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July 19 is the 200th day of the year (201st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 165 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 711 – Battle of Guadalete: Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.
• 1333 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill – The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.
• 1544 – Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began.
• 1545 – The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth.
• 1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.
• 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The Spanish Armada sighted in the English Channel.
• 1692 – Salem Witch Trials: Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
• 1760 – The formal request to found the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders.
• 1799 – A group of Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers discover what is now known as The Rosetta Stone, enabling the translation of hieroglyphics for the first time.
• 1843 – Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
• 1848 – Women's rights: The two day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" are introduced at the feminist convention.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid – At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
• 1864 – Third Battle of Nanking, determined battle at last.
• 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
• 1879 – Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.
• 1912 – A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
• 1916 – Battle of Fromelles
• 1919 – Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall.
• 1940 – World War II: Battle of Cape Spada – The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
• 1940 – World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
• 1942 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic – German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
• 1947 – Prime minister of shadow Burma government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members are assassinated by Galon U Saw, which resulted in the political chaos in the country lasting until now.
• 1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
• 1976 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
• 1979 – The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
• 1983 – The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
• 1985 – The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
• 1989 – United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers.
• 1992 – Anti-Mafia Judge Paolo Borsellino is killed by a Mafia car bomb in Palermo, together with five police officers.

Births

• 1670 – Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
• 1688 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
• 1744 – Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806)
• 1759 – Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
• 1789 – John Martin, English painter (d. 1854)
• 1800 – Juan José Flores, military and first President of Ecuador (d. 1864)
• 1814 – Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
• 1819 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (d. 1890)
• 1822 – Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1916)
• 1827 – Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857)
• 1834 – Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)
• 1849 – Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906)
• 1860 – Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (d. 1927)
• 1865 – Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
• 1876 – Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
• 1876 – John Gunn, Former England cricketer (d. 1963)
• 1877 – Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
• 1883 – Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (d. 1972)
• 1886 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (d. 1957)
• 1888 – Enno Lolling, German SS Standartenführer (d. 1945)
• 1892 – Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)
• 1893 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1930)
• 1894 – Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
• 1894 – Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
• 1895 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
• 1896 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (d. 1981)
• 1896 – Bob Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1977)
• 1898 – Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher (d. 1979)
• 1904 – Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Last Lincoln descendant (d. 1985)
• 1907 – Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)
• 1912 – Norman Carr, British conservationist (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1917 – William Scranton, American politician
• 1919 – Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)
• 1919 – Dallas McKennon, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1921 – Rosalyn Yalow, American physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1922 – Harold Camping, American evangelist, founder of Family Radio
• 1922 – George McGovern, American politician
• 1923 – William A. Rusher, American columnist
• 1924 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)
• 1924 – Pat Hingle, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1924 – Arthur Rankin, Jr., American writer, producer and director
