Today In History - Thursday, October 1, 2026




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Welcome to Today In History for Thursday, October 1, 2026.

On this day in history ..

0366 - St Damasus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0704 - Aengibald gives away bishop Willibrord estate in Waalre
0965 - John XIII Crescentii elected to succeed Pope Leo VIII
1273 - Earl Rudolf van Habsburg becomes Roman Catholics-German king
1529 - -3] Meeting between Maarten Luther & Huldrych Zwingli
1569 - Duke of Norfolk arrested
1574 - -2] Storm breaks Leiden dike; drowns 20,000 Spanish soldiers
1606 - Spanish troops under Sp¡nola occupies fort Rhine birch
1632 - Battle at Castelnaudary: Duke Henri de Montmorency's rebel army loses
1653 - Russian parliament accepts annexation of Ukraine
1657 - Treaty of Raalte: Willem II no longer viceroy of Overijssel
1661 - Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James
1670 - -4] Battle at Simbirsk a/d Wolga: Russian army beats Boers
1688 - Prince Willem III accept invitation of English crown to occupy
1705 - Parliament declares Hungary independently/French R k¢czi becomes king
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France
1768 - English troops under general Gauge lands in Boston
1791 - 1st session of new French legislative assembly
1791 - Dutch prince Willem Frederik marries his niece princess Frederika Louise Wilhelmina of Prussia
1795 - France annexes Southern Netherlands
1800 - Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty
1801 - England & France signs Preliminary of London
1830 - General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam
1833 - Charles Darwin reaches Rio Tercero Argentina
1837 - "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico)
1837 - Treaty with Winnebago Indians
1838 - Civil Code enforced (- Jan 1, 1992)
1847 - Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
1851 - 1st Hawaiian stamps issued
1863 - 5 Russian warships welcomed in NYC
1863 - Dutch Breda-Tilburg railway opens
1864 - Cyclone strikes Calcutta: 70,000 killed
1864 - John S Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for President Lincoln
1866 - Dutch Eindhoven-Venlo railway opens
1867 - Karl Marx' "Das Kapital," published
1868 - 1st edition of Maasbode published
1869 - 1st postcards are issued (Vienna)
1871 - General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht
1874 - Rotterdam opens drink water pipes
1879 - Cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause
1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes new director of US Marine Corps Band
1885 - Special delivery mail service begins in US
1886 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada closes
1888 - National Geographic magazine publishes for 1st time
1889 - Soccer team HFC Haarlem forms
1889 - Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum
1890 - Congress creates Weather Bureau
1890 - Yosemite National Park forms
1892 - University of Chicago opens
1893 - 3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi)
1894 - Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska
1895 - Romanians in Costantinople massacred
1896 - Sherlock Holmes adventure "Veiled Lodger" takes place (BG)
1896 - Yosemite becomes a National Park
1898 - Dutch railway Alkmaar-Receiver opens
1898 - Henry Huntington buys LA Railway
1898 - Jews are expelled from Kiev Russia
1903 - 1st baseball World Series, Pitts Pirates vs Boston Pilgrims (Red Sox)
1904 - JB van Heutsz becomes gov-general of Netherland Indies
1904 - Netherlands & Portugal lay down bounderies splitting Timor
1906 - Hugh Jennings resigns as Balt manager to take over at Detroit in 1907
1907 - Plaza Hotel (5th Av & 59th Str, NY) opens
1908 - 1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague)
1908 - Henry Ford introduces Model T car (costs $825)
1908 - Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory, beats Walter Johnson 2-1
1910 - Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair)
1910 - Explosion at LA Times (bomb/gas?), kills 21
1910 - Regina Rugby Club's 1st game, losing to Moose Jaw Tigers, 16-6
1911 - United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hr day
1912 - Yanks lose game #100 en route to a 50-102 season
1919 - World Series begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (Black Sox Scandal)
1920 - Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day
1921 - WJZ, Newark NJ begins broadcasting
1922 - Former Chicago Staleys play 1st NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0
1922 - Rogers Hornsby's 3-for-5 ups avg to .401
1924 - Fokker F-7 1st flight (Amsterdam to Batavia)
1924 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 4 mile (19:15.4) & 5 mile (24:06.2)
1924 - Landis bans Giants Jimmy O'Connell & Cozy Dolan from World Series after they admit an attempt to bribe Phils shortstop Heinie Sand
1927 - Pirates clinch NL pennant with a 9-6 win over Reds
1928 - Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium bicycled 76 miles 504 yards in 1 hour
1928 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 15m (46:49.6)
1928 - USSR launches its 1st 5 year plan
1930 - Soccer team WHC forms
1930 - World Series opens at Phila's Shibe Park, Phila A's beat St Louis 5-2
1931 - Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage
1931 - World Series is a rematch as A's seek 3rd straight title vs Cards
1932 - NHL readmits Ottawa & drops Pittsburgh
1932 - Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists
1932 - World Series moves to Chicago, In 5th inning, Babe Ruth waits until he has 2 strikes, points & hits next pitch into center field bleachers
1933 - Antwerp Sports arena opens
1933 - Packers make 5 1st downs, Giants make 0, but still win 10-7
1933 - Wash Senator coach Nick Altrock plays in a game at age 57
1934 - Adolph Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles
1936 - Generalissimo Francisco Franco establishes state of Spain
1937 - Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
1938 - Cubs clinch NL pennant
1938 - Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia)
1939 - Churchill calls Soviets "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
1940 - Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens
1941 - D Sjostakovitch plane evacuated in Moscow
1941 - H Martin/R Blanes musical "Best Foot Forward," premieres in NYC
1941 - Yankees beat Dodgers 3-2 at Yankee Stadium in opener of World Series
1942 - Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight
1942 - Little Golden Books (children books) begins publishing
1943 - Allied forces captured Naples during WW II
1943 - Averell Harriman named US ambassador to Moscow
1943 - Germans attack Jews in Denmark
1943 - King's Dragon Guards liberates suburbs of Naples
1944 - Newspaper editor Alejandro C¢rdova assassinated in Guatemala
1944 - St Louis Browns win their only AL pennant
1945 - Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army
1945 - US Office of Strategic Serbia (OSS) disbands
1946 - 12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg
1946 - 1st NL playoffs, Dodgers vs Cards (St Louis wins 2 games to 0)
1946 - Bob Feller 348th strikeout of season
1947 - 1st helicopter air mail & express service, LA, Ca
1947 - NHL Pension Society founded
1947 - US control of Haitian customs & governmental revenue ends
1947 - William Wister Haines' "Command Decision," premieres in NYC
1948 - Calif Supreme Court voids state statue banning interracial marriages
1948 - Radio Denmark begins transmitting
1949 - People's Rep of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung (National Day)
1949 - Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa
1950 - Phillies win NL pennant on last day of season (10th inning HR)
1950 - South Korean troops exceed 38ø latitude
1950 - Browns lose to Giants, setting club record for fewest points scored by both teams (tied in 1979), NY 6, Cleveland 0
1951 - 1st Giant-Dodgers playoff game, Giants win 3-1
1951 - 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson
1951 - 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated
1952 - 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or
1952 - Liberal Party wins Japanese elections
1952 - Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain 1st atom bomb explosion)
1953 - Indian state of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras
1953 - KJEO TV channel 47 in Fresno, CA (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - KYTV TV channel 3 in Springfield, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WATE TV channel 6 in Knoxville, TN (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WREX TV channel 13 in Rockford, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation
1955 - "Honeymooners" premieres
1955 - Piet Lieftinck becomes director v/h IMF (World bank)
1955 - WORA TV channel 5 in Mayaguez, PR (TCI) begins broadcasting
1956 - Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track
1956 - Zestienhoven airport at Rotterdam official opens
1957 - B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack
1958 - Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia
1958 - Inauguration of NASA
1958 - Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
1959 - 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature a NY team (LA vs Chic)
1960 - 14th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 2-1 at Montreal
1960 - KCBY TV channel 11 in Coos Bay, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1960 - South Korean troops cross 38th parallel into North Korea
1961 - A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha
1961 - East & West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon
1961 - KGIN TV channel 11 in Grand Island, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Open
1961 - Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovitsch' 12nd Symphony
1961 - Roger Maris sets record of 61 HRs (off of Tracy Stallard)
1961 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961 - WOLO TV channel 25 in Columbia, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1961 - WYAH TV channel 27 in Portsmouth, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
1962 - Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)
1962 - Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage Beatles through 1977
1962 - James Meredith became 1st black at U of Mississippi
1962 - Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests
1962 - Lucy Show premieres
1962 - SF beats Dodgers, 8-0 in 1st of best-of-3 NL playoff
1962 - UN gives Netherlands control of New-Guinea
1962 - US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope
1962 - WEDH TV channel 24 in Hartford, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 - 1st time since 1910 no AL player, played in every game
1963 - Nigeria becomes a republic within Commonwealth
1964 - 1st official broadcast of Trans World Radio on Bonaire
1964 - 2nd Dutch televisienet begins broadcastings
1964 - Free Speech Movement launched at U of California, Berkley
1964 - SF cable cars declared a national landmark
1964 - WSJU TV channel 18 in Carolina, PR begins broadcasting
1964 - WTSJ TV channel 18 in San Juan, PR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1964 - WWAY TV channel 3 in Wilmington, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1965 - Failed coup under lt col Untung in Indonesia
1965 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1966 - Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases "The Times"
1966 - WAEO (now WJFW) TV channel 12 in Rhinelander, WI (NBC) begins
1967 - KBFI (now KDAF) TV channel 33 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' LA Golf Open
1967 - Pink FLoyd's 1st US tour (arrives in NYC)
1968 - "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh
1969 - Concorde 001 test flight breaks sound barrier
1969 - Guernsey & Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy
1970 - Last game at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, Phils-2 Expos-1
1971 - Joseph Luns becomes secretary-general of NATO
1971 - Simplified echtscheidingsrecht of force
1971 - Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens
1972 - "Don't Play Us Cheap" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 164 perfs
1972 - 1st games of World Hockey Association
1972 - 2nd NYC Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 3:08:41
1972 - 3rd NYC Marathon won by Sheldon Karlin in 2:27:52
1972 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic
1973 - Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astro manager
1973 - USSR-West Germany gas tunnel opens
1974 - Watergate cover-up trial opens in Wash DC
1975 - Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles
1975 - Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name "Tuvalu"
1975 - Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Joe Frazier in Manilla
1975 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Joe Frazier in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1975 - R‚union Island stops printing stamps, France takes over production
1976 - 1st Dutch casino opens
1977 - Brazilian soccer great Pele' retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games
1977 - Department Of Energy established
1977 - Elton John honored by MSG Hall of Fame
1977 - Peter Schats opera "Houdini" premieres in Amsterdam
1977 - Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title
1978 - Comoros adopts constitution
1978 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
1978 - Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from UK
1978 - Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians forcing a playoff game with Red Sox
1979 - Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes president
1979 - Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
1979 - RKO radio network begins operation
1979 - US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)
1980 - Cosmonauts Ryumin & Popov break space endurance record of 176 days
1981 - Iranian plane crash
1981 - J Chodorov/N Panama's "Talent for Murder," premieres in London
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1982 - EPCOT Center opens in Orlando Florida
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 - West Germany's Parliament ousts Helmut Schmidt for Helmut Kohl
1983 - Denise Wallace, 18, of Virginia crowned Miss Teen of America
1984 - Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus
1984 - Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball
1985 - Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed
1986 - President Carter's presidential library/museum dedicated in Atlanta
1987 - "Roza" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 12 performances
1987 - 6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA
1987 - Fiji's constitution is suspended
1988 - Bradley Center in Milwaukee opens
1988 - Lowest batting avg for NL champion (Tony Gwynn .313)
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev became president of Soviet Union
1988 - Robert Englund, actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth
1989 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
1989 - Dallas Cowboy, Ed "Too Tall" Jones records his 1,000th NFL tackle
1989 - Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany
1989 - US issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus
1989 - Batting titles decided on final day Puckett goes 2-for-5 edges Carney Lansford .339 to .336, Gwynn's 3-for-4 edges Will Clark .336 to .333
1990 - 10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda
1990 - Meteorite explode above Pacific Ocean
1990 - Pres Bush at UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait
1990 - Serbs in Croatia proclaim autonomy
1991 - Howard Stern adds Baltimore to his radio network (WJFK-AM)
1992 - "Oba Oba '93" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 22 performances
1992 - Cartoon Cable Network premieres
1992 - Greater Pittsburgh International Airport opens
1992 - Ross Perot re-enters presidental race
1993 - Lennox Lewis TKOs Frank Bruno in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 - Boon completes his 19th Test century (114 v Pak, Karachi)
1994 - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic
1994 - South African President Nelson Mandela visits US
1994 - Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Cura‡ao
1995 - Bermuda begins using new area code 441
1995 - Gail Graham wins FieldCrest Cannon/Carolina LPGA Golf Classic
1995 - Indians set record of 30 game lead over 2nd place team
1995 - Mike Mussina tosses Balt's 5th consecutive shutout 4-0 win over Tigers
1995 - NY Yankees win 1st baseball wildcard ever
1995 - Rockies are 1st team to make postseason before 7th year in existence
1997 - Carolina Hurricanes 1st game vs Tampa Bay Lightning
1997 - Spice Hot premieres on cable
2000 - 27th Olympic games close at Sydney, Australia (sched)

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1207 - Henry III, king of England (1216-72)
1549 - Anna of H Bartolomaeus, Flemish prioress/founded a nunnery
1620 - Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher
1644 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist/composer
1644 - Jean Rousseau, composer
1685 - Charles VI, German emperor/king of Spain (1711-40)
1724 - Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer
1730 - Richard Stockton, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence)
1735 - Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi, composer
1746 - John Mhlenberg, Lutheran pastor/general/congressman
1760 - William Beckford, British writer (Epsiodes of Vathek)
1770 - Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naples Revolution 1799)
1771 - Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist/composer
1781 - James Lawrence, naval hero (War of 1812-"Don't give up the ship!")
1791 - Sergey Aksakov, Russia, novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family)
1799 - Rufus Choate, US, lawyer (Hall of Fame)
1808 - Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer
1820 - Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer
1830 - Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1831 - Claudius Charles Wilson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1832 - Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st wife of Benjamin Harrison
1832 - Henry Clay Work, composer
1834 - Francis Marion Cockrell, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1915
1835 - Robert Houston Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1835 - William Hicks "Red" Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1841 - Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer
1842 - Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet (Le Hareng Saur)
1845 - Adolf Oberl„nder, German painter
1847 - Annie Besant, [Wood], England, philosopher (Esoteric christianity)
1865 - Paul Abraham Dukas, Paris France, composer (Vell‚da)
1870 - Pieter van Essen, Dutch artillery officer/inventor (grape-shot shells)
1872 - Isra‰l Querido, Dutch writer (Menschenwee)
1878 - Othmar Spann, Austria economist/sociologist (Geschichtsfilosofie)
1881 - Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev, composer
1881 - William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft co (Boeing)
1885 - Louis Untermeyer, NYC, poet/critic (Immortal Poems, Story Poems)
1886 - Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author
1890 - Alice Joyce, Kansas City MO, actress (Song O' My Heart)
1890 - Constantin Nottara, composer
1890 - Stanley Holloway, London England, actor (Higgins-Our Man Higgins)
1893 - Faith Baldwin, New Rochelle NY, author/novelist (They Who Love)
1894 - Ricardo Castillo, composer
1895 - Liaquat Al Khan, attorney/premier of Pakistan (1947-51)
1898 - Karl Ranki, composer
1899 - Lajos Bardos, composer
1903 - "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, NYC, light-heavyweight box champ (1932-34)
1903 - George Coulouris, Manchester England, actor (Runaway Bus)
1904 - Vladimir Horowitz, Kiev Ukraine, pianist (Carmen)
1906 - John Lorne Campbell, folklorist
1907 - Barbara Morrison, Weston-Super-Mare Engld, actress (Project Moonbase)
1907 - Hiram Fong, (Sen-Cal)
1907 - Oedoen Partos, composer
1908 - Herman David Koppel, composer
1909 - Everett Sloane, NYC, actor (Patsy, Citizen Kane, Enforcer)
1909 - Samuel Yorty, Lincoln Neb, (Mayor-LA)
1911 - Edward P Boland, (Rep-D-MA, 1953- )
1911 - Irwin Kostal, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Garry Moore Show)
1911 - Richard Torriani, Switzerland, took Olympic oath (1948)
1914 - Daniel Joseph Boorstin, author (Empire of Czar, 1974 Pulitzer Prize)
1914 - Michael Goodliffe, Cheshire England, actor (5th Day of Peace)
1916 - Tibor Reich, textile designer
1917 - Ren‚ A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillian poet (Juancho Picaflor)
1918 - Antonio Iglesias Alvares, composer
1920 - Lonny Chapman, Tulsa Okla, actor (Investigator, For the People)
1920 - Walter Matthau, NYC, actor (Odd Couple, Bad News Bears)
1921 - James Whitmore, White Plains NY, actor (Give 'em Hell Harry)
1922 - Hector Campos-Parsi, composer
1924 - Jimmy Earl Carter, Plains Ga, (D) 39th Pres (1977-1981)
1924 - William Rehnquist, Ws, Supreme Court (1972-86)/chief justice (1987- )
1927 - Tom Bosley, Chicago, actor (Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote)
1928 - George Peppard, Detroit Mich, actor (Banacek, A-Team, Blue Max)
1928 - Laurence Harvey, [Larushka Skine], actor (Alamo, Romeo & Juliet)
1930 - Philippe Noiret, Lille France, actor (Soleil, Les Milles, Il Postino)
1930 - Richard Harris, Ire, actor (Man Called Horse)/singer (MacArthur Park)
1931 - Reginald Hall, endocrinologist
1932 - Albert Collins, Leona TX, blues guitarist (Frosty, Showdown)
1933 - Olga Pozzi Escot, composer
1935 - Julie Andrews, England, actress/singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins)
1936 - Charles G Fullerton, Rochester, NY, astronaut (STS-3, 51F)
1936 - Edward Villella, Bayside Queens, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet)
1936 - Stella Stevens, Yazoo City Miss, actress (Girls! Girls!, Manitou)
1937 - Hedy d'Ancona, Dutch minister of WVC (PvdA)
1937 - Saeed Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 41 Tests 1958-73)
1938 - J Bert Sonnier, race horse trainer
1938 - Les Scheinflug, Australian soccer asst coach (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1939 - George Archer, SF CA, PGA golfer (1969 Masters Bing Crosby)
1940 - Richard F Pieternella, Dutch Antilles' minister plenipotentiary
1942 - Gnter Wallraf, writer
1943 - Jerry Maitini, US saxophonist (Sly & Family Stone-Sex Machine)
1943 - Jim Martini, rocker (Sly & Family Stone-Everyday People)
1943 - Naushad Ali, cricketer (Pakistani wicket-keeper in six Tests 1964-65)
1944 - Barbara Parritt, US soul singer (Toys-Lover's Concerto)
1944 - Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad, US singer (Persuasions-Spread the Word)
1944 - Scott McKenzie, rock vocalist (If You Come to SF)
1945 - Donny Hathaway, Chicago, singer/songwriter (Where is the Love)
1945 - Rod Carew, baseball slugger (AL Rookie of Year 1967)
1946 - Alfred Jones, Grace Miss, middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1946 - Eva Klobukowska, Poland, relay sprinter (Olympic-gold-1964)
1947 - Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (Shocking Blue)
1947 - Martin Turner, rocker (Wishbone)
1947 - Rob Davis, rocker
1947 - Stephen Collins, Des Moines Iowa, actor (Star Trek I, Tattingers)
1948 - Cub Koda, rocker (Brownsville Station)
1948 - Ellen McIlwaine, Nashville, blues singer (Honky Tonky Angel)
1949 - Annie Leibovitz, photgrapher (Rolling Stones)
1950 - Boris Vladimirovich Morukov, Russian cosmonaut
1950 - Randy Quaid, Houston Tx, actor (Midnight Express, Vacation, SNL)
1951 - Brian Greenway, Montreal, rock guitarist/vocalist (April Wine)
1953 - Greta Andersen Waitz, Oslo Norway, marathoner (NYC - 1984)
1954 - Richard Schlesinger, NYC, news correspondent (CBS, 48 Hours)
1955 - Howard Hewett, Akron Oh, rock vocalist (Shalamar)
1955 - Phillip Oakey, rocker (Human League)
1956 - Leslie Burr-Howard, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-silver-96)
1957 - Brad MacDonald, race horse trainer
1958 - Alton Lister, NBA forward/center (Portland Trailblazers, Celtics)
1958 - Michelle Bauer, [Medvitz], Calif, actress (One Million Heels BC)
1959 - Youssou N'dour, Senegalese singer (Shaking the tree)
1960 - Elizabeth Dennehy, actress (Guiding Light) [or Nov 1]
1961 - Cornelius Johannes Petrus Gerhardus "Corrie" Van Zyl, cricketer (SAf)
1962 - Trevor Baxter, record holder for high jumping with a skateboard
1963 - Beth Chamberlin, Danville Vt, actress (Beth Spaulding-Guiding Light)
1963 - Mark McGwire, 1st baseman (AL rookie of year 1988, Oakland A's, Cards)
1964 - Kristi Atkinson, Van Nuys Ca, WP volleyballer (Best of Beach-6th-1994)
1964 - Marcia Pankratz, Wakefield Mass, field hockey forward (Oly-88, 96)
1964 - Roberto Kelly, Panama, outfielder (NY Yanks, Cin Reds, Minn Twins)
1965 - Cliff Ronning, Vancouver, NHL center (Vancouver Canucks)
1967 - Chuck McElroy, Galeston TX, pitcher (California Angels)
1967 - Geraldine Heaney, ice hockey defenseman (Canada, Oly-98)
1967 - Michael Pringle, CFL running back (Montreal Alouettes)
1967 - Scott Young, Clinton MA, NHL right wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1968 - Greg Briggs, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Jay Underwood, actor (Boy Who Could Fly)
1968 - Malcolm Showell, WLAF defensive end (London Monarchs)
1968 - Matt Elliott, NFL center/guard (Carolina Panthers)
1969 - Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza, Mexico, murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1969 - Igor Ulanov, Krasnokamsk Rus, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1970 - Alexei Zhamnov, Moscow Rus, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets, Oly-S-98)
1970 - Alexei Zhitnik, NHL defenseman (Team Russia Oly-Silver-1998, Buffalo)
1970 - Gaston Taument, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1970 - James Wilson, WLAF defensive end (Rhein Fire)
1970 - Moses Kiptanui, Kenya, steeplechase (Olympics-silver-96)
1970 - Ronnie Bradford, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos)
1971 - Amp Lee, NFL running back (Minn Vikings, St Louis Rams)
1971 - Melinda Gainsford, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-92, 96)
1972 - Danielle Scott, Baton Rouge LA, volleyball middle blocker (Oly-96)
1973 - Rodney Kite-Powell, historian
1974 - Keith Duffy, Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1974 - Mats Lindgren, NHL forward (Team Sweden Oly-1998, Edmonton)
1975 - Eric Morel, PR, US flyweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Kona Cormack, Honolulu HI, playmate (Feb, 1996)
1977 - Alejandro Hernandez, Tijuana Mexico, tennis pro

Famous deaths for this day ..

0290 - [Christian] Bacchus, roman soldier/martyred saint, killed
0540 - Vedastus St Vaast, 1st bishop of Atrecht/saint, dies
0552 - Teja, king of Ostrogoten, dies in battle
0976 - Al-Hakam II, Moors kalief of C¢rdoba, dies
1404 - Boniface IX, [Pietro Tomacelli], Pope (1389-1404), dies
1574 - Maarten van Heemskerck, painter (Christ), dies
1578 - Don Juan d'Austria, Spanish land guardian of Netherlands, dies at 31
1602 - Hernando de Cabezon, composer, dies at 61
1633 - Filaret, [Fjodor N Romanov], patriarch of Moscow, dies
1684 - Pierre Corneille, Fr lawyer/dramatist (El Cid, Polyeucte), dies at 42
1704 - Cornelis Dusart, painter/engraver, dies at 44
1708 - John Blow, composer (Venus & Adonis), dies at 59
1768 - Robert Simson, Scotland mathematician, dies at 80
1770 - Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer, dies at 64
1795 - Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder, dies at about 70
1807 - John Mhlenberg, Lutheran pastor, dies on his 61st birthday
1814 - Jakob I van Przysucha, Polish hassidic leader, dies
1864 - John Dunovant, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1868 - Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), dies at 63
1876 - Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer, dies at 77
1881 - Frantisek Matej Hilmar, composer, dies at 78
1901 - Abdoer-Rahman, emir of Afghanistan, dies
1904 - William GGVV Harcourt, historian/English Sect of State, dies at 76
1911 - Pjotr A Stolypin, premier of Russia (1906-11), dies
1911 - Wilhelm Dilthey, Germ philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans), dies at 77
1927 - Wilhelm Harteveld, composer, dies at 68
1930 - Ricardo Drigo, composer, dies at 84
1936 - Oscar DaCosta, cricketer (WI all-rounder in 5 Tests 30-35), dies at 28
1943 - Antoine T Broekman, resistance fighter, executed at 32
1943 - Anton JT Koreman, resistance fighter, executed at 27
1943 - Antoon Pleyte, resistance fighter, executed at 26
1943 - Dionysius Remiens, resistance fighter, executed at 24
1943 - Earnest Klijzing, resistance fighter, executed
1943 - Gideon Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 22
1943 - Hans Katan, resistance fighter, executed at 24
1943 - Henri H Geul, resistance fighter, executed at 27
1943 - Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20
1943 - Johan Roemer, resistance fighter, executed at 22
1943 - Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35
1943 - John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23
1943 - Leo Frijda, resistance fighter, executed at 20
1943 - Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21
1943 - Maarten van/of Gilse, resistance fighter, executed at 27
1943 - Olaf T Thomsen, resistance fighter, executed at 23
1943 - Peter "Pam" Pooters, resistance fighter, executed at 32
1943 - Sape Kuiper, resistance fighter, executed at 19
1943 - Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36
1943 - Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42
1945 - Walter B Cannon, US physiologist (Traumatic Shock), dies at 73
1956 - Stan Ockers, Belgian world champ cyclist (1955), dies at 36
1961 - Donald Cook, actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at 60
1964 - Ernst Toch, composer (Melodie Lehre), dies at 76
1965 - Edward E "Doc" Smith, US, sci-fi writer (Subspace encounter), dies
1965 - Gareth Hughes, actor (Midnight Girl), dies at 71
1966 - Albert P A A Besnard, poet/journalist (Doom & Thirst), dies
1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French painter (Descending an Escalator), dies
1970 - Hans Poser, composer, dies at 52
1970 - Petar Konjovic, composer, dies at 87
1972 - Kurt Hiller, writer, dies at 87
1972 - Louis Leakey, English anthropologist, dies at 68
1973 - Joe Devlin, actor (Sam-Dick Tracy), dies at 74
1975 - Al Jackson, rock drummer (Booker T & The MG's), dies at 39
1979 - Roy Harris, US composer, dies at 81
1980 - George Meany, union pres (AFL-CIO), dies at 86
1984 - Hansje Toussaint, [Hermina A Schenk), singer/cabaretiŠre, dies at 69
1984 - Walter Alston, Baseball manager (LA Dodgers), dies at 72
1985 - Charlotte White, US author (New Yorker, Charlotte's Web), dies at 86
1990 - Christine Forrest, actress (Martin), dies
1990 - Curtis E LeMay, USAF General/VP candidate, dies at 83
1991 - Jan van Tongeren, painter, dies
1992 - Bruce Vorhauer, inventor (Today contraceptive sponge), suicide at 50
1992 - Harry Milton Ray, singer/actor (Avanti!), dies of stroke at 45
1993 - Janine Darcey, French actress (Priez pour nous), dies at 75
1993 - Joseph Warren, actor (Gift of Love, Urban Warriors), dies at 77
1994 - Brad O'Hare, dies of complications due to AIDS at 43
1994 - Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia (1966-70), dies at 86
1994 - Karoli Ruth Needles, painter, dies at 54
1994 - Scott Dunbar, bluse vocalist/guitarist, dies at 90
1995 - Aditya Biria, industrialist, dies at 50
1995 - Margaret Gorman Cahill, 1st Miss America (1921), dies at 90
1995 - Rene Mable Neighbour Cloke, illustrator, dies at 90
1995 - Russ Karel, director, dies at 45
1996 - Joonas Kokkonen, composer, dies at 74
1996 - Patrick McGeown, politician, dies at 40
1997 - Gul Mohammed, world's shortest man (22.1"/56.16 cm), dies at 36