Hi guys

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my sister was born on the day somebody famous died, dont remeber who...

[Mizagium]

was that intentionally retarded or what?

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it looked like the discussion was talkin about people being born on the same day as random shit about people dieing happened... screw this, im getting back on WoW

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My birthday is on the day Malaysia began rioting.

[Mizagium]

don't be a WoWhead.

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My sister's birthday is on the same day that Lincoln was shot and the same day the Titanic sank.
My brother was born the exact same day the creater of Whinnie the Pooh died. They almost named him Christopher Robin.

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...

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this happened on my birthday:

Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.
1071 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy.
1346 - The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje by Dusan Silni, occupying much of the Balkans.
1395 - Azzo X d'Este is defeated at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Venetian-Ferrarese troops.
1521 - Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire.
1582 - Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
1746 - The Battle of Culloden takes place.
1780 - The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
1799 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
1853 - The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1858 - The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
1862 - American Civil War: The Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
1862 - American Civil War: A bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia becomes law.
1863 - American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1881 - In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1917 - Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Finland.
1919 - Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the British slaughter of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre.
1922 - The Treaty of Rapallo, in which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations between Berlin and Moscow, is signed.
1925 - During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
1941 - World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
1941 - Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
1945 - The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin.
1945 - The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) Prisoner of War camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz Castle).
1945 - More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.
1946 - Syria gains independence.
1947 - Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
1947 - Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht Britannia.
1955 - The Burma-Japanese peace treaty signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954 comes into force, formally ending the state of war.
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1964 - Great Train Robbery - 12 men are sentenced to a total of 307 years.
1972 - Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1972 - Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – prompted by the North Vietnamese offensive, the United States resumes the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong.
1987 - British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in London charged with gross indecency.
1988 - In Forlì, Italy, Red Brigades kill Italian Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor to Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.
1990 - The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, goes through with his first assisted suicide.
1992 - The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
2003 - The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
2004 - The super liner Queen Mary 2 embarks on her first Trans-Atlantic crossing, linking the golden age of ocean travel to the modern age of ocean travel.
2007 - Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing suicide.
2008 - Start of Papal Journey of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States