• 1925 – Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer
• 1926 – Helen Gallagher, American actress
• 1932 – Jan Lindblad, Swedish naturalist, writer, photografer (d. 1987)
• 1934 – Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
• 1935 – Vasily Livanov, Russian and Soviet film actor
• 1935 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentine folk singer (d. 2009)
• 1937 – George Hamilton IV, American country singer
• 1938 – Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
• 1938 – Nicholas Bethell, British historian (d. 2007)
• 1938 – Richard Jordan, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1940 – Dennis Cole, American actor
• 1941 – Vikki Carr, American singer
• 1941 – Neelie Kroes, Dutch EU Commissioner for Competition
• 1943 – Han Sai Por, Singaporean sculptor
• 1946 – Alan Gorrie, Scottish musician (Average White Band)
• 1946 – Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player
• 1947 – Hans-Jürgen Kreische, East German footballer
• 1947 – Brian May, English musician (Queen)
• 1948 – Beverly Archer, American actress
• 1948 – Keith Godchaux, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1980)
• 1949 – Ivar Kants, Australian actor
• 1950 – Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
• 1950 – Freddy Moore, American songwriter
• 1951 – Abel Ferrara, American filmmake
• 1951 – Jayson Stark, American sportswriter
• 1952 – Allen Collins, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1990)
• 1952 – Robert A. Ficano, American politician
• 1952 – John Griesheimer, American politician
• 1954 – Srđa Trifković, Serbian-American journalist
• 1955 – Roger Binny, Indian cricketer
• 1956 – Nikki Sudden, English musician (d. 2006)
• 1956 – Joe Mohen, American Internet Entrepreneur
• 1956 – Yoshiaki Yatsu, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1958 – Robert Gibson, American professional wrestler
• 1958 – David Robertson, American symphony orchestra conductor
• 1959 – Juan Jose Campanella, Argentinian filmmaker
• 1960 – Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker
• 1961 – Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
• 1961 – Hideo Nakata, Japanese film director
• 1961 – Campbell Scott, American actor
• 1961 – Benoît Mariage, Belgian film director
• 1962 – Anthony Edwards, American actor
• 1962 – Aya Kitō, Japanese Writer (d. 1988)
• 1963 – Garth Nix, Australian author
• 1964 – André Action Diakité Jackson, founder African Diamond Producers Association
• 1964 – Masahiko Kondo, Japanese singer, actor and racing driver
• 1965 – Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist
• 1965 – Stuart Scott, American sportscaster
• 1966 – Nancy Walls, American actress
• 1966 – David Segui, American baseball player
• 1967 – Yael Abecassis, Israeli actress and model
• 1967 – Stuart Howe, Canadian Operatic Tenor
• 1968 – Robert Flynn, American musician (Machine Head)
• 1968 – Jim Norton, American comedian and radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
• 1969 – Matthew Libatique, American cinematographer
• 1970 – Bill Chen, American quantitative analyst, poker player, and software designer
• 1971 – Russell Allen, American musician (Symphony X)
• 1971 – Urs Bühler, Swiss tenor (Il Divo)
• 1971 – Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
• 1971 – Michael Modest, American professional wrestler
• 1972 – Naohito Fujiki, Japanese actor and singer
• 1972 – Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer
• 1973 – Martin Powell, English musician (Cradle of Filth)
• 1973 – Laurits Munch-Petersen, Danish film director
• 1973 – Saïd Taghmaoui, French actor
• 1973 – Scott Walker, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 – Rey Bucanero, Mexican professional wrestler
• 1974 – Malcolm O'Kelly, Irish rugby union footballer
• 1974 – Preston Wilson, American baseball player
• 1976 – Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer
• 1976 – Vinessa Shaw, American actress
• 1977 – Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Tony Mamaluke, American professional wrestler
• 1977 – Haitham Mustafa, Sudanese footballer
• 1977 – Ed Smith, English cricketer
• 1979 – Rick Ankiel, American baseball player
• 1979 – Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1979 – Michelle Heaton, British pop singer
• 1979 – Luke Young, English footballer
• 1980 – Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
• 1980 – Giorgio Mondini, Italian racing driver
• 1980 – Mark Webber, American actor
• 1981 – David Bernard, Jamaican West Indies cricketer
• 1981 – Jimmy Gobble, American baseball player
• 1981 – Didz Hammond, English bass guitarist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)
• 1981 – Nenê, Brazilian footballer
• 1981 – Nikki Osborne, Australian actress
• 1982 – Jared Padalecki, American actor
• 1982 – Stuart Parnaby, English footballer
• 1982 – Jess Vanstrattan, Australian soccer player
• 1983 – Helen Skelton, British TV presenter
• 1984 – Alessandra De Rossi, Filipino actress
• 1984 – Ryan O'Byrne, Canadian hockey player
• 1984 – Lasse Gjertsen, Norwegian animator
• 1984 – Adam Morrison, American basketball player
• 1984 – Lewis Price, Welsh footballer
• 1984 – Andrea Libman, Canadian actress and voice actress
• 1984 – LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player
• 1987 – Marc Murphy, Australian rules footballer
• 1990 – Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor

Deaths

• 514 – Pope Symmachus, Italian clergy
• 931 – Uda, Emperor of Japan (b. 867)
• 1374 – Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)
• 1415 – Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)
• 1543 – Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England
• 1631 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
• 1687 – Laura Martinozzi, Duchess of Modena (b. 1637)
• 1692 – Sarah Good, Susannah Martin, hanged for witchcraft as a result of the Salem Witch Trials (b. 1653, 1621)
• 1742 – William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
• 1810 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen of Prussia (b. 1776)
• 1814 – Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of Australia (b. 1774)
• 1838 – Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (b. 1785)
• 1850 – Margaret Fuller, American writer (b. 1810)
• 1857 – Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
• 1868 – Soji Okita, Japanese samurai
• 1896 – Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
• 1913 – Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
• 1939 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850)
• 1943 – Yekaterina Budanova, Soviet female flying ace (b. 1916)
• 1947 – Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
• 1947 – U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
• 1965 – Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (b. 1875)
• 1974 – Joe Flynn, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1974 – Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (b. 1904)
• 1975 – Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
• 1980 – Nihat Erim, Prime Minister of Turkey (assassinated) (b. 1912)
• 1980 – Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (b. 1904)
• 1981 – Roger Doucet, French Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
• 1982 – John Harvey, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
• 1984 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
• 1985 – Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
• 1989 – Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913)
• 1990 – Eddie Quillan, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate, martyr of mafia (b. 1940)
• 1998 – Elmer Valo, baseball player (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Alan Lomax, American folksong collector (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Bill Bright, American evangelist (b. 1921)
• 2003 – Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1908)
• 2004 – Reverend Francis Marzen, American Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
• 2005 – John Tyndall, British politician (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Edward Bunker, American writer (b. 1933)
• 2005 – Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, Iranian teenagers
• 2006 – Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1944)
• 2007 – A. K. Faezul Huq, Lawyer, politician, and freelance journalist (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (b. 1907)
• 2008 – Anastasia Blue, American porn actress (b. 1980)
• 2009 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American author. (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Henry Surtees, British racing driver. (b. 1991)

Holidays and observances

• Burmese Martyrs' Day (Burma)
• Christian Feast Day
  • Arsenius (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Bernold, Bishop of Utrecht
  • Justa and Rufina
  • Kirdjun
  • Macrina the Younger, Sister of St. Basil the Great
  • Symmachus
• Sandinista Day or Liberation Day (Nicaragua)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

• selected by Kalki

2005

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ~ Otto von Bismarck

• The Franco-Prussian War von Bismarck engineered began on 19 July 1870.
• proposed by AllanHainey

2006

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs. ~ Edgar Degas (born 19 July 1834)

• proposed by Kalki

2007

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation. ~ Edgar Degas

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. ~ Edgar Degas

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away; they just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is... ~ Walter Cronkite (recent death)

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

I've fallen and I can't get up. ~ Dorothy McHugh as Mrs. Fletcher in a famous commercial. Dorothy died on July 19th. See w:I've fallen and I can't get up

• 2 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:24, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• 2 AllanHainey June 30, 2005 08:16 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 14:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 06:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

It is very good to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what you can't see any more but is in your memory. It is a transformation in which imagination and memory work together. You only reproduce what struck you, that is to say the necessary. ~ Edgar Degas (born 19 July 1834)

• 3 Kalki 20:09, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:23, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 06:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working. ~ Edgar Degas (born 19 July 1834)

• 3 Kalki 20:09, 18 July 2005 (UTC) with very strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:23, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 06:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I should like to be famous and unknown. ~ Edgar Degas

• 3 InvisibleSun 12:38, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 14:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC), with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
• 2 Zarbon 06:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

War does not determine who is right — only who is left. ~ Bertrand Russell

• proposed by IP 60.234.48.116, no clear relation to date.
• 1 Kalki 14:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC) good quote, but no clear relation to date.
• 4 if it were used on the right date Zarbon 06:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Father Ted (series two episode, "Hell") Father Dougal's take on July 19: Would that be the day the Ice Age ended?

—This unsigned comment is by 140.203.12.240 (talk • contribs) . proposed by IP something or other, no clear relation to date.

• 2 Kalki 20:00, 14 July 2009 (UTC) Though I'm not sure of the context, I find this rather humorous.
• 1 Zarbon 18:18, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on July 19.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 2005
  • Nanostray for the Nintendo DS in North America.
• 2002
  • Super Mario Sunshine for the GameCube in Japan
• 1991
  • Final Fantasy IV for the SNES released in Japan

From Familypedia

July 19 is the 200th day of the year (201st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 165 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.
• 1333 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill - The final battle of the war.
• 1544 - Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began.
• 1545 - The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth.
• 1553 - Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.
• 1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - The Spanish Armada sighted in the English Channel.
• 1692 - Salem Witch Trials: Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem.
• 1760 - The formal request to found the later city of Mayagüez is filed by its founders.
• 1843 - Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
• 1848 - Women's rights: The two day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" are introduced at the feminist convention.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Morgan's Raid - At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
• 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
• 1873 - William Gosse becomes the first European to discover Ayers Rock (Uluru) and names it in honour of South Australian Premier Sir Henry Ayers.
• 1879 - Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.
• 1912 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
• 1919 - Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall.
• 1940 - World War II: Battle of Cape Spada - The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
• 1940 - World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
• 1940 - Adolf Hitler makes a peace offer to Britain, which Winston Churchill immediately rejects.
• 1942 - World War II: Battle of the Atlantic - German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
• 1945 - Montgomery Ward is seized by United States Army troops at the direction of Attorney General Francis Biddle because of its refusal to obey National War Labor Board orders. Montgomery Ward chairman Seward Avery is carried out of his office by troops.
• 1947 - Burmese nationalist Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members were assassinated.
• 1963 - Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
• 1964 - Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
• 1967 - A Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 and a Cessna 310 collided in mid-air over Hendersonville, North Carolina killing 82.
• 1976 - Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
• 1979 - The Sandinista rebels overthrow the U.S.-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
• 1985 - The Val di Stava dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
• 1989 - United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City killing 112 of the 296 passengers.
• 1989 - Charles Sturt University, Australia established in honour of explorer Charles Sturt.

Births

• 1670 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
• 1688 - Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
• 1744 - Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806)
• 1759 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
• 1789 - John Martin, English painter (d. 1854)
• 1800 - Juan José Flores, military and first president of Ecuador (d. 1864)
• 1814 - Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
• 1819 - Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (d. 1890)
• 1822 - Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1916)
• 1827 - Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857)
• 1834 - Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)
• 1860 - Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (d. 1927)
• 1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
• 1876 - Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
• 1877 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
• 1883 - Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (d. 1972)
• 1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1930)
• 1894 - Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
• 1894 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
• 1895 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
• 1896 - A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (d. 1981)
• 1896 - Bob Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1977)
• 1898 - Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher (d. 1979)
• 1904 - Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Last Lincoln descendant (d.1985)
• 1912 - Norman Carr, British conservationist (b. 1997)
• 1914 - Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1917 - William Scranton, American politician
• 1919 - Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)
• 1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, American physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1922 - George McGovern, American politician
• 1924 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)
• 1924 - Pat Hingle, American actor
• 1925 - Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer
• 1926 - Helen Gallagher, American actress, Ryan's Hope
• 1934 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
• 1935 - Vasily Livanov, Russian and Soviet film actor
• 1937 - George Hamilton IV, American country singer
• 1938 - Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
• 1938 - Nicholas Bethell, British historian (d. 2007)
• 1938 - Richard Jordan, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1941 - Vikki Carr, American singer
• 1941 - Neelie Kroes, Dutch EU Commissioner for Competition
• 1946 - Alan Gorrie, Scottish musician (Average White Band)
• 1946 - Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player
• 1947 - Hans-Jürgen Kreische, East German footballer
• 1947 - Bernie Leadon, American musician (The Eagles)
• 1947 - Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)
• 1948 - Beverly Archer, American actress
• 1948 - Keith Godchaux, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1980)
• 1949 - Ivar Kants, Australian actor
• 1950 - Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
• 1950 - Freddy Moore, American songwriter
• 1951 - Abel Ferrara, American filmmaker
• 1952 - Allen Collins, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1990)
• 1952 - Robert A. Ficano, County Executive for Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit and environs)
• 1954 - Srđa Trifković, Serbian-American journalist
• 1956 - Nikki Sudden, English musician (d. 2006)
• 1958 - Reuben Kane, American professional wrestler
• 1958 - David Robertson, American symphony orchestra conductor
• 1960 - Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker
• 1961 - Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
• 1961 - Hideo Nakata, Japanese film director
• 1961 - Campbell Scott, American actor
• 1961 - Benoît Mariage, Belgian film director
• 1962 - Anthony Edwards, American actor
• 1964 - Masahiko Kondo, Japanese singer, actor and racing driver
• 1965 - Stuart Scott, American sportscaster
• 1966 - Nancy Walls, American actress
• 1966 - David Segui, American baseball player
• 1967 - Yael Abecassis, Israeli actress and model
• 1968 - Robert Flynn, American musician (Machine Head)
• 1968 - Jim Norton, American comedian and radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
• 1968 - Matthew Libatique, Filipino-American cinematographer
• 1971 - Russell Allen, American musician (Symphony X)
• 1971 - Urs Bühler, Swiss tenor (Il Divo)
• 1971 - Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
• 1973 - Martin Powell, English musician (Cradle of Filth)
• 1973 - Saïd Taghmaoui, French actor
• 1973 - Scott Walker, Canadian hockey player
• 1974 - Preston Wilson, baseball player
• 1976 - Vinessa Shaw, American actress
• 1976 - Kostas Bantas, Greek footballer
• 1977 - Ed Smith, English cricketer
• 1977 - Charles John Spencer, American professional wrestler
• 1977 - Haitham Mustafa, Sudanese footballer
• 1977 - Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
• 1978 - Nené, Brazilian footballer
• 1979 - Luke Young, English footballer
• 1979 - Rick Ankiel, Baseball pitcher/ outfielder
• 1980 - Giorgio Mondini, Italian racing driver
• 1980 - Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
• 1980 - Mark Webber, American actor
• 1981 - Didz Hammond, bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)
• 1981 - Jimmy Gobble, American baseball player
• 1981 - Anderson Luiz de Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 - Jared Padalecki, American actor
• 1982 - Stuart Parnaby, English footballer
• 1982 - Jess Vanstrattan, Australian footballer
• 1984 - Lasse Gjertsen, Norweigan animator, musician, and videographer
• 1984 - Adam Morrison, American basketball player
• 1984 - Lewis Price, Welsh footballer
• 1990 - Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor

Deaths

• 514 - Pope Symmachus, Italian clergy (b. 498)
• 931 - Uda, Emperor of Japan (b. 867)
• 1374 - Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)
• 1415 - Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)
• 1543 - Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England
• 1631 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
• 1692 - Sarah Good, Puritan accused of being witch during Salem Witch Trials (b. 1653)
• 1742 - William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
• 1810 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen of Prussia (b. 1776)
• 1814 - Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of Australia (b. 1774)
• 1838 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (b. 1785)
• 1850 - Margaret Fuller, American writer (b. 1810)
• 1857 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
• 1868 - Soji Okita, Japanese samurai (b. 1842 or 1844)
• 1896 - Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
• 1910 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (b. 1812)
• 1913 - Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b.1852)
• 1947 - Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
• 1947 - U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
• 1965 - Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (b. 1875)
• 1972 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (b. 1884)
• 1974 - Joe Flynn, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1975 - Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
• 1980 - Nihat Erim, Prime Minister of Turkey (assassinated) (b. 1912)
• 1981 - Roger Doucet, French Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
• 1984 - Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
• 1985 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
• 1989 - Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913)
• 1990 - Eddie Quillan, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1998 - Elmer Valo, baseball player (b. 1921)
• 2002 - Alan Lomax, American folksong collector (b. 1915)
• 2003 - Bill Bright, American evangelist (b. 1921)
• 2003 - Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1908)
• 2004 - Reverend Francis Marzen, American Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
• 2004 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
• 2005 - John Tyndall, British politician (b. 1934)
• 2005 - Edward Bunker, American writer (b. 1933)
• 2006 - Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2007 - Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1944)
• 2007 - A. K. Faezul Huq, Lawyer, politician, and freelance journalist (b. 1945)

Holidays and observances

• Roman festivals - Lucaria.
• Malaysia - Birthday of the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan.
• Myanmar - Burmese Martyrs' Day.
• Nicaragua - National Liberation Day.

Liturgical Feasts

• Saint Arsenius, abbot (sometimes only monk), confessor died 449 [common] in the Roman Catholic Church
• Saint Bernulf, died 1054
• Saint Martin of Trier, bishop of Trier, martyr [Trier]
• Saint Symmachus, pope
• Saint Christine, virgin, martyr [Augsburg, Freising, Paderborn]
• Saints Justa and Rufina, martyrs [southern France]
• Saint Justine [Paris, as Saint-Just]
• Saint Kirdjun, converted thief and martyr^[1]
• Saint Macrina, Sister of St. Basil the Great
• Saint Rufina, virgin, martyr [Metz, France]
• Saint Dios, the Venerable

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada