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June 9 is the 160th day of the year (161st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 205 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 53 – Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia
• 62 – Claudia Octavia is executed.
• 68 – Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad.
• 721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
• 1310 – Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
• 1650 – The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
• 1667 – The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in a decisive victory by the Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
• 1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.
• 1772 – The British ship Gaspee is burned off the coast of Rhode Island.
• 1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: New European political situation is set.
• 1856 – Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
• 1863 – American Civil War: the Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
• 1873 – Alexandra Palace burns down after being open for only 16 days.
• 1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, in fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
• 1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
• 1922 – First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University.
• 1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
• 1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
• 1930 – Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
• 1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
• 1944 – World War II: 99 civilians are hung from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
• 1944 – World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
• 1946 – King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
• 1953 – Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
• 1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army – giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
• 1957 – First ascent of Broad Peak (the world's 12th highest mountain).
• 1958 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
• 1959 – The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
• 1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
• 1968 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
• 1973 – Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
• 1974 – Portugal and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
• 1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.
• 1979 – The Ghost Train Fire at Luna Park, North Sydney, kills seven.
• 1985 – Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he was not released until 1991).
• 1986 – The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
• 1993 – The Minnesota North Stars were relocated to Dallas, and were renamed the Dallas Stars.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty.
• 2008 – In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drained as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back.

Births

• 1508 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
• 1580 – Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d. 1655)
• 1588 – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (d. 1666)
• 1595 – King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
• 1640 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
• 1661 – Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
• 1672 – Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
• 1686 – Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
• 1768 – Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
• 1781 – George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer (d. 1848)
• 1810 – Otto Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849)
• 1812 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
• 1843 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist, Nobel laureate (d. 1914)
• 1845 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914)
• 1849 – Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
• 1851 – Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921)
• 1865 – Albéric Magnard, French composer (d. 1914)
• 1865 – Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d. 1931)
• 1875 – Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
• 1882 – Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
• 1890 – Leslie Banks, British actor (d. 1952)
• 1891 – Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d. 1964)
• 1893 – Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
• 1898 – Luigi Fagioli, Italian racing driver (d. 1952)
• 1900 – Fred Waring, American bandleader (d. 1984)
• 1906 – Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and entrepreneur (d. 1997)
• 1911 – George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
• 1912 – Ingolf Dahl, American composer (d. 1970)
• 1912 – Philip Simmons, American ornamental ironworker (d. 2009)
• 1915 – Les Paul, American guitarist (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Robert McNamara, U.S. Defense Secretary and President of the World Bank (d. 2009)
• 1918 – John Hospers, American philosopher
• 1921 – Arthur Hertzberg, American scholar (d. 2006)
• 1922 – George Axelrod, American producer, playwright and director (d. 2003)
• 1922 – John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941)
• 1922 – Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist (d. 1988)
• 1924 – Ed Farhat, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Keith Laumer, American author (d. 1993)
• 1929 – Johnny Ace, American singer (d. 1954)
• 1930 – Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
• 1931 – Joe Santos, American actor
• 1931 – Bill Virdon, American baseball player and manager
• 1934 – Jackie Wilson, American singer (d. 1984)
• 1936 – Mick O'Dwyer, Irish footballer and manager
• 1936 – Jackie Mason, American comedian
• 1937 – Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
• 1938 – Charles Wuorinen, American composer
• 1939 – Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
• 1939 – David Hobbs, English racecar driver and commentator
• 1939 – Dick Vitale, American sportscaster
• 1939 – Charles Webb, American author
• 1941 – Jon Lord, English musician (Deep Purple)
• 1943 – Joe Haldeman, American author
• 1945 – Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994)
• 1945 – Nike Wagner, German art festival director
• 1947 – Kiran Bedi, Indian police officer
• 1947 – John Gurda, American historian
• 1948 – Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
• 1951 – James Newton Howard, American film composer
• 1951 – Dave Parker, American baseball player
• 1952 – Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (d. 2004)
• 1954 – Paul Chapman, Welsh rock musician
• 1954 – Gregory Maguire, American author
• 1954 – George Pérez, American comic book artist
• 1954 – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada
• 1955 – Stephen Pewsey, historian
• 1956 – Patricia Cornwell, American author
• 1959 – Christian Wulff, German politician, Prime minister of Lower Saxony
• 1960 – Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist
• 1961 – Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor
• 1961 – Aaron Sorkin, American writer
• 1962 – Yuval Banai, Israeli musician and singer
• 1963 – Gilad Atzmon, Israeli jazz musician and author
• 1963 – Johnny Depp, American actor
• 1963 – David Koepp, American screenwriter and director
• 1964 – Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress
• 1964 – Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player and smooth jazz bass guitarist (d. 2009)
• 1964 – Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
• 1967 – Richard Cooey, American murderer (d. 2008)
• 1968 – Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper
• 1969 – Nick Kiriazis, American actor
• 1969 – Eric Wynalda, American footballer
• 1970 – Erika Miklósa, Hungarian coloratura soprano
• 1971 – Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer
• 1971 – John McKeown, Scottish musician (Yummy Fur, 1990s)
• 1971 – Rick Renstrom, American guitarist
• 1972 – Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress
• 1972 – Matt Horsley, Australian footballer
• 1973 – Tedy Bruschi, American football player
• 1973 – Frederic Choffat, Swiss film director
• 1973 – Laura Ponte, Spanish model and royal
• 1974 – Samoth, Norwegian guitarist (Emperor, Zyklon)
• 1974 – Tim Shaw, British radio personality
• 1974 – Randy Winn, American baseball player
• 1975 – Otto Addo, German-born footballer
• 1975 – Jeff Saturday, American football player
• 1975 – Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
• 1977 – Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
• 1977 – Amisha Patel, Indian actress
• 1977 – Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
• 1978 – Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse)
• 1978 – Michaela Conlin, American actress
• 1978 – Shandi Finnessey, American beauty queen
• 1978 – Miroslav Klose, German footballer
• 1980 – Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
• 1980 – Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
• 1980 – Lehlohonolo Seema, South African footballer
• 1980 – D'Banj, Nigerian Musician
• 1981 – Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress
• 1981 – Anoushka Shankar, English-born sitarist and daughter of Ravi Shankar
• 1981 – Vic Zhou, Taiwanese actor, singer and model
• 1982 – Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer
• 1982 – Andrew Walker, Canadian actor
• 1983 – Alektra Blue, American pornographic actress
• 1983 – Firas Al Khatib, Syrian footballer
• 1983 – Danny Richar, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 – Jim Tang, Hong Kong actor
• 1984 – Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
• 1984 – Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
• 1984 – Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
• 1984 – Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
• 1985 – Anthimos Ananiadis, Greek actor
• 1985 – Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress
• 1985 – Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
• 1986 – Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1986 – Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor
• 1986 – Karan Wahi, Indian actor
• 1988 – Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1988 – Mae Whitman, American actress and voice actress
• 1993 – Danielle Chuchran, American actress

Deaths

• 62 – Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40)
• 68 – Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37)
• 373 – Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist (b. 306)
• 597 – St. Columba, Christian missionary (b. 521)
• 630 – King Shahrbaraz of Persia
• 1361 – Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
• 1563 – William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
• 1572 – Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
• 1583 – Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• 1656 – Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
• 1716 – Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (b. 1670)
• 1717 – Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
• 1799 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges - "Black Mozart", African-French Swordsman, Soldier of Fortune, and Composer (b. 1745)
• 1834 – William Carey, English minister and missionary (b. 1761)
• 1870 – Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
• 1875 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
• 1892 – Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist (b. 1839)
• 1892 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
• 1912 – Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer (b. 1852)
• 1923 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1846)
• 1946 – Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b. 1925)
• 1952 – Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
• 1958 – Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
• 1959 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
• 1961 – Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
• 1964 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
• 1968 – Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884)
• 1973 – Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
• 1974 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
• 1979 – Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
• 1981 – Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
• 1989 – Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
• 1989 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1991 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Thomas Ammann, Swiss art dealer and collector (b. 1950)
• 1993 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
• 1994 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
• 2007 – Frankie Abernathy, American reality TV personality (b. 1981)
• 2008 – Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Algis Budrys, American writer (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Dick May, Former NASCAR racecar driver

Holidays and observances

• Germanic Neopaganism: Day of Remembrance for Sigurd the Volsung
• Åland Islands: Autonomy Day
• La Rioja: La Rioja Day
• Murcia: Murcia Day
• Uganda: National Heroes' Day

• Roman Empire: Third day of the Vestalia
• Roman Catholic Church:
  • Saint Columba
  • Saint Diomedes
  • Saint Edmund
  • Saint Ephrem
  • Saint Liborius
  • Saint Primus and Felicianus
  • Saint Pelagia
• Lutheranism: Aidan of Lindisfarne

