Today In History - Sunday, November 1, 2026




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On this day in history ..

0079 - Pompei buried by Mt Vesuvius
0996 - 1st use of name "Austria" for Ostarrichi/in oorkonde
1210 - King John of England begins imprisoning Jews
1248 - Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor
1349 - Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells
1462 - Arch duke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna
1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited
1570 - Netherlands hit by flood disaster, 1,000s killed
1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" 1st presented
1611 - Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Tempest" 1st presented
1623 - Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings
1628 - French king Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle
1671 - French King Louis XIV & RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty
1721 - Prince Eugenius of Savoye unveals statue of himself
1755 - Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000
1765 - Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies
1776 - Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California
1783 - Continental Army dissolved; George Washington's "Farewell Address"
1784 - Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette & his descendents
1787 - 1st free school in NYC (African Free School) opens
1800 - 1st president to live in white house (John Adams)
1834 - 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
1848 - 1st US woman's medical school opens (Boston)
1849 - Dutch govt of Thorbecke forms
1861 - Gen George B McClellan made general in chief of Union armies
1863 - -8] Averell's Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia
1863 - Fortifications built on Angel Island (SF Bay) by troops
1864 - -Dec) Tennessee campaign
1865 - Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens
1866 - 1st Civil Rights Bill passes
1867 - "Harpers Bazaar" publishes
1869 - Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra
1870 - US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
1876 - King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)
1877 - Dutch govt of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns
1878 - Edward Scripps & John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press)
1885 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Immortale Dei
1889 - North & South Dakota entered the union as the 39th & 40th states
1894 - Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris
1896 - 1st bare women breast (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Mag
1904 - George Bernard Shaws "John Bull's Other Island," premieres in London
1910 - 1st issue of "Crisis" published by editor W E B Du Bois
1913 - Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively
1914 - Connie Mack asks waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank & Chief Colby
1914 - German-British fleet battle at Coronel, Chile
1914 - Pope Benedictus Xv's encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity
1914 - Von Hindenburg named marshal of Eastern front
1917 - In WW I, the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat
1918 - 102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn
1918 - Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians
1920 - Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones," premieres in NYC
1920 - Warren Harding elected 29th president
1921 - National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League
1922 - Ottoman Empire abolished
1922 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam
1923 - Bruno E Lucander forms Aero E/Y (Finnair)
1924 - 1st US NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded
1924 - Forest Peters of Montana State U hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals
1925 - VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam
1926 - Air Commerce Act passes
1928 - 1st celebration of Author's Day
1928 - Bradman scores a century each innings (131 & 133*), NSW v Qld
1928 - Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km
1929 - Lundy, part of British Isles, issue their own stamps
1931 - Dupont introduces synthetic rubber
1932 - Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program
1935 - TS Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," premieres in London
1936 - Mussolini describes alliance between Italy & Germany as an "axis"
1936 - Rodeo Cowboy's Association founded
1938 - German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires
1938 - NL batting champ Ernie Lombardi is named MVP
1938 - Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico
1939 - 1st animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
1939 - 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
1939 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae
1940 - 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
1940 - Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM)