[edit] Births
778 - King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
1319 - King John II of France (d. 1364)
1495 - Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (d. 1557)
1646 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (d. 1708)
1660 - Hans Sloane, British collector and physician (d. 1753)
1661 - Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, British poet and statesman (d. 1715)
1682 - John Hadley, British inventor (d. 1744)
1693 - Anne Sophie Reventlow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1743)
1728 - Joseph Black, Scottish chemist (d. 1799)
1738 - Henry Clinton, British general (d. 1795)
1755 - Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, French painter (d. 1842)
1800 - George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (d. 1888)
1821 - Ford Madox Brown, English painter (d. 1893)
1823 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (d. 1852)
1827 - Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (d. 1879)
1844 - Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
1847 - Hans Auer, Swiss architect, (d. 1906)
1848 - Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Social Reformer of Andhra Pradesh, India (d. 1919)
1859 - Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, philanthropist (d. 1924)
1865 - Henry George Chauvel, Australian general (d. 1945)
1866 - José de Diego, Puerto Rico statesman and journalist (d. 1918)
1867 - Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1912)
1871 - John Millington Synge, Irish writer (d. 1909)
1878 - Tip Foster, English cricketer (d. 1914)
1886 - Ernst Thälmann, German politician (d. 1944)
1889 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor, writer,song writer, composer and film producer (d. 1977)
1895 - Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer (d. 1948)
1896 - Tristan Tzara, Romanian poet and essayist (d. 1963)
1899 - Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (d. 1988)
1904 - Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
1905 - Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (d. 2005)
1907 - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (d. 1947)
1907 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier, French-Canadian inventor and businessman (Bombardier) (d. 1964)
1912 - Garth Williams, American illustrator (d. 1996)
1912 - Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (d. 1997)
1915 - Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright (d. 1997)
1917 - Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007)
1918 - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002)
1918 - Joan Alexander, American actress
1918 - Dick Gibson, British racing driver
1919 - Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer
1919 - Tom Willmore, English geometer (d. 2005)
1921 - Peter Ustinov, English actor (d. 2004)
1922 - Kingsley Amis, English author (d. 1995)
1924 - John Harvey-Jones, Industrialist (d. 2008)
1924 - Henry Mancini, American composer (d. 1994)
1924 - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1976)
1927 - Edie Adams, American actress
1927 - Pope Benedict XVI
1927 - Peter Mark Richman, American actor
1928 - "Night Train" Lane, American football player (d. 2002)
1929 - Roy Hamilton, American singer (d. 1969)
1929 - Ed Townsend, American singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
1930 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flute player (d. 2003)
1933 - Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster
1935 - Sarah Kirsch, German poet
1935 - Bobby Vinton, American singer
1938 - Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician
1938 - Rich Rollins, American baseballer
1939 - Dusty Springfield, English singer (d. 1999)
1939 - Boris Dvornik, Croatian actor (d. 2008.)
1940 - Margrethe II of Denmark, queen regnant
1940 - Benoît Bouchard, French-Canadian politician
1942 - Sir Frank Williams, English F1 constructor and team principal (WilliamsF1)
1942 - Jim Lonborg, American baseball player
1943 - Ruth Madoc, British actress
1943 - Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (d. 2000)
1944 - Richard Bradshaw British opera conductor
1945 - Tom Allen, American politician
1946 - Margot Adler, American journalist
1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
1947 - Gerry Rafferty, British musician and songwriter
1948 - Lynne Franks, British public relations consultant
1949 - Melody Patterson, American actress
1950 - David Graf, American actor (d. 2001)
1951 - Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian writer and photographer
1951 - Björgvin Halldórsson, Icelandic singer
1951 - Mordechai Ben David, Jewish singer
1952 - Bill Belichick, American football coach
1952 - Michel Blanc, French actor
1952 - Billy West, American voice actor
1953 - Peter Garrett, Australian singer (Midnight Oil) and politician
1953 - J. Neil Schulman, American writer
1954 - Ellen Barkin, American actress
1954 - John Bowe, Australian racing driver
1955 - Bruce Bochy, American baseball player and manager
1955 - Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1956 - David McDowell Brown, American astronaut (d. 2003)
1956 - Lise-Marie Morerod, Swiss skier
1959 - Scott McKinsey, American television director
1959 - Alison Ramsay, Scottish field hockey player
1960 - Rafael Benítez, Spanish football manager
1960 - Pierre Littbarski, German footballer
1960 - Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (d. 2007)
1961 - Doris Dragović, Croatian singer
1962 - Ian MacKaye, American musician, (Fugazi and Minor Threat)
1963 - Jimmy Osmond, American pop singer (The Osmonds)
1963 - Salim Malik, Pakistani cricket player
1964 - Dave Pirner, American rock singer (Soul Asylum)
1964 - David Kohan, American television producer
1965 - Jon Cryer, American actor
1965 - Martin Lawrence, American actor
1965 - Michael Wong Man Tak, Hong Kong actor and director
1968 - Vickie Guerrero, WWE professional wrestling personality
1969 - Fernando Viña, American Baseball Player
1970 - Walt Williams, American basketball player
1971 - Peter Billingsley, American actor
1971 - Selena Quintanilla,Mexican American singer (d. 1995)
1971 - Moses Chan, Hong Kong actor
1971 - Seigo Yamamoto, Japanese racing driver
1972 - Conchita Martinez, Spanish tennis player
1973 - Bonnie Pink, Japanese singer
1973 - Aliaune Thiam Akon, American singer and song writer
1974 - Mat Devine, American singer (Kill Hannah)
1974 - Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress, singer and director
1974 - Valarie Rae Miller, American actress
1975 - Sean Maher, American actor
1975 - Nick Pickard, British actor
1976 - Lukas Haas, American actor
1976 - Dan Kellner, American fencer
1976 - Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress
1977 - Alek Wek, Sudanese supermodel
1977 - Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
1978 - Matthew Lloyd, Australian rules footballer
1978 - Lara Dutta, Indian actress
1979 - Christijan Albers, Dutch Formula One driver
1979 - Sixto Peralta, Argentine footballer
1980 - Paul London, American professional wrestler
1982 - Boris Diaw, French basketball player
1982 - Barry Jones, Scottish magician
1982 - Jonathan Vilma, American football player
1982 - Gina Carano, American Mixed Martial Arts fighter.
1983 - Cat Osterman, American softball pitcher
1983 - George Patis, Greek badminton player
1983 - Marié Digby, American Singer
1984 - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, American author
1984 - Noah Fleiss, American actor
1984 - Tucker Fredricks, American speed skater
1985 - Mark Baker, Welsh author and historian
1985 - Luol Deng, British-Sudanese basketball player
1985 - Benjamín Rojas, Argentine actor and singer
1986 - Paul di Resta, British racing driver
1986 - Neil Haskell, Finalist of SYTYCD Season 3
1987 - Aaron Lennon, English footballer
1990 - Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
1992 - Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg
1993 - Mirai Nagasu, American Figure Skater
1994 - Liliana Mumy, American actress
2008 - Princess Eléonore of Belgium, Belgian princess