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

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ~ David Hume

• selected by Kalki

2005

There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but — the content of the role itself — I find there are many roles. ~ Anne Bancroft (recent death)

• selected by Kalki

2006

When you were born in this world
Everyone laughed while you cried
Conduct not yourself in manner such
That they laugh when you are gone.
~ Kabir (à propos of recent death of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi)

• selected by Kalki

2007

What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?
~ Cole Porter ~

• selected by Kalki

2008

Be a clown, be a clown,
All the world loves a clown.
Act the fool, play the calf,
And you'll always have the last laugh.
~ Cole Porter ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2009

In olden days a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking
But now, Heaven knows,
Anything goes.
~ Cole Porter ~

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above.
Don't fence me in. ~ Cole Porter

• 3 Zarbon 15:10, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 15:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 19:19, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

I get no kick from champagne.
Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all,
So tell me why it should be true
That I get a kick out of you? ~ Cole Porter

• 2 Zarbon 03:44, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 13:29, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:57, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

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Game releases

• 2009
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum in North America

From Familypedia

June 9 is the 160th day of the year (161st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 205 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 68 - Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.
• 721 - Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
• 1310 - Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River.
• 1650 - The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It was the first legal corporation in the Americas.
• 1667 - The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet starts lasting for five days and resulting in a decisive victory of the Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War and a favourable peace for the Dutch.
• 1732 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.
• 1772 - British vessel Gaspee is burned off of Rhode Island.
• 1790 - Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first book to be copyrighted in the United States.
• 1815 - End of the Congress of Vienna: new European political situation is set.
• 1856 - 500 Mormons leave Iowa City and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
• 1860 - Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter becomes the first dime novel to be published.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
• 1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
• 1915 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking.
• 1922 - First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University.
• 1923 - Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
• 1928 - Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
• 1930 - Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed at the Illinois Central train station during rush hour by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
• 1934 - Donald Duck debuts in The Wise Little Hen.
• 1935 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under KMT administration, recognized Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
• 1944 - World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, since 1941 occupied by Finland.
• 1946 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
• 1953 - Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester killing 94.
• 1954 - McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army.
• 1957 - First ascent of Broad Peak (12th highest mountain).
• 1958 - London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, UK officially opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II.
• 1959 - The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
• 1967 - Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six-Day War.
• 1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
• 1973 - Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
• 1978 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens the priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.
• 1983 - Margaret Thatcher wins a second term by a landslide in the British General Election with a majority of 144 for her Conservative Party. Tony Blair is elected for the first time to Parliament.
• 1985 - Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he was not released until 1991).
• 1986 - The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
• 1991 - The congress of the Italian party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party.
• 1999 - Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty.