1941 - Chetniks attacks Tito's partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia
1941 - Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor
1942 - 10th day of battle at El Alamein
1942 - John H Johnson publishes 1st issue of Negro Digest
1942 - Vice-admiral Cunningham becomes British commander-in-chief
1943 - Dim-out ban lifted in SF Bay area
1943 - US troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island
1944 - Mary Coyle Chase' "Harvey," premieres in NYC
1944 - Zeeuws & Flanders freed
1945 - 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson
1946 - Charles S Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University
1946 - Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck's right foot is amputated
1946 - German "Country" Nedersaksen forms
1946 - Marken soccer team forms
1946 - NY Knicks 1st basketball game beat Toronto Huskies 68-66
1946 - Right foot of Cleve Indian's owner Bill Veeck is amputated
1946 - WABC becomes WCBS radio in NYC
1946 - WEAF radio changes call letters to WNBC (NYC)
1946 - West German state of Niedersachsen formed
1947 - "Medium & The Telephone" closes at Barrymore NYC after 211 perfs
1947 - 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii
1947 - Howard Hughes flies "Spruce Goose," a large wooden airplane
1947 - UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ & UK
1948 - Mao's Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria
1948 - Pres Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey
1950 - 1st negro player in NBA, (Celtic's Charles Cooper) Ft Wayne Ind
1950 - 82�F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Nov
1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Pres Truman at Blair House
1951 - "Top Banana" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 356 performances
1951 - 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, NM
1951 - Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella wins 1st of his 3 NL MVP
1951 - Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP
1951 - Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson
1951 - Johnny Mercers "Top Banana," premieres in NYC
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - 1st hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in Pacific Fusion occurs for 1st time on Earth
1953 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 10K (29:01.6) & 6 mile (28:08.4)
1953 - KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Algeria begins rebellion against French rule
1954 - General Fulgencio Batista elected pres of Cuba
1954 - India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements
1954 - KUON TV channel 12 in Lincoln, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - US Senate admonishes Joseph Mccarthy because of slander campaign
1955 - Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado
1956 - Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union
1956 - Indian state of Madhya Pradesh forms
1956 - Indian states of Punjab, Patiala & PEPSU merge as Punjab protection
1956 - Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact
1956 - Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain & Bardeen
1956 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum
1957 - KVII TV channel 7 in Amarillo, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - KXGN TV channel 5 in Glendive, MT (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - WICZ TV channel 40 in Binghamton, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - World longest suspension bridge opens (Mackinac Straits Mich)
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test
1959 - 1st NHL goalie to wear a hockey mask (Jacques Plante)
1959 - Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Balt
1959 - Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo
1959 - WOV-AM in NYC changes call letters to WADO
1960 - Balitmore Oriole shortstop Ron Hansen voted AL Rookie of Year
1960 - Benelux treaty goes into effect
1962 - Cuban missile crisis ends, JFK says USSR is dismantling missile bases
1962 - Greece enters European Common Market
1962 - KYVE TV channel 47 in Yakima, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1962 - USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 - WNYC TV channel 31 in New York, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - WZZM TV channel 13 in Grand Rapids, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 - George Blanda of Houston throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts
1964 - KC Chief Len Dawson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Denver (49-39)
1964 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies' Golf Open
1964 - Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon
1965 - 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, SF
1965 - Ernie Terrel beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing
1965 - Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)
1966 - Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created
1966 - NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day)
1966 - Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner
1966 - William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km
1968 - "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 36 perfs
1968 - Detroit Tiger Denny McLain unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
1968 - Motion Picture Assn of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
1968 - US pro soccer 14 teams merged into 1 all star team
1968 - University of Suriname opens
1969 - Beatles' "Abbey Road," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks
1970 - 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea
1970 - Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked & 142 die
1970 - Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die
1970 - KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 - Eisenhower dollar put into circulation
1972 - 1st gay theme TV movie - "That Certain Summer"
1972 - Germaoin Gagnon scores 1st Islander hat trick
1973 - "Molly" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 68 performances
1974 - Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil)
1974 - UN affirms independence of Cyprus
1976 - "Don't Step on My Olive Branch" opens at Playhouse NYC for 16 perfs
1976 - Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule
1976 - W German Gens Krupinski/Franke admit to being Nazis
1977 - Islander Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Flames 9-0-Trottier 4 goals
1977 - Pres Carter raises minimum wages of $2.30 to $3.35 for Jan 1 1981
1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - NY Yankee Ron Guidry unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
1979 - A L Webber musical "Joseph & Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," premieres
1979 - Bolivia military coup under Gen Busch, pres Guevara flees
1979 - Edward Bennett Williams buys Orioles from Hoffberger for $12.3 million
1979 - Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler
1979 - Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test
1981 - 1st Class Mail raised from 18� to 20�
1981 - 3rd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets up 2-1 with 26-7 win
1981 - Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1981 - Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament
1982 - Andrew "Dice" Clay & George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment"
1982 - Major leagues vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's contract
1983 - Pres Reagan established Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday
1984 - 1st NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - Clipper beat Knick, 107-105
1984 - Larry Shues "Foreigner," premieres in NYC
1984 - Willem de Kooning's "Two Women" sells for $1,980,000
1984 - Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-77-3-4
1985 - Neth decides definative sites for cruise missiles
1985 - Nostalgia Television begins on cable
1986 - Fire in Sandoz-factory Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine
1986 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Brave Raj, Capote, Lady's Secret, Last Tycoon, Manila, Skywalker, Smile at Santa Anita
1987 - 17th NYC Women's Marathon won by Priscilla Welch in 2:30:17
1987 - 18th NYC Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein in 2:11:01
1987 - 22,000 run in NYC Marathon (won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya 2:11:01)
1987 - Fukumi Tani wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1987 - NY Jets retire Don Maynards #13
1987 - New Orleans Saints shutout Atlanta Falcons 38-0
1988 - Actor Jeff Goldblum & actress Gena Davis wed in Las Vegas
1988 - Chris Sabo, wins NL Rookie of Year award
1988 - Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones
1989 - "Les Miserables," opens at Curran Theatre, SF
1989 - Pakistan beat West Indies by 4 wickets to win Cricket's Nehru Cup
1989 - Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
1990 - "Oh, Kay!" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 77 performances
1990 - Last of Margaret Thatcher's original govt resigns, Deputy PM Howe
1990 - Rhetoric escalates as Bush likens Saddam to Hitler
1990 - Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts
1991 - New Dutch Regulations Traffic rules & Traffic signs enforced
1992 - 22nd NYC Women's Marathon won by Lisa Ondieki in 2:24:40
1992 - 23rd NYC Marathon won by Willie Mtolo in 2:09:29
1992 - NY Jet Al Toon becomes 10th NFL to catch a pass in 100 straight games
1992 - Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) lands (scheduled)
1993 - Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems
1993 - Last day in 1st-class cricket for Mike Whitney, NSW v NZ
1993 - STS-58 (Columbia) lands
1994 - Moslem fundamentalists in Mostaganem Algeria murder 5 children
1995 - "Tempest" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 71 performances
1998 - Nichirei Golf International

Famous birthdays for this day ..

0846 - Louis II, the Stutterer, King of France (877-79)
1050 - Henry IV, German emperor (1056/84-1105) [or Nov 11]
1500 - Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/author (Perseus)
1607 - Georg Philipp Harsd�rfer, N�rnberg Germany, poet (Poetischer Trichter)
1618 - Johannes Flittner, composer
1666 - James Sherard, composer
1731 - Theodore-Jean Tarade, composer
1748 - Christoph Rheineck, composer
1757 - Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor
1761 - Antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer
1762 - Spencer Perceval, (Tory), British PM (1809-12)
1782 - Viscount Goderich, (Tory), British PM (1827-28)
1798 - Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor
1805 - Alessandro Nini, composer
1815 - Crawford Williamson Long, surgeon/pioneer (use of ether)
1815 - Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1825 - Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1890
1832 - Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, composer
1835 - Godfrey Weitzel, (Union volunteers Major general, died in 1884)
1853 - Jos� Santos Zelaya, (L), ruler of Nicaragua (1893-1910)
1855 - Guido Adler, Austria, musicologist (Still in the Music)
1859 - Charles Brantley Aycock, (Gov-NC)
1859 - William Henry Grattan Flood, composer
1862 - Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer/conductor/organist (Cyrano)
1863 - Alfred Reisenauer, composer
1865 - Monty Bowden, cricketer (England Test capt v S Africa at 23)
1871 - Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan, composer
1871 - Stephen Crane, US, novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage)
1877 - Roger Quilter, British composer
1878 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentina, jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936)
1879 - Pal Teleki-von Szek, geographer/premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41)
1880 - Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)
1880 - Grantland Rice, sportswriter (NY Her Trib 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37)
1880 - Karel Paul van der Mandele, financier/director (Rotterdamsche Bank)
1880 - Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright (Three Cities)
1886 - Hermann Broch, Austria, novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment)
1887 - Max Trapp, composer
1889 - Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate (Nobel 1959)
1890 - James Barton, NJ, Broadway actor (Tobacco Road, Iceman Cometh)
1891 - Dirk Vollenhoven, Dutch composer/philosopher
1892 - Alexander Alekhine, Russia, world chess champion (1927-35, 37-46)
1896 - Edmund Blunden, English poet/critic (Undertones of War)
1897 - Naomi Mitchison, author (African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill)
1902 - Eugen Jochum, Babenhausen Bavaria, German conductor (Hamburg Orch)
1902 - Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet/dramatist/novelist (The Defeat)
1903 - Don Robey, US gospel singer
1903 - Gerard "G�" Nabrink, Dutch anarchist/co-founder (NVSH)
1903 - Jean Tardieu, author
1903 - Max Adrian, Enniskillen Northern Ireland, actor (Devils, Music Lover)
1904 - Laura Laplante, St Louis MO, actress (Cat & Canary)
1907 - Rio Gebhardt, composer
1907 - Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist
1909 - Bruno Bjelinski, composer
1914 - William "Sabby" Lewis, jazz pianist/arranger
1915 - Carlos A Nicolaas, Bonaire, teacher/poet
1915 - Michael Denison, York England, actor (Importance of Being Ernest)
1917 - Clarence E Miller, (Rep-R-OH, 1967- )
1917 - Margaret Taylor Burroughs, US author/house painter (Black Queen)
1917 - Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, US, sci-fi author (Anything Box)
1919 - John Secondari, Rome Italy, newscaster (Open Hearing)
1920 - James J Kilpatrick, Okla City Okla, columnist (60 Minutes)
1921 - Ilse Aichinger, Austria, author
1921 - Jan Tausinger, composer
1921 - John Willard Peterson, composer
1922 - George S Irving, Springfield Mass, singer/actor (Dumplings)
1922 - Jeff Richards, Portland Oregon, actor (Don't Go Near the Water)
1923 - Bruce Dooland, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner, 3 Tests mid-forties)
1923 - Edward A de Jongh, Antillian author (The Arch)
1923 - Gordon R[upert] Dickson, Canada, sci-fi author (Genetic General)
1924 - Robert N Rapoport, social anthropologist
1924 - Victoria de los Angeles, Spain, soprano (Mimi-La Boh�me)
1926 - G�nter de Bruyn, writer
1928 - James Edward Bradford, DC, HW weightlifer (Olympic-silver-1952, 56)
1928 - Leon Hart, NFLer (Heisman Trophy)
1929 - Betsy Palmer, E Chicago Ind, actress (Mr Roberts, Friday the 13th)
1929 - Nicholas Mavroules, (Rep-D-MA, 1979- )
1929 - Rudy [Herman R] Kousbroek, literary (Leopold the Buch)
1934 - Aat Veldhoen, Dutch artist
1934 - Hugh Bidwell, mayor (London)
1934 - Umberto Agnelli, VP (Fiat)
1934 - William James Matthias, composer
1935 - Gary J Player, Johannesburg S Afr, PGA golfer (Brit Open-1959, 68, 74)
1937 - Bill Anderson, country singer (Still, From This Pen)
1938 - Patrick Buchanan, commentator/politician (Crossfire)
1939 - Barbara Bosson, Belle Vernon Pa, actr (Fay-Hill St Blues, Hooperman)
1941 - Joe Louis Caldwell, Texas City, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1964)
1941 - Johnny Kendall, [Johan Donkerkaat], Dutch blues singer
1941 - Robert Foxworth, Houston Tx, actor (Chase-Falcon Crest, Frankenstein)
1942 - John M Spratt Jr, (Rep-D-SC, 1983- )
1942 - Larry Flynt, magazine publisher (Hustler)
1942 - Marcia Wallace, Creston Iowa, actress (Carol-Bob Newhart Show)
1942 - Michael Zaslow, Inglewood CA, actor (Roger Thorpe-Guiding Light)
1942 - Shere Hite, author/sex therapist
1944 - Keith Emerson, England (Emerson, Lake & Palmer-Brain Salad Surgery)
1945 - Rick Grech, Bordeaux France, rock bassist (Blind Faith, Traffic)
1947 - Anna Stuart, actress (Donna Love-Another World)
1947 - Rolando Garbey, Oriente Cuba, light MW boxer (Olympic-silver-1968)
1949 - Jeannie Berlin, LA Cal, actress (Heartbreak Kid, Portnoy's Complaint)
1950 - Dan Peck, Panama City Fla, rock vocalist/guitarist (America)
1950 - Tony Hymphris, political activist
1951 - Craig Serjeant, cricketer (Australian batsman late seventies)
1951 - Ronald Bell, Youngstown Oh, rock sax (Kool & The Gang)
1953 - Jackie Zeman, actress (Bobbie Spencer-General Hospital)
1953 - Michael Zaslow, Inglewood CA, actor (One Life to Live, Guiding Light)
1953 - N Jan Davis, Cocoa Beach Florida, PhD/astronaut (STS 47, 60, 85)
1954 - Ruben Guerrero, Mexico, relay swimmer (Olympic-1968)
1956 - Charles Moore, British editor-in-chief (Sunday Telegraph)
1956 - Lyle Lovett, Klein Tx, country singer (God Will, Joshua Judges Ruth)
1958 - Rachel Ticotin, NYC, actress (Grace-For Love & Honor, Total Recall)
1959 - Eddie MacDonald, rocker (The Alarm-Knocking on Heaven's Door)
1960 - Damon Green, Pensacola FL, Nike golfer (1990 Pensacola Open-49th)
1960 - Elizabeth Dennehy, actress (Guiding Light) [or Oct 1]
1960 - Fernando Valenzuela, Navajua Mexico, pitcher (LA Dodgers, SD Padres)
1960 - Said Aquita, runner (Oly-gold/bronze-1984)
1961 - Anne Donovan, Ridgewood NJ, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1961 - Kim Krizan, Calif, writer/actress (Slacker, Dazed & Confused)
1961 - Magne Furuholmen, Oslo Norway, keyboardist/vocalist (Aha-Take on Me)
1961 - Paul Jackson, cricketer (slow lefty bowler for Victoria & Queensland)
1962 - Anthony Kiedis, rock vocalist (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962 - Kelly Kelland, London Ontario, softball 1st baseman (Olympics-96)
1962 - Maga Furuholmen, rocker
1962 - Michelle Estill, Scottsdale AZ, LPGA golfer (1991 PING-Cellular One)
1962 - Robert Willis, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1963 - Antonella Ella, Italian entertainer
1963 - Brian Forde, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1963 - Rick Allen, rock drummer (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
1964 - Eddie Williams, Sheveport LA, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1964 - Joe LeSt�, San Diego Cal, rock vocalist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
1964 - Kosala Kuruppuarachchi, cricketer (bowls 2 Tests for Sri Lanka 86-87)
1964 - Richard Cooper, NFL tackle (NO Saints, Phila Eagles)
1965 - Richard Stephens, NFL guard/tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1966 - Bob Wells, Yakima WA, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1966 - Danny Everett, 4x400m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1966 - Paul Lewis, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1966 - Ruud Cabbage, soccer player (FC Twente)
1967 - Steve Fritz, Salina Kansas, decathlete
1968 - Bernard Dafney, NFL tackle (Arizona Cardinals, Baltimore Ravens)
1968 - Kent Graham, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions, Arizona Cardinals)
1969 - Barron Wortham, NFL linebacker (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1969 - Darryl Ashmore, NFL tackle (Washington Redskins)
1969 - Jill Reeve, Hoosick Falls NY, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1969 - Tie Domi, Windsor, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1970 - Alla Korot, Odessa USSR, actress (Jenna Norris-Another World)
1970 - Dawn Marple, Salem Ohio, team handball wing/back (Olympics-1996)
1970 - Sherwin Campbell, cricketer (WI opening batsman 1995)
1971 - Keith Whitecotton, Camrose Alberta, golfer (Alberta Jr-1989, 90)
1971 - Laura Moss, Kings Mt Ohio, actress (Amanda Cory-Another World)
1971 - Rob Waldrop, CFL defensive tackle (Toronto Argonauts)
1971 - Terry Dean, WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
1972 - Glen Murray, Halifax, NHL right wing (Pitts Penguins)
1972 - Jenny McCarthy, Chicago IL, playmate (Oct, 1993)/host (Singled Out)
1974 - V V S Laxman, cricketer (Indian Test batsman v S Africa 1996- )
1975 - Van Hiles, NFL safety (Chicago Bears)

Famous deaths for this day ..

1535 - Francesco Sforza, Italian ruler (Milan), dies
1546 - Giulio Romano, Italian painter/architect (Ondergang der Titanen), dies
1672 - Heinrich Schutz, composer, dies at 87
1676 - Gisbertus Voetius, [G�sbert Voet], reformed theologist, dies at 87
1700 - Carlos II, King of Spain (1665-1700), dies at 39
1711 - Christian Demelius, composer, dies at 68
1750 - Giuseppe Sammartini, composer, dies at 55
1750 - Gustaaf W van Imhoff, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1736-40), dies at 45
1768 - Pierre van Maldere, composer, dies at 39
1788 - Johann Samuel Schroeter, composer, dies
1810 - Georg Anton Kreusser, composer, dies at 64
1817 - Giovanni Calisto Andrea Zanotti, composer, dies at 79
1825 - Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer, dies at 49
1841 - Antoine PFGdV Celles, Belgium/Dutch/French MP, dies
1844 - August Ferdinand Haeser, composer, dies at 45
1881 - Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris), dies at 22
1891 - John A Neuhuys, painter, dies at 59
1894 - Aleksandr III A Romanov, czar of Russia (1881-94), dies at 49
1895 - Aleksander Zarzycki, composer, dies at 61
1903 - [Christian M] Theodor Mommsen, German historian (Nobel 1902), dies
1907 - Alfred Jarry, writer, dies at 33
1914 - Christopher "Kit" Cradock, English admiral, dies in battle
1926 - Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch actor/director (Krates), dies at 72
1926 - Wilfred Flowers, cricketer (England spinner in 8 Tests 1884-93), dies
1927 - Florence Mills, dancer/singer, dies in NYC at 32
1941 - Camille Melloy, [the Paepe], Belgian priest/poet (Requiem), dies at 50
1942 - Hugo Distler, composer, dies at 34
1947 - Man O' War, racehorse, dies
1949 - Leslie Gay, cricket wicket-keeper/goalkeeper (England in 1890's), dies
1950 - Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate Pres Truman, shot dead
1955 - W H van Eemlandt, [Haasse], author (Treasure Hunter of Amstel), dies
1956 - Lajos Asztalos, International Chess Master (1950), dies at 67
1956 - Pietro Badoglio, Italian general (1922-43), dies at 85
1959 - Gershon Agron, mayor of Jerusalem, dies at 66
1961 - Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author, dies at 97
1961 - Joan McCracken, actress (Claudie The Story of a Marriage), dies at 38
1962 - Winter Haynes Watts, composer, dies at 78
1963 - Elsa Maxwell, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 80
1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese PM, assassinated in a coup at 62
1967 - Benita Hume, actress (Vicky-Thew Halls of Ivy), dies at 61
1968 - Georgios Papandreou, Greek minister/premier, dies at 80
1971 - G von Le Fort, writer, dies at 95
1972 - Ezra Loomis Pound, US poet (Throne), dies at 87
1974 - Ralf Harolde, actor (Safe, Framed, Stolen Harmony), dies at 75
1975 - Doro Merande, actress (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 77
1975 - Jacki Ray, actor (In Like Flint), dies at 58
1975 - Norbert Rosseau, composer, dies at 67
1975 - Philip James, composer, dies at 85
1975 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53
1976 - Oscar Beregi Jr, actor (Young Frankenstein, Panic in City), dies at 58
1979 - Jacques Mesrine, French "enemy of the state", shot to death
1982 - James Broderick, actor (Doug-Family), dies of cancer at 55
1982 - King Vidor, director (War & Peace), dies at 88 of a heart ailment
1982 - Leighton Lucas, composer, dies at 79
1983 - Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn Catalog), dies at 96
1984 - Norman Krasna, author (Dear Ruth), dies of a heart attack at 74
1985 - Phil Silvers, comedic actor (Sgt Bilko), dies in his sleep at 73
1986 - Paul Frees, animation voice (Bullwinkle), dies at 66
1986 - Sippie Wallace, blues singer, dies at 88
1987 - R�ne L�vesque, Quebec premier (1976-85), dies at 65
1991 - Joseph Papp, US theater producer (Chorus Line, Hair), dies at 70
1992 - Jeremias Chitunda, vice-chairman (Angolese Unita-rebellion), dies
1993 - Anatoli Fyodorovich Voronov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12a backup), dies at 63
1993 - George Sheehan, cardiologist/marathoner, dies of prostate cancer at 74
1994 - Richard Krautheimer, art historian, dies at 97
1994 - Syd Dernley, hangman, dies at 73
1995 - Brian Joseph Lenihan, politician, dies at 64
1995 - Desmond Shawe-Taylor, critic, dies at 88
1995 - James Ralph Darling, teacher, dies at 96
1995 - Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author, dies at 53
1996 - Junius Richard Jayawardene, PM of Sri Lanka (1977-78), dies at 90
1996 - Maati Bouabid, PM of Morroco (1979-83), dies