[edit] Deaths
69 - Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
665 - Fructuosus of Braga
744 - al-Walid II, Umayyad caliph
924 - Berengar of Friuli, King of Italy
1113 - Sviatopolk II of Kiev, Russian prince (b. 1050)
1118 - Adelaide del Vasto, wife of Roger II of Sicily
1198 - Duke Frederick I of Austria
1645 - Tobias Hume, English composer
1687 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1628)
1689 - Aphra Behn, English dramatist (b. 1640)
1783 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
1788 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707)
1828 - Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
1846 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer (b. 1763)
1850 - Marie Tussaud, founder of the Madame Tussauds wax museum (b. 1761)
1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
1879 - Bernadette Soubirous, French shepherd girl (b. 1844)
1888 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
1899 - Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b. 1875)
1904 - Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888)
1904 - Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
1914 - George William Hill, American astronomer (b. 1838)
1915 - Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841)
1928 - Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founder of Henri Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
1930 - José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
1938 - Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
1946 - Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884)
1947 - Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900)
1958 - Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
1968 - Edna Ferber, American author (b. 1885)
1970 - Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892)
1972 - Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1978 - Lucius Clay, American general (b. 1897)
1985 - Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
1991 - David Lean, British film director (b. 1908)
1992 - Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)
1992 - Andy Russell, American singer (b. 1919)
1994 - Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1913)
1995 - Arthur English, English actor and comedian (b. 1919)
1995 - Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave labourer, activist (b. 1982)
1996 - Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping tycoon (b. 1909)
1997 - Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)
1997 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
1998 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
1998 - Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (b. 1920)
1999 - Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1946)
2001 - Alec Stock, English football manager (b. 1917)
2002 - Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927)
2002 - Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
2002 - Billy Ayre, English footballer and manager (b. 1952)
2003 - Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (b. 1930)
2003 - Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer (b. 1909)
2005 - Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)
2005 - Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943)
2005 - Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist (b. 1976)
2006 - Francisco Adam, Portuguese actor and model (b. 1983)
2007 - Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian hockey player (b. 1962)
Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer and first Brazilian woman to compete in the Olympic Games (b. 1915)
Seung-Hui Cho, Korean American murderer (b. 1984), see List of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre
Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, American instructor of French (b. 1958)
Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (b. 1961)
Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics (b. 1930)
G. V. Loganathan, Indian American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering)Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
Joseph Solman, American painter

