards
1965 - WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1966 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 - Neal Diamond's 1st chart song (Cherry Cherry)
1967 - 81st US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats Ann H Jones (119 64)
1967 - 87th US Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (64 64 86)
1967 - Chic White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Det Tigers, 6-0
1967 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Pacific Golf Classic
1967 - Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British & not Spanish
1967 - Joel Horlen revives Chicago's pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win
1967 - KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 - NY Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time
1969 - US performs nuclear test at Grand Valley Colorado
1971 - KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 - 20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR
1972 - 92nd US Mens Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Arthur Ashe (36 63 67 64 63)
1972 - Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship
1972 - Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8)
1972 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1972 - US Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed)
1972 - WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 - Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton
1973 - NY Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St Louis
1974 - Lou Brock ties (104) & then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark
1974 - NY Dolls disband
1974 - Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau
1974 - Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs
1976 - 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard
1976 - 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, NY
1977 - 91st US Womens Tennis: Chris Evert L Mills beats W Turnbull (76 62)
1977 - Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits
1977 - Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5)
1977 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1977 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1977 - Susan Perkins (Ohio), crowned 50th Miss America 1978
1978 - "Timbuktu!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 243 perfs
1978 - 98th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bj”rn B”rg (64 62 62)
1978 - Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds & 30")
1978 - Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win US Open on 3 different surfaces
1978 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1978 - 4th game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9
1979 - 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed
1980 - Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18
1980 - Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick
1981 - "Guernica" of Pablo Picasso returns to Spain
1982 - Decca releases Beatle audition "Complete Silver Beatles" album
1983 - 97th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills (61 63)
1983 - Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1984 - Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla
1984 - Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)
1986 - Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel
1988 - -18] Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas & Yucatan
1988 - 102nd US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (63 36 61)
1988 - Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minn), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989
1989 - 109th US Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (76 16 63 76)
1989 - 5 days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners,
1989 - Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record
1989 - East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary & Czech)
1989 - Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
1989 - Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown
1990 - 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win US Open
1990 - 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different
1990 - Ellis Island reopens as a museum
1990 - George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki
1990 - Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada
1990 - Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq
1990 - Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning
1990 - 1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0
1991 - Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination
1991 - Yolanda Gail Devers runs US female record 100m hurdles (12.48 secs)
1992 - Bud Selig becomes interm commissioner of baseball
1992 - Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5› to 47›
1992 - MTV Video Music Awards, Howard Stern appears as fartman
1993 - 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced
1993 - Actress Loretta Young, 80, weds costume designer Jean Louis, 85
1993 - Israel & PLO sign joint recognition statements
1994 - 108th US Womens Tennis: Aranxta S Vicario beats Steffi Graf (16 76 64)
1994 - Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke
1995 - 115th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 46 75)
1995 - 35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats US, 14-10
1995 - 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Fraiser & Candice Bergen wins
1995 - Alison Nicholas wins PING-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
1995 - Browns & Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleve for only time, Browns 22-6 over Tampa, Indians 5-3 over Orioles
1997 - 36th Walker Cup:
1997 - Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million
1997 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1997 - Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 HRs in 2 consec yrs
1999 - 37th Walker Cup:
2000 - 114th US Womens Tennis:
2000 - 120th US Mens Tennis:
2001 - 38th Walker Cup:

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1487 - Julius III, Counter-Reformation pope (1550-55)
1585 - Ercole Porta, composer
1588 - Nicholas Lanier, composer
1645 - Romeyn de Hooghe, Haarlem Neth, painter/goldsmith
1714 - Niccol¢ Jommelli, Italy, composer
1736 - Carter Braxton, US farmer/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1751 - Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Italian violinist/composer/conductor
1752 - John Soane, English architect (Bank of England, Soane Museum)
1779 - Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer
1787 - John Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863
1810 - Albert Gallatin Blanchard, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1815 - Eleazer Arthur Paine, Brig General (Union volunteers)
1823 - Adolf von Doss, composer
1832 - Randall Lee Gibson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1836 - Joseph Wheeler II, Maj Gen (Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee)
1836 - Karl Merz, composer
1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, US, publisher (Funk & Wagnalls)
1848 - William M Harnett, US painter (Old Violin)
1854 - Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Neth manufacturer (Vroom & Dreesman)
1857 - James E Keeler, US, astronomer (rings of Saturn)
1866 - Jeppe Aakj‘r, Danish journalist/author/poet (Vredens Bírn)
1866 - Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer
1869 - Caro Roma, composer
1872 - Josephina "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Verdoold Sheep)
1872 - Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, India, cricketer/politician
1875 - Paul Scheinpflug, composer
1877 - Georgia B D Camp Johnson, US, poet/playwright (Autumn Love Cycle)
1882 - Paul Harvey, IL, actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree)
1883 - Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist
1885 - Berthold Altaner, German church historian (Patrologie)
1885 - Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary (9th Wave)
1885 - Johannes de Jong, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht (Handbook)
1886 - Hilda Doolittle, US, poetess (imagisten)
1887 - Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy
1888 - Ian Fleming, Melbourne Australia, author (James Bond)
1889 - Vilem Petrzelka, composer
1890 - Franz Werfel, Austria, author (40 Days of Musa Dagh)
1892 - Arthur H Compton, US physicist (X-rays)
1893 - Al "Fuzzy" St John, Santa Ana Calif, actor (Lash of the West)
1896 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French fashion designer
1897 - Nancy Keene Lancaster, designer/Collector
1898 - Adele Marie Astaire, Omaha NE, sister of Fred Astaire, entertainer
1898 - Bessie Love, Midland TX, actress (Broadway Melody, Children of Damned)
1902 - Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Wegwerkers)
1906 - Lambertus "Bertus" van Lyre, composer/conductor (Hooglied)
1907 - Fay Wray, Alberta Canada, actress-King Kong's main squeeze [or 9/15]
1908 - Raymond Harry Warnow Scott, Bkln NY, orch leader (Your Hit Parade)
1912 - Brother William Oliver Antoninus Everson, poet
1913 - Zeph[ania L] Mothopeng, pres South Afr Pan-African Congress (1986- )
1914 - Robert Wise, director (Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story)
1915 - Edmond O'Brien, NYC, actor (Sam Benedict, Johnny Midnight)
1916 - Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician
1917 - Franfo Fortini, poet
1919 - John Noorda, resistance fighter
1919 - Lex van Delden, Dutch composer/writer
1920 - Egbert van Paridon, Dutch actor/director (Assault)
1921 - Cornelis A H Wagtho, student/resistance fighter
1925 - Roy James Brown, New Orleans, boxer/soul singer (Good Rockin' Tonight)
1926 - Beryl Cook, British painter
1927 - Gwen Watford, British actress (Body in the Library, Ghoul)
1927 - Yma Sumac, [Chavarri], Ichocan Peru, 5 octave soprano (Omar Khayyam)
1928 - Leo P[atrick] Kelley, US, sci-fi author (Dead Moon, Vacation in Space)