Births

• 1508 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
• 1580 - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d. 1655)
• 1588 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (d. 1666)
• 1595 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
• 1640 - Leopold I (d. 1705)
• 1661 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
• 1672 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
• 1686 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
• 1768 - Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
• 1810 - Otto Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849)
• 1812 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
• 1843 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)
• 1845 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (d. 1914)
• 1849 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
• 1851 - Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921)
• 1865 - Albéric Magnard, French composer (d. 1914)
• 1865 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d. 1931)
• 1875 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1968)
• 1882 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
• 1890 - Leslie Banks, British actor (d. 1952)
• 1891 - Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d. 1964)
• 1893 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
• 1898 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
• 1900 - Fred Waring, American bandleader (d. 1984)
• 1911 - George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
• 1912 - Ingolf Dahl, American composer (d. 1970)
• 1915 - Les Paul, American guitarist
• 1916 - Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense and president of the World Bank
• 1921 - Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (d. 2006)
• 1922 - John Gillespie Magee, American poet and aviator (d. 1941)
• 1922 - Fernand Seguin, French Canadian biochemist - Radio and TV animator (d. 1988)
• 1922 - George Axelrod, American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director (d. 2003)
• 1925 - Keith Laumer, science fiction writer (d. 1993)
• 1929 - Johnny Ace, American singer (d. 1954)
• 1930 - Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
• 1931 - Jackie Mason, American comedian
• 1931 - Joe Santos, American actor
• 1931 - Bill Virdon, American baseball player and manager
• 1934 - Jackie Wilson, American singer (d. 1984)
• 1936 - Mick O'Dwyer, Gaelic footballer and manager
• 1937 - Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
• 1938 - Charles Wuorinen, American composer
• 1939 - Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
• 1939 - David Hobbs, English race car driver and personality on American TV
• 1939 - Dick Vitale, American sportscaster
• 1939 - Charles Webb, author
• 1940 - Shirley Muldowney, Racecar Driver
• 1941 - Jon Lord, organist in Deep Purple
• 1943 - Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer
• 1945 - Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994)
• 1945 - Nike Wagner, German woman of the theater
• 1947 - Kiran Bedi, Indian Police Service Officer
• 1947 - John Gurda, American historian
• 1948 - Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
• 1951 - Dave Parker, American baseball player
• 1951 - James Newton Howard, American film composer
• 1952 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer
• 1954 - George Pérez, American comic book artist
• 1954 - Gregory Maguire, American fantasy writer
• 1956 - Patricia Cornwell, American author
• 1961 - Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor
• 1961 - Aaron Sorkin, American writer
• 1963 - Johnny Depp, American actor
• 1963 - Gilad Atzmon, Israeli jazz musician and author
• 1964 - Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress
• 1967 - Dean Felber, American Guitarist
• 1968 - Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper
• 1969 - Eric Wynalda, American soccer player
• 1971 - John McKeown, Scottish musician (Yummy Fur, 1990s)
• 1971 - Rick Renstrom, American guitarist
• 1972 - Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress
• 1973 - Tedy Bruschi, American football player
• 1973 - Laura Ponte, Spanish model and royal
• 1973 - Frederic Choffat, Swiss film director
• 1974 - Tim Shaw, British radio personality
• 1974 - Randy Winn, American baseball player
• 1975 - Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
• 1975 - Otto Addo, Ghanaian footballer
• 1975 - Jeff Saturday, American football player
• 1977 - Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
• 1977 - Amisha Patel, Indian actress
• 1977 - Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
• 1978 - Shandi Finnessey, game hostess
• 1978 - Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse)
• 1978 - Miroslav Klose, German footballer
• 1980 - Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
• 1980 - Lehlohonolo Seema, Lesotho footballer
• 1981 - Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress
• 1982 - Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer
• 1983 - Alektra Blue, American porn star
• 1983 - Danny Richar, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 - Sean Taylor, American football player
• 1984 - Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
• 1984 - Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
• 1984 - Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
• 1984 - Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
• 1986 - Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor
• 1986 - Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1993 - Danielle Chuchran, American actress

Deaths

• 62 - Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40)
• 68 - Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37)
• 373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist
• 597 - St. Columba, Christian missionary (b. 521)
• 630 - King Shahrbaraz of Persia
• 1361 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
• 1563 - William Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
• 1572 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
• 1583 - Thomas Radclyffe, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• 1656 - Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
• 1716 - Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed)
• 1717 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
• 1834 - William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761)
• 1870 - Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
• 1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
• 1892 - Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist
• 1892 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
• 1912 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writter (b. 1852)
• 1946 - Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b. 1925)
• 1952 - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
• 1958 - Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
• 1959 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
• 1961 - Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
• 1964 - Max Aitken, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
• 1974 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1979 - Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
• 1981 - Allen Ludden, TV game show host (b. 1917)
• 1989 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
• 1989 - Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
• 1991 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
• 1993 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
• 1994 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1997 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
• 2000 - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
• 2004 - Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
• 2006 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire paganism - third day of the Vestalia in honor of the goddess Vesta

Liturgical feasts

Catholicism

• Saint Alexander [GTZ: Russia]
• Saint Columba (called Saint Columcille and Saint Colm, pronounced as KUHL-uhm) in Ireland, where he is honoured as one of the islands three patron saints)
• Blessed Columba, abbot, confessor [GTZ: Scotland]
• Saint Diomedes
• Saint Edmund, bishop of Canterbury, confessor (Translation day) [GTZ: England]
• Saint Efrem=Saint Ephraim, deacon, Doctor of the Church
• Saint Liborius, bishop (of LeMans), confessor [GTZ: LeMans]
• Saint Primus and Felicianus, martyrs [common]
• Blessed Richard, bishop of Andria, Apulia
• Saint Vincent, deacon, martyr [BLS]
• Saint Pelagia, virgin, martyr [BLS]
• Blessed Diana d'Andalo

Lutheranism

• Aidan of Lindisfarne

External links

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

• On This Day in Canada