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tl;dr

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tl;dr LOLZ SO MUCH

[Mizagium]

Events

* 325 - The First Council of Nicaea – the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held.
* 526 - An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
* 685 - The Battle of Dunnichen or Nechtansmere is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
* 1217 - The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
* 1293 - King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcalá.
* 1497 - John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
* 1498 - Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
* 1521 - Battle of Pampeluna: Ignatius Loyola is seriously wounded.
* 1570 - Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
* 1609 - Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
* 1631 - The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
* 1813 - Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
* 1835 - Otto is named the first modern king of Greece.
* 1840 - York Minster was badly damaged by fire
* 1845 - HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.
* 1861 - American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state.
* 1862 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
* 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church - in the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
* 1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
* 1882 - The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
* 1883 - Krakatoa begins to erupt. The volcano's final and most notable explosion occurs on August 26.
* 1891 - History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
* 1896 - The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
* 1902 - Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the first President of Cuba.
* 1916 - The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
* 1916 - The small town of Codell, Kansas is struck by a tornado. Incredibly, the same town was also hit in 1917 and 1918 on the exact same date.
* 1920 - Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
* 1927 - By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
* 1927 - At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
* 1932 - Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
* 1940 - Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
* 1941 - World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete.
* 1949 - In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
* 1949 - The Kuomintang regime declares Taiwan is under martial law.
* 1954 - Chiang Kai-shek is selected for another term as President of the Republic of China by the National Assembly.
* 1956 - In Operation Redwing, (shot Cherokee), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean;
* 1965 - PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 - 040 B crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 119 of the 125 passengers and crew.
* 1969 - The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
* 1980 - In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
* 1983 - First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually.
* 1985 - Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
* 1989 - The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
* 1990 - The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
* 1995 - In a second referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a slight majority the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
* 1996 - Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
* 2002 - The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).

[edit] Births

* 1315 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (d. 1349)
* 1470 - Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)
* 1554 - Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (d. 1594)
* 1593 - Salomo Glassius, German theologian (d. 1656)
* 1660 - Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (d. 1714)
* 1663 - William Bradford, British-born printer (d. 1752)
* 1706 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (d. 1777)
* 1726 - Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770)
* 1737 - William Petty Fitzmaurice, British statesman (d. 1805)
* 1759 - William Thornton, West Indian-born architect (d. 1828)
* 1768 - Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1849)
* 1769 - Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (d. 1835)
* 1772 - Sir William Congreve, English inventor (d. 1828)
* 1799 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
* 1806 - John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (d. 1873)
* 1818 - William Fargo, co-founder of Wells, Fargo & Company (d. 1881)
* 1822 - Frédéric Passy, French economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1912)
* 1830 - Hector Malot, French writer (d. 1907)
* 1838 - Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)
* 1851 - Emil Berliner, German-born recording pioneer (d. 1929)
* 1860 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
* 1882 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (d. 1949)
* 1883 - King Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
* 1894 - Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian Hindu sage, Jivanmukta (d. 1994)
* 1895 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (d. 1937)
* 1897 - Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (d. 1983)
* 1899 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (d. 1969)
* 1899 - John Marshall Harlan II, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1971)
* 1901 - Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (d. 1981)
* 1906 - Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
* 1908 - James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)
* 1911 - Gardner Fox, American writer (d. 1986)
* 1913 - William Hewlett, American engineer (d. 2001)
* 1914 - Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (d. 1995)
* 1914 - Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (d. 1995)
* 1915 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (d. 1981)
* 1916 - Trebisonda Valla, Italian athlete (d. 2006)
* 1916 - Alexei Petrovich Maresiev, Russian flying ace (d. 2001)
* 1917 - Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1967)
* 1917 - Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic politician (d. 2005)
* 1918 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
* 1919 - Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (d. 1983)
* 1919 - George Gobel, American comedian (d. 1991)
* 1920 - John Cruickshank, Scottish airman, Victoria Cross recipient
* 1920 - Betty Driver, English singer and actress
* 1921 - Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)
* 1921 - Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (d. 1998)
* 1925 - Chester Ludgin, American baritone (d. 2003)
* 1926 - Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (d. 1956)
* 1926 - John Lucarotti, TV writer (d. 1994)
* 1927 - Bud Grant, American football coach
* 1927 - Franciszek Macharski, Polish Cardinal
* 1927 - David Hedison, American actor
* 1930 - Sam Etcheverry, American football player and coach
* 1931 - Ken Boyer, American baseball player (d. 1982)
* 1931 - Paul Evans, American furniture designer and sculptor (d. 1987)
* 1932 - Bob Florence, American jazz pianist, composer, arranger (d. 2008)
* 1936 - Anthony Zerbe, American actor
* 1936 - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican reggae and dub artist
* 1938 - Marinella, Greek singer and actress
* 1940 - Stan Mikita, Slovak-born ice hockey player
* 1940 - Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player
* 1940 - Shorty Long, American musician (d. 1969)
* 1941 - Goh Chok Tong, Singaporean Senior Minister
* 1941 - John Strasberg, American actor
* 1941 - Manuel Isaias Lopez, Mexican child psychiatrist
* 1942 - Carlos Hathcock, American Marine sniper (d. 1999)
* 1942 - Jill Jackson, American singer
* 1943 - Al Bano, Italian singer
* 1944 - Joe Cocker, British singer
* 1944 - Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer
* 1944 - Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman
* 1945 - Vladimiro Montesinos, Peruvian politician
* 1946 - Cher, American singer
* 1947 - Greg Dyke, British broadcast executive
* 1949 - Dave Thomas, Canadian comedian & actor
* 1950 - Yvon Lambert, French Canadian ice hockey player
* 1950 - Reinaldo Merlo, Argentine footballer
* 1951 - Mike Crapo, American politician
* 1952 - Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer
* 1953 - Robert Doyle, Australian politician
* 1954 - Guy Hoffman, American musician (Violent Femmes)
* 1954 - David Paterson, American politician
* 1954 - Cindy Hensley McCain, wife of John McCain
* 1954 - Robert Van de Walle, Belgian judoka
* 1955 - Zbigniew Preisner, Polish film composer
* 1956 - Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian author
* 1956 - Dean Butler, American actor
* 1956 - William Michaelian, American novelist and poet
* 1958 - Ron Reagan, American talk show host
* 1958 - Jane Wiedlin, American singer (The Go-Go's)
* 1959 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, American singer (d. 1997)
* 1959 - Bronson Pinchot, American actor
* 1960 - John Billingsley, American actor
* 1960 - Chuck Brodsky, American musician
* 1960 - Tony Goldwyn, American actor
* 1961 - Clive Allen, English footballer
* 1962 - Mike Jeffries, American soccer coach
* 1963 - David Wells, American baseball player
* 1965 - Ted Allen, American television host
* 1966 - Mindy Cohn, American actress
* 1966 - Dan Abrams, American TV reporter
* 1966 - Gina Ravera, American actress
* 1967 - Gabriele Muccino, Italian film director
* 1967 - Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-born Pakistani terrorist
* 1967 - Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
* 1968 - Timothy Olyphant, American actor
* 1968 - Waisale Serevi, Fijian rugby union and rugby sevens footballer
* 1969 - Brian Gerard James, American professional wrestler
* 1970 - Louis Theroux, British television presenter
* 1970 - Terrell Brandon, American basketball player
* 1971 - Šárka Kašpárková, Czech athlete
* 1971 - Tony Stewart, American race car driver
* 1972 - Tina Hobley, British television actress
* 1972 - Busta Rhymes, American singer and rapper
* 1973 - Elsa Lunghini, French singer and actress
* 1975 - Isaac Gálvez, Spanish cyclist (d. 2006)
* 1975 - Mark Zupan, American quadriplegic rugby player
* 1976 - Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
* 1976 - Tomoya Satozaki, Japanese baseball player
* 1977 - Matt Czuchry, American actor
* 1977 - Chad Muska, American Skateboarder for Element Skateboards
* 1977 - Leonardo Noeren Franco, Argentine footballer
* 1977 - Miriam Parrish, American television actress
* 1977 - Angela Goethals, American actress
* 1977 - Vesa Toskala, Finnish ice hockey player
* 1977 - Tiger Tyson, American gay-pornographic actor
* 1980 - Austin Kearns, American Baseball player
* 1981 - Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer
* 1981 - Calico Cooper, American actress and dancer
* 1981 - Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
* 1981 - Mark Winterbottom, Australian racing driver
* 1982 - Petr Čech, Czech footballer
* 1982 - Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer
* 1983 - Jr. NTR, Indian film actor
* 1984 - Kenny Vasoli, American singer
* 1986 - Dexter Blackstock, English footballer
* 1988 - Carla Humphries, Filipina actress
* 1993 - Caroline Zhang, American figure skater

[edit] Deaths

* 685 - King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645)
* 1277 - Pope John XXI (b. 1215)
* 1285 - John II of Jerusalem, King of Cyprus (b. 1259)
* 1444 - Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (b. 1380)
* 1503 - Lorenzo de Medici, Italian patron (b. 1463)
* 1506 - Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (b. 1451)
* 1550 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510)
* 1622 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1604)
* 1648 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (b. 1595)
* 1677 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (b. 1612)
* 1713 - Thomas Sprat, English writer (b. 1635)
* 1717 - John Trevor, British statesman (b. 1637)
* 1722 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (b. 1669)
* 1732 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)
* 1782 - William Emerson, British mathematician (b. 1701)
* 1793 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720)
* 1812 - Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1732)
* 1825 - Papaflessas, Greek priest and government official (b. 1788)
* 1834 - Gilbert du Motier, French statesman (b. 1757)
* 1841 - Joseph Blanco White, British theologian (b. 1775)
* 1873 - Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814)
* 1896 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819)
* 1909 - Ernest Hogan, blackface comedian and musician (b. 1859)
* 1917 - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850)
* 1917 - Valentine Fleming, Scottish politician (b. 1887)
* 1940 - Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
* 1946 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871)
* 1947 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
* 1949 - Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1890)
* 1956 - Max Beerbohm, English theater critic (b. 1872)
* 1961 - Josef "Pips" Priller, German fighter ace (b. 1915)
* 1971 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904)
* 1973 - Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
* 1975 - Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor (b. 1903)
* 1976 - Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
* 1976 - Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan politician, member of the Christian-Democrat party, and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz "disappeared"
* 1989 - John Hicks, English economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
* 1989 - Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (b. 1946)
* 1992 - Roger Keith Coleman, American convict
* 1996 - Jon Pertwee, British actor (b. 1919)
* 2000 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
* 2000 - Malik Sealy, American basketball player (b. 1970)
* 2001 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (b. 1920)
* 2002 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)
* 2005 - Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913)
* 2005 - William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (b. 1918)
* 2007 - Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914)
* 2008 - Hamilton Jordan, former Carter White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)

[edit] Holidays and observances

* National Day in Cameroon
* East Timor National Day.

Saints in the Roman Catholic Church:

* Saint Bernardine of Siena
* Saint Lucifer
* Saint Austregisilus
* Saint Ivo of Chartres
* Abercius and Helena
* Saint Baudilus
* Saint Sanctan


Suck it, Busta Rhymes was born on my birthday.

[Xelwes]

TL;DR

[Mizagium]

I started actually readint the events that happened on my birth day..

The triple Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary was formed!

Shakespear's Sonnets were first published!

Krakatoa begins to erupt!

The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.

At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.

Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.

[Razgat]

Lovely.....where did you find that?

[Calefrun]

wikipedia

[Major Xeno]

1467 - The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy.
1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
1805 - United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia.
1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
1933 - The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1945 - World War II: Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1946 - Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
1954 - The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1956 - First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
1962 - NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1963 - In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
1965 - A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
1966 - An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
1982 - 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
1986 - In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
1994 - A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing everyone on board, with a death toll amounting to 264.
1994 - Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
2002 - Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt,Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
2005 - Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
2007 - Queen's Pier is officially closed by the Hong Kong Government, after a bitter struggle by conservationists, in order to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kong's Central district

[edit] Births
121 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
570 - Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20.
1538 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (d. 1600)
1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (d. 1616)
1573 - Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
1648 - King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
1662 - Maria Luisa of Orleans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1689)
1710 - Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (d. 1796)
1711 - David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1776)
1718 - Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (d. 1802)
1774 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853)
1782 - Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, queen of France (d. 1866)
1785 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (d. 1851)
1787 - Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862)
1798 - James Beckwourth, American explorer (d. 1867)
1798 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
1801 - Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889)
1804 - Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)
1812 - Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887)
1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (d. 1903)
1826 - George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
1826 - Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872)
1856 - Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
1878 - Saint Rafael Guízar Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop
1879 - Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
1886 - Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
1886 - Ðabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913)
1888 - Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981)
1889 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951)
1893 - Draza Mihajlovic, Serbian WWII hero and war criminal (d. 1946)
1894 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
1896 - Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941)
1897 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
1897 - Douglas Sirk, German-born film director (d. 1987)
1898 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
1898 - John Grierson, Scottish filmmaker (d. 1972)
1900 - Charles Richter, American geophysicist (d. 1985)
1900 - Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)
1904 - Paul-Émile Léger, Quebec cardinal and archbishop (d. 1991)
1910 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer and creator of Godzilla (d. 1997)
1911 - Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
1912 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian writer (d. 2000)
1914 - Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986)
1914 - James W. Rouse, American investor (d. 1996)
1916 - Morris West, Australian writer (d. 1999)
1916 - Vic Perrin, American actor (d. 1989)
1917 - Sal Maglie, American baseball player (d. 1992)
1917 - I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
1918 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
1918 - Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
1922 - Jeanne Sauvé, French Canadian politician (d. 1993)
1925 - Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician
1926 - David Coleman, British TV sports broadcaster
1926 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
1927 - Jack Douglas, English actor
1929 - Richard Mitchell, American author and professor (d. 2002)
1930 - Roger Moens, Belgian athlete
1932 - Francis Lai, French film music composer
1932 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1933 - Carol Burnett, American comedian
1933 - Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1933 - Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (d. 2005)
1938 - Duane Eddy, American musician
1940 - Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer
1940 - Cliff Watson, English rugby league footballer
1941 - Claudine Clark, American R&B singer-composer
1941 - John Mitchell, American composer
1942 - Claudine Auger, French actress
1942 - Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat
1942 - Bobby Rydell, American singer
1943 - Gary Wright, American singer
1943 - Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect
1944 - Amien Rais, Indonesian politician
1945 - Sylvain Simard, Quebec politician
1947 - Warren Clarke, English actor
1949 - Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer
1949 - Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)
1949 - Dominic Sena, American film director
1955 - Mike Scott, American baseball player
1956 - Koo Stark, American actress
1958 - John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute
1958 - Giancarlo Esposito, American actor
1958 - Jeffrey Guterman, American mental health counselor
1959 - John Corabi, American Musician
1959 - Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and songwriter
1960 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
1960 - Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player
1961 - Joan Chen, Chinese-born actress
1961 - Anthony Cumia, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
1961 - Chris Mars, American rock drummer (The Replacements)
1962 - Colin Anderson, English footballer
1962 - Michael Damian, American actor, singer and producer
1962 - Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
1963 - Jet Li, Chinese martial artist
1963 - Colin Scotts, Australian-born American football player
1965 - Kevin James, American comedian
1966 - Yoshihiro Togashi, Mangaka who created YuYu Hakusho
1967 - Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Academy Award nominated British actress
1967 - Glenn Jacobs, American professional wrestler
1970 - Melania Trump, Slovenian model
1970 - Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer (TLC)
1971 - Jay DeMarcus, American bassist (Rascal Flatts)
1972 - Jason Bargwanna, Australian racing driver
1972 - Kiko Narváez, Spanish footballer
1972 - Avi Nimni, Israeli Footballer
1973 - Chris Perry, English footballer
1974 - Ivana Milicevic, Croatian-American actress
1974 - Adil Ray, English radio presenter (BBC Asian Network)
1975 - Nathan "Joey" Jordison, American musician (Slipknot)
1975 - Nerina Pallot, British singer
1976 - Vaclav Varada, Czech ice hockey player
1977 - Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player
1977 - Chris Johnston, Irish rugby player
1977 - Tom Welling, American actor
1978 - Avant, American singer
1978 - Joe Crede, American baseball player
1978 - Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
1979 - Ariane Moffatt, Quebec singer and songwriter
1979 - Janne Wirman, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
1980 - Jordana Brewster, American actress
1980 - Anna Mucha, Polish actress
1980 - Channing Tatum, American actor
1981 - Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer
1981 - Ms. Dynamite, English musician
1982 - Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet
1982 - Brock Gillespie, American basketball player
1982 - Jon Lee, British singer (S Club)
1982 - Cooper Wallace, National Football League tight end
1983 - José María López, Argentine racing driver
1983 - Jessica Lynch, American P.O.W.
1984 - Mija Martina, Bosnian singer
1985 - John Isner, American Tennis player
1985 - Nam Gyu-Ri, Korean singer, member of See Ya
1987 - Jessica Lee Rose, American-born New Zealand actress, famous YouTube star lonelygirl15




[edit] Deaths
1192 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
1444 - Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
1476 - Simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b. 1453)
1478 - Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence (assassinated) (b. 1453)
1489 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
1716 - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
1784 - Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
1789 - Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b. 1721)
1865 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (shot) (b. 1838)
1881 - Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
1892 - Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (b. 1791)
1910 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (b. 1832)
1920 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
1932 - William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
1936 - Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886)
1938 - Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (b. 1859)
1940 - Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1944 - Violette Morris, French athlete (b. 1893)
1945 - Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (b. 1871)
1945 - Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (b. 1909)
1950 - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
1951 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
1956 - Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
1957 - Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (b. 1868)
1964 - E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born Newfoundland (b. 1882)
1969 - Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883)
1970 - Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (b. 1886)
1970 - Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911)
1972 - Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)
1973 - Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902)
1976 - Sid James, South African-born British comedian (b. 1913)
1980 - Cicely Courtneidge, English actress and comedian (b. 1893)
1981 - Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
1984 - Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)
1986 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (stroke) (b. 1911)
1986 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
1986 - Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
1987 - John Ernest Silkin, British politician (b. 1923)
1987 - Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (b. 1922)
1989 - Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)
1991 - Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (b. 1904)
1991 - Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
1991 - Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1928)
1991 - Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (b. 1931)
1994 - Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate (b. 1927)
1996 - Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (b. 1918)
1999 - Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (b. 1957)
1999 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (b. 1961)
2002 - Robert Steinhäuser German spree killer (b. 1983)
2003 - Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2003 - Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist (b. 1904)
2003 - Peter Stone, American writer (b. 1930)
2004 - Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928)
2005 - Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 - Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (b. 1926)
2005 - Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917)
2007 - Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (b. 1921)

[Mizagium]

hah you got Chernobyl.

[TEAM_DERRICK]

March 19:

DERRICK'S BIRTH IS THE ONLY EVENT WORTH NOTICING

[Myrdraxxis]

hahahaha!?

[Major Xeno]

Take that suckas! I was born on the same day as the dude who created Godzilla.