1929 - Akio Yashiro, composer
1929 - Arnold Daniel Palmer, Latrobe PA, PGA golfer (1964 Masters)
1929 - Pentti Siimes, [Pentti Kalevi Siimes], Helsinki Finland
1930 - Kenneth Kweku Sinaman Dadzie, diplomat
1933 - David Rowland, English real estate developer/broker/multi-millionaire
1933 - Yevgeny Vassilyevich Khrunov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5)
1934 - Charles Kuralt, Wilmington NC, newscaster (On the Road)
1934 - James L Oberstar, (Rep-D-Minnesota, 1975- )
1934 - Larry Sitsky, composer
1934 - Roger Maris, Yankee, HR champ (61 in 1961, AL MVP 1960, 1961)
1934 - Vasil Kazandzhiev, composer
1935 - John Palmer, Kingsport Tenn, news anchor (NBC Weekend News)
1935 - Paul van Vliet, Dutch cabaret performer
1937 - Alun Edward Islwyn Pask, rugby International
1937 - Paul Martin Palombo, composer
1939 - Artie Tripp, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1939 - Greg Mullavey, Buffalo NY, actor (Tom-Mary Hartman, Rituals)
1939 - Topham Brinton, English carpet magnate/multi-millionaire
1940 - Roy Ayers, LA, disco jazz artist (Fever, You Send Me)
1940 - Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1941 - Pyotr I Klimuk, Poland, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18B, 30)
1942 - Danny Hutton, Ireland, rock vocalist (Three Dog Night)
1943 - Garrett List, composer
1944 - Thomas Allen, British opera singer
1945 - Jos‚ Feliciano, Lares PR, singer/songwriter (Light my Fire)
1945 - Rein van den Broek, Dutch trumpeteer (Ekseption)
1945 - Richard M Mullane, Tx, USAF/astro (STS 41-D, STS-27, STS-36)
1945 - Tom Ligon, New Orleans, actor (Joyride)
1946 - James R Hines, Dumas Ark, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 - Larry Gene Nelson, Ft Payne AL, PGA golfer (1980 Atlanta Classic)
1948 - Bob Lanier, NBA center (Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks)
1948 - Judy Geeson, Arundei Sussex Engld, actress (To Sir With Love, Berserk)
1948 - Margaret Trudeau, Vancouver BC, former Canadian 1st lady
1949 - Barriemore Barlow, rocker (Jethro Tull)
1950 - Don Powell, England, rock drummer (Slade)
1950 - Joe Perry, Boston Mass, rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Walk this Way)
1951 - Albert R Wynn, (Rep-D-Maryland)
1951 - Alder Taylor, rocker
1951 - Peter Tolson, rocker
1952 - Gerry Conway, Marvel comics writer (Punisher)
1953 - Amy Irving, Palo Alto, Cal, actress (Yentl, Carrie, Crossing Delancy)
1954 - Martha Nause, Sheboygan WI, LPGA golfer (1994 du Maurier Ltd Classic)
1955 - Charlotte Lewis, Chic Ill, basketball player (Olympic-silver-1976)
1955 - Giannina Facio Franco, San Jose Costa Rica, Mrs Phillipe Junot
1955 - Pat Mastelotto, rock drummer (Mr Mister)
1956 - Johnny Fingers, rocker (Boomtown Rats)
1957 - Brian Fitzpatrick, Upper Darby Pa, actor (Rick Alden-Loving)
1957 - Kate Burton, Geneva Switzerland, actress (Ice Storm, August)
1957 - Siobhan Fahey, Dublin, rocker (Bananarama-Venus, Shakespear's Sister)
1958 - Chris Columbus, writer/director (Mrs Doubtfire, Nine Months)
1960 - Colin Firth, Hampshire England, actor (Femme Fatale, Hostages)
1960 - Miranda Wilson, Nebraska, actress (Sandra-Santa Barbara)
1962 - Esteban Toledo, Mexicali Mexico, Nike golfer (1991 Ben Hogan Reno-2nd)
1963 - Carol Decker, rocker (T'Pau-Heart & Soul)
1963 - David Titlow, rocker (Blue Mercedes-Rich & Famous)
1963 - Susan Gautier-Smith, TV producer
1964 - Karl Wilson, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1964 - Peter Vogler, Australian baseball outfielder (Olympics-1996)
1964 - Tim Harris, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1965 - Allison Daughtry, actress (Guilding Light)
1965 - Brian Washington, NFL safety (KC Chiefs)
1966 - Joe Nieuwendyk, NHL forward (Dallas Stars, Team Canada 1998)
1966 - Kimble Anders, NFL fullback (KC Chiefs)
1966 - Ted Popson, NFL tight end (SF 49ers)
1968 - Yvo Joordens, soccer player (MVV)
1969 - Bob Spitulski, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1969 - Matt Geiger, NBA center (Charlotte Hornets)
1970 - Dean Gorr‚, Suriname/Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1970 - Julie Halard, Versailles France, tennis star (1995 Prague)
1970 - Robert Green, NFL running back (Chic Bears)
1970 - Ulrika Ericsson, G„vle Sweden, playmate (Nov, 1996)
1971 - Brandon Harrison, NFL wide receiver (SD Chargers)
1971 - Brian Earley, Fresno Calif, diver (Olympics-96)
1971 - Chris Oeding, Santa Ana Calif, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1972 - Mariano Bombarda, (Italian?) soccer player (ACV, FC Groningen)
1973 - Ghada Shouaa, Syria, heptatlete (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 - Ben Wallace, NBA forward (Wash Wizards)
1974 - Jill Chartier, Miss Oregon USA (1996)
1974 - Sandra Cacic, Joliet Ill, tennis star
1975 - Temple Taggart, Miss USA-Utah (1997, top 6)
1976 - Gregory Robert Henderson, Dunedin NZ, 4k pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
1980 - Timothy Goebel, Evanston Ill, figure skater (1996 National Jr champ)

Famous deaths for this day ..

0918 - Boudouin II the Bare, originator of Flanders territory, dies
0954 - Louis IV, of overseas, King of France, dies
1279 - Robert Kilwardby/Anglicus, English philosopher/Cardinal, dies
1305 - Nicholas van Tolentino, Italian saint, dies
1382 - Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary/Poland, dies
1419 - Jan zonder Vrees, duke of Burgundy/count of Flanders, murdered
1419 - John the Fearless, Burgundy/French warrior, murdered at 48
1547 - Pierlugi Faraese, Italian son of Pope Paul III, murdered
1600 - John Bruhesius, [Bruhesen], bishop of Groningen, dies
1623 - John I Van de Velde, calligrapher (Mirror of Write-Konste), dies
1680 - Marco Uccellini, composer, dies
1765 - Jacob Gilles, pension advisor, dies at about 74
1806 - Johann C Adelung, German translator/librarian, dies at 74
1828 - Count d'Andr‚ossi, French general/parliament leader, dies at 67
1831 - George Guest, composer, dies at 60
1839 - Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter, dies at 66
1842 - Letitia Tyler, Pres Tyler's (1841-45) wife, dies at 51
1845 - Karl August von Lichtenstein, composer, dies at 78
1858 - Henry Wellington Greatorex, composer, dies at 44
1862 - Carlos A L¢pez, president of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71
1867 - Simon Sechter, composer, dies at 78
1868 - Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer, dies at 79
1895 - Harrison Millard, composer, dies at 64
1898 - Elisabeth AE, empress of Austria/wife of Franz Joseph I, dies at 60
1898 - S Mallarm‚, writer, dies
1916 - Friedrich Gernsheim, composer, dies at 77
1922 - Arpad Szendy, composer, dies at 59
1924 - Walter Lees, cricketer (26 wkts on 5 Tests Eng v SA 1905-06), dies
1930 - G A Faulkner, cricketer (S Afr googly all-rounder), commits suicide
1931 - Alfonso Randano, composer, dies at 78
1932 - Percy Fletcher, composer, dies at 52
1934 - George Henschel, composer, dies at 84
1942 - Nachman N "Neddy" Bamberg, actor, dies in Auschwitz at 63
1944 - Jaap P Musch, Dutch resistance fighter, murdered by Nazis
1945 - Vaino Raitio, composer, dies at 54
1951 - Giuseppe Mule, composer, dies at 66
1954 - Peter Anders, German opera singer, dies
1955 - Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer, dies at 70
1960 - Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga - matushka-reka), dies at 63
1961 - Leo Carrillo, actor (Pancho-Cisco Kid), dies at 81
1963 - EugŠne Baie, Belgian author (Le siŠcle of Gueux), dies at 89
1965 - Bobby Jordan, actor (Dead End Kids), dies of sclerosis of liver at 42
1966 - James Langridge, cricketer (242 runs & 19 wkts for England), dies
1971 - Bella Darvi, actress (Racers), commits suicide at 42
1971 - Pier Angeli, actress (Octaman), dies of barbiturate overdose at 39
1972 - Sidney Pegler, cricket leg spinner (leading S Afr prior to WWI), dies
1976 - Dalton Trumbo, US writer/director (Johnny Got His Gun), dies at 70
1976 - Dorothy Devore, actress (Newscast, Senor Daredevil), dies at 77
1976 - George Baxter, actor (Flying Saucer, Lili, Caged), dies at 71
1976 - Mordecai Johnson, 1st black president of Howard U, dies at 86
1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, convicted murderer last to, die by guillotine
1979 - Agostinho Neto, poet/1st pres of Angola, dies at 56
1979 - Stanislav Pylypovych Lyudkevych, composer, dies at 99
1982 - Max Winders Maximilien, brought Belgium gold reserve to England, dies
1983 - Balthasar J "John" Vorster, S African premier (1966-78), dies at 67
1985 - Alexa Kenin, actress (Mousie-Coed Fever), dies at 23
1989 - Jeff Stollmeyer, cricketer (32 Tests for WI), murdered
1990 - Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated
1991 - Sarah Sally Lawrence, entertainer, dies at 61
1991 - Yves Montand, actor (Lets Make Love, Z), dies at 70
1993 - Janice Carroll, actress (End, April Fools), dies of cancer at 61
1993 - Rita Karin, Polish-Latvia/US actress (Sophie's Choice), dies at 73
1994 - Amy Clampitt, British poet (Silence Opens), dies at 74
1995 - Charles Denner, actor (Mado, Stella, Z, Landru), dies at 69
1995 - Derek Meddings, special Effects technician, dies at 64
1995 - Molly Mary Hyde, cricketer, dies at 81
1996 - Ray Coleman, journalist, dies at 59
1997 - Burgess Meredith, actor (Penguin-Batman, Rocky), dies